Privacy Policy

The short version

Drink or Drown does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. There are no accounts, no analytics, no crash reporters, no third-party SDKs that phone home. The app lives entirely on your Mac.

How you got the app

Drink or Drown is sold exclusively through the Apple Mac App Store. Apple handles payment processing, licensing, and distribution. We do not receive your payment information or Apple ID. Apple's privacy policy governs their side of that transaction.

What data the app holds

Your preferences (reminder interval, mode, active hours, glass size, streak counts, and similar settings) are stored in macOS UserDefaults under the app's bundle ID. This is standard Apple-managed local storage. Nothing is synced to a server or shared with us.

Camera access

The camera is used only when two conditions are both true: you have selected Hardcore mode, and a reminder is actively firing. At no other time does the app request or use camera access.

Each camera frame is passed directly to Apple's Vision framework, which runs entirely on your Mac. Frames are processed in memory and immediately discarded. They are never written to disk, never held beyond the single detection pass, and never sent over a network connection. The app has no network code path that touches camera data.

We do not use Core ML, custom models, or any model trained on user data. Detection is handled by Apple's on-device Vision APIs.

Screen capture

Drink or Drown uses ScreenCaptureKit to render a live view of your desktop behind the water shader during a flood. The captured frames stay in GPU texture memory for rendering purposes only. They are never written to disk, never sent anywhere, and are released when the flood ends.

No data from screen capture is collected, stored, or retained. It is used solely to draw the water effect for the moment each frame is on screen, then discarded. It is never disclosed or shared with us or any third party, and the app has no network connection that could transmit it.

Analytics and crash reporting

In the app itself: there are no third-party analytics, crash reporters, or telemetry tools. No usage data, no device identifiers, and no crash reports are sent anywhere from the macOS app.

On this website: we use a small set of analytics tools (Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, datafa.st) to understand traffic and which pages people read. These only load after you tap Accept on the cookie banner. Decline and nothing is loaded. You can clear your choice any time by clearing the site's local storage in your browser.

Cookies

One first-party cookie-style key (dod_consent) is stored in localStorage on this site to remember your accept/decline choice so the banner does not reappear. Other cookies are only set by the analytics tools listed above, and only when you have accepted.

Network access

The app does not make any network requests. There are no servers we operate, no APIs the app calls, and no outbound connections initiated by the app at runtime.

Children

Drink or Drown is a general-purpose productivity app. We do not knowingly collect information from children. Because no data is collected at all, there is nothing to differentiate here.

Questions

If you have questions about this policy, email us at support@drinkordrown.cc. (This is also the address to reach us for support.)