Privacy Policy

Effective date: May 26, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Binary Gear LLC ("Gear," "we," "us," or "our") handles information in connection with Gear Browser, including the iOS app, Gear Pro features, extension engine, official website, documentation, and support channels. Gear Browser is designed to keep core browser data on your device whenever possible. Websites and third-party services you choose to access through the browser may handle data under their own privacy policies.

# Scope of This Policy

This Policy applies to Gear Browser and the official Gear website at gear4.app. It does not apply to websites, search engines, extensions, payment platforms, repositories, or other third-party services that you access through Gear Browser or links on our website.

When you visit a third-party website, that website may receive your IP address, browser information, cookies, form submissions, account information, payment details, or other data you provide to it. Gear does not control the privacy practices of those websites.

# Local Browser Data

Gear Browser stores core browsing data locally on your device, such as browsing history, bookmarks, download lists, top site data, tabs, app settings, custom scripts, custom styles, and similar user-controlled data.

Gear does not upload your local browsing history, bookmarks, download list, top sites, custom scripts, or custom styles to Gear-operated servers for storage or profiling.

If you back up your device, restore from a backup, use iOS system services, or enable Apple features that sync or preserve app data, Apple may process data according to Apple's own terms and privacy policies.

# Website Data and WKWebView

Gear Browser uses Apple's WKWebView and related iOS technologies to render web content and manage browser functions such as cookies, web storage, session data, cache, media behavior, autofill behavior, and other website data.

Cookies, local storage, session storage, caches, and similar website data may be created by the websites you visit. These technologies can keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure usage, personalize content, or support advertising and analytics controlled by those websites.

Gear does not control every data request made by a website. You should review the privacy policies and settings of websites and services you use.

# Translation

Gear Browser may provide translation by extracting text from the current page and showing the translated result inside Gear Browser. Gear does not redirect you to a third-party translation webpage or send the whole page to Gear-operated servers for translation.

Built-in translation and Intelligent Translation use iOS system translation capabilities and are designed to process translation on your device where available. If you choose a third-party provider such as Google or Bing, the page text or other content needed for translation may be sent to that provider and handled under its own privacy policy.

Gear does not store translated page content on Gear-operated servers. For sensitive pages, we recommend using on-device translation when available or avoiding third-party translation unless you are comfortable sending page text to the selected provider.

# Private Mode

Private Mode is designed to reduce local retention of browsing activity in that session. When a private session ends, Gear Browser resets private browsing history, cookies, web storage, session data, and related temporary browsing data associated with that private session, subject to iOS and WKWebView behavior.

Private Mode does not make you anonymous to websites, network providers, employers, schools, app platforms, or services you sign into. Websites may still receive network information, account activity, form submissions, downloads, and other information you choose to provide.

# Content Filtering

Gear Browser may provide content filtering for ad blocking, privacy protection, and reducing unwanted page elements. Filtering can reduce some third-party requests and tracking scripts, but it cannot guarantee that every tracker, advertisement, fingerprinting method, or unwanted element will be blocked.

Content filtering may rely on third-party open source filter lists, including EasyList, and Apple's native content blocker technology. Filter rules may be updated by third-party maintainers and may occasionally block or hide content unexpectedly.

# Extensions, Scripts, and Custom Code

Gear Browser may allow you to install extensions, write scripts, apply styles, or run custom code. These tools can change how websites behave and may access or affect information on pages where they run.

Third-party extensions, scripts, styles, and repositories are not controlled by Gear unless expressly stated. You should install code only from sources you trust and review what it can access. Gear is not responsible for data collection or security behavior by third-party or user-created code.

# Analytics and Diagnostics

Gear may use analytics and diagnostic tools to understand app performance, feature usage, crashes, and general product health. This helps us improve reliability and prioritize product work.

Gear Browser may use Firebase, provided by Google, for app analytics, crash reporting, or related diagnostics. These services may process information such as device type, app version, operating system version, coarse region, app events, performance data, crash data, and identifiers used for analytics or diagnostics.

The Gear website may use Google Analytics to understand website traffic and page usage. Website analytics may process information such as pages visited, referrer, approximate location, device/browser type, and interaction events.

We do not intentionally configure analytics to collect the full content of web pages you view in Gear Browser, translation text, your local bookmarks, your local browsing history, or your custom scripts and styles.

We do not use Firebase Analytics or Google Analytics for targeted advertising or cross-app tracking. If an app or system setting lets you limit analytics, tracking, or diagnostic sharing, Gear respects the setting available through iOS or the app.

# Purchases and Subscriptions

Gear Pro subscriptions and in-app purchases are processed through Apple's App Store payment system. Apple may process purchase, billing, refund, tax, account, and subscription management information according to Apple's policies.

Gear may use RevenueCat to manage subscription status, purchase validation, entitlement delivery, and related purchase analytics. RevenueCat may process app user identifiers, purchase receipts, subscription status, product identifiers, transaction information, device or app metadata, and related diagnostics needed to provide paid features.

Gear does not receive your full payment card number from Apple.

# Support and Communications

If you contact us by email, social media, app review, support channel, or other communication method, we may receive the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, message content, screenshots, diagnostic details, device model, app version, and operating system version.

We use this information to respond to you, investigate issues, improve the Service, and keep appropriate business records.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not sell or rent your local browsing history, bookmarks, downloads, custom scripts, or custom styles, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We may share limited information with service providers for the purposes described in this Policy: Apple and RevenueCat for purchases and subscription entitlements; Firebase and Google Analytics for analytics and diagnostics; Google or Bing translation services when you select a third-party translation provider; hosting and email providers for website, support, and communication operations; and similar vendors that help us operate, secure, improve, bill for, translate, or support the Service.

These service providers may process information according to their own terms and privacy commitments, and we expect them to provide protections consistent with the role they perform for the Service.

We may disclose information if required by law, legal process, or enforceable government request, or if we believe disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, security, prevent fraud or abuse, or enforce our terms.

If Gear is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate protections and applicable law.

# Your Controls

You can manage local browser data through Gear Browser settings and iOS system settings. Depending on the app version, you may be able to clear browsing history, bookmarks, download lists, cookies, web storage, session data, cache, scripts, styles, and other local data.

You can control whether content filtering is enabled globally or for specific websites. You can choose whether to install, enable, disable, edit, or delete extensions, scripts, and styles. You can also choose the available translation mode, including on-device translation where supported or third-party translation providers where offered.

You can manage Gear Pro subscriptions through your Apple account settings. You may also use iOS privacy controls to manage app permissions, analytics sharing, tracking permissions, notifications, and related system settings.

You may contact us to request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent, or other handling of personal information that Gear controls, subject to applicable law. Some data may be stored only on your device or controlled by Apple, websites, or other third parties, in which case you may need to use those services' tools or contact them directly.

If applicable law gives you the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, you may contact us using the address below. As described above, we do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

# Retention and Security

Local browser data remains on your device until you delete it, clear it through the app or system settings, uninstall the app, or your device removes it according to iOS behavior.

Analytics and diagnostic records are retained according to our analytics settings and the retention options provided by Firebase, Google Analytics, and related tools. Purchase and subscription records are retained as needed to provide paid features, validate purchases, prevent fraud, maintain accounting records, resolve disputes, and comply with legal obligations. Support communications are retained as long as reasonably necessary to respond to requests, troubleshoot issues, improve the Service, and keep appropriate business records.

When information is no longer reasonably needed for the purposes described in this Policy, we delete it, de-identify it, or retain it only as required or permitted by law.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information we control. No browser, app, website, network, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

# Children

Gear Browser is not directed to children under the age required by applicable law to use online services without parental consent. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in a way that requires parental consent. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us.

# Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect product changes, legal requirements, or operational needs. When we update the Policy, we will revise the latest update date on this page. Your continued use of the Service after an update means the revised Policy applies to your use of the Service.

# Contact

If you have questions or requests about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].

The information contained on this website is subject to change without notice.
Contact: [email protected]
Binary Gear LLC, 447 Broadway, 2nd Floor, #1074, New York, United States
Latest update on May, 26, 2026