Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 4, 2024
Last Updated: June 24, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Cocktail Codex collects, uses, and protects your information when you use our mobile application.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide
- • Favorites: Cocktail recipes you mark as favorites are stored locally on your device
- • Preferences: App settings such as measurement units (metric/imperial) and theme preferences are stored locally
- • Search History: Recent searches to improve your app experience (stored locally on your device)
Automatically Collected Information
- • Usage Analytics: Anonymous app usage statistics to help us improve the app
- • Crash Reports: Technical information when the app encounters errors
- • Device Information: Basic device information for compatibility and performance optimization
How We Use Your Information
- • Provide and maintain the Cocktail Codex app functionality
- • Store your favorites and preferences locally on your device
- • Improve app performance and fix bugs
- • Analyze usage patterns to enhance user experience
- • Download cocktail recipe data and app content from our servers
Data Storage and Security
Local Storage: Your favorites, preferences, and search history are stored locally on your device using CoreData. This data never leaves your device and remains completely private to you.
Recipe Data: We use Firebase to download cocktail recipes, categories, and app content to your device. We do not upload any of your personal data, favorites, or preferences to our servers.
Security Measures: We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect any data we collect through analytics services.
Information Sharing
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties.
We may share anonymized, aggregated usage statistics with analytics services (Firebase Analytics) to help us understand how users interact with our app. This data cannot be used to identify individual users and does not include your favorites, preferences, or search history.
We may disclose information if required by law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our users or others.
Third-Party Services
Cocktail Codex uses the following third-party services:
- • Firebase: For downloading app content and collecting anonymous analytics
- • Apple App Store: For app distribution
These services have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them.
Your Rights and Choices
- • Access: You can view your favorites and preferences within the app
- • Delete: You can delete your favorites and reset app data at any time through the app or by deleting the app
- • Local Control: Since your data is stored locally, you have complete control over your information
Children's Privacy
Cocktail Codex is intended for users aged 21 and over (or the legal drinking age in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the Last Updated date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Email: studio@tayloranderson.dev
Website: tayloranderson.dev/cocktailcodex
Developer: Taylor Anderson
This privacy policy was last updated on June 24, 2025. By using Cocktail Codex, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.