Last updated: 2026-10-24
Where Is It? is made by Magmanet. This policy explains what the app does with your information. The short version: your data stays on your device. The app also sends anonymous usage statistics, which you can turn off.
By default, only anonymous usage statistics (see below), which you can turn off. Where Is It? has no sign-up, no accounts, no advertising and no tracking. We never sell or share your data.
The app never reads your location. A guess is a tap on a map drawn by the app.
Your games (the map points you guessed), statistics, streaks, best reverse-quiz scores and settings are saved only on your device, in the app's private storage. They are removed when you uninstall the app, or when you use Settings → Reset statistics.
The app's Copy backup feature (Settings → Your data) copies your data as text to your clipboard, so you can keep it somewhere you choose. Where you paste it is up to you; the app never uploads it.
When you tap "Share", the app opens your phone's share sheet with a text you can see before sending: the puzzle number, your score, coloured squares, arrows and a link to the app's page. It does not name the place and contains nothing about you. Nothing is sent unless you choose an app and send it yourself.
The game and its map work entirely offline (the map is bundled in the app; no map tiles are downloaded). The only internet requests are the update check and the anonymous usage statistics below.
Once a day the app checks for a newer version by asking the Magmanet server (EU, Contabo) — the request contains only the app name, its version number and how it was installed (site/Google Play); the server counts checks per app and version in aggregate, stores no identifiers and no IP address; if the server is unavailable the app downloads the public version file from GitHub Pages instead (GitHub may see your IP address). If a newer version exists, the app shows a notice and you choose whether to open the download link. You can turn this off in Settings ("Check for updates automatically").
Where Is It? sends anonymous usage statistics over HTTPS (a short ping once a day; usage events a few times a day at most, batched) to Magmanet's own server, hosted in the EU (Contabo), not to Google or any other third party. It sends the app name and version, your Android version, your phone manufacturer and model (never the name you gave the phone), your language, how the app was installed (from Google Play, the website or elsewhere), a random install ID, and anonymous usage events (which screens and features are used and for how long, and the number of guesses in a finished game — never the places or your map taps). The random ID is made by the app when it is installed; it is not a device identifier. No personal content is sent.
On the server the ID is hashed and no IP address is stored. Raw data is deleted after 400 days. It is used only to count active users and improve the app, never for advertising or profiling, and it is never sold or shared.
This is on by default. You can turn it off in Settings ("Share anonymous usage statistics"). Turning it off stops sending immediately and deletes the random ID and any unsent usage events from your phone.
The app requests no location, camera, microphone, contacts, notifications or storage permissions.
Country outlines, coastline and lakes come from Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), which is in the public domain.
Where Is It? is a general-audience geography game. It collects no personal information from anyone.
If this policy changes, we'll update the date above and publish the new version at the same address.
Questions? Open an issue at https://github.com/Shauls/magmanet-apps/issues