Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

LinkWatch Local is provided by Persivora LLC (“Persivora,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

Questions or privacy requests may be sent to support@persivora.com.

2. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, disclosed, stored, and protected when you use the LinkWatch Local mobile application on Android or iOS.

3. Information Processed by the App

3.1 Website and scan information

When you add or scan a website, the app may process:

• Website names and URLs you enter;
• Source-page URLs and destination URLs discovered during scans;
• HTTP status codes, redirect chains, DNS or connection errors, timeouts, and similar technical findings;
• Link text, HTML tag information, CSS selectors, XPath values, nearby text, and limited HTML snippets used to locate a finding on its source page;
• Scan scope, crawl depth, page limits, request settings, progress, timestamps, history, and issue status;
• Reports, exported files, and preferences you create.

This information is used to provide the link-checking, reporting, rechecking, source-location, history, and monitoring features you request.

3.2 Local storage

Website settings, scan progress, findings, issue states, and scan history are generally stored locally on your device. They are not uploaded by us to a Persivora-operated server as part of the app’s core scanning functionality.

When the app checks a website, network requests are sent directly from your device to the website or resource being checked. The destination website, its hosting provider, internet service providers, and other network intermediaries may receive information normally associated with an internet request, such as your IP address, request headers, device network information, and request time.

3.3 Analytics information

We use Google Firebase Analytics to understand how the app is used and to improve features and usability. Depending on platform settings, consent choices, and SDK configuration, analytics data may include:

• App launches, sessions, screen views, button taps, feature usage, and other app interactions;
• Approximate location inferred from information such as IP address;
• Device type, operating system, app version, language, region, and general device information;
• Installation or app-instance identifiers;
• Advertising-related data and identifiers where permitted;
• Performance and engagement information.

We do not intentionally send the full contents of your scan reports, private credentials, or website account passwords to Firebase Analytics. Analytics events should be designed to avoid including sensitive or directly identifying content.

3.4 Crash and diagnostic information

We use Firebase Crashlytics to identify crashes and stability problems. Crashlytics may process:

• Crash logs, stack traces, exception details, and diagnostic events;
• Device model, operating system, app version, and device state at the time of a crash;
• Crashlytics installation identifiers and Firebase installation identifiers;
• Technical breadcrumbs or app-state information associated with a crash, if configured.

We use this information to diagnose errors, improve stability, prevent abuse, and maintain the app.

3.5 Advertising information

We use Google AdMob to display advertisements. Google and its advertising partners may collect or receive information such as:

• Advertising identifiers, including Android advertising ID or Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers when available and permitted;
• IP address and approximate location;
• Device, operating-system, app, browser, language, and network information;
• Ad impressions, clicks, views, interactions, and conversion-related information;
• Identifiers associated with the app installation or device;
• Fraud-prevention, security, and ad-performance information.

Ads may be personalized or non-personalized depending on your region, consent choices, device privacy settings, age-related settings, and applicable law. On iOS, tracking permission may be requested through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework when required. Refusing tracking permission does not necessarily remove advertisements, but it may reduce personalization.

4. How We Use Information

We use information to:

• Provide website scanning, link verification, reports, history, source-location, and notification features;
• Save and restore scan progress and settings;
• Measure app usage and improve design and functionality;
• Detect, diagnose, and fix crashes and technical problems;
• Display, measure, secure, and personalize advertisements where permitted;
• Protect the app, users, and services from fraud, abuse, and security threats;
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce applicable terms.

5. Legal Bases Where Applicable

Where laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation apply, processing may be based on:

• Performance of a service: to perform scans and provide requested app features;
• Consent: for personalized advertising, tracking, analytics, or notifications where consent is required;
• Legitimate interests: to improve the app, maintain security, prevent abuse, and understand performance, where those interests are not overridden by your rights;
• Legal obligations: where processing is required by law.

6. How Information Is Shared

We do not sell your scan reports or website lists.

Information may be shared or processed in the following circumstances:

• Google service providers: Firebase Analytics, Firebase Crashlytics, Google AdMob, and related advertising or measurement partners process information under their own terms and privacy practices;
• Websites you scan: requests are sent to the websites and resources you choose to check;
• Legal and safety reasons: when reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, protect rights or safety, investigate fraud, or enforce agreements;
• Business transfers: if Persivora is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, or sale of assets, subject to applicable law;
• At your direction: when you export, share, copy, or open a report or URL using another application or service.

7. Third-Party Services

The app uses third-party services whose processing is governed by their own policies:

• Firebase Privacy and Security
• Google Privacy Policy
• How Google uses information from apps that use its services
• Google Advertising Technologies

Advertisements or external links may lead to third-party websites or apps. We are not responsible for their privacy practices.

8. Advertising and Consent Choices

Where required, the app may display a consent form for advertising and related data processing. Your available choices may include personalized ads, non-personalized ads, limited ads, or management of consent preferences.

You may also control advertising identifiers through your device settings. On Android, you may reset or delete the advertising ID through system privacy or ads settings. On iOS, you can manage tracking permission in Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking.

Consent choices can vary by country, device, operating-system version, and advertising-provider configuration.

9. Data Retention

Local website and scan information remains on your device until you delete individual records, clear app data, uninstall the app, or use an in-app deletion option, subject to device backup behavior.

Analytics, crash, advertising, and diagnostic information is retained by Google according to the applicable service configuration, Google’s retention practices, contractual terms, and legal requirements. We may retain aggregated or de-identified information for longer where permitted.

10. Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect information. However, no application, device, network transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have permission to scan a website and for avoiding scans that violate a website’s terms, robots directives, access controls, or applicable law.

11. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or withdrawal of consent regarding personal information processed by us.

You can manage much of the app’s locally stored information directly by:

• Deleting a website, scan, issue history, or report;
• Clearing local app data;
• Uninstalling the app;
• Changing notification, analytics, advertising, or tracking choices where the app or operating system provides them.

For requests concerning information controlled by Persivora, contact support@persivora.com. We may need to verify your request. Data controlled independently by Google must be managed through Google’s applicable privacy controls or request mechanisms.

12. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states may have rights regarding access, deletion, correction, portability, targeted advertising, sharing, or sale of personal information. We do not sell your locally stored website lists or scan reports for money. Certain advertising activities may be treated as “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” under some state laws even without monetary payment.

Where required, the app or Google’s consent tools may provide a way to opt out of personalized or targeted advertising. You may also contact us at support@persivora.com.

13. International Data Transfers

Google and other service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live. Those countries may have different data-protection laws. Applicable safeguards are handled according to the relevant provider’s terms and legal obligations.

14. Children’s Privacy

LinkWatch Local is not directed to children under 13, or the minimum age required by local law. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through a Persivora account because the core app does not require an account.

If the app is later offered to children or included in a children/families program, advertising, analytics, consent, and data-collection settings must be configured to comply with the applicable child-privacy and app-store requirements.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact support@persivora.com.

15. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Signals

Mobile operating systems and advertising providers offer privacy controls that may affect tracking or personalized advertising. The app honors platform-required consent mechanisms. Support for browser-based “Do Not Track” signals may not apply to native mobile app activity. Where legally required and technically supported, recognized opt-out signals may be handled by applicable service providers.

16. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the app, third-party services, or legal requirements change. We will update the effective date and, when appropriate, provide notice in the app or through another reasonable method.

17. Contact Us

Persivora LLC
Email: support@persivora.com