Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 2025
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how SimpleClock ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and protects your information when you visit our website.
Information We Collect
We are a privacy-focused service and collect the minimum information necessary to provide our features.
- Location and IP Address Information: To provide you with localized data such as your timezone and sunrise/sunset times, we use your IP address to determine your approximate location (city, country, latitude, longitude). This process is handled by a third-party service, ipinfo.io. This information is used only for the current session and is not stored or logged by us.
- Anonymous Usage Data: To understand how our website is used and to improve our service, we use Google Analytics. This service collects anonymous data about your visit, such as your browser type, device type, pages visited, and time spent on the site. This data is aggregated and cannot be used to personally identify you.
How We Use Your Information
- To Provide Service Functionality: Your location data is used exclusively to fetch and display accurate timezone and sunrise/sunset information for your area.
- To Improve Our Service: Anonymous usage data from Google Analytics helps us understand user behavior, identify popular features, and make improvements to the user experience.
Third-Party Services
- ipinfo.io: We use this service for IP-based geolocation. You can view their privacy policy at ipinfo.io/privacy-policy.
- open-meteo.com: We use this service to retrieve sunrise and sunset data based on the coordinates provided by ipinfo.io. This service does not receive any of your personal information.
- Google Analytics: We use this service for website analytics. Google may use cookies to collect anonymous traffic data. For more information on how Google uses data, please visit Google's Privacy & Terms.
- timezonedb.com: We use this service to retrieve time zone data for the city you select. This service does not receive any of your personal information.
Advertising
This website uses Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service provided by Google. To serve ads, Google and its partners use cookies to show ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the internet.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
- Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.
For more information on how Google collects and uses data, please review Google's Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Cookies and Your Choices
Cookies are small data files stored on your device. This website uses cookies through our third-party partners for analytics and advertising purposes.
- Analytics Cookies: As mentioned, Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymous usage data to help us improve our service.
- Advertising Cookies: As detailed in our Advertising section, Google AdSense uses cookies to provide personalized advertising.
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences through your web browser settings. For information on how to opt-out of tracking by our specific partners, please see the relevant sections above.
Data Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. While we do not store personal data, we use secure protocols (HTTPS) for all traffic to our website.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: contact@simpleclock.top.