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Ainkosh / Android app

Privacy, explained.

This policy explains what the Android app Ainkosh: Bangladesh Law Guide (আইনকোষ, package com.zubaer.ainkosh) does with data. The app is made by Md. Zubaer Ahammed.

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What the app itself collects

Nothing. The app has no accounts and no sign-in. I do not run a server for it and I do not receive anything about you.

Your bookmarks, highlights, notes, practice answers, streaks, reading position and settings are kept only on your device. They are removed when you clear the app’s data or uninstall the app. If your device has Android backup switched on, Google may include them in your own device backup.

Downloading laws

The most used laws come with the app and work offline. When you tap Download on another law, or “Check bdlaws for a newer text”, the app fetches that law directly from the official Laws of Bangladesh website, bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd ↗. That website receives an ordinary web request from your device, including your IP address, as it would from any browser. The app sends it nothing else, and I am not involved in that request.

Advertising

The app is free and shows adverts through Google AdMob (the Google Mobile Ads SDK) on browsing screens and under calculator results. It never shows adverts inside a law’s text or a guide. To show and measure adverts, and to prevent fraud, Google may collect and use:

  • your device’s advertising ID and other device identifiers;
  • your IP address, from which an approximate location can be worked out;
  • information about your device, such as model, operating system version and language;
  • how you interact with adverts and the app, and diagnostic information such as crash and performance data.

This data goes directly from your device to Google and its advertising partners. I do not receive it in a form that identifies you.

How Google uses information from apps that use its services ↗ · Google’s privacy policy ↗

Purchases

“Remove ads” is a one-time purchase handled entirely by Google Play. I do not see your payment details. The app only asks Google Play whether the purchase has been made, so that it can turn adverts off on your devices.

Your choices

  • Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), the app asks for your consent before any advert is requested. You can change your answer at any time in Settings > “Ad privacy choices”.
  • You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or turn off personalised adverts, in your device settings under Google > Ads.
  • No adverts are loaded while you are offline, and none at all after you buy “Remove ads”.

Permissions

The app asks only for internet access and network state, used to load adverts and to download the laws you ask for, and for the advertising ID, used by the adverts. It does not ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone, files or photos.

Some buttons open the official law website or its PDF files, Google Play, your email app, your phone dialler for help-line numbers, a share sheet, or this website. Those apps and sites have their own privacy policies.

Children

The app is made for adults and students and is not directed at children under 13. I do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date. For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected]. The policy for this website itself is the zubaer.com privacy policy.