Is Hollister safe to use?

Hollister integrates 57 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, security, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Location, and Contact Info and 4 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Hollister need?

Hollister requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), and Save to Photo Library.

What data does Hollister collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Hollister declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Browsing History, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Hollister have?

Hollister integrates 57 third-party SDKs. 1 for attribution, 8 for analytics, 1 for infrastructure, and 44 for other.

Does Hollister use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. Hollister requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does Hollister access your location?

Yes. Hollister requests location access. The developer states: "We'll help you find nearby stores and deliver notifications.".

Does Hollister access your camera or microphone?

Hollister requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This lets you snap & scan to find more of your favorite styles". Microphone access is for "This lets you add sound to your message". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Hollister run in the background?

Yes. Hollister registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Hollister?

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.

Shopping · Privacy report

Hollister Co.

Free · ★4.9 · Abercrombie & Fitch

Is Hollister safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Hollister is built with more third-party tracking code than 73% of the shopping we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 80 shoppingHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical shopping: 5

Data the app links to you8 types · some

typical shopping: 8 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Hollister links 8 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Hollister ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

PurchasesFinancial InfoLocationContact InfoUser ContentBrowsing HistoryIdentifiersUsage 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

🇺🇸BranchAttribution

Deep linking and marketing attribution.

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. Hollister sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

Each is a fact read straight from the app. The same checks run on every app we scan. Only the ones that apply here are shown.

It declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 57 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 9 are third-party trackers.

1attribution

8analytics

48standard libraries

9 of the 57 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesanalytics

Adobe Analytics · Adobe Experience Platform · Adobe Identity · Adobe Lifecycle · Adobe Rules Engine · Adobe Services · OneTrust Privacy/Consent · Radar Location

BranchAttribution · USA

Branch

Standard libraries48 · 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 v15.2.0, 2026-04-04.

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.