Can ask for your precise location, approximate location, calendar
5 kinds of data linked to you
Up to $329.41 for one in-app purchase
1 kinds of data used to track you across other companies' apps
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ABOUIT · SHEIN2/7
Inside the app
3
things about you and around you the app can ask the phone for
📍precise location🗺️approximate location📅calendar
WHAT IT MEANSThe app's own file lists these. Your phone asks you before the sensitive ones.
WHAT YOU CAN DOPhone settings → Apps → permissions: switch off what it does not need.
Android app 15.3.8 · εxodus Privacy, 2026-09-22
ABOUIT · SHEIN3/7
They declare
5
kinds of data linked to you
this app · 5
typical of the 19 apps we read · 9
WHAT IT MEANSTied to your identity, not anonymous. The company filled in this label itself.
WHAT YOU CAN DOIn the EU and UK you can ask for a copy of your data.
App Store label, declared by the developer
ABOUIT · SHEIN4/7
They declare
1
kinds of data used to track you across other companies' apps
this app · 1
typical of the 16 apps we read · 2
WHAT IT MEANSCan be used to follow you across other companies' apps and websites.
WHAT YOU CAN DOiPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking → off.
App Store label, declared by the developer
ABOUIT · SHEIN5/7
They declare
$329.41
top price of a single in-app purchase
WHAT IT MEANSThe most a single in-app purchase can cost, by the store listing.
WHAT YOU CAN DOSet a purchase password in your store settings.
Google Play listing, declared by the developer
🏛️
ABOUIT · SHEIN6/7
Follow the money · lobbying
€300K+
a year on lobbying the EU, as the company declares
WHERE IT COMES FROMSHEIN Group declares spending between €300,000 and €399,999 in a year on lobbying the EU institutions (Jan 2025 to Dec 2025). The company's own figure, not audited.
EU Transparency Register · entry 020464949374-38 · last updated by the company on 2026-09-03
ABOUIT · SHEIN7/7
The end
That's all.
NO FEEDNo endless feed here. You have seen everything we hold on this app.
Screen recordings submitted to Abouit by users who stated they show cancelling or deleting their own account. Abouit did not record them and cannot verify who made them. Screens are counted by our published method. Submitted recordings are reported evidence: never a receipt, never part of a grade.
No receipt about SHEIN yet. read — nothing found yet First look from Germany on 2026-11-09 · privacy policy read 2026-11-11
Re-reading its policies and checking the Internet Archive for new versions.
Area by area
Read the details
What we checked in each of the six areas, and what we found there. Not a score: an empty area means not tested yet; "their words" means we quote their documents below but have not tested it. Planet is a seventh row of measured facts from the same first look: what the homepage weighs before any tap, and a CO2e range with its method.
Claims
not tested yet
Money
not tested yet
Attention
not tested yet
Privacy
3 other domains before any tap
privacy policy: 50 words
Prompts and messages
not tested yet
Minors
not tested yet
Planet
at least 4.2 MB before any tap (395 requests; 1 still loading at the end, their bytes not counted)
The company's own declarations, copied as shown on the date given, with a link to the source and the hash of our archived copy. Not tested by us; not a score.
Google Play Data safety page: not read: the site's robots.txt or the site itself refused our reader, and we never get around a refusal. 2026-11-09 · source
Inside the Android app
What an independent analysis of the published app file lists for SHEIN (Android version 15.3.8, report of 2026-09-22). A permission says what the app can ask the phone for, not what it does with it. A newer version may differ.
EU TRANSPARENCY REGISTER · 2026-09-03 · THE MAKER OF SHEIN
SHEIN Group declares spending between €300,000 and €399,999 in a year on lobbying the EU institutions (Jan 2025 to Dec 2025).
People it declares working on this, in full-time equivalents: 4.
What kind of figure: This is the company's own declaration. The register does not audit it, and it covers everything the company does, not this app alone. EU only.
US LOBBYING DISCLOSURE ACT · 2026-10-19 · THE MAKER OF SHEIN
SHEIN TECHNOLOGY LLC reports spending $280,000 in three months on lobbying the US government (Jul 2026 to Sep 2026).
What kind of figure: This is the company's own quarterly report under US law. It covers everything the company does, not this app alone, and only what the law counts as lobbying.
Can ask for your precise location, approximate location, calendar
5 kinds of data linked to you
Up to $329.41 for one in-app purchase
1 kinds of data used to track you across other companies' apps
