Privacy

Android app privacy

What the app keeps on your phone, what Google's advertising software in it collects, and how to switch either off.

The short version

This page is about the Mixology by Whip app for Android, from Google Play. The website, mixologybywhip.com, has its own privacy policy. The app has no account and no sign-in. Your bar, favorites, party plans and the recipes you write are kept on your phone, and the app never sends them to us. The app shows advertising from Google, and Google’s advertising software collects some information about your phone and how you use the app, set out below. Buying ad removal stops that software from running at all.

Who publishes the app

Mixology by Whip is published by Whiptronics LLC, a Utah limited liability company. Privacy questions go to mixologybywhip@whiptronicsllc.com.

What the app keeps on your phone

The app’s pages are the website’s pages, built into the app, and they save what you do in the app’s own storage on your phone, under the same names the website uses in a browser. It is not sent anywhere, and we never receive it. These are all of the entries:

mixology-by-whip:v1 — Your bar (which bottles and tools you have ticked), your favorites, drinks you have hidden or marked “less like this”, your settings — theme, units, text size, contrast, how many missing ingredients to allow — whether you have dismissed the drinking-age notice, whether you turned on Honor Mode, and any recipes you wrote yourself.
mixology-by-whip:party:v1 — A party plan in progress: a number of guests, drinks per guest, a buffer percentage, which drinks you picked, and your “I have enough” answers. Numbers and recipe names only — there is no field anywhere for a guest’s name, a date, an address or a note.
mixology-by-whip:party-cart:v1 — The shopping list handed from a finished party plan to the Stock up screen, so the two agree without recalculating.
mixology-by-whip:beers:v1 — Beer names you typed into Party Mode — the ones you asked it to remember, plus the handful you used most recently, so the next party offers them as shortcuts. Names and the date each was last used, nothing else.
mixology-by-whip:fresh-pours:v1 — Which items in What’s new you have already looked at — recipe and announcement identifiers, such as “recipe:lucky-daiquiri” — so the small dot beside it clears once you have seen them. Nothing else.

The app also remembers, in its own settings, whether Google Play has confirmed that you bought ad removal, so a paying reader sees no ad even on a launch when Google Play cannot be reached. It is a yes or a no, and nothing else.

Google’s advertising and consent software, described below, keeps settings and identifiers of its own in the app’s storage. The app’s pages set no cookies, but Google’s advertising software can set its own there, for Google’s advertising domains.

The app turns off Android’s backup, so none of this is copied to your Google account or moved to a new phone by itself. Settings has Back up now, which saves a file wherever you choose, and Restore, which reads one back. That file is yours: the app does not send it anywhere.

What you saved on the website, in a browser, does not appear in the app, and the app’s does not appear in a browser. They are separate stores on separate software. A backup file from either one restores into the other.

Advertising

The free app shows one banner ad from Google’s AdMob, in a strip of its own at the bottom of the screen, below the section switcher and separated from it by a gap and a line, on My bar, Browse, Saved, Stock up and recipes. The page is made shorter to leave room for it, so it never covers anything. It is not shown on Learn, in Party Mode or Make Mode, in Settings, while a sheet or Google’s consent form is open, while the keyboard is up, or when the screen is too short to spare the room. There are no full-screen, video, rewarded or app-open ads.

To show it, the app runs Google’s advertising software, the Google Mobile Ads SDK. Google says that software collects the following automatically, and shares it, for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention:

your phone’s IP address, which may be used to estimate its general location;
how you use the app, such as opening it, taps and video views;
diagnostic information, such as how long the app takes to open, how often it stops responding, and how much energy it uses;
your phone’s advertising ID and app set ID and, where there are any, identifiers of accounts signed in on the phone.

That list is Google’s own, from its disclosure for this software (opens in a new tab), which says all of it is encrypted in transit. How Google uses it is Google’s to describe: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services (opens in a new tab).

The app gives Google’s software nothing about your bar. No ingredient, favorite, recipe, party plan or search. Each ad is asked for at the width of your screen, under one of five ad codes, one for each kind of screen that shows an ad (My bar, Browse, a recipe, Saved, Stock up), so Google can tell which kind of screen an ad appeared on, but not which recipe or what you searched for.

Whether the ads are personalised depends on Google’s settings and on your consent where the law requires it, so we do not claim they are either. You can reset or delete your phone’s advertising ID in Android’s settings, under Ads (in the Privacy or Google section on most phones).

Affiliate cards

The free app also shows, on My bar, Browse, a recipe or Stock up, at most one card, for NON or La Saum, labelled “Ad” with the brand’s name. The card is text the app draws: showing it loads nothing and tells nobody. Its button opens the advertiser’s link in your browser, through the Awin affiliate network, which records the visit under its own privacy policy and may set cookies in your browser; that happens outside the app. Google’s consent form does not cover Awin. Buying ad removal takes the cards away too.

Your consent, and Privacy choices

Before the app requests any ad, it asks Google whether you need to be asked for consent where you are, as in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. If so, Google’s consent form appears, and the app requests ads only after you have answered. Google’s consent software stores your answer on your phone, and the advertising software reads it from there. Asking Google means contacting Google’s servers, which see your phone’s IP address, as any server your phone connects to does.

Whenever Google’s consent software says you should be able to change your answer, Settings shows Privacy choices under Ads, which opens the form again.

Buying ad removal

The app sells one thing: a one-time purchase that removes its ads, bought through Google Play, at the price Google Play shows you. Google Play takes the payment under its own terms (opens in a new tab). We never see your card or payment details, and there is no Mixology by Whip account to create: the purchase belongs to the Google account you buy it with, and a phone signed in to that account gets it back through Restore purchase.

The app asks Google Play, on your phone, whether the purchase is yours when it opens and when you come back to it. That is how a refund is noticed and how a purchase that was still pending goes through. Nothing about it is sent to us.

With ad removal, the app starts neither Google’s advertising software nor its consent software, and shows no banner and no affiliate card, so none of the collection above happens. Anything that software stored on your phone before you bought ad removal stays there, unused, until you clear the app’s storage or uninstall it.

What the app does not do

It has no analytics or crash reporting of its own, no page counter, and no server of ours that receives anything you do in it. For checking the ads on a test phone it keeps a short list of the ads it showed and the taps on them, in memory while it is open; that list is never saved or sent. Its pages are part of the app, so moving between them sends nothing over the network, and the app’s security policy lets a page load nothing from anywhere else. The website’s host, Cloudflare, is not involved: the app is not loaded from the website. Google’s advertising, consent and billing software, described above, is the exception.

One more piece of Google’s software is in every app like this one: Android System WebView, the part of Android that draws the app’s pages. It can make connections to Google of its own, under Google’s terms, whatever the app does. In our testing it did so once, briefly, the first time the app opened, before any page had asked for anything, and not on later launches.

It never asks you for a permission while you use it, and it cannot reach your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or files. A backup is saved, and read back, only where you point Android’s own file picker. The permissions it has come with installing it, and Google Play lists them.

Links to shops, creators and sources open in your browser, where that site’s own privacy practices apply. Some are affiliate links: see the affiliate disclosure. Sharing a recipe hands Android’s share sheet a link to its public page on the website, and nothing else.

Keeping and erasing it

On your phone. Settings has Reset everything, which erases every entry listed above. Clearing the app’s storage in Android’s settings erases everything the app keeps, including your consent answer and what Google’s software stored, and uninstalling the app does the same. A purchase is not erased by either: it is kept by Google Play, and Restore purchase brings it back.

With us. Nothing: we hold no record of you to keep or erase. If you email us, we have what you sent, and we will delete it if you ask.

With Google. What its software collects is kept under Google’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab), which says how to see and delete it.

Age

The app is about alcoholic drinks and is intended for adults of legal drinking age. It is not directed to children, and it asks no one’s age: the notice on first launch is a reminder, not a record.

If this changes

The date at the foot of this page is when its wording last changed substantively. Anything that changes what leaves your phone is described here in the same update that brings it.

Effective October 22, 2026. Last updated October 24, 2026.