Privacy Policy for Phone Filter

    Last updated: March 1, 2025

    This Privacy Policy describes how Phone Filter ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you use our mobile application Phone Filter (the "App") and website phonefilterapp.com (the "Website"), collectively referred to as the "Service".

    Information We Collect

    Personal Information

    We collect the following types of personal information from you:

    • Email address
    • First name and last name
    • Phone number
    • Phonebook (contact list) from your mobile device or tablet
    • Cookies and Usage Data

    Usage Data

    We may also collect usage information when you access and use the Service, including:

    • Your device's Internet Protocol address (IP address)
    • Browser type and version
    • Pages of our Service that you visit
    • Time and date of your visit
    • Time spent on those pages
    • Device identifiers and other diagnostic data

    Tracking Technologies and Cookies

    We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

    How We Use Your Information

    We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

    • Provide and maintain our Service
    • Notify you about changes to our Service
    • Allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
    • Provide customer support
    • Monitor the usage of our Service
    • Detect, prevent and address technical issues
    • Provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer

    Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information

    If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

    We may process your Personal Information because:

    • We need to perform a contract with you
    • You have given us permission to do so
    • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
    • For payment processing purposes
    • To comply with the law

    Transfer of Data

    Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

    If you are located outside Australia and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Information, to Australia and process it there.

    Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

    Disclosure of Data

    Legal Requirements

    We may disclose your Personal Information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

    • Comply with a legal obligation
    • Protect and defend the rights or property of Phone Filter
    • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
    • Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
    • Protect against legal liability

    Service Providers

    We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

    These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

    Analytics

    We use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service:

    • Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
    • Firebase

    Email Communication

    We use third-party Service Providers to manage our email communications:

    Development Tools

    We use third-party development tools:

    • GitHub: GitHub is provided by GitHub, Inc. GitHub is a development platform to host and review code, manage projects, and build software. For more information on what data GitHub collects and how the protection of the data is ensured, please visit GitHub Privacy Policy page: https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-privacy-statement.

    Payment Processing

    We provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing:

    Marketing & Advertising

    We use remarketing services for marketing and advertising purposes:

    • Google Ads
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

    Your Data Protection Rights

    Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

    If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information.

    If you wish to be informed about what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

    In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

    • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you
    • The right of rectification
    • The right to object
    • The right of restriction
    • The right to data portability
    • The right to withdraw consent

    Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

    If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding access to your personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

    You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

    • The categories of personal information we collected about you
    • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you
    • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information
    • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information
    • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you

    You also have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.

    Under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

    CalOPPA requires us to disclose how we respond to Do-Not-Track signals. We do not currently respond to Do-Not-Track signals. Some third parties, such as Google Analytics, may track your activities on our Service and across other websites.

    Children's Privacy

    Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us.

    Changes to This Privacy Policy

    We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

    You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

    Contact Us

    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: