Last updated: 11 September 2026

Your data stays on your device.

The app and Safari extension collect nothing. There is no account, no app analytics, and no advertising. This page also explains the separate, consent-based analytics used on this website.

What we collect

Nothing. We do not collect, receive, transmit, sell, or share any personal data or usage data. The app and its Safari extension make no network requests of any kind.

This is not a policy promise about what we choose to do with data we could see. There is no code in the product that sends anything anywhere.

Website analytics and cookies

This website offers optional Google Analytics 4 measurement. It is off by default: the Google tag is not loaded and Google Analytics cookies are not set until you choose Accept analytics in the cookie notice.

If you accept, Google Analytics may process information about your visit, including pages viewed, traffic source or UTM campaign parameters, device and browser information, approximate location inferred from IP address, and clicks on this site's App Store links. We use this only to understand which marketing channels and pages lead to interest in the app. We do not send names, email addresses, cookie contents, or other direct identifiers as analytics events.

Google Analytics may set first-party analytics cookies such as _ga and _ga_*. Your choice is stored locally in your browser so we can remember it. You can change or withdraw it at any time with the Cookie settings button. For Google's processing, see Google's Privacy Policy.

What is stored on your device

Five things, all of them local:

• Your exclusions list — the website addresses you choose to protect from cleaning. Stored in the extension's own storage and in a shared container on the same device, so that the app and the extension see the same list. It does not sync between your devices and never leaves the device it was created on.
• Your settings — for example whether careful mode is on.
• An activity log — at most 50 entries, kept for at most 7 days, then discarded automatically. It records what happened during a clean: counts, outcome codes, the app version and platform, and — when a deletion fails — the text of Safari's own error message with addresses stripped out of it. It holds no cookie contents.
• A list of sites you have already been warned about, so that the first-clean confirmation is not shown to you twice for the same site. It is capped at 200 entries; the oldest fall off. Clearing the activity log does not clear this list — it is the record of a choice you made, and losing it would make the app ask you again for every site.
• The outcome of your most recent clean — its result and the address of the site it ran on, so that the popup can tell you what happened last time. It is overwritten by the next clean.

On a Mac you can read the activity log, and erase the log together with the last-clean record, from the extension's settings page in Safari. On iPhone and iPad that page is not reachable — iOS shows a Safari profile picker in its place rather than the extension's own settings — so on those devices the log cannot be opened or cleared by hand, and the automatic 7-day expiry is what removes it. Your exclusions list is editable on every platform, in the app.

Deleting the app removes everything above on iPhone and iPad. On a Mac, moving the app to the Trash does not necessarily remove the shared container that holds the exclusions list; we have not measured this ourselves, and we would rather say so than claim a deletion we have not observed.

What the extension can see, and when

The extension asks for access to a website only when you grant it, one website at a time. It never asks for access to all sites at once. You can review and revoke this at any time in Safari's settings.

Safari also offers an All Websites switch of its own, which you can turn on if you want to. Nothing in the extension asks you to, and turning it on does not widen what the extension does: it still only ever reads and deletes cookies for the site in your current tab. The target is taken from that tab and cannot be supplied from anywhere else.

When you clean a site, the extension reads and deletes cookies for that site inside your browser. That reading happens on your device, in Safari, and the result is not recorded anywhere except the local activity log described above.

Safari may show you a system message saying the extension can read your browsing history on the websites you visit. That wording is Apple's, applied to every extension that can touch page data, and it describes what the permission allows, not what we do with it. What we do with it is listed on this page in full.

Children

The app is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.

Third parties

The app and extension have no analytics providers, crash reporting services, advertising networks, or third-party code libraries that send data on our behalf. On this website, Google is the sole analytics provider and is used only after your consent, as described above.

Changes to this policy

If the app or website changes in a way that affects this page, we will update it here and change the date at the top. A change affecting the app's privacy practices would be announced in the app before it took effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or anything else: support@realcoockiecleaner.online