This policy explains how the Ruziev ASO Searcher website and macOS application handle information. It should be reviewed whenever the product’s services or data practices change.
1. Overview
Ruziev ASO Searcher is a native macOS application for App Store research, keyword tracking, competitor analysis, ratings monitoring, niche discovery, and AI-assisted launch planning. The application is designed to keep core project data on your Mac while using online services only for features that require them.
2. Information stored on your Mac
The application may store the following information locally:
- apps, storefronts, keywords, ranking history, competitors, ratings, and project settings;
- Launch Studio briefs, imported screenshots, generated packages, and localization work;
- preferences such as refresh settings and selected AI configuration;
- your profile, including name, country or region, role, ASO experience, primary goal, and app portfolio range;
- license credentials, anonymous service sessions, and user-provided service keys in macOS Keychain.
Local data remains on your Mac unless you use a feature that clearly requires an online request or you export and share it yourself.
3. Information sent to online services
App Store research
When you search for an app, check a keyword, refresh rankings, or open a public App Store listing, the application sends the search term, app identifier, and selected storefront to Apple’s public services. Apple processes these requests under its own privacy terms.
AI features
AI generation runs only when you request it. The information needed for that request may include your app brief, metadata, target market, keyword research, selected screenshots, app icon, and related project context. The request is sent through the configured Supabase service and may be processed by OpenAI. Do not include personal, confidential, or regulated information that is not necessary for the requested result.
Licensing and subscriptions
License activation and validation use an anonymous service session, a license-key fingerprint, device instance information, subscription plan, entitlement status, and expiry information. The raw license key is stored in macOS Keychain. Subscription checkout and payment processing are provided by Polar. Ruziev ASO Searcher does not receive or store your full payment-card number.
Updates
The application may periodically check its published update feed to determine whether a newer version is available. Standard network information such as an IP address may be visible to the hosting provider as part of that request.
Profile sharing
Your profile is stored locally by default. If you enable “Share my profile with ASO Searcher,” the application securely sends your first name, last name, country or region, role, ASO experience, primary goal, and app portfolio range to the Ruziev ASO Searcher service. The shared copy is associated with your anonymous service account so the developer can understand and support customers. You can turn sharing off and save the profile to remove the server copy.
Operational analytics
The application sends limited operational events such as app opened, license validated, project created, and ASO or localization generation completed. These events may include a random installation identifier, app version, macOS version, locale, country, event result, and timestamp. Project names, keywords, generated content, typed text, personal files, and raw IP addresses are not stored in the operational analytics database.
4. Website data
The website uses limited, first-party operational analytics to understand visits, downloads, pricing interest, and checkout-link use. It creates an anonymous service session and records a random browser identifier, coarse device class, operating system, browser family, language, country, requested page, referring domain, event name, and timestamp. It does not record typed text, full referring URLs, advertising identifiers, or raw IP addresses in the product analytics database.
The random identifier is stored in your browser so repeat visits can be counted without an advertising profile. Analytics are not sent when a supported browser reports Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. The hosting and infrastructure providers may separately process standard request information for delivery, abuse prevention, and security.
5. How information is used
Information is used only to provide requested product functions, maintain subscription access, support customers, understand product adoption, secure the service, diagnose failures, deliver updates, and comply with legal obligations. Ruziev ASO Searcher does not sell your project content or use collected information for targeted advertising.
6. Service providers
Depending on the features you use, data may be handled by:
- Apple for public App Store search and listing data;
- Supabase for secure application functions, anonymous sessions, shared profiles, and entitlement records;
- OpenAI when AI-powered generation is requested;
- Polar for checkout, subscriptions, and license benefits;
- the website and update-feed hosting provider for file and page delivery.
Each provider processes information under its own terms and privacy policy.
7. Retention and deletion
Local projects and the local profile remain on your Mac until you delete them or remove the application’s stored data. A shared profile remains on the service until you turn profile sharing off and save, or request deletion through support. Keychain values remain until you deactivate the license, remove the saved service configuration, or delete them from Keychain. Operational analytics are kept only as long as reasonably necessary to operate and improve the product. Limited entitlement and audit records may be retained for the subscription period, fraud prevention, security, dispute handling, and legal compliance.
8. Security
Ruziev ASO Searcher uses macOS Keychain for sensitive local values and encrypted HTTPS connections for supported online requests. No security measure can guarantee absolute protection, so keep your Mac, license key, and any personal API keys secure.
9. Your choices
You may avoid AI processing by not using AI features, keep profile sharing disabled, turn profile sharing off and save to remove the server copy, enable Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control to stop website analytics, remove locally stored projects from the application, deactivate your license before changing Macs, and cancel your subscription through the purchase-management options supplied by Polar. Requests relating to a third-party provider may also need to be directed to that provider.
10. Children
The product is intended for app developers and business users. It is not directed to children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
11. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated as the product changes. The effective date at the top of the page will be revised when material changes are published.
12. Contact
For privacy questions or requests, email support@asosearcher.app. Include “Privacy request” in the subject and do not include your full license key.