Privacy policy
For the Bloody Mary Guide app on iOS and Android, and for bestbloodymary.codeunlimited.se.
Last updated: 30 August 2026
Who we are
Bloody Mary Guide and the Best Bloody Mary website are operated by Code Unlimited, Sweden, which is the data controller for the personal data described here. You can reach us at contact.codeunlimited+bloodymary@gmail.com.
The service lets you find and publicly rate Bloody Mary drinks at bars and restaurants. Ratings, photos and descriptions you submit are public by design — they are shown to everyone in the app and on the website.
What we collect, and why
Content you submit
A rating consists of a score from 1 to 5, the place it applies to, an optional description, an optional photo, and the times it was created and last edited. It is stored together with the identifier of the account that created it. Publishing this is the service itself, so we process it to perform our agreement with you.
Account data
You can browse the map and every rating without an account. To post a rating you sign in with Google or with Apple, and we store what that provider returns to us: display name, email address, a phone number if the provider supplies one, which provider was used, whether the email is verified, and the account identifier that Firebase Authentication assigns. We use it to attach ratings to their author, to let you manage your own ratings across devices, and to enforce our rules against abuse. If you never sign in, the app uses an anonymous Firebase account that holds no personal data.
Location
With your permission, the app uses your device location to centre the map on you and to find nearby places when you add a rating. That search is answered by Google's Places API, which receives the coordinates. We do not store your device location — only the location of the place a rating belongs to, which is public information. You can decline or withdraw the permission in your device settings, and the map then opens on a default view instead.
Camera and photos
With your permission, the app can take a photo or let you pick one to attach to a rating. Photos are read only when you choose one, and are uploaded only as part of a rating you save.
Diagnostics
The Android app uses Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Performance Monitoring and Firebase Analytics in release builds, to find crashes and slow screens and to understand roughly how the app is used. These send device model, operating system and app version, a pseudonymous app instance identifier, and technical event and crash data. We rely on our legitimate interest in keeping the app working. The iOS app does not include these SDKs; Apple may still share aggregated crash statistics with us if you have allowed that in your iOS settings.
Moderation
When content is flagged or reported we keep a moderation record linking the flagged rating to the account that posted it, and we may block that account. We do this to protect other users, which is our legitimate interest, and to meet our legal obligations where content may be unlawful.
Who we share it with
We do not sell your personal data and we do not use it for advertising. We share it with:
- Everyone — your ratings, descriptions and photos, and the display name shown with them. Do not put anything in a rating that you would not want to be public.
- Google (Firebase Authentication, Realtime Database, Cloud Storage, Crashlytics, Performance Monitoring, Analytics, Maps and Places) — our hosting and infrastructure provider, acting as our processor.
- Apple — if you use Sign in with Apple, Apple handles the sign-in and may give you a private relay email address, in which case that relay address is what we hold.
- Authorities — where we are legally required to, or to establish or defend legal claims.
Where your data is stored
Our Firebase Realtime Database and Cloud Storage are hosted by Google in the United States, so your data is transferred outside the EU/EEA. Google commits to the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for those transfers.
How long we keep it
Ratings and their photos stay public until you delete them, until you delete your account, or until the service shuts down — the ratings are the public record the service is built on. Account data is kept while your account exists. Moderation records for removed content and blocked accounts are kept for as long as we need them to stop the abuse from repeating. Crash and analytics data follow Firebase's own retention periods, which are up to 90 days for Crashlytics and up to 14 months for Analytics.
Deleting your data
Delete a single rating from My ratings in the app. To delete everything, choose Delete account in the app menu: this permanently removes your account, every rating you have posted and every photo you have uploaded. If you cannot reach the menu, email us from the address you signed in with and we will do it for you.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you may ask for access to the personal data we hold about you, have it corrected or erased, restrict or object to how we process it, and receive it in a portable format. Email us and we will answer within one month. If you are unhappy with how we handle it, you can complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY, imy.se) or to the supervisory authority where you live.
Photos you upload
By uploading a photo you confirm that it is yours to share, and you grant us and other users of the service a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display, distribute and reuse it in connection with the service, with attribution. Only photos of Bloody Mary drinks and the places serving them are allowed. We remove anything else and ban the accounts responsible, without prior warning.
Children
The service is about alcoholic drinks and is not directed at children. Do not use it, or create an account, if you are under the legal drinking age where you live. If you believe a child has given us personal data, email us and we will delete it.
Security
Data is transferred over encrypted connections and stored in Google's infrastructure, with access limited to the people who run the service. No system is perfectly secure, and everything you post is public in any case, so please keep that in mind when you write a rating.
Changes to this policy
We update this page when the service changes. The date at the top says when it last changed, and we will announce material changes in the app.