Data processing related to the AppBrain website

About the AppBrain website

AppBrain provides a service where people can explore app information and stats about Android and Google Play. People can sign up for an account to get a subscription or access our products for developers. This document describes how we process data in a GDPR-compliant way.

AppBrain processes personal data using “privacy by design” where we collect and process the minimal amount of personal information possible to provide our service.

We process data in a GDPR-compliant way as a data controller for our website.

Data processed for non-logged-in website visitors

Types of personal or potentially sensitive data collected by AppBrain

Data	Type	Purpose	Retention
IP address	Personal	Fraud / duplicate filtering Country determination	30 days
User cookie	Personal	Storing preferences Improving our service	30 days

Data processed for signed-up website users

The same data as for non-logged-in visitors is processed, and additionally information related to your account:

Types of personal or potentially sensitive data collected by AppBrain

Data	Type	Purpose	Retention
IP address	Personal	Fraud / duplicate filtering Country determination	As long as you keep your account
Email address	Personal	Contacting you, letting you log in	As long as you keep your account
User filled-in profile fields (Your name, your location, your website, about you)	Personal	Customizing your public profile	As long as you keep your account
Your avatar	Personal	Customizing your public profile	As long as you keep your account

Data transit

Our website uses secure protocols (https) only. Our servers storing account information are based in the United States of America. Our privacy consent screen explicitly asks for consent to store personal data in the USA, which may not give the same safeguards for privacy as the EU.

Processors

AppBrain works with a number of companies who are our processors who may have access to the personal data that we process.

These companies are at the moment:

Company	Purpose	Additional information
Google Analytics	Analytics, Improving our service	Google’s processor terms
Heatmap.me	Analytics, Improving our service	Heatmap.me privacy policy
Help Scout	Support ticket handling	Help Scout GDPR compliance documentation
Google Cloud	Hosting	Google Cloud GDPR documentation
Rackspace Cloud	Hosting	Rackspace compliance
Cloudflare	Website serving	Cloudflare GDPR documentation
Maxmind	Credit card fraud detection	Minfraud terms of service
Doubleclick	Serving ads	Google’s privacy policy

Further questions

If you have questions about privacy or your personal data please contact our support team.