The fine print

Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 27, 2026

Tipsy ("we", "us", "the app") is a drink-tracking app that helps you log drinks, watch calories and spending, pace your night, and share progress with friends. This policy explains what we collect, why, and who we share it with.

1. Information we collect

When you create an account, we collect:

• Email address (for sign-in)
• Username and name (shown to friends)
• Age, weight, and gender (used to confirm legal-drinking-age eligibility and personalize tips and educational content)

While you use the app, we store:

• Drinks you log — type, size, alcohol content, calories, and timestamp
• Friends and groups — who you've connected with and joined
• Safety alerts — manual notifications you choose to send to your friends

We do not collect: location, contacts, photos, microphone, camera, browsing activity, or advertising identifiers.

2. How we use your information

We use your information to:

• Show your drink history, streaks, calories, and spending
• Generate pace alerts and hangover-risk tips based on the drinks you've logged
• Let you share drink counts and safety alerts with friends you've added
• Surface ride-share apps (Uber, Lyft) — these are plain app links; we do not send your data to them

We do not sell your data, use it for advertising, or share it with advertisers. Tipsy does not estimate intoxication, sobriety, or fitness to drive.

3. Who has access

• You — full access through the app
• Friends and group members — can see your username, real name, and aggregate drink counts (daily/weekly/monthly totals). They cannot see the details of individual drinks.
• Google Firebase — our backend provider, which stores the data on our behalf. Firebase privacy practices.
• Google Sign-In — if you sign in with Google, Google provides us your display name and email. Google privacy policy.
• Sign in with Apple — if you sign in with Apple, Apple provides us a unique user identifier and (optionally) a private relay email address. Apple privacy.

We do not use Firebase Analytics or Firebase Ads; both are disabled.

4. Data retention

We keep your data for as long as your account is active. You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete Account. When you delete your account, we immediately remove your profile, drinks, friend connections, group memberships, and alerts from our database. You can also contact us at the address below to request deletion.

5. Your rights

You can:

• View and edit your profile, drinks, and friends directly in the app
• Delete your account in-app from Settings → Delete Account
• Request a copy of your data by emailing us at the address below

If you live in the EU, UK, or California, you have additional rights under GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA — including access, correction, deletion, and the right to object to processing. Contact us to exercise them.

6. Children

Tipsy is intended for users of legal drinking age in their jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. If you believe we have, contact us and we will delete it.

7. Security

We use Firebase's standard security (TLS in transit, encryption at rest, Firestore security rules). No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect your information.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The "Last updated" date at the top will change, and material changes will be announced in the app.

9. Contact

Questions or requests: srujanyamali@gmail.com