Privacy Policy

Mudl is a cocktail discovery app. This policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and how you can have it removed. It covers the app and this website.

Who we are

Mudl is a registered assumed business name of Beiler Ventures LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company. The assumed business name was recorded with the Buncombe County, North Carolina Register of Deeds on July 20, 2026 (Book 6613, Page 290).

Beiler Ventures LLC (“we”, “our”, “us”) is responsible for the data described here. You can reach us by post or by email:

[email protected]

What we collect

• Account info — name, email, and profile image you provide when you sign up or sign in with Google, Meta, or Apple.
• App content — recipes, bar inventory, ratings, menus, and photos you create or upload in the app.
• Approximate location — only when you grant it, to show cocktail bars near you in Explore. Not tracked in the background.
• Usage data — basic request logs (timestamps, endpoints, error codes) for reliability and abuse prevention. We do not track you across third-party sites.
• Product analytics — first-party events about which screens you view and features you use, tied to your account (or an anonymous first-party id before you sign in), so we can understand what is working and improve it. This stays in our own database. It is never sent to an ad network or a third-party analytics service.
• Crash and error diagnostics — when something breaks, we record the error (message, technical stack trace, the screen you were on, and app version) so we can fix it. First-party only.
• Feedback you send — the message, type, and optional rating you submit through the in-app feedback form, with the screen and app version attached so we can act on it.

Location

Location is optional. Nothing in Mudl requires it, and you can use Explore by choosing a city instead. When you do grant it, your device asks for an approximate fix — not a precise GPS one — and sends it with the request so we can sort places by how far away they are. We do not build a location history, and we do not read your location while the app is closed.

You can withdraw the permission at any time in your browser or device settings. Explore keeps working without it.

How we use it

• To operate the app — authenticate you, serve your recipes, personalize suggestions.
• To send transactional email — verification, magic-link sign-in, password reset, and replies to what you send us.
• To debug and improve the service.

We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers. Our analytics and crash diagnostics are first-party. We use no third-party trackers and no advertising SDKs.

Third parties we rely on

• Better Auth — authentication, self-hosted on our own servers.
• DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL — database hosting for your account and app data.
• DigitalOcean App Platform — application hosting.
• DigitalOcean Spaces — object storage for photos and internal diagnostic files.
• Resend — transactional email delivery.
• Google, Meta, and Apple — optional sign-in providers, used only if you choose one of them. Signing in that way shares your name, email, and profile image with us; it does not give us access to anything else in that account.

Maps and venue data

Map tiles come from OpenFreeMap. Venue data comes from Foursquare Open Source and from each venue's own website. No third-party ad or tracking SDKs are involved in either.

Age and children

Mudl is for adults of legal drinking age — 21 or older in the United States. It is not directed to anyone under 21, and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us data, email [email protected] and we will delete it.

Data retention

We keep your data for as long as your account is active. Expired auth sessions and verification tokens are cleaned up daily. When you delete your account, the data listed below goes with it, and backups are purged on their normal rotation, typically within 30 days.

Delete your account and data

You can delete your Mudl account from inside the app: sign in, then open Profile → Settings → Delete account. We send a confirmation link to your email, and the deletion completes when you open it.

If you cannot sign in, or never installed the app, email [email protected] from the address on the account with the subject line “Delete my Mudl account”. We confirm receipt within 3 business days and complete the deletion within 30 days.

Deletion removes your user record, sessions, sign-in links to Google, Meta, and Apple, recipes, bar inventory, ratings, and uploaded photos. Menus you scanned stay with their venues, without your name attached. Backups are purged on their normal rotation, typically within 30 days.

Full instructions, including how to revoke a third-party sign-in, are on Delete your account.

This website

The pages on trymudl.com are static. This site sets no advertising cookies, runs no third-party trackers, and does not profile you. Our hosting provider keeps ordinary server logs for reliability and abuse prevention.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes we update the date at the top of the page. If a change materially affects what we collect or how we use it, we will say so in the app rather than leave you to find it here.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email [email protected]. Support hours are Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm ET.