Privacy policy
This page covers the rank9labs.com website. Each of our apps is governed by its own policy, which is linked from that app's listing on the store you installed it from.
This website
rank9labs.com is a static website. It has no login, no comment system and no shopping cart.
Our host records standard server logs — IP address, user agent, requested URL and timestamp — for security and to keep the site online. These are retained for a short period and are not used to identify you.
How we count visits
We count page views ourselves, on our own server. When a page loads, your browser sends us a single request recording three things: which page you opened, which page or search engine sent you, and a truncated version of your IP address with the final part replaced by a zero. That is the whole record.
It sets no cookie, stores nothing on your device, and assigns you no identifier, so we cannot tell whether two visits came from the same person. We do this because we genuinely cannot otherwise distinguish real readers from the automated scanners that make up most of our traffic. Where a link takes you to an app store, we count that too, so we know which guides people find useful. Referring addresses are truncated at the question mark, so we receive the page you came from but never the search terms you typed.
Third parties
We use Google AdSense to show ads on our guides. It loads only if you accept when asked. It sets cookies, and Google processes that data on its own terms. If you decline, or simply ignore the request, the script is never fetched, no cookie is set, and your browser makes no request to Google at all — you will see no ads. You are left with the server-side count described above, which is what we rely on anyway.
Ads appear on our guides only, never on our service, app or legal pages. Google may use cookies to personalise what it shows you; you can control that at Google Ads Settings, independently of the choice you make here.
You can change your mind at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser, which erases the stored choice and causes us to ask again. Declining also deletes any Google cookies already set.
Apart from the above, there are none. The typeface is served from our own domain rather than a font CDN, and nothing here embeds a social network's tracking pixel.
Our mobile apps are a separate matter — they do use Google's advertising services, and each app's own policy says exactly what that involves.
Contacting us
If you email us, we keep that correspondence so we can answer you and to keep a record of what was agreed. We do not add you to a mailing list.
Your rights
You may ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. Email support@rank9labs.com.
Changes
Material changes will be reflected in the effective date above.
Contact
- Privacy: support@rank9labs.com
- General: support@rank9labs.com