Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 17, 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to M3U8 Free Player ("we," "our," or "us"). This Privacy Policy explains how information is processed when you use https://freem3u8.com/, including the player, manifest inspector, guides, analytics, and advertising-supported content pages.

2. Stream URLs and Player Input

Media playback and manifest requests go directly from your browser to the stream origin. This site does not proxy the media. The stream owner, CDN, or hosting provider will receive the request under its own privacy terms.

When a player link contains url or type parameters, a first-party script captures the player value and removes those stream query parameters from the address bar before optional analytics or advertising code can load. Google Analytics is configured with the site origin and page path only, without query strings or fragments.

We do not intentionally send stream URLs to our analytics or advertising providers and do not store them on our application server. A recent playback history may be stored locally in your browser so you can reuse a source on the same device.

3. Storage and Service Data

  • Functional local storage: stores theme preferences, recent playback history, and your privacy choice. These values stay on your device until you clear them, use the site's clear-history action, or the applicable record expires.
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics: helps us measure page performance and basic traffic. Cloudflare may process request information such as page path, referrer, browser details, approximate country, and IP address to provide and secure the service. The player query parameters are removed before the page analytics beacon runs.
  • Google Analytics: loads only after you accept optional storage. It may process page path, referrer, device/browser information, approximate location, timing, IP address, and cookie or device identifiers. We send a sanitized page location without query strings.
  • Google AdSense: loads only after you accept optional storage and only on selected content pages. Google and its partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and other identifiers to measure, secure, and serve advertising. Our consent signal keeps ad user data and advertising personalization disabled.

4. Privacy Choices and Consent

Optional Google Analytics and AdSense storage is denied by default. You may select Accept optional or Reject optional in the privacy notice. In either case, advertising personalization remains disabled.

  • Your privacy choice is stored locally for up to 180 days.
  • Use the Privacy choices control in the footer at any time to review or withdraw your choice.
  • Withdrawing an accepted choice clears the site's accessible Google Analytics cookies and reloads the page without optional Google tags.
  • You can also manage Google advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.

This first-party control does not replace any additional Google-certified consent message that Google requires for advertising in a particular region.

5. Sharing and Third-Party Processing

We use Cloudflare to host, secure, and measure the site, and use Google Analytics and Google AdSense only under the consent behavior described above. These providers process data under their own terms and privacy policies. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

We do not sell player input or stream URLs. We may disclose information when required by law, to protect the site and its users, or as part of a legitimate service-provider relationship described in this policy.

6. Retention and Control

Player history and theme data remain in your browser until you clear them. The privacy choice expires after 180 days so that the site can ask again. We do not assign a server-side retention period to stream input because the application does not receive or store that input.

Analytics and advertising providers retain data according to their service settings, legal obligations, and published policies. You can clear browser storage and cookies, reject optional storage, or contact us with a privacy question.

7. Security and Your Rights

We use HTTPS and reasonable technical controls, but no Internet transmission or storage method is completely secure. Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or information about processing. Contact us so we can evaluate a request under the law that applies to the site operator.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting the revised version on this page and changing the date above. The July 17, 2026 revision added stream-parameter sanitization, consent-gated Google tags, retention details, and privacy controls.

9. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the site operator through the contact page or by email at contact@freem3u8.com.