Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 14, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how AppPie ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your information when you visit our website. Your access to and use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information in the following ways:

a) Information You Provide to Us Voluntarily

  • Comments: When you leave a comment on our Site, we collect the name and email address you provide. We collect this information to display your name with your comment and to help prevent spam. Your email address is not published on the Site.

b) Information Collected Automatically

  • Log Data: Like most website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ('IP') address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, and other statistics.
  • Analytics Data: We use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand how users engage with our Site. These services use cookies to collect information such as the pages you visit, the time you spend on them, and information about your browser and operating system. This information is generally aggregated and may be used to analyze user trends.
  • Cookies: Cookies are small files containing a string of characters that are sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, for analytics purposes, and to prepare for serving advertisements.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes:

  • To operate and maintain our Site.
  • To display your comments and identify you as the commenter.
  • To respond to your inquiries or provide support.
  • To monitor and analyze usage and trends through services like Google Analytics to improve your experience on the Site.
  • To serve third-party advertisements.

3. Third-Party Services and Advertising

a) Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

b) Google AdSense & Advertising Cookies

We may use Google AdSense to serve advertisements on our Site.

  • Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Site.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies (such as the DoubleClick DART cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting the Google Ad Settings page.
  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.

4. Your Data Rights and Choices

You have certain rights and choices regarding your personal data:

  • Access and Deletion: You can request to access or delete your comments and associated personal data by contacting us.
  • Opt-out of Cookies: You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
  • Opt-out of Analytics: You can prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

5. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

6. Children's Privacy

Our Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13.

7. Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: hello@apppie.com