Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. This policy explains how Album Artwork Finder collects, uses, and protects your information.
Our Privacy Commitment
Automatically Collected Information
Technical Data (Required for Service)
- • IP address (for rate limiting and abuse prevention)
- • Browser type and version (for compatibility)
- • Device type (mobile/desktop) (for optimized experience)
- • Page visit timestamps (for analytics)
- • Search queries (temporary, for providing results)
Performance Data
- • Page load times (for service improvement)
- • Error logs (for troubleshooting)
- • Feature usage statistics (anonymous)
Information We Do NOT Collect
- • Personal names, emails, or contact information
- • Account credentials or passwords (no accounts needed)
- • Payment information (service is free)
- • Location data beyond country-level
- • Social media profiles or personal preferences
- • Downloaded file information or music libraries
Essential Service Functions
- • Processing search requests to iTunes API
- • Preventing abuse and rate limiting
- • Optimizing mobile vs desktop experience
- • Providing technical support when requested
- • Maintaining service security and reliability
Service Improvement
- • Analyzing popular search terms (anonymized)
- • Improving page load performance
- • Fixing bugs and technical issues
- • Understanding usage patterns (aggregate data)
- • Enhancing user experience features
Data Retention
- Search Queries: Processed in real-time, not stored permanently
- Technical Logs: Kept for 30 days maximum for debugging
- Analytics Data: Aggregated and anonymized, kept for 12 months
- Error Reports: Automatically deleted after 90 days
Security Measures
Technical Security
- • HTTPS encryption for all connections
- • Regular security audits and updates
- • Secure hosting infrastructure
- • DDoS protection and monitoring
Data Protection
- • No sensitive data storage
- • Automatic data expiration
- • Access logging and monitoring
- • Regular backup and recovery testing
Cookies We Use
We use essential cookies for basic functionality, plus analytics and advertising cookies from Google as described below.
Cookies We Use:
- Rate Limiting: Prevents API abuse (expires after 1 hour)
- Search Cache: Improves search performance (expires after 30 minutes)
- Theme Preference: Remembers your display preference (expires after 1 year)
- Google Analytics: Anonymous usage statistics to help us improve the service
- Google AdSense: Advertising cookies used to serve and measure ads
Advertising (Google AdSense)
This site is free to use and is supported by advertising. We use Google AdSense to display ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' cookies at www.aboutads.info. Learn more about how Google uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, UK, and Switzerland are shown a consent message and can choose whether to allow personalized ads.
Third-Party Services
We interact with these external services:
- iTunes Search API: Your search queries are sent to Apple's API to retrieve results
- Google Analytics: Collects anonymized usage statistics (page views, device type)
- Google AdSense: Serves ads and may set cookies or use identifiers for ad delivery and measurement
- CORS Proxy (Mobile): Used on mobile devices to access iTunes API safely
- CDN Services: For fast global content delivery
What You Can Do
- • Use the service without providing personal information
- • Clear your browser cache to remove stored data
- • Disable cookies (may affect functionality)
- • Contact us to request information about data we have
- • Report any privacy concerns to our team
GDPR & International Rights
- • Right to know what data we collect
- • Right to request data deletion
- • Right to data portability (where applicable)
- • Right to lodge complaints with authorities
- • Right to withdraw consent
Have questions about your privacy or our data practices? We're here to help and will respond within 48 hours.
We may update this privacy policy occasionally. When we do, we'll update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
Privacy in Simple Terms
Album Artwork Finder respects your privacy. We collect only the minimum data needed to provide our service and we don't require personal information. The service is free and supported by ads: Google Analytics and Google AdSense may set cookies as described above, and you can opt out of personalized advertising at any time.
You can use our entire service without creating an account or providing personal details.