Last updated: November 6, 2026
Reliable Browser is a web browser for Android TV and Google TV. This privacy policy explains what stays on your TV, what is sent to other companies, and the choices you have.
You do not need an account to use Reliable Browser, and it contains no advertising. We do not run servers that receive your browsing, and we do not collect, see, or sell your history, bookmarks, passwords, or anything you type.
Like any browser, Reliable Browser has to connect to other companies to work. Those connections are listed below so you can see exactly what happens.
The following is stored only in the app's private storage on your TV, and it is not sent to us:
• Browsing history, open tabs, and recently closed tabs
• Bookmarks and home screen shortcuts
• Cookies, site data, and cached pages
• Your download list and the files you download
• Where you stopped in videos, so you can continue watching
• Your settings and your camera, microphone, and location answers for each site
• Saved passwords and any proxy password, encrypted with a key held by your TV
• Your PIN, if you set one, stored as a salted hash rather than as the PIN itself
You can delete this data in the app. You can clear history, cookies and site data, and cached files, and you can delete saved passwords. Uninstalling the app removes its private storage. Files you saved to a shared folder on your TV may remain until you delete them.
Websites receive what any browser sends them, such as your IP address, your browser's user agent, and the cookies they have set. They can also run their own analytics and advertising, and each site's own privacy policy applies to what it collects. The built-in ad blocker reduces this but cannot remove it entirely. It is on by default and checks requests on your TV.
Third-party cookies are allowed by default because some sign-ins and embedded videos need them. You can block them in Settings.
Your searches are sent to the search engine you choose in Settings. Google is the default.
Search suggestions are on by default. While they are on, the text you type in the address bar is sent to your search engine as you type, so it can suggest searches. This does not happen in incognito tabs. Full web addresses, such as the address of the page you are on when you open or edit it, are not sent either. You can turn search suggestions off in Settings.
To show icons for shortcuts, bookmarks, and similar lists, the app may send a site's domain name (for example "example.com") to Google's icon service. This includes the default shortcuts when you first open the app. The full page address is not sent. The icons are then kept on your TV, and these lookups are not made from an incognito tab's address bar.
Web pages are displayed by Android System WebView, a part of your TV's system provided by Google. WebView's Safe Browsing protection is on, and it checks pages against Google's list of dangerous sites. To do this, information about the pages you visit may be sent to Google.
WebView can also upload diagnostic data to Google if you have agreed to share usage and diagnostics on your TV. You control that in your TV's system settings. Google's handling of this data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
Pages are translated on your TV using Google's ML Kit. Page text is processed on your TV and ML Kit does not send it, or the translation, to Google. Each language is downloaded from Google the first time you need it, after you agree to the download. Read Aloud also uses ML Kit on your TV to detect a page's language.
When you use these features, ML Kit sends Google metrics about how they perform and are used. According to Google, these metrics can include:
• Device information such as manufacturer, model, and system version
• App information and a per-installation identifier
• Performance measurements, error codes, and the size of the text processed
• The languages detected and the languages chosen for translation
Google states that it uses this data for diagnostics, for maintaining and improving ML Kit, and for detecting misuse. Google also states that it is encrypted in transit and is not transferred to third parties. You can read more in ML Kit's data disclosure. ML Kit does not start until you use one of these features.
Read Aloud speaks using your TV's text-to-speech service, which receives the text being read. How that text is handled depends on the service installed on your TV.
The microphone is used for voice input only when you start it. Your speech is handled by your TV's speech recognition service, which may process it online, and the app receives the resulting words. If the microphone permission is refused, the app can use your TV's own voice screen instead. The app does not record or store your voice. What the speech service does with your voice is covered by its provider's privacy policy.
A website can only use your camera, microphone, or approximate location if you allow it. The app asks you first, remembers your answer for that site, and lets you change it in Settings. Once you allow access, the website receives that data under its own privacy policy. Answers given in an incognito tab last only until you close your incognito tabs.
Protected video (DRM) is always allowed, because streaming services need it to play. This can give those services an identifier used to license video on your device.
The phone remote is on by default and can be turned off in Settings. It runs a small web server on your TV, so a phone on the same network can open the remote page after scanning a QR code. No account is needed, and this communication never passes through our servers.
Pointer movement, text you type, and files you transfer between your phone and your TV travel directly over your local network. This connection is not encrypted, so use it only on a network you trust. Access requires the key from the QR code, and the page may also store a key in your phone's browser as a cookie so it can reconnect.
Your TV keeps a list of paired phones, with a name derived from each phone's browser information and when it was first and last connected. You can forget a phone in Settings.
Ad and malware blocking lists are downloaded from their publishers and the services that host them, such as EasyList, uBlock Origin, AdGuard, and GitHub. By default they are checked for updates about every four days. Each download reveals your IP address to that publisher or host, as any download does, but your browsing is not sent to them. You can choose which lists to use, or add your own.
• Proxy: If you set up a proxy, your browsing goes through the proxy server you chose, and its operator may be able to see it.
• Home screen rows: These are off by default. If you turn them on, bookmarks, open tabs, or downloads appear on your TV's home screen, along with their titles and pictures. Incognito tabs are never included.
• Other apps: If you open a link or file in another app, that app receives it.
• Export and backup files: Bookmark exports and settings backups are ordinary, unencrypted files that you control. Settings backups do not include history, passwords, or your PIN.
• Web debugging: This developer option is off by default. When turned on, a connected debugging tool can see your pages, cookies, and sign-ins.
Pages opened in incognito tabs are not saved to your history, and their cookies and site data are erased when you close all incognito tabs. Files you download in an incognito tab stay on your TV, and bookmarks you save stay too. What you type for an incognito tab is not sent for search suggestions, but searches you run still go to your search engine. Websites, your network, and your internet provider can still see what you visit. On TVs with an older version of WebView, incognito tabs may not be available.
Your TV may include some app data in Android's own backup or device transfer, if that is turned on in your TV's settings or your Google account. This can include history, bookmarks, shortcuts, open and recently closed tabs, where you stopped in videos, your settings, your camera, microphone, and location answers for each site, and your ad and malware blocking lists. These backups are handled by Google and your device, not by us.
The app leaves the following out of these backups and transfers: cookies, sign-ins, and site data, your download list and downloaded files in the app's storage, saved passwords, the keys of paired phones, and the pictures used for home screen rows.
We have not added any analytics or crash reporting service of our own, and we receive no analytics about you. The only usage data sent by components in the app is described in the Google Safe Browsing and WebView and Page Translation and Read Aloud sections above. Reliable Browser shows no ads of its own, uses no advertising identifiers, and does not build advertising profiles.
Reliable Browser is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. As a web browser, it can open any website, and websites have their own practices. You can set a PIN in Settings to restrict some parts of the app.
Data on your TV is kept until you delete it or uninstall the app. Because we do not receive your browsing data, we cannot view, correct, or delete it for you, but you can manage it yourself in the app.
If you email us, we keep your message only as long as needed to respond to you. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of data we hold about you. To exercise your rights with Google or another company described above, please contact that company directly.
If we make any changes to this privacy policy in the future, we will update this page and the "Last updated" date above.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected]