Privacy policy

This website (trackersonar.com)

This section covers only the website trackersonar.com. The TrackerSonar app is covered by the app privacy policy below.

Website analytics (Google Analytics)

trackersonar.com uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google (Google Ireland Limited for users in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, otherwise Google LLC). It helps us understand how many people visit the site, which pages and guides they read and how they found us, so we can improve the content. Google processes this data on our behalf as a service provider (processor).

• Cookies: Google Analytics stores first-party cookies in your browser (for example _ga and _ga_EDTEMVG58M) to tell new and returning visits apart.
• What is collected: the pages you view, the referring website or search engine, interactions such as clicks on links, the time of the visit, device type, browser, operating system, screen size and language, and a coarse location (country, region, city) derived from your IP address. According to Google, Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses.
• How we use it: we only look at aggregated usage statistics; we do not use Analytics to identify individual visitors, do not combine it with data from the TrackerSonar app and do not show ads on this website.
• Where and how long: Google may process the data in the United States and other countries under its safeguards (such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework) and keeps it according to the data-retention setting of our Analytics property.
• Your choices: you can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, use a content blocker, or install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Learn more in the Google Privacy Policy and in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Other data

Apart from the Google Analytics script, the site loads no fonts, scripts or images from other websites and shows no ads. Links to the App Store, Google Play and other sites are ordinary links; those sites’ own privacy policies apply once you follow them. Store links include a campaign tag (for example ct=tsweb) so that the App Store and Google Play can report how many downloads came from this website, without identifying you.

The web host that delivers these pages may process technical data such as your IP address, browser type, the requested page and the time of the request in server logs, as any web server does, to deliver and protect the site. If you email us, we use your message only to answer it. For questions or requests about website data, contact info@metkolabs.com.

TrackerSonar app privacy policy

This is the privacy policy of the TrackerSonar app for iPhone and iPad. The app links to the same policy at www.metko.org/trackerfinder/privacy.html. For the Android app (listed as “Tracker Detect” on Google Play), see the privacy policy linked on its Google Play listing.

Publisher: Metko Labs · Contact: info@metkolabs.com · www.metkolabs.com
Effective date: 17 October 2026 (app version 1.1.2 for iPhone and iPad)

TrackerSonar helps you find Bluetooth trackers (such as AirTags and other Find My accessories, Tile, Samsung SmartTag, Chipolo, Pebblebee and Google Find My Device tags) near you. This policy explains what data the app uses, where it stays, which service providers receive data and the choices you have. In short: everything the app learns about nearby devices and the places where they were seen stays on your device. The app has no user accounts and we run no server of our own.

1. Data that stays on your device

The following data is created and stored only on your iPhone or iPad. It is not uploaded to us or to any service provider:

• Scan results: the Bluetooth devices found during a scan (type, name as broadcast by the device, a device identifier, signal strength, connection and battery state). Bluetooth scanning only listens to signals that nearby devices broadcast publicly.
• Sightings: when location access is allowed, the place (latitude and longitude) and time where a device was found, so the app can show whether a tracker appears at several places (“following you”), the sightings map and the timeline.
• Favorites, known devices, scan history and a per-day scan counter.
• Background alerts: when you turn on background scanning, the list of devices that triggered an alert. Alerts are local notifications created on the device.
• Settings (appearance, scan settings, alert setting), your free-scan allowance and app state such as whether onboarding was completed.
• Widget and Live Activity: the protection status (on/off, last alert time, number of unseen alerts) is shared with the app’s own widget through an on-device App Group.

2. Permissions

3. Subscriptions and purchases

Premium is an auto-renewing subscription sold by Apple through the App Store. Payment is handled entirely by Apple; we never see your payment details or Apple ID.

We use RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc., USA) to manage subscriptions. RevenueCat receives a random, anonymous app user ID created on your device, your purchase and subscription history (product, price, currency, dates, App Store receipt/transaction data), the app version, device type, country/storefront and your IP address. This is used to confirm whether Premium is active and to restore purchases. It is not linked to your name or email. RevenueCat Privacy Policy.

Apple Ads attribution: through RevenueCat the app sends Apple’s AdServices attribution token to learn whether the app was installed from an Apple Search Ads campaign. Apple’s standard attribution does not use your advertising identifier and does not track you across apps. Apple Search Ads & Privacy.

4. Advertising (free version)

The free version shows ads from Google AdMob (Google LLC / Google Ireland Ltd.): occasional full-screen ads (interstitials) when you return from a device’s details to the scan results. No ad ever unlocks a feature or a scan. Ads are never shown during a scan, during Live Locate, over the subscription screen, or to Premium subscribers. Premium removes all ads.

When ads are shown, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect your device’s advertising identifier (IDFA — only if you allow tracking), IP address and coarse location derived from it, device and app information, ad interactions (views, taps), and diagnostic and performance data. Google uses this to deliver, measure and — with your permission — personalize ads, and to prevent fraud. How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services · Google Privacy Policy.

Users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland see Google’s consent form (User Messaging Platform) before any ad is requested. You can change your choice at any time in the app: Settings → Ad Privacy Choices.

5. Tracking and your choices

Only the free version asks “Allow ‘TrackerSonar’ to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?” (Apple’s App Tracking Transparency). If you allow it, Google may use your advertising identifier to show more relevant ads. If you ask the app not to track, the identifier is not available and ads are not personalized. The app works exactly the same either way; nothing is locked or unlocked by your answer. You can change it anytime in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Premium subscribers see no ads and are not tracked.

6. Analytics and crash reports

We use Google Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics (Google LLC) to understand how the app is used and to fix crashes. Analytics receives a random app-instance ID, Apple’s identifier for vendor (IDFV), device and app information, an approximate location derived from your IP address and usage events such as “app opened”, “scan started” (including whether you are a Premium user), the type of tracker found (for example “airtag” — never its name, identifier or location), onboarding steps, subscription screen views and purchases (product, period, price). Crashlytics receives crash reports with device model, iOS version, app version and the technical state at the time of the crash. Analytics never receives your advertising identifier (IDFA) and is not used for tracking or advertising. We do not send device names, device identifiers of found trackers or locations to Firebase. Firebase privacy information.

7. Apple services

The sightings map uses Apple MapKit; map tiles for the shown area are loaded from Apple. For Premium users the timeline shows place names, which are looked up with Apple’s geocoding service for the coordinates of up to eight recent sightings. Apple handles these requests under the Apple Privacy Policy; they are not linked to your Apple ID. If you write to us from the app, your message is sent by your own Mail app.

8. What we do not collect

• No account, name, email address, phone number or contacts (unless you email us).
• No upload of your scan results, sightings, locations, favorites or known devices.
• No sale of personal data. We do not use data from other companies’ apps or websites ourselves.

9. Retention and deletion

• Sightings are kept on your device until you clear them in Settings → Clear Sighting History; they are never deleted automatically.
• Favorites and known devices are kept until you remove them; scan history rows are kept on the device; the per-day scan counter is cleaned up after three days.
• Deleting the app removes all data stored by the app on your device.
• RevenueCat keeps subscription records as long as needed to provide purchases and as required by law; Google keeps advertising and analytics data according to its own retention settings.

Because we hold no data that identifies you, we usually cannot find “your” records at the providers. To ask RevenueCat or Google to delete data linked to the anonymous IDs, contact us with the request and we will help, or use the providers’ own tools (for example resetting your advertising identifier, or Google’s My Ad Center).

10. Your rights (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA)

Depending on where you live you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time (ads consent: Settings → Ad Privacy Choices; tracking: iOS Settings). Legal bases: performance of the subscription contract (purchases), your consent (personalized ads and tracking), and our legitimate interest in a stable, secure app (crash reports, analytics, fraud prevention). You may complain to your data-protection authority. California residents: we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising beyond what you allow through the tracking and consent choices described above, and you will not be treated differently for exercising your rights.

11. International transfers

RevenueCat and Google may process data in the United States and other countries. These transfers are protected by the providers’ safeguards, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

12. Security

Data on your device is protected by iOS data protection and app sandboxing. Connections to service providers are encrypted (HTTPS). Purchases are processed by Apple.

13. Children

TrackerSonar is not directed at children under 13 (or under 16 in the EEA) and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.

14. Changes to this policy

We will update this page when the app or the services it uses change, and change the effective date above. Significant changes will be announced in the app’s release notes.

15. Contact

Metko Labs · info@metkolabs.com · https://www.metkolabs.com