Privacy

TheDrinkPlace collects information you give us (such as email, saved drinks, ratings, and business-claim details) so we can run the product. We may keep hashed technical logs for affiliate clicks and site security. We do not sell your personal information. Signed-in search, save, and taste history stays private and is used only if you leave “Use my activity to improve recommendations” on. You can clear searches, edit tastes, or delete your account. We do not keep a precise GPS trail. Google Places details, when shown, are live/supplemental. We may store a Google Place ID. Google ratings are Google’s, not ours. If you tap “Use my location” or “Explore near me,” the browser may share a one-time location so we can rank nearby places. We do not silently track you. We do not keep a location history, sell precise location, or give GPS coordinates to businesses. Analytics, when used, are coarsened (city/ZIP or hashed technical logs) — not a trail of exact coordinates. Contributor profiles show a display name and Pink Dot counts only. We do not publish your email, GPS history, or private account details. Public copies of photos have unnecessary EXIF/location metadata stripped when we can detect it. The public site publishes ads.txt. The AdSense script and display slots stay off until slots are explicitly enabled, and the script loads only after you confirm you are 21 or older. This is not a claim that AdSense has approved the site. For visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, personalized ads require Google’s Privacy & messaging European regulations consent message (Funding Choices). Google may use cookies or local storage to measure and serve ads when ads are enabled and consent rules allow. We also load one Google Analytics 4 tag (Measurement ID G-5684R1ESKZ) with Consent Mode: analytics storage is denied in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland until Google’s CMP reports a choice, and allowed elsewhere unless the visitor rejects. Ad storage stays denied until the CMP grants it. We do not send emails, names, precise GPS coordinates, auth tokens, or private form values to GA4. Affiliate clicks are recorded as engagement events, not purchases or earned revenue. We do not sell your personal information to data brokers or advertisers. You can turn off Google ad personalization at https://adssettings.google.com (signed-in Google Ad Settings) or review how Google uses ads data at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads. Those pages are Google’s official controls, not a TheDrinkPlace setting. You can browse without an account. If you create one, you can ask us to close it. See also our Terms and Affiliate disclosure.