1. Summary & Core Philosophy
Open-in-App requires no user registration, no user account creation, and no password management. The smart links you create on our website are generated entirely on your own local device using client-side fragment identifiers (#open=...) and are not stored in any centralized database on our web servers. We believe in minimal data footprint and maximum user privacy.
2. Links You Convert & Generate
When you paste an address into our link generator on the website or in the Android application, the link is processed locally. In your web browser, the destination URL is stored in the fragment portion of the URL after the # character. By design according to the HTTP specification, URL fragments are processed client-side and are never transmitted to web servers in HTTP request headers.
We do not maintain logs of user destination links, we do not inspect the private contents of the URLs you share, and we do not sell link data to data brokers.
3. Advertising on the Website (Google AdSense)
To support the free operation, hosting, maintenance, and development of Open-in-App, we display digital advertisements provided by third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense (Google LLC).
Required Disclosures regarding Google AdSense & Third-Party Cookies:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites across the Internet.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to Open-in-App and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's My Ad Center.
- Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice page at www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at optout.networkadvertising.org.
4. Advertising in the Android Mobile App (Google AdMob)
The companion Android application features banner and interstitial advertisements served through Google AdMob (Google LLC). To serve, personalize, measure, and protect against fraudulent ad impressions, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect and process:
- Your device's Advertising ID (Google Play Services ID) and hardware identifiers;
- Your IP address and coarse approximate geographical location;
- Device diagnostics, including operating system version, model, language, and crash reports;
- Ad interaction metrics such as impressions, clicks, and video completion rates.
You can manage, reset, or delete your Advertising ID at any time directly through your Android device settings under Settings → Privacy → Ads.
5. Web Analytics & Server Logs
We use Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) to understand aggregated traffic patterns, such as daily visitor volume, country distribution, page views, and which application types are most frequently requested. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to compile aggregate reporting. It does not track personal identity, and destination URLs are not sent to Google Analytics.
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on your visits by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Our hosting provider (Hostinger) maintains standard technical server access logs (including request timestamp, IP address, user-agent string, and HTTP status code) solely for security monitoring, DDoS mitigation, and server performance diagnostics.
6. Opening Links in External Applications
When you click "Open link in app" or access an intent-based smart link, your device hands the destination URI over to the native application installed on your phone (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, Spotify). Once the native application launches, its respective privacy policy, user terms, and data collection practices apply.
7. Data Retention & User Rights (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)
Under international privacy regulations including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), users possess the right to know, access, correct, or request deletion of their personal information.
Because Open-in-App does not require user registration or store personal link databases, we do not retain identifiable personal data on our servers. For any inquiries regarding privacy choices or data requests, please contact our privacy compliance officer directly.
8. Children's Privacy
Open-in-App is a general audience technical tool and is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our advertising disclosures, please reach out to our privacy team:
Email: privacy@open-in-app.com
General Support: contact@open-in-app.com