Privacy Policy

• No accounts, no passwords, no profiles. You never tell AppRanker who you are to use it.
• No advertising trackers, no analytics scripts, and no data sold or shared with data brokers.
• Card details never touch AppRanker. Polar takes the payment as merchant of record.

The whole product is a public price. Every listing on the board, its points, the dollar amount of each bid that built them, the rank each bid bought, and the time it landed are all shown publicly on the leaderboard and the activity feed. None of it is tied to a name.

• Listings. App name, icon, description, author, category, version, rating, user count, and store URL, all fetched from public store data. Plus the points and click totals the board itself produces.
• Bids. A checkout ID, an order ID, the listing, the dollar amount, the points before and after, the rank it bought, and the time it cleared. No name, no email, no address, no card details.
• Clicks. A click on a leaderboard link stores the listing ID and a timestamp. Nothing else: no IP address, no visitor ID, no user agent, no referrer.
• Ordinary server logs may briefly record request data, including IP addresses, as any web server does. They are not used to build a profile of you.

• The site sets no cookies at all: not first-party, not third-party, and no advertising or analytics identifier of any kind.
• The one thing kept in your browser is appranker-theme, your light or dark choice, in local storage. It is never sent to the server.
• There are no ad pixels, analytics tags, or third-party scripts on the site.

• The email field at checkout is optional. If you fill it in, it is passed to Polar so it can send you a receipt. AppRanker does not store it.
• Polar is the merchant of record and handles the payment, the card data, the receipt, and any tax. Their own privacy policy governs what they hold, at polar.sh/legal/privacy.
• What comes back from Polar is a confirmation that an order was paid, plus the amount. That is what turns into points.

• Polar processes payments, as above.
• chrome-stats.com supplies public store metadata for listings. It is sent a listing ID, never anything about you.
• MongoDB stores the data described above, and a hosting provider runs the site. Both act on instructions and neither is given data for their own purposes.
• Store links you submit have their tracking parameters stripped before they are saved, so campaign tags do not get stored or passed on.

• Click rows expire automatically after 1 hour. Only the running total per listing survives, and it is just a number.
• Listings and bids are kept for as long as the board is up. They are the board: points are permanent by design, and the ledger of what was paid is the product.

• There is nothing to opt out of and no identifier to reset, because none is set in the first place.
• Leave the checkout email blank and no email is involved anywhere in the transaction.
• For anything held by Polar, including a receipt or a refund enquiry, contact Polar directly. They hold it, so they are the ones who can act on it.
• Depending on where you live you may have rights to access, correct, or erase personal data about you. Since nothing here is stored against your identity, there is usually nothing to look up, but write to [email protected] and AppRanker will help where it can.

The site is not directed at children and is not intended for anyone below the age at which they can enter a binding contract where they live.

• This policy can change. The date at the top of this page is when it last did, and the version published here is the one that applies.
• Questions go to [email protected]. The rules of the board itself are in the terms of use.