Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 17, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how APKBZ (apkbz.com) collects, uses, and shares information when you visit this website. APKBZ is a content publication about Android launcher customization. We do not operate user accounts, we do not sell products, and we do not ask you to sign up for anything in order to read our guides. The data involved in running this site is therefore limited, and this policy explains exactly what it is.
Information We Collect
Log Files
Like most websites, our hosting provider records standard server log files when you visit. These logs may include your IP address, browser type and version, the pages you requested, the date and time of your visit, and the referring page. Log files are used to operate the site securely, diagnose errors, and understand aggregate traffic patterns. They are not linked to information that identifies you personally beyond what your browser already transmits with every web request.
Analytics
We use privacy-conscious analytics tooling to understand which guides are read, how visitors arrive at them, and which articles fail to answer the question they promised to answer. Analytics data is aggregated: we see that a guide was read a given number of times from a given country, not what a named individual did. Where analytics cookies are used, they are described in the Cookies section below, and you can opt out through your browser settings at any time.
Contact Data
If you email us at contact@apkbz.com or use our contact form, we receive your email address and the contents of your message, including any technical details you choose to include about your device. We use that information solely to respond to you and, where a message reveals an error in a guide, to correct the guide. We do not add contact addresses to marketing lists, and we do not sell or rent them to anyone.
Cookies and Advertising
APKBZ displays advertising served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Cookies are small text files stored by your browser; advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to show ads that are more relevant to the sites you visit across the web.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to APKBZ and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (adssettings.google.com). Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
- Other third-party ad servers or networks may use technologies such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons in the advertisements that appear on APKBZ, and may automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. We have no access to or control over cookies used by third-party advertisers; their practices are governed by their own privacy policies.
Beyond advertising and analytics, we use only the strictly functional cookies required for the site to operate, such as security and load-balancing cookies set by our hosting infrastructure.
Your Rights Under GDPR
If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to request its rectification or erasure, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. Because we hold so little data — essentially server logs and any email you have sent us — most requests can be completed quickly. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at the address below. We respond within one month, and sooner in most cases.
Your Rights Under CCPA/CPRA
California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected about them, to request deletion of that information, to correct inaccurate information, and to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. We do not sell personal information. To the extent that advertising cookies could be construed as sharing under California law, you may opt out via Google Ads Settings as described above or by enabling a Global Privacy Control signal in your browser, which we honour. We do not discriminate against anyone for exercising these rights.
Children’s Privacy
APKBZ is written for adult Android enthusiasts and is not directed at children under 13 (or the applicable minimum age in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it promptly.
Data Retention and Security
Server logs are retained for a limited period for security and diagnostic purposes and then rotated. Email correspondence is kept only as long as needed to handle your enquiry and maintain a record of corrections made to our content. We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the limited data we hold, though no method of transmission over the Internet is completely secure.
Third-Party Services and Processors
We rely on a small number of third-party services to operate APKBZ: our hosting provider, the analytics tooling described above, and Google AdSense for advertising. Each of these processors handles data only as needed to provide its service to us, under its own published privacy terms. We review this list when we change providers and update this policy accordingly. We do not use social media trackers, fingerprinting scripts, or data brokers, and we do not embed third-party comment systems that profile readers across the web.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our practices change or when legal requirements evolve. The effective date at the top of this page will be revised with each material change, and continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact
For any privacy question or request, email us at contact@apkbz.com with “Privacy” in the subject line.