Your journal. Your choices.

What stays in the app

Journal entries contain the details you choose to type, such as an ad topic, source, relevance rating, and notes. The app also stores its preferences, learning progress, and the local records needed to limit ad requests. These are stored on your device. We do not provide account sync, upload the journal to an AdCheckMe server, or send its contents as ad-targeting inputs.

The first release does not import screenshots, record your screen, automatically archive ad creatives, analyze your notes with AI, or read the ad history of other apps. Avoid entering passwords, payment information, health details, or other information you do not need in a journal.

The journal and app-managed preferences are intended to be excluded from automatic operating-system backup and device transfer. That exclusion is a release requirement awaiting device testing, not a verified guarantee for this pre-release build. There is no in-app cloud backup or recovery service. Keep an export if you want a separate copy of your journal.

When you enable live advertising

Eligible adults can choose to enable a Google AdMob placement alongside a lesson. AdCheckMe does not initialize its advertising feature for someone who declares they are under 18 or has not confirmed that they are 18 or older. Declining ads leaves the lessons and journal available. Advertising can also be unavailable because release verification, privacy setup, or an ad request has not completed successfully.

When the advertising feature is enabled and permitted, Google and participating advertising providers may process information through their advertising services. Depending on the SDK, settings, and permitted treatment, this can include an IP address, device or advertising identifiers, interactions with ads, and diagnostic information. AdCheckMe does not add a separate app analytics SDK, but that does not mean the advertising SDK performs no measurement.

We do not request device location permission or collect browsing history or contacts for the app. An advertising provider can still estimate a general location from an IP address. We do not sell journal entries or provide their contents to advertisers. Ad providers process their own data under their applicable policies and retention practices; turning ads off here is not a request to delete information they already hold.

Provider details are available in Google's privacy policy, Google's explanation of partner apps, and Google Mobile Ads SDK data disclosures.

Different controls serve different purposes

The app's live-ad preference controls whether it may request ads. Its personalization preference controls the treatment it requests when eligible. Google's User Messaging Platform may present additional privacy choices. On iOS, Apple's App Tracking Transparency permission separately controls tracking across other companies' apps and websites. One choice does not substitute for the others.

You can change app preferences in Choices, reopen advertising privacy options when available, and manage device tracking permission in system settings. Refusing personalization or tracking does not remove educational functionality. A nonpersonalized or limited ad request may still involve network data, reporting, or fraud-prevention processing.

A label such as “nonpersonalized requested” describes an app instruction, not an independently verified explanation of the delivered ad. AdCheckMe does not receive a complete list of an advertiser's targeting reasons or a hidden interest profile. Use the ad's own information control for disclosures the network makes available.

Other network requests and links

The app can fetch a small advertising-availability configuration from adcheck.me. Its hosting provider may receive ordinary request information, such as an IP address, for delivery and security. This request does not upload your journal. The configuration can suspend live ads; it does not change your privacy choices or provide a way to bypass them.

Bundled lessons do not need a network connection. Opening a source link, an external privacy control, or this website sends you to a service with its own privacy practices. Your operating system and app store may also handle diagnostics under their own settings and policies.

Exporting and deleting

You can delete journal entries and clear learning data and preferences. Local request-limit records can remain after that reset so it cannot be used to generate extra ad traffic. You can also export your journal through the system share interface. An exported file leaves the app's private storage when you save or share it; the destination may keep or back it up. Deleting data inside AdCheckMe does not remove copies you exported, messages you sent, or records held by an advertising provider. Manage those copies at their destinations.

Support messages and ad reports

A report or support action prepares a message for you to review in your mail app. Nothing is emailed automatically. If you send it, we receive your email address and whatever text or diagnostics you include. We use that correspondence to answer your request, investigate a concern, and maintain necessary support records. It is handled through our email provider. Do not include your journal or sensitive details unless you intend to share them.

For privacy questions or a request concerning support correspondence, contact adcheck.me.team@gmail.com. We cannot retrieve or remotely delete a local journal that you have not sent to us. See the deletion steps and support-record retention information for details.