Privacy Policy

 

This Privacy Policy applies beginning August 12, 2019.

 

PhoneBooster is a phone tool to increase your phone's memory, clean the system cache, save battery life, and speeds up games in just seconds. Your privacy is a top priority to us and we appreciate that you put your trust in us. We are committed to the responsible management, use and protection of personalinformation.

This Privacy Policy explains how your information is collected, used, stored and shared by us with respect to your access and use of our services. By using or accessing our App or our Service, you agree to the privacy policies outlined below.

 

What information do we collect?

 

Device Information

 

We collect your device and network connection information for analytical purpose only when you use our App. This information includes your device brand, the model of your device, your network status, etc. The device information that we collect does not contain any user sensitive as device ID or anything that can be used to permanently identify a user or device.

 

Information collected by Third-Party SDKs from our Monetization Partners

 

Some of the third-party monetization SDKs integrated in our app may access your information for the purpose of ad optimization. Such information includes GAID (Google Advertising ID on Android devices) or IDFA (Identifier for Advertising on iOS devices), region (defined as the location where a given language is used), location informationthe app list or applications installed on the device, and IP address. This Policy does not govern our third party monetization partners, as they have their own privacy policies which can be viewed on their websites. We have no access to or control over such third parties. However, we have a routine procedure to scan all third party SDKs to detect if they collect sensitive user information. The partners we select to work with include but are not limited to Google AdMob (monetization platform of Google LLC), DoubleClick Ad Exchange (monetization platform of Google LLC), DoubleClick for Publishers (monetization platform of Google LLC), Facebook Audience Network (monetization platform of Facebook, Inc.), MoPub (monetization platform of Twitter, Inc.), Amazon, Fyber, Smaato, Tapjoy, UnityAds, etc. We encourage you to review the policies of the third-party monetization partners listed below.

 

 

Information collected by Third-Party Analytical Tools

 

Our app integrates SDKs from several analytical service providers for app optimization purpose. These third-party SDKs may also collect your information such as GAID (Google Advertising ID on Android devices) or IDFA (Identifier for Advertising on iOS devices), region (defined as the location where a given language is used), location information , the app list or applications installed on the device, and IP address. This Policy does not govern our third party analytical tools. You can find their privacy policy on their websites. The partners we select to work with include but are not limited to Flurry (Oath Inc.), AppsFlyer (Appsflyer Inc.) and Firebase (analytical platform of Google LLC), etc. The information they provide to us is aggregated analytical data.

 

 

How do we use this information?

 

To provide services

 

We may use this information to provide service or features in our App. For example, we may access the apps installed on your phone to detect whether there is malware or virus.

 

 

To improve our product

As mentioned above, we collect your information for analytical purpose. This analytical data is only for app optimization. Some third-party monetization partners such as Facebook and Google may use the information they collected to optimize advertisement experience. Their use of information is governed by their privacy policy. We don’t have access to any such information they collected.

 

 

How is your information stored?

 

For the information we collect, some is only stored on your device locally and some is stored safely in encrypted format in our servers located in AWS. We have strict policies to control access and usage of such data. If you would like to have your information deleted, please contact us.

 

How is your information shared?

We never share your information with third parties. All the information we collect is only for the purpose of optimizing our product and is safely stored in our server in an encrypted format. The information will not be disclosed to any third parties.

 

What important permissions we request

 

Here we explain all important permissions that our app requests. These

permissions are necessary for our app to perform certain features.

 

Access network

- This permission is used to monitor data’s consumption.

 

Access WiFi status

- This permission allows you to test your Wi-Fi speed.

 

Access battery status

- We use this permission to let users know that how much power battery be used by different apps.

 

Access phone call and read call records

- We only use these permissions to detect which phone call should be blocked. 

 

Access camera

- For phone’s safety, we only use this permission to snap on intruders.  

 

Access app usage record

- We need this permission to know whether lock the app which just open.

 

Allow app to disable keyboard lock dump system

- This permission is used in Toggle, in order to support a quick entrance of some functions. 

 

Allow app to expand or shrink status bar

- This permission only used to guide users when using notification organizer for the first time.

 

Access flashlight

- This permission allows you to turn on/off flashlight in our toggle bar.

 

Allow app to get information about current or recently running tasks

- This permission is used in Memory Booster to get usage of memory.

 

Allow app to open network sockets

- This permission is used in Antivirus to download Virus Database.

 

Allow app to kill background progresses

- This permission is used in Phone Boost to clean useless background processes.

 

Allow app to know whether you are on the phone

- We Only use this to prevent App Locker screen from popping up during a call.

 

Allow app to start automatically

- This is used to activate App Locker and Phone Boost to ensure normal use after the boot

 

Allow app to create windows and be shown on top of all other apps 

- This is used to ensure the normal use of App Locker and display clean progress when using Battery Saver

 

Allow app to use fingerprint hardware

- Unlock apps

 

Access to the vibrator

- This permission allows you to get a vibrate feedback after wrong password input.

 

Allow app to use PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping from dimming

- This permission is used to keep the phone awake during scanning virus and junk.

 

Allow app to read and write from external storage, find out the space used by any package, and clear the caches of all installed applications on the device

- These Permissions are used in Junk clean to get external junk information, also used in Photo Vault and Duplicate Photos to access gallery

 

Access AccessibilityService

- This is used in Battery Saver to force stop the apps that is consuming the power in the background

- This is also used in App Locker to reduce the power consumption

 

Allow app to request installing packages

- This is only used in App Manager to install apps for phone

 

Access approximate location

- These permissions are only used in App Locker to locate the intruder who has tried to peeked at the locked apps

 

Allow app to access to the list of accounts in Accounts Service, read and write the sync settings

- We need these permissions to help the users reset the password of App Locker when it’s forgotten.

 

 

 

Changes to the Policy

 

Any information that is collected is subject to the Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. We may, however, modify the Policy from time to time. If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will provide you additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances. Your continued use of our App or Services following the posting of changes will mean you accept those changes.

 

The following is a list of the third-party monetization partners we currently use in our services and links to their privacy policies:


Facebook, Inc.

https://www.facebook.com/policy.php


UnityAds

https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy


Google AdMob, DoubleClick Ad Exchange, DoubleClick for Publishers

https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/


AppLovin Corporation

https://www.applovin.com/privacy


Tapjoy

https://www.tapjoy.com/legal/#privacy-policy


Inmobi

https://www.inmobi.com/privacy-policy/


Smaato

https://www.smaato.com/privacy/


MoPub

https://www.mopub.com/legal/privacy/


AdCaffe

https://ge.appcloudbox.net/adcaffe/AdCaffeAdChoice.html


Amazon Advertising

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?ie=UTF8&nodeId=468496&ref=a20m_us_fnav_prvcy


Criteo

https://www.criteo.com/privacy/



 

 

Contact Us

 

If you have any questions about this Policy, you can contact us at email:

privacy.sunspotwidgets@outlook.com