Privacy Policy

• No accounts, no passwords, no profiles. You never tell AppRanker who you are to use it.
• Two analytics tools, Google Analytics and PostHog, measure how the site is used. No advertising trackers, and no data sold or shared with data brokers.
• Some cards beside and below the board are paid sponsor placements. Each one is labelled Sponsored, is served by this site rather than by an ad network, and is measured by nothing but a counter on our own server.
• Card details never touch AppRanker. A third-party payment provider takes the payment as merchant of record.
• The site is operated by Quang, an individual based in VN, who is responsible for the data described below.
• Apps listed on the board are third parties. Their own privacy policies govern anything they collect.

The whole product is a public price. Every listing on the board, the total it has paid, the amount of each bid that built that total, 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.

Every listing is a third-party app, fetched from public store data. AppRanker does not build, run or distribute any of them, and has no access to whatever data they collect. Installing a listed app puts you under that app's own privacy policy and the terms of the store it is published on, not this one. A listing is not a statement that an app's data practices are sound.

• Listings. App name, icon, description, author, category, version, rating, user count, and store URL, all fetched from public store data. Plus the amount paid and the click totals the board itself produces.
• Bids. A payment ID, the listing, the dollar amount, the listing total before and after, the rank it bought, and the time it cleared. No name, no email, no address, no card details.
• Sponsor placements. The destination URL and domain, the title, tagline, logo URL and colour the sponsor supplied, which position they hold, the payment and subscription IDs the provider issued, and a running click count. Plus the contact email described below, where one was given.
• 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.
• Usage events. Which pages were opened, which buttons were pressed, which app was looked up, and what a bid was worth. Tied to a random identifier rather than to you. The optional receipt email is never included, in any of them.
• 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.

• Google Analytics and PostHog each set a cookie, so one visit can be told from another. Both hold a random identifier and neither holds a name, an email or an address. There are no advertising cookies.
• The one thing this site puts in your browser itself is appranker-theme, your light or dark choice, in local storage. It is never sent to the server.
• The analytics tags are the only third-party scripts on the site. There are no ad pixels and no session recording: nothing plays back what you did on a page.

Some of the cards beside and below the board are paid sponsor placements, sold as a monthly or annual subscription and labelled Sponsored everywhere they appear. Selling them changes none of the claims above, and those claims are worth restating in their presence: no ad network, no third-party ad script, no tracking pixel, no advertising cookie, no cross-site profile, and nothing about you sent to a sponsor. A sponsor card is markup this site renders from a row in our own database, the same way a listing is.

A sponsor gives us a destination URL, a title, a tagline, a logo URL, and one colour from a fixed palette. That is the whole of a placement. A click on one goes through /s/<id> on our own server, which adds one to a counter on that placement and sends you on: no IP address, no visitor ID, no user agent, no referrer, exactly as a listing click works. That counter is never published anywhere on the site. The two analytics tools named above see a sponsor click the way they see any other button press — which placement it was and the destination domain, never the full URL and never anything about you.

One caveat, named rather than buried, because it is the only part of a sponsor card your browser fetches from somewhere else: a sponsor's logo is loaded from the sponsor's own domain rather than copied onto ours. Your browser therefore makes a request to that domain when the card renders, and that domain can see your IP address and user agent, and could set a cookie of its own, exactly as an image embedded from any other site could. Nothing about you is sent to it by AppRanker, and nothing comes back from it to AppRanker. App icons on the board already load from the stores' own CDNs this way; the difference with a sponsor card is that the sponsor chooses the host.

• The email field at a bid checkout is optional. If you fill it in, it is passed to the payment provider so it can send you a receipt. AppRanker does not store it.
• A sponsor placement is the exception to that. It renews, and there are no accounts, so an email given when claiming a slot is stored on the placement itself: it is the only way to reach whoever is paying for it, and it is what a cancellation sent to [email protected] is matched against. It is never rendered on a page — the shape a card is drawn from has no email field in it at all.
• The payment provider is the merchant of record and handles the payment, the card data, the receipt, and any tax. Its own privacy policy governs what it holds. Write to [email protected] and we will tell you which provider handles a given payment and where to read that policy.
• What comes back from the provider is a confirmation that a payment succeeded, plus the amount. That amount is what moves the listing up the board.

• A payment provider 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.
• A sponsor's own domain serves the logo on their card, as described above. It is not acting on our instructions, and it is sent nothing about you beyond what any embedded image discloses.
• Store links you submit have their tracking parameters stripped before they are saved, so campaign tags do not get stored or passed on.

• The board is reviewed on a recurring cadence: a monthly pass and a deeper quarterly review, plus a look at anything reported in between. The point is to check that listings are not products the app stores prohibit. The rules themselves are in the terms of use.
• What a review looks at is public information plus our own records: the public store listing, the metadata already stored against a listing, the store link, and the click and payment totals the board produces. It does not involve any new personal data about you.
• If you email a report about a listing, that email and whatever you put in it are held for as long as it takes to act on it and to answer a follow-up. Do not send more personal information than the report needs.
• When a listing is removed we keep a short record of it: the store ID, the date, and the reason. It is part of the board's ledger and holds no personal data.
• Where a report concerns child safety or other serious criminality, or where the law or a valid legal request requires it, the report and what we hold about the listing can be passed to the appropriate authorities or to the store the app is published on. That is the only circumstance in which anything here is disclosed beyond the processors named above.

• Click rows expire automatically after 1 day. 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: a listing's total is permanent by design, and the ledger of what was paid is the product.
• A sponsor placement, including any contact email on it, is kept while it is live and afterwards as the record of a position having been sold. If a placement has ended and you want the address off it, write to [email protected].
• Report emails are kept only as long as it takes to act on the report. The record of a removed listing is kept for as long as the board is up.

• 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 only by the payment provider, such as a receipt or a refund, write to [email protected] and we will take it up with them.
• 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 we will help where we 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], and the contact page says what else that address covers. The rules of the board itself are in the terms of use.