This policy explains what information the Closeout Deals for Tophatter Android app handles, and why. It is a deals app: it shows you closeout and flash deals that we pick and post, plus a guide about shopping them well. We do not want your personal information.
Every deal card links to a product page on a third-party store (for example eBay, AliExpress or Temu). Many of these are affiliate links: if you buy something after tapping one, the store may pay us a small commission. The price you pay does not change. The store's page opens in a browser tab on top of the app; from that moment the store's own privacy policy and terms apply, not this one. We do not see what you look at or buy on the store, and we receive no personal information from the store about you.
Your saved deals (with a copy of their title, picture and last price, so they still show after a deal ends), your alert rules (minimum discount, maximum price, categories), the guide pages you saved and your reading progress are stored inside the app's private storage on your phone. They never leave your device. Uninstalling the app deletes them.
None that identifies you. There is no sign-up, no login and no user account. We run no server that receives anything about you.
The app is free and is paid for by advertising. We use Google AdMob, and the app also contains the Meta Audience Network library, which may serve some ads. To show ads, these partners may collect and process:
This information is handled under the partners' own policies: Google Privacy Policy, how Google uses data in AdMob and the Meta Privacy Policy.
We request only ads rated suitable for a general audience (Google's "G" rating).
To learn which deals and guide pages are useful, the app uses Google Analytics for Firebase. It records app events such as "a deal was opened", "the store page was opened" or "a guide page was read", together with an app-instance identifier and general device information (model, Android version, language, approximate country). It does not record your name, email, exact location or what you buy on a store's website. Google processes this data under the Google Privacy Policy.
The deals, the guide and the app's settings — for example whether ads are enabled — are downloaded from Google Firebase, so we can post new deals and fix problems without releasing an update. This is a one-way download to your device.
If you allow notifications, the app can tell you about deals: at most one "today's best deal" a day, big real price drops, and a price drop on a deal you saved. This uses Firebase Cloud Messaging: your phone subscribes to topics (for example "all deals", one category, or one deal you saved) and receives messages sent to those topics. Your alert rules are applied on your phone, so we never learn them. We keep no list of devices and no per-user profile. Removing a saved deal stops its alerts. You can turn notifications off at any time in Android settings.
The app does not request access to your camera, contacts, files, microphone or location.
This is a general-audience app about shopping. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
Because we do not collect personal information, we have nothing about you to store or delete. Your saved pages and progress are under your control on your own device. Data held by the advertising partners is retained according to their policies, linked above.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data held about you, or to object to its processing. As we hold no personal data ourselves, such requests are best directed to the partners via the links above. You may also contact us and we will help where we can.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with an updated date. Significant changes will also be noted in the app's store listing.
Questions about this policy or about the app: