AlcoLog is built on a no-account model: there’s no email, no login, no profile. Your data is kept on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud if you turn on backup, never on AlcoLog’s servers. This tutorial walks through the Data & Privacy screen: anonymous-data sharing (off by default), iCloud backup, exporting your data, and deleting it.
# Step 1. Open Data & Privacy
Tap the Settings tab, scroll past Apple Health, and tap Data & Privacy. The screen has four sections: Anonymous Data, iCloud Backup, Export Data, and Legal.
# Step 2. Decide on anonymous data
The Share anonymous data toggle is off by default (you may already have switched it on during setup). Switching it on sends AlcoLog anonymous session summaries, and three extra cards appear below the toggle:
- What we collect lists each data point with a green tick, including session duration, drink count and pacing; drink types, sizes, ABV, units and calories; cost with currency; day of week, month and hour; alert breaches (yes/no only); water intake and days between sessions; whether you logged medication (yes/no only); your AlcoScore and pillar scores; your goal type and target; your platform (iPhone or Apple Watch); your region setting; whether notifications are on (on/off only); whether a session was resumed after ending, or added as a past session (yes/no only); how you heard about AlcoLog (from setup); and your app version.
- What we never collect lists the exclusions with red crosses: your name, email or contact info; exact dates or timestamps; location or device identifiers; medication names or favorite labels; your alert thresholds or settings; anything personally identifiable.
- Your anonymous ID shows the random identifier for your installation (it’s generated the first time you share data). Tap Copy if you ever need to request data access or deletion.
Turning the toggle off stops all sharing and deletes any previously shared data tied to your anonymous ID from AlcoLog’s servers. If AlcoLog can’t reach its servers at that moment, it asks again each time you open the app until the deletion is confirmed. Anything not yet sent is discarded, and if you turn sharing back on later, you get a new anonymous ID.
# Step 3. Back up to iCloud (Premium)
The iCloud Backup section saves a copy of your sessions, drinks, Sober Mode and settings to your own iCloud, once a day with Back up automatically on, or any time with Back Up Now. Only you can see it, and Apple Health data isn’t included. Backing up needs Premium; Restore doesn’t, so you can always get your data back. Full walkthrough: back up and restore with iCloud.
# Step 4. Export your data
Export CSV is free and gives you a spreadsheet file of your most recent 10 sessions (all of them with Premium). Export PDF is Premium and produces a formatted report you can share. If you use Sober Mode, both exports also include your Sober Mode record: your 10 most recent Sober Mode days on the free tier, every day since you started with Premium. Either way, the iOS share sheet opens so you can save or send the file. On the free plan, Upgrade for unlimited export below the buttons opens the Premium upgrade. Full walkthrough: export your data.
# Step 5. Delete your data
Your logs live in local app storage on your iPhone, so to wipe them you delete the app. Two things live elsewhere:
- Anonymous shared data. With sharing on, the Delete Anonymous Data button in the anonymous ID card removes everything tied to your ID from AlcoLog’s servers and stops further sharing. It only has anything to remove if you opted in.
- iCloud backups. If you’ve backed up, deleting the app doesn’t delete your backups: they stay in your own iCloud, and when you reinstall, AlcoLog offers to restore one. There’s no delete button for them in the app; manage them from your iCloud storage settings on your iPhone.
For partial deletion (a few sessions, a few drinks), use the per-item delete flows in edit or delete a drink or session.
If Apple Health sync is on, drinks already written to Health stay there until you delete them inside the Health app (see Apple Health sync).
# Step 6. Read the privacy policy
Tap Privacy Policy under Legal to open the full AlcoLog privacy policy on our website. Terms of Use, just below it, opens the AlcoLog terms of use.
# What’s next
There are no accounts to delete and no email lists to unsubscribe from. Apart from the backups in your own iCloud, the only thing AlcoLog ever sends off your device is the optional anonymous-stats stream, and you can turn it off any time. The public Privacy Policy covers the full legal language.
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