Privacy Policy · LPB Lebanon Price Board

This policy covers two services published by PointerForce ("we"):

the website lpb.pointerforce.com ("LPB", "the site"), and
the Android app ade dollar pro (package com.protech.dollarlb) on Google Play ("the app").

The first part is about the website, the second about the app. The sections after that apply to both.

The short version

Neither the site nor the app has accounts, sign-up, comment or contact forms.
We don't ask for your name, phone number or email, and we don't sell personal data.
On the site, Google Analytics counts visits and Google AdSense shows ads.
In the app, Google AdMob shows ads (with Meta Audience Network as a partner), Firebase measures use, reports crashes and delivers notifications, and prices are cached on your phone.
Users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalised ads are used.

The website

What is collected and why

Server and security data. Requests to LPB pass through Cloudflare, which protects the site from attacks and caches pages so they load fast. Cloudflare processes technical data such as your IP address, browser type and the page requested. Our server keeps short technical logs to fix errors. We don't use these logs to identify visitors.

Analytics. We use Google Analytics 4 (through Firebase) to understand how the site is used: which pages are visited, roughly from which country, on what kind of device, and actions such as using the converter, switching language or tapping the app link. This tells us which prices people need and what to improve. Google Analytics uses cookies and processes data as described in Google's policies.

Advertising. LPB is free and is funded by Google AdSense ads.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's 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 can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.
To learn more, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Preferences. The site may remember your language or light/dark theme in your browser so it doesn't have to ask again. That stays on your device.

If you visit from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, a consent message from a Google-certified consent management platform appears on your first visit. You can accept, refuse or choose which purposes to allow, and change your choice later from the link the message provides. If you refuse, you may still see non-personalised ads.

Your choices on the site

Block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The prices still work without them.
Use Google's ad settings or the consent message to turn off personalised ads.
Install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to stop being counted by Google Analytics.

The ade dollar pro app

The app has no account or sign-in, and you never type personal information into it. It doesn't ask for your location, contacts, photos or files. The only Android permissions it uses are internet access and, if you allow it, notifications.

Services the app uses

Service	Provider	What it's for	Data it processes
Price feed (Firebase Realtime Database)	Google, for PointerForce	Downloads the current prices	Technical connection data such as your IP address
Price history API (dollarlb.pointerforce.com)	PointerForce, through Cloudflare	Loads price charts	Technical connection data such as your IP address
Google AdMob, with Google's consent form (UMP)	Google	Shows banner and app open ads and asks for ad consent where required	Advertising ID, IP address, approximate location, device and app information, ad interactions, your consent choice
Meta Audience Network (through AdMob mediation)	Meta	Fills some of the ad requests	Advertising ID, IP address, device and app information, ad interactions
Firebase Analytics	Google	Counts how the app is used	App-instance and advertising identifiers, approximate location, device and app information, app interactions
Firebase Crashlytics	Google	Reports crashes so we can fix them	Crash traces, device model, Android and app version, an installation identifier
Firebase Cloud Messaging	Google	Delivers price notifications	A notification token for your installation and the topics it has joined
Google Play In-App Review	Google	Shows Google Play's rating prompt	Handled by Google Play; the app never sees your rating or review

All of these connections are encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS).

Analytics events

Besides Firebase's automatic usage data (such as first open, session start, app version, device model and approximate country), the app sends a small set of its own events: which screen you open, whether a notification was shown or opened, refreshing the prices, first use of the converter or the generator calculator on a visit (with the currencies or amperage chosen), pinning a currency, changing a setting, answering the notification prompt, and that the rating prompt was requested. These events never include prices, amounts you type, or personal data, and we only look at them in aggregate.

The app is free and is funded by ads from Google AdMob, with Meta Audience Network as a mediation partner. To choose and measure ads, Google and Meta use your device's advertising ID and the other data in the table above, and may show personalised ads based on your activity in other apps and sites.

If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, the app shows Google's consent form before personalised ads are used. You can change your choice at any time in the app under Settings → Privacy → Ads privacy & consent. If you refuse, you may still see non-personalised ads, which still use data for things like frequency capping, fraud prevention and measurement.

Anywhere, you can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in Android's settings (usually Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads). See also How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and Meta's data policy.

Notifications

Notifications are sent to topics (for example one for the dollar, gold and fuel and one for the generator tariff), not to individuals. Your installation joins these topics through Firebase Cloud Messaging; we don't know who is subscribed. A notification only says which way a price moved, never the price.

You can turn notifications off in the app under Settings, which also unsubscribes the app from the topics, or block them in Android's settings.

Stored on your phone

The app stores your preferences (language, theme, notification choice, pinned currencies) and a cache of recent prices and price history on your device so it opens quickly and still shows the last prices offline. It also keeps simple counters, such as how many times you've opened it, to decide when to show the rating or notification prompts. This data never leaves your phone. It's deleted when you clear the app's data or uninstall it.

Data retention

On your device: until you clear the app's data or uninstall the app (site preferences: until you clear your browser data).
Google Analytics (site and app): event data linked to an identifier is kept for no longer than the retention period of our Analytics property, at most 14 months. Aggregated reports, which identify no one, may be kept longer.
Firebase Crashlytics: crash reports and their installation identifiers are kept for 90 days.
Firebase Cloud Messaging: the notification token exists while the app is installed and is removed by Firebase after it stops being used.
Our server logs: short technical logs, kept only as long as needed to fix errors and keep the service secure.
Google, Meta and Cloudflare keep the data they process under their own retention policies.

Your rights and choices

Because neither service has accounts, the data we see isn't tied to your name and we can't look you up. You can always:

turn off personalised ads (the consent options above, Google's ad settings, or Android's ad settings);
turn off app notifications in the app's Settings or in Android;
clear the app's data or uninstall it, which deletes everything stored on your phone and stops all collection by the app;
write to us with any question or request about your data, including deletion. We'll help as far as we can identify the data concerned.

Children

The site and the app are general-audience information services. They are not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us personal data, write to us and we'll delete it.

We don't sell, rent or trade personal data. Data is processed by the service providers named above (Cloudflare, Google and Meta) only to run, secure, measure and fund the services. We may disclose information if the law requires it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. For important changes to the app's data practices, we'll also update its Google Play listing.

Contact

The website and the app are published by PointerForce. Questions about privacy: [email protected]. See also our contact page and terms of use.