Privacy Policy

1. Overview

PickedApps is an editorial website about apps and digital tools. This policy explains what information may be processed when you visit the site, contact us, subscribe to updates, follow an external link, or view an advertisement.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect or receive the following information:

• Information you submit, such as your name, email address, contact message, or newsletter subscription email.
• Basic technical and log data, such as IP address, browser and device type, operating system, requested page, time of access, referring page, and error or security logs.
• Usage and analytics information, such as pages viewed, approximate location, visit duration, interactions, and aggregated traffic patterns.
• Cookie and advertising identifiers used by us or our service providers as described below.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to operate and secure the site, understand traffic, improve content and performance, respond to messages, manage newsletter subscriptions, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, measure advertising, and promote PickedApps content. We do not sell the contact details you submit. Advertising and infrastructure providers may process data as explained in this policy and under their own privacy terms.

4. Google AdSense And Advertising Cookies

PickedApps uses Google AdSense to display third-party ads. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to serve and measure ads. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on your prior visits to PickedApps or other websites.

Depending on your region, consent choices, and Google settings, ads may be personalized or non-personalized. Personalized advertising may use prior activity and inferred interests. Non-personalized advertising is selected using contextual information, such as the content of the page and general location, although cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated reporting, fraud prevention, and security.

You can manage personalized advertising or opt out through Google Ads Settings. You can also learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services on Google's partner-sites page. Browser and device controls may provide additional cookie and advertising choices.

5. Consent And Cookie Choices

Where applicable law requires consent, we request it before using advertising cookies or personal data for personalized ads. A consent message may allow you to accept, reject, or manage available choices. You may also change relevant choices through the consent controls presented on the site, when available, and through Google Ads Settings. Essential security and infrastructure processing may continue where permitted without consent.

6. Promotion Through Google Ads

PickedApps may use Google Ads or other paid advertising services to promote its editorial pages. Those services may process campaign information such as an ad click, referring campaign, device or browser information, and aggregated conversion or visit data. Paid promotion helps people discover the site; it does not determine which apps we cover or the conclusions of our editorial content.

7. Service Providers And External Links

We use service providers for hosting, security, data storage, forms, email subscriptions, analytics, advertising, and content delivery. These providers may process information on our behalf or under their own terms. PickedApps also links to Google Play, Apple's App Store, developer websites, and other external services. We do not control their privacy practices, and their policies apply after you visit them.

8. Retention And Your Choices

We keep submitted information only for as long as reasonably needed to answer requests, provide subscriptions, maintain records, protect the site, or meet legal obligations. You may ask us to remove a contact message or newsletter email, subject to legal and security requirements, through our contact page.

9. Children's Privacy

PickedApps does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

10. Changes To This Policy

We may update this policy when our services, providers, or legal obligations change. The date at the top shows the latest revision.

11. Contact

If you have a privacy question or request, use our contact page or email hello@pickedapps.com.