Privacy Policy
Updated September 25, 2026
About SelmanTECH
SelmanTECH provides technology articles, videos, recommendations and useful tools. No reader account is required. For privacy questions or requests, contact selmantechofficial@gmail.com.
Content and connections
SelmanTECH requires an internet connection for browsing posts and using its tools. The Privacy Policy remains accessible without a connection. The app connects to our hosting service to download published posts, thumbnails, social links and configuration. Our hosting provider receives connection information such as your IP address, request time and requested resource, and stores visitor IP addresses in hosting logs. Opening a hosted video also connects to its media provider. Posts and thumbnails are held in memory while the app is running, not saved as an offline article library. Saved posts are bookmarks, not downloaded copies. Earlier offline feed and exchange-rate files are removed when this version starts.
Post-view counts
Opening a post sends its post identifier, opening time and a random identifier for that opening to SelmanTECH for readership analytics. This report does not include your name, email, advertising identifier or a stable device identifier. It counts openings, not unique people. There is currently no in-app switch to disable these reports.
Unsent reports are kept on your phone for up to 24 hours, with at most 200 queued entries. Expired entries are discarded when the queue is processed. The server keeps retry identifiers with a 48-hour expiry and removes expired identifiers on the next reporting or statistics request. Analytics tables do not store the opening timestamp or IP address; hosting logs are separate. Aggregate counts remain until removed, including when the administrator permanently deletes a post. The view number shown next to a post on your phone remains a local count.
Notifications you choose
Optional post alerts use Google Firebase Cloud Messaging, including an installation identifier, messaging token, language-based topic subscription and technical service information. Our administrator sends alerts to topics and does not receive a list of individual phone tokens from this app.
You can disable alerts in More or Android settings. Turning them off inside the app requests topic unsubscription and messaging-token deletion; this may require connectivity. It does not delete the Firebase installation identifier or guarantee removal of all Google-held records.
For You and local preferences
Your selected For You interests filter our posts on your phone. We do not upload those selections or use them to target ads. Likes, saved-post identifiers, local view counts, language, appearance and reading preferences are also stored locally. Search runs on the phone. Copying an AI prompt places its text on your clipboard; it does not submit the prompt to an AI service.
Calendar and currency tools
Access to tools requires an internet connection. Calendar date conversion is calculated on your phone without accessing personal calendar events or sending entered dates to a server.
The currency tool downloads reference rates from ExchangeRate-API when opened or refreshed. The provider receives connection information, including your IP address. The request does not include your entered amount or selected currency pair. Calculations stay on your phone, and rates are held in memory while the tool is open rather than saved for offline use.
Advertising
When advertising is enabled, SelmanTECH uses Google Mobile Ads to request and display ads. Google processes information such as IP addresses, device or account identifiers, interactions and diagnostics, depending on configuration. IP addresses may be used to estimate general location. This information supports ad delivery, measurement, diagnostics and fraud prevention.
The app requests non-personalized ads. Non-personalized ads still involve data processing; they do not mean that no information is collected. Your selected For You interests are not sent for ad targeting. Ad frequency counters stay on your phone. Stopping new ad requests does not erase information already processed by Google. See Google's privacy information below.
Ad privacy choices
Ad privacy messages let you review information about advertising and make choices where required. When available, open More, then Privacy choices, to revisit those choices. This control is separate from the Privacy Policy. Non-personalized advertising can still require consent for device storage or other processing.
External links and email
Google Play, YouTube, website, social and source links open the destination app or your browser. Those services apply their own privacy practices. If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you choose to send. Do not include passwords or unnecessary sensitive information.
Data retention
Storage depends on the information involved. Local interests, saved-post identifiers and preferences remain on your phone until you change or clear them. Article content and exchange rates are not retained as offline downloads. Queued post-opening reports and server retry identifiers follow the expiry rules described under Post-view counts; aggregate counts remain until removed.
Hosting logs and backup copies are managed separately from the app's local storage and view-count records. Visitor-log retention depends on the hosting service's policies and account configuration. Our hosting provider keeps automated backups for 21 days. This backup period is separate from visitor-log retention and does not mean that visitor logs are deleted after 21 days. Removing a record from an active system does not necessarily remove an existing backup copy immediately. Information held by Google or other external services is subject to their own retention and deletion practices, linked below.
If you contact us, your correspondence is stored in our email service. You can use the contact address below to ask about retained correspondence or request its deletion. Clearing the app does not delete emails you have sent.
Your choices and data removal
You can edit For You interests, change preferences and disable notifications in the app. Clearing app storage in Android settings removes local preferences, caches and queued reports. It does not retract reports already counted or automatically delete hosting, email, backup or third-party records.
Contact selmantechofficial@gmail.com about privacy or deletion requests, including questions about retained records. We may need information to locate relevant records. Our aggregate view counts have no mapping to named readers, so we cannot identify and subtract a particular person's contribution.
Security and policy updates
The app's own feed, view-report and currency requests use HTTPS, and cleartext app traffic is disabled. Administrator functions require authentication. These measures reduce risk but do not eliminate it. Changes to how the app handles information will be reflected in this policy. The last-updated date appears above.