Apkmale.net (accessible at https://apkmale.net/) cares about the privacy of everyone who visits the site. This document explains what kind of information we collect and how we use it.
If anything here is unclear or you want more detail, feel free to reach out to us directly.
This policy only covers what happens on apkmale.net itself. It does not cover information you might share with us offline or through any other channel.
Consent
By using this site, you agree to the terms laid out in this policy.
Information we collect
Whenever we ask you for personal information, we’ll explain at that moment why we need it.
If you email us or contact us in another way, we may end up with extra details about you, such as your name, your email address, your phone number, whatever you wrote in your message, and any files you attached.
When you create an account, we might ask for your name, company name, mailing address, email, and phone number.
Content you post
You can post things like comments or reviews that other visitors can read. Once you post something publicly, anyone can see it, copy it, or use whatever personal details are attached to it. Check our Comments FAQ or the User-Generated Content section of our Terms of Service for the full picture.
We’re not obligated to publish everything you send us. And if a law requires us to take down, edit, or remove something you posted, we’ll follow that requirement.
Contests and promotions
If you enter a contest, sweepstakes, or special offer, you’ll be giving us your name, email, and anything else that particular promotion asks for.
Surveys and research
We sometimes run surveys, questionnaires, or feedback programs, and these can ask for demographic details like age, ethnicity, or gender. We also run similar research on behalf of advertisers. Before you take part in any of this, we’ll ask for your consent first.
Phone support
If you place an order or contact support over the phone, we’ll collect whatever you give us during that call: your name, your contact info, and anything else you choose to share.
Your contacts
We will never scan your phone or device to pull your contact list without you knowing.
That said, if you use something like a “refer a friend” feature and permit us, we will collect information about the people you refer. This feature is meant for U.S. residents only. If you use it, you’re confirming that both you and the people you’re referring live in the United States, and that you actually have their permission for us to hold their contact details.
Information collected automatically
We also pick up some information automatically as you use our services, whether that’s our website, our apps, or our emails and newsletters. We do this through cookies, tracking pixels, tags, scripts, and SDKs. Our separate Cookie Policy goes into more depth on this, along with the section below on your rights and choices.
Device details
Every time you visit, our servers log some basic technical information about the device you’re using. This includes:
Your IP address; Cookie IDs; your operating system and browser type; your browser’s language setting; device identifiers, like a MAC address; advertising identifiers
We may combine this with other data we already have about you. If your browser blocks cookies, some parts of the site, like your account page, might not work properly.
Location
Some of our apps can tailor content based on your GPS location, but only if you turn that feature on. Precise GPS location counts as sensitive personal information.
You decide whether to enable location access the first time you install an app, and you can change that setting on your device whenever you want. If it’s turned on, your location can be picked up through satellite, cell towers, or Wi Fi. If you save a location-based search, that information gets stored on our service provider’s servers.
If you never enable GPS features, or if a particular app doesn’t use location at all, we won’t collect your precise location. We still get your IP address though, which gives a rough idea of where you are. Ads can be targeted using that rough location, but never using your exact GPS position.
A note on sensitive information
Generally, we try not to collect sensitive personal details. That includes things like:
Government issued ID numbers, such as a driver’s license, passport, or social security number Racial or ethnic background Political views Religious or other beliefs Health, biometric, or genetic data Union membership Sexual orientation or details about your sex life Criminal history The content of private messages you send to other people (not messages sent to us)
How we use your information
We put the information we gather toward things like:
Running and maintaining the website Making the site better and more personal for you Figuring out how people actually use the site Building new products, features, and tools Getting in touch with you, whether that’s customer service, updates, or marketing, sometimes through a partner Sending emails Catching and stopping fraud
Log files
Like most websites, apkmale.net keeps standard log files. Basically every hosting provider does this as part of normal site analytics. These logs capture things like IP address, browser type, your internet provider, timestamps, which page sent you here and which page you left from, and roughly how many things you clicked. None of this is tied to information that identifies you personally. We use it to spot trends, keep the site running smoothly, see how visitors move around, and get a general demographic sense of who’s visiting.
Google DoubleClick DART cookies
Google is one of the third parties working with our site. It uses something called a DART cookie to serve ads based on your visits to this site and others across the web. You can turn off DART cookies by visiting Google’s ad and content network privacy page at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Our advertising partners
You’re welcome to look up the privacy policy for any advertiser working with apkmale.net.
Outside ad networks use tools like cookies, JavaScript, and web beacons in the ads and links that show up on our site, and these go straight to your browser. When that happens, they pick up your IP address automatically. They use this mainly to see how well their campaigns are performing and to personalize what ads you see elsewhere.
We want to be clear that apkmale.net doesn’t have access to, or control over, cookies placed by outside advertisers.
We work with third parties, and sometimes use tracking tools ourselves, to show you ads that are more relevant to you. This can draw from cookies, information you’ve given us directly like your email, your activity on our site, data from advertisers, or anything we figure out by combining all of that. Whatever we do with it, we make sure it can’t be traced back to your identity. Google, for instance, helps serve ads across our site using cookies or device IDs combined with their own data. You can opt out of Google’s ad cookie through their privacy settings page.
We also group users together for ad targeting purposes on behalf of our advertisers. We do this by mixing information from surveys or account registration with data we pick up automatically as you browse. That combined data helps build a picture of shared traits, like demographics or interests, and from there we sort people into groups. Each group gets a random ID that our ad server uses to target campaigns; nothing in that ID identifies you personally.
One more example: the affiliate links you’ll sometimes see in our guides and recommendations. Clicking one of these sends you to a vendor’s site that we don’t run or control. Those vendors use their own cookies and tools to track how you got there from our site. If you end up buying something after clicking through, we might earn a commission.
A few more things worth knowing:
For details on opting out of targeted ads across different browsers and devices, check the DAA’s WebChoices tool or the NAI’s opt-out page. For mobile apps, the AppChoices app lets you manage this too, or you can follow the steps in the rights and choices section further down. Many of our advertising vendors are bound by contracts that let them improve their own products using the data they collect from you, sometimes combined with data from their other clients. That means they may use what they learn from your visit here to target ads to you on behalf of other companies too, not just us. These third parties sometimes bring in even more outside services to serve their ads, so it’s worth checking their individual privacy policies too. Our Cookie Policy has more on tracking tech generally and what choices you have. California residents can tell us not to “sell” or “share” their personal information, and since January 1, 2023, Virginia residents can opt out of targeted advertising. More on both further down.
Marketing our services to you
We do market our own services to you, sometimes with help from outside marketing vendors.
We place ads across sites, apps, and platforms owned by other companies, usually aimed at people who’ve visited or signed up but haven’t subscribed or bought anything yet, plus people who share traits with our existing subscribers.
To do this kind of targeting, we might upload an encrypted version of our customer list to a third party, or place a tracking tool from that third party onto our own services. The third party then checks for matches between our data and theirs, but they can’t read our list unless they already have a copy of it themselves. If you’re a California resident and you’ve told us not to “sell” your data, we’ll make sure you’re excluded from this kind of matching.
If you want to opt out of these matched ads, you’ll need to reach out to the specific third party involved. As an example, if we’re running a Facebook “Custom Audiences” ad, you can hover over the corner of that ad on Facebook and opt out directly there. We can’t guarantee that every third party will honor opt out requests, that’s on them.
We also send out promotional emails and newsletters from time to time. Details on unsubscribing are in the rights and choices section below.
Combining data into broader insights
Sometimes we take personal information and aggregate it, or strip out anything identifying, so it no longer points back to you as an individual. This helps us understand our audience better overall, whether that’s measuring how an ad campaign performed, building interest-based groups, or summarizing survey results. Once information is combined or de-identified this way, we can generally use or share it however we want, unless a law says otherwise.
Who we share information with
Within our company
Our affiliated companies may access your information for the purposes described in this policy. This includes The Athletic, which has its own separate privacy policy.
Service providers
We rely on outside service providers to help with things like:
Processing payments Fulfilling orders Keeping our technology and infrastructure running Customer support Serving and targeting ads Measuring how ads perform Running surveys Shipping products Sending emails Handling list processing and analytics Managing research Running promotions
Other companies’ privacy policies
Our policy only covers apkmale.net. It doesn’t extend to other advertisers or sites, so we’d recommend checking their own privacy policies directly for anything more specific.
You can turn off cookies through your browser’s settings. Your browser’s help pages will have the exact steps for doing that.
Your rights under the CCPA
If you’re a California resident, the CCPA gives you the right to:
Ask us what categories and specific pieces of personal data we’ve collected about you Ask us to delete personal data we’ve collected about you Tell us not to sell your personal data, if we do sell it
Once you send a request, we have a month to get back to you. Reach out to us if you’d like to use any of these rights.
Your rights under the GDPR
We want you to know exactly what protections you’re entitled to. Everyone has the right to:
Access your data, request copies of it (we may charge a small fee for this) Correct anything inaccurate or incomplete Erasure of your data under certain conditions Restrict how we process your data under certain conditions Object to how we’re processing your data under certain conditions Move your data to another organization, or get it sent directly to you, under certain conditions
Just like with CCPA requests, we’ll respond within a month of receiving your request. Contact us any time you’d like to use one of these rights.
Children’s privacy
Keeping kids safe online matters to us too. We’d encourage parents and guardians to stay involved, whether that means watching, participating in, or simply keeping an eye on what their kids do online.
apkmale.net doesn’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe your child gave us this kind of information, please get in touch right away and we’ll do what we can to remove it from our records as quickly as possible.