It is Unpluq’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.unpluq.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “www.unpluq.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Unpluq collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.Unpluq’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Unpluq’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Unpluq may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Unpluq also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.unpluq.com blog posts. Unpluq only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Unpluq’s websites choose to interact with Unpluq in ways that require Unpluq to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Unpluq gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://www.unpluq.com to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms of service of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Unpluq uses Google AdWords for remarketing

Unpluq uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Unpluq discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Unpluq’s behalf or to provide services available at Unpluq’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Unpluq’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Unpluq will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Unpluq discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Unpluq believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Unpluq, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://www.unpluq.com and have supplied your email address, Unpluq may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Unpluq and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Unpluq takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

Unpluq may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Unpluq may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Unpluq does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Unpluq uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Unpluq uses cookies to help Unpluq identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.unpluq.com, and their website access preferences. Unpluq visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Unpluq’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Unpluq’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Unpluq’s use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Unpluq – by purchasing Unpluq’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Unpluq collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Unpluq. Unpluq does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Unpluq may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Unpluq’s sole discretion. Unpluq encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

 

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Contacting Unpluq through website submissions, Unpluq may contact you in response and to follow up on your inquiry or support request.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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Unpluq App Privacy Policy

Last update: July 9, 2024

It is Unpluq’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our app. This Privacy Policy applies to the Unpluq app (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, “The Unpluq Launcher," "Unpluq" or “app” ). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the app. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected in our app, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the app and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our app, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our app. Depending on your activities when using our app, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service, which are listed under “Extra gathered data”

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used, and ask for your permission to collect it.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law.

Our app may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our app will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.

Standard gathered data

Like most app developers, Unpluq collects non-personally-identifying information. Unpluq’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Unpluq’s visitors use its app. From time to time, Unpluq may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its app.

When using Unpluq the user is required to create an account, and the following data is collected:

• Email address
• Password
• Activation code

Additional Gathered Data

When you download the app, you will be asked if you want to help improve Unpluq.

 You can decide whether to allow this or not. There are two topics:

1. Unpluq usage (time, focus apps)
2. Other app usage (app name, time)

Relating to this, the following data is collected and stored for internal use to improve our app and to provide customer support to you, including but not limited to: 

• Unpluq usage such as: 
• When/how frequently Unpluq is opened
• For Android: Which apps are blocked
• Whether or not critical permissions Unpluq needs to function have been granted on your phone
• Your phone model and OS version (iOS or Android version)
• In-app activity within Unpluq (blocking, unblocking, creation of schedules)

How we use the gathered data

The data collected will be used to:

• Improve the Unpluq app and any Unpluq services;
• Provide customer support and service to you; 
• Contact you with information about the app (e.g. updates and new offerings);
• Personalize the app and the content we deliver to you;
• Conduct research and analytics about how you use and interact with the app, to analyze how well Unpluq works;
• Understanding the impact Unpluq has on your smartphone use (screentime);  

Note that Unpluq does not and will not share or sell this data with/to third parties. 

Unpluq may display this information publicly or provide it to others in aggregate (as an average or group) as needed. However, Unpluq will never disclose your personally-identifying information (name, email address, password) along with this data, unless required to by law.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Unpluq may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Unpluq’s sole discretion. Unpluq encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site and app after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

• Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
• Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
• Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
• If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us via the contact page or sent an email to info@unpluq.com

This privacy policy is effective as of July 9, 2024.