AppGrooves, Corp.
SearchMan Privacy Policy
Last updated: 06/08/2022
The SearchMan service (the “Service”) located at https://SearchMan.com/, https://Developer.SearchMan.com/
and "SearchMan
for Sheets" (collectively, the “Site”) is operated by AppGrooves, Corp. AppGrooves Corp. is committed to respecting and protecting
your privacy. To that end, we have
prepared this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to describe our information
gathering and dissemination practices and our data protection practices for the
Service; it does not apply to other online or offline AppGrooves
sites, products or services. The terms “AppGrooves,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to AppGrooves and its affiliates. The terms “you,” “your,” and
“yours” refer to the user utilizing the Service or the Site. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and
subject to the SearchMan Terms of Service located at https://SearchMan.com/s/doc/tos.html
(the “TOS”), and capitalized terms used but not defined in this Privacy Policy
are defined in the TOS.
Collection of Information
Here's what we
collect from you when you use the Service:
1. User-Provided
Information: When you use or subscribe for the Service, we may ask you to
provide certain information, including information that is considered
"personally identifiable information” (that is, information that would
allow us to directly identify you, such as your name, your company name, and
email address). This information is necessary to provide our Service for your
app and improve the SEO of your app in the App Store. If you elect to subscribe to the full functionality
and features of the Service, you will be prompted to provide financial
information, including credit card and other billing information, which will be
passed directly to a secure third party credit card
payment processing service to process and charge your monthly subscription
fee. The credit card payment processor
will not share your financial information with us and
we will not store any such information on our servers. We will not ask for more information than is
necessary to operate the Service.
2. "Automatically
Collected" Information: When you
use the Site or Service we may automatically record
certain information about your use from your web browser such as your IP
address. This information is used for our internal research purposes, to accommodate
the Site to our users’ preferences and needs.
3. "Cookies"
Information: One form of
"automatically collected" information we record is information stored
by "cookies." When you use the Service, we may send one or more
cookies to your computer. We use both "session" and
"persistent" cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track various
types of information. A session cookie is one that disappears after you close
your browser. While a persistent cookie remains after you close your browser
(and may be used by your browser when you later return to the Service),
persistent cookies generally can be removed. You can review the appropriate
"Help" file in your Web browser or your mobile device to learn the
proper way to modify your cookie settings. We will use the information
collected to improve user experience on the Site by customizing features to our
users’ preferences.
Information Use
AppGrooves
may use your information for several general purposes:
1. to
provide you with Service information,
2. to
enable your use of the Service,
3. to
support the Service offered on the Site,
4. to
contact you for feedback about the Service,
5. to
conduct research about AppGrooves or our Service,
6. to
notify you of technical updates or changes in policy, or
7. to
contact you for marketing and promotional purposes (unless you have opted out of
receiving these types of communications),
8. to
import other data from other services (if you have elected to have our
dashboard display the available analytics information for your app from the App
Store).
Service’s
use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will
adhere to the Google
API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We will not sell or
rent your personally identifiable information to third parties except as
described in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose your personally identifiable
information to other companies or people under any of the following
circumstances:
1. when
we have your consent to share the information.
2. if
sharing the information is reasonably necessary to provide the Service (if your
information is shared with our third party service
providers, we will only provide the information reasonably needed to deliver
the service, and ask that such companies do not use your information for any
other purpose).
3. to
keep you up to date on the latest product announcements, software updates,
special offers, or other information we think you would like to hear about either
from us or from our business partners (unless you have opted out of receiving
these types of communications).
4. if
we believe in good faith that we are required to do so by law, in connection
with litigation, to prevent a crime, or to protect personal safety, the public,
or the Site.
5. in
connection with a sale or merger with another entity or if AppGrooves
should ever file for bankruptcy or have its assets sold to another entity.
AppGrooves
may also share non-personally identifiable information with third parties. This type of information includes login
credentials of other services, keywords of your apps and competitor apps of
your apps, which we will use and disclose for the same reasons set forth above
and for the following additional purposes:
to import data from other services and to provide better analysis and
suggestions for your App Store SEO.
Choice
You may also decline
to share certain information with AppGrooves, in
which case AppGrooves may not be able to provide to
you some of the features and functionality found on the Service. You may update, correct, or delete your
profile information and preferences at any time by editing your profile on the
Site. Please note that while your changes
are reflected promptly in active user databases, we may retain all information
you submit for a variety of purposes, including backups and archiving,
prevention of fraud and abuse, and analytics.
You may also modify the cookie settings on your Web browser or mobile
device to limit the information you share with us through certain automated
collection devices. You are responsible for maintaining the
secrecy of your account information at all times.
Access
You may correct,
amend, or delete your personally identifiable information by editing your
profile on the Site or emailing us at appseo@appgrooves.com. If you have any
questions or require more information from us regarding the information we
collect, maintain, use and/or disclose you may contact us at the address below
or send a request to appseo@appgrooves.com.
Security
We make efforts to
protect personally identifiable information in our possession from loss,
misuse, disclosure, alteration, unauthorized access, and destruction. AppGrooves takes reasonable precautions to safeguard the
confidentiality of personally identifiable information, including using Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) software in certain cases, which encrypts certain of the
information you input. While we strive to protect your personally identifiable
information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit to
us in all cases and certain unauthorized third parties may gain access to and
misuse your information despite our security efforts.
The servers in which
we store information are primarily located in the United States, but in times
of emergency or for other business reasons, from time to time such information
may be sent by us or our service providers to servers outside of the United
States.
Third Party Sites
The Site may contain
links to other sites or software that can be down loaded. AppGrooves
is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites and software.
We encourage our users to be aware when leaving the Site to read the privacy
statements of each site that collects personally identifiable information and
the privacy policies that apply to such third party software.
Your Consent to this Privacy Policy
By using this Site or
the Service, you agree to this Privacy Policy, including our collection, use,
storage and transfer of information as described in this Privacy Policy. We may
occasionally update or modify this Privacy Policy, at our sole discretion. The
date of the most recent update of this document will always be displayed at the
beginning of this page. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those
changes on the Site located at https://SearchMan.com/. If we decide to use personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify users via email (if an email address has been
provided) or display a notice on the Site.
We encourage you to
periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are
protecting the personally identifiable information we collect. Your continued
use of this Site or the Service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy
Policy and any updates.
Contacting AppGrooves
If you have any
questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us
at:
AppGrooves,
Corp.
444 Castro St, Suite
1200
Mountain View, CA
94041