
Aviso: *privacidade não incluída neste produto
RAINN stands for Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network. It is the largest anti-sexual violence non-profit organization in the United States. Best known for creating and operating the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE) since 1994, RAINN also offers an app designed to help survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones. The app offers someone to chat with if you are in need of support, self-care tools such as a mood tracker and meditation exercises, and ways to learn more about the problems and solution of sexual violence. Good on RAINN for never requiring users to provide any personal information to use the app. RAINN seems to take their users privacy quite seriously, which is super important for an app that supports such a vulnerable community. Unfortunately, we do have some outstanding questions about the apps security that leave us concerned.
O que pode acontecer se algo der errado?
RAINN's app privacy policy says none of your personally identifiable information is ever collected by RAINN or shared with anyone else.Yay!!! That's amazing. RAINN is a non-profit and received funding from the US Department of Justice to help develop this app so no worries about them collecting your data to make money off it or target you with ads. RAINN gets the vulnerability of their users and seems to take protecting their privacy quite seriously. We are concerned that their privacy policy, the one linked from the app store, doesn't mention specifically that it covers their app, only their website. When you download and install the app though, users are given and must agree to a privacy policy for the app. We would love to see the app's specific privacy policy available to users before they download the app though.
RAINN does use Google Analytics (as nearly every app we reviewed does) to determine app usage statistics but only collects anonymized location data at the city/state/country level. Which doesn't worry us too much, although we must always warn that anonymized data has been found to be relatively easy to de-anonymize. RAINN also includes a safety procedure warning to delete the app after every use if an abuser has access to your device. And follows this with a reminder that the history of downloading the app will still exist in backups, synced files, and the app store history. Which is a huge reminder that almost anything we do on the internet leaves a trail, that domestic abusers are the scum of the earth, and that remaining private while seeking help for violence or mental health situations online can be both live-saving and life-threatening for too many people.
We do have some questions about the security of the RAINN app we couldn't answer. And when we emailed and called RAINN to try and get answers, we didn't receive any response, which is a concern. We noticed the RAINN app hasn't been updated in the Google Play store since November 2020. That long without an update doesn't mean anything is wrong. It does show that no security updates have been done (hopefully because they haven't been needed) in a while. This could be nothing major, we're just noting this as it's good when apps are updated when needed. All in all, RAINN's app privacy is excellent. Their security is a bit of a question for us. We also recognize non-profit backed apps don't generally have the same resources to provide security as bigger companies do. Hopefully nothing will go wrong there, but do be aware.
Dicas para se proteger
- If you are concerned an abuser has access to your phone and could learn you have downloaded this app, delete this app after every use. There still may by a record of app usage in your app download history.
- Ensure you have a strong password
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Como a empresa usa esses dados?
Como você pode controlar seus dados?
Qual é o histórico conhecido da empresa na proteção de dados dos usuários?
No known privacy or security incidents discovered in the last 3 years.
Informações de privacidade infantil
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Informações de privacidade fáceis de entender?
This privacy policy link in the app store for this app is for the RAINN website only. Users aren't able to read the app specific privacy policy until they download the app. We like to see people have the ability to read privacy documentation before they choose to download the app.
Links para informações de privacidade
Este produto atende aos nossos padrões mínimos de segurança?
Criptografia
Senha forte
Atualizações de segurança
Gerencia vulnerabilidades
Política de privacidade
This privacy policy link in the app store for this app is for the RAINN website only. Users aren't able to read the app specific privacy policy until they download the app. We like to see people have the ability to read privacy documentation before they choose to download the app.
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