Is DICK'S safe to use?

DICK'S integrates 14 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, security, and support. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Purchases, Contact Info, and Identifiers and 1 more category. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does DICK'S need?

DICK'S requests 13 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), Speech Recognition, Face ID, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Apple Music.

How many SDKs does DICK'S have?

DICK'S integrates 14 third-party SDKs. 3 for analytics, 1 for customer support, and 9 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does DICK'S access your location?

Yes. DICK'S requests location access. The developer states: "Your location is used to show nearby Dick's Sporting Goods stores ".

Does DICK'S access your camera or microphone?

DICK'S requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Dick's Sporting Goods requires access to your phone's camera in order to scan barcodes or easily input credit card information". Microphone access is for "This application provides live chat support which can include microphone input". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does DICK'S access your contacts?

Yes. DICK'S requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "This application utilizes fraud detection software that may request this information".

Does DICK'S run in the background?

Yes. DICK'S registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to DICK'S?

Other shopping apps include Harbor Freight , AE + Aerie , Afterpay , ALDI Grocery Pickup & Delivery , AliExpress , and Victoria's Secret . Each app takes a different approach to shopping and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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DICK’S Sporting Goods

Free · ★4.8 · Dick's Sporting Goods

Is DICK'S safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. DICK'S carries 3 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 5 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 80 shoppingModerate

Trackers from other companies3 · some

typical shopping: 5

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical shopping: 8 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

DICK'S links 5 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data DICK'S ties to your identity.

Health & FitnessPurchasesContact InfoIdentifiersUsage Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among shopping.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one shopping app. DICK'S sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 14 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 3 are third-party trackers.

3analytics

11standard libraries

3 of the 14 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesanalytics

Medallia Digital · Medallia

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Segment Analytics

Standard libraries11 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v7.0.3, 2026-04-01.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 80 shopping in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 8.