Privacy policy

What the app stores, and where

• The countries and territories you mark as Visited or Want to go, with the year and the note you add.
• Your settings: accent colour, the switches for ambient mode, haptics and labels, your choices on the Share screen, and the name for the share card and the video, if you enter one.
• Snapshots: up to twelve earlier copies of your countries, saved automatically so that a mistake can be undone.
• If the file that holds your countries can no longer be read and you choose to start again from a snapshot, the unreadable file is set aside, not deleted. The app keeps at most three such files.

All of it is kept in the app's own storage on your phone. The developer has no copy of it and no way to get one, because the app has no server to send it to.

No network access

The app makes no network connections. On Android it does not ask for the internet permission, so the system would stop it if it tried. iPhone apps are not asked to declare this; the app never connects. It works the same in aeroplane mode.

Your phone's own backup

If you have turned on a backup for your phone, the phone may include the app's data in it, as it does for other apps. That backup is run by Apple or Google under their terms. The app plays no part in it and the developer cannot see it.

iPhone

An iCloud Backup, or a backup to a computer, includes the app's data. To leave the app out of iCloud Backup, open Settings, tap your name, then iCloud, find the list of backups in the storage settings, choose this iPhone, and switch the app off in the list of apps. Apple moves these screens between iOS versions; searching Settings for "Backups" finds them. A backup to a computer cannot leave out a single app, but you can encrypt it ("Encrypt local backup" in Finder or iTunes).

Android

Google's backup includes the app's data, and so does a direct transfer when you set up a new phone. Android has no switch for a single app. To stop the backup, open Settings, then Google, then Backup (on some phones: Settings, System, Backup) and turn it off. This turns it off for all your apps.

If you would rather keep your own copy, use Export in the app's Settings and store the file where you like.

Things you choose to send

• Export writes your countries, with their years and notes, to a JSON file and hands it to your phone's share sheet.
• The video tour and the still card are made on your phone and handed to the share sheet. They show the countries you have visited, your count, and your name if you entered one. The video also shows the years you entered. Your notes are never in them.

From the share sheet a file goes only to the app or the person you pick. After that, the privacy policy of whoever receives it applies, not this one.

The app keeps a working copy of the last export, video and image in its temporary storage on the phone. That storage is not part of a backup, and the phone clears it when it needs the space.

Permissions

The app asks for no permissions when you install or open it. On iPhone, if you choose Save Video or Save Image in the share sheet, iOS asks once whether the app may add to your Photos. That permission only lets the app add a file. It cannot see your photos.

Other parties

The app contains no third-party code that collects data: no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting. The open-source components it is built with run entirely on your phone. They are listed in the app under Settings, About, Open-source licences.

Apple and Google run the stores the app comes from. Depending on your own settings with them, they may show the developer figures such as the number of installs and crash reports. Those come from Apple and Google under their privacy policies. The app adds nothing to them.

Deleting your data

• Reset all data, in Settings, removes your countries and settings. Snapshots are kept on purpose, so that a reset made by mistake can be undone.
• Deleting the app removes everything it stored on the phone, snapshots included.
• A copy inside a phone backup stays there until that backup is replaced or you delete it. Android may restore that copy if you install the app again.
• Files you exported or shared are yours to delete wherever you put them.

Because the developer holds no data about you, there is nothing to request, correct or delete on the developer's side.

Children

The app is not aimed at children. It collects nothing from anyone, children included.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is published at the same address with a new date. If a later version of the app handled data differently, this policy would change before that version was released.

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Contact

David Prasinos, prasinosdavid@gmail.com