1. Introduction
Welcome to unstore.io's privacy notice.
Aptoide S.A. respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit unstore.io (the "Site") and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Important Information and Who We Are
Aptoide, S.A., a Portuguese company, with the identification number ID 509987184 and principal place of business at Rua Soeiro Pereira Gomes, Lote 1, 3.º C, 1649-031 Lisbon, Portugal ("Aptoide", "we", "us" or "our"), is the controller and responsible for the Site.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how unstore.io collects and processes your personal data through your use of the Site, including any data you may provide while browsing or downloading applications.
unstore.io is not intended for children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.
Contact Details
Aptoide S.A.
Data Privacy Manager
[email protected]
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Portuguese Data Protection Commission (CNPD — www.cnpd.pt). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the CNPD so please contact us in the first instance.
3. Third-Party Links
The Site may include links to third-party websites, applications, and download sources. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave the Site, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
4. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you as follows:
- Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, unique device identifier, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access the Site.
- Usage Data: includes information about how you use the Site, including pages visited, apps browsed, download interactions, scroll depth, and navigation paths.
- Aggregated Data: we also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). We do not collect information about criminal convictions and offences.
unstore.io does not require user registration or accounts. We do not collect names, email addresses, passwords, financial data, or any other account-related personal information through the normal use of the Site.
5. How Is Your Personal Data Collected
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with the Site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive Technical Data from analytics providers (such as Google Analytics), advertising networks (such as Google AdSense), and hosting providers.
6. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
- Where you have given us your consent to use your personal data (e.g., for non-essential cookies).
7. Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data
We have set out below a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.
| Purpose / Activity | Data Categories | Lawful Basis |
|---|---|---|
| To operate and maintain the Site, including serving app detail pages and processing downloads | Technical, Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests (running and improving the Site) |
| To administer and protect the Site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests (provision of administration and IT services, network security) and necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
| To deliver relevant advertisements to you (via Google AdSense on download interstitial pages) | Technical, Usage | Consent (for personalized ads via cookies) or Legitimate interest (for contextual ads) |
| To use data analytics to improve the Site, content, and user experience | Technical, Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how users interact with the Site, to develop and improve it) |
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Site may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
Change of Purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
8. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with data processors to allow us to provide and improve the Site. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
The categories of third parties having access to your personal data are the following:
- Service providers, based in the EU and outside the EU, acting as processors, to provide us with hosting (Vercel), file storage (Cloudflare), security (Cloudflare), search (Meilisearch), and database services (Supabase).
- Recipients of your personal data, namely Google LLC, who use cookies to collect or receive information from the Site to provide analytics (Google Analytics 4) and advertising services (Google AdSense).
- Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
9. International Transfers
Some of our data processors are external third parties which are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA), so their processing of your personal data may involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
In cases where we need to transfer personal data outside the EEA, we will ensure that the following safeguards are in place:
- Where we use certain suppliers or service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in the EU (Standard Contractual Clauses), or rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
Please contact us if you want to obtain a copy of the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data outside the EEA.
10. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. These measures include HTTPS encryption across the entire Site, secure hosting infrastructure, and restricted access controls.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
11. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal data, whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Analytics data is retained according to Google Analytics 4's default retention settings (14 months). Server logs are retained for a maximum of 90 days.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
12. Your Legal Rights
Under data protection laws in relation to your personal data you are entitled to exercise the following rights:
- Request access to your personal data. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
- Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
- Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
- Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in certain scenarios.
- Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected].
No Fee Usually Required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.
Time Limit to Respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.