Effective date: 9 November 2026
Who we are: Apptractive Apps (“we”, “us”), the maker of the Insert No Coin app.
Contact: admin@apptractiveapps.com
The short version
- Insert No Coin has no accounts, no sign-in, no ads and no analytics or tracking tools.
- Your saved games, settings and watch list stay on your phone. We never receive them.
- The app asks our server for the list of free games and deals. Like any website or app, that request carries your IP address to the server, which we do not store or link to you.
- We count, anonymously, how often store links are tapped (for example “a GOG deal link was tapped”), with nothing that identifies you.
- Some links earn us a commission if you buy something. They are labelled.
What stays on your phone
The app stores these on your device only (Android app storage). They are not sent to us:
- games you saved or marked as claimed;
- the platforms you play on, your theme, your currency, how early reminders should arrive, and which kinds of alerts you want;
- the games you are watching for price drops, and the last price you were told about;
- a saved copy of the latest game and deal lists and exchange rates, so the app opens quickly and works offline;
- reminders and alerts you ask for, which are scheduled by Android on your phone.
Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android settings, removes all of it.
What our server receives
The app contacts our server (hosted on Cloudflare) to get the current free games, deals and currency exchange rates. A request necessarily includes:
- your device’s IP address and the ordinary technical details every internet request carries (such as the time and the name of the software making the request).
We do not store IP addresses and do not link requests to a person or a device. Cloudflare, our hosting provider, processes requests on our behalf and may keep its own short-term operational logs under its own policy (cloudflare.com/privacypolicy).
Background checks. If you switch on new-game alerts, or watch a game for price drops, your phone asks our server a few times a day whether anything new has appeared. These are the same kind of request as above. The comparison happens on your phone.
Anonymous link counts. When you tap a link that takes you to a store, the app sends one tiny message to our server containing only the type of link (deal, free offer, or Prime sign-up) and the store’s name, for example “deal, gog”. It contains no device ID, no account, no game title. The server adds one to a daily total. We use the totals to decide which store partnerships are worth setting up. They cannot be traced back to you.
Third parties you may contact through the app
- Pictures. Game pictures are loaded directly from the stores’ and publishers’ own image servers (for example Steam, Epic Games, GOG, PlayStation and others). Those servers can see your IP address, as with any picture on a website.
- Trailers (YouTube). On a game page that has a trailer, a small preview picture is loaded from YouTube’s image server. The video player itself loads only if you tap play. It uses YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), and YouTube may then collect data under Google’s privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy). The “Watch on YouTube” and “Search trailer” buttons open YouTube outside the app.
- Store links. Buttons such as “Get it on Steam” open the store’s own website or app. From that moment the store’s privacy policy applies, not ours.
- Affiliate links. Some links carry our affiliate tag, for example the Amazon Prime sign-up link (we are an Amazon Associate and earn from qualifying purchases), and some deal links may carry store affiliate tags in future. If you buy through one, the store may pay us a commission, at no extra cost to you. The store may use cookies to credit us. These links are marked in the app (for example “may earn a commission”).
- Where the information comes from. We build the lists from public sources, including GamerPower (gamerpower.com), freetokeep.gg, CheapShark (cheapshark.com), the PlayStation Blog, store catalogues, and exchange rates from the European Central Bank via Frankfurter. Our server contacts them, not your phone, so they do not receive your details.
Notifications
The app asks Android for permission to show notifications (Android 13 and newer) the first time you switch on alerts, reminders or price alerts. You can turn them off at any time in Settings or in Android’s notification settings. Alerts and reminders are created on your phone; we do not use a push-notification service.
Children
Insert No Coin is not made for children, and its links lead to games and trailers that may be for older players. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
Your choices and rights
Because we hold no account or personal profile about you, there is normally nothing for us to look up, correct or delete. You can remove everything the app keeps by clearing its storage or uninstalling it. If you are in the UK or EU you have rights over personal data under UK GDPR/GDPR (access, correction, deletion, objection, and the right to complain to your data protection authority, in the UK the Information Commissioner’s Office). To ask anything, write to admin@apptractiveapps.com
Security
Connections between the app and our server use HTTPS only.
Retention
The anonymous daily link totals contain no personal data and are kept as long as they are useful. Everything else is on your phone, under your control.
Changes
If we change how the app handles data, we will update this page and its date. If a change would matter to you, for example adding push notifications or ads, the app’s update notes will say so.