Privacy Policy

1. Introduction & Scope

Welcome to Behind The App (“we,” “our,” or “us”), an engineering publication and subsidiary of Akruno, founded by Mujahid Al Mahi, operating at https://behindtheapp.xyz. We respect your privacy and are committed to transparent, responsible handling of any information collected when you read our articles, subscribe to our newsletter, post comments, or interact with our services.

2. Information We Collect

We collect only the minimum information necessary to operate, secure, and improve this publication:

• Voluntarily Provided Information: When you subscribe to our newsletter, submit an inquiry through our Contact Form, or post a comment on an article, we collect the name, email address, and message or comment content you submit.
• Automated Technical & Usage Data: When you visit our website, standard technical data such as your IP address (used for spam prevention, rate limiting, and deduplicated article view/reaction counts), browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and timestamps may be automatically logged.

3. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Cookies

We use Google AdSense and third-party advertising partners to display advertisements on Behind The App. Please review the following mandatory advertising disclosures:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as the Google AdSense / DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the Internet.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve advertisements to our readers based on their visit to Behind The App and/or other sites across the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices or www.youronlinechoices.eu.
• For more details on how Google collects and processes data when you use partner sites, please review How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

4. Cookies, Web Beacons & Analytics

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by your web browser. We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

• Essential & Security Cookies: Used to maintain session integrity for authenticated administrators and protect forms against automated abuse.
• Analytics (Google Analytics): We may use Google Analytics to understand aggregate readership trends, page popularity, and site performance. Google Analytics collects anonymized traffic metrics and does not identify individual readers to us.
• Advertising Cookies: Used by Google AdSense to deliver relevant advertisements, limit ad frequency, and measure ad performance.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent via your browser settings.

5. How We Use Your Information

We use collected information strictly to:

• Publish, deliver, and optimize our engineering dissections and website performance;
• Send periodic engineering newsletters to subscribers who have explicitly opted in;
• Respond to reader inquiries, feedback, and collaboration requests;
• Moderate article comments and prevent spam, DDoS attacks, or malicious scraping;
• Comply with applicable legal obligations and enforce our Terms and Conditions.

6. Data Sharing, Storage & Security

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information (such as newsletter email addresses or contact form submissions) to third parties. Data is stored securely using industry-standard cloud database infrastructure (Supabase / PostgreSQL) protected by Row Level Security (RLS), TLS encryption in transit, and strict access controls.

7. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

Depending on your jurisdiction (including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and California), you have the right to:

• Request access to or a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data (including unsubscribing from our newsletter or removing a comment);
• Object to or restrict certain processing of your data, and opt out of personalized advertising cookies.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in Section 9 below.

8. Children's Privacy

Behind The App is a technical software engineering publication and does not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

9. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us:

• Publication: Behind The App (A subsidiary of Akruno)
• Email: contact@behindtheapp.xyz
• Contact Form: https://behindtheapp.xyz/#contact