Privacy Policy — US Citizenship Test Audio

The short version

The app keeps your study progress and settings on your own device and sends them nowhere. It has no accounts and asks for no personal details. The one component that touches the network is Google AdMob, which serves the ads that pay for the app. Everything below is detail on those two facts.

What the app stores, and where

The app saves the following in local storage on your device:

Which questions you have studied and how well you knew each one
Your daily streak and a history of past study sessions
Mock test results
Questions you have bookmarked
Any answers you type yourself for state-specific questions
Your settings: voice, speaking speed, pitch, interface language, theme, text size, and the hands-free pause length
Counters used to space out advertisements

All of this stays on your device. None of it is uploaded, backed up to a server, synchronised across devices, or seen by us. We cannot read it and we have no copy of it. Uninstalling the app deletes it, and the in-app Reset progress option deletes it. There is no other copy anywhere.

The app contains no account system, no sign-up, no login and no email collection. We do not know who you are.

The app itself makes no network requests

Questions, answers, explanations and translations are packaged inside the app at install time. The app does not download content, does not check for updates by itself, and does not send anything you do to any server. In airplane mode every study feature works exactly the same. The only network traffic comes from the advertising component described below.

Advertising, the advertising ID, and your choices

US Citizenship Test Audio (com.novanest.civicsaudio) shows ads through Google AdMob. This section is the disclosure Google requires of every publisher that uses its advertising SDKs.

What is collected, and by whom

We do not collect, store or transmit personal data ourselves. The Google Mobile Ads SDK inside the app does collect data in order to serve and measure ads. It reads the Android advertising ID, a resettable identifier assigned by your device, and sends it with each ad request together with coarse technical information such as device model, operating system version, language, and the IP address every network request necessarily carries.

That identifier is used for selecting ads, limiting how often you see the same one, measuring performance, and detecting fraudulent activity. It is sent to Google, which may make it available to its advertising partners. We receive only aggregate reporting — how many ads were shown and what they earned. Those reports contain nothing that identifies any individual.

How Google uses data from apps that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

Your controls

Reset or delete the advertising ID. On most Android devices: Settings → Privacy → Ads. Deleting it stops apps receiving it at all.
Consent, in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. Where the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive apply, the app requests consent through Google's User Messaging Platform, a Consent Management Platform certified by Google, before any personalised ad is requested. You can change or withdraw that choice at any time from the privacy options entry in the app's settings.
Non-personalised ads. If you decline consent, ads may still be shown but are not personalised using your advertising ID.

Authorized sellers

Our app-ads.txt declares publisher ID pub-3709043100488694 and is served from the root of this domain:

google.com, pub-3709043100488694, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

View app-ads.txt

Children

This app is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. Ad content is rated for a general or teen audience as declared in the Play Console.

Retention and deletion

We hold no personal data on any server, so there is nothing on our side to retain or delete. Data handled by Google is retained under Google's own policies, linked above. Everything the app stores stays on your device and is removed by the app's reset option or by uninstalling it.

Permissions the app does not request

The app does not ask for, and cannot access:

Microphone	Not requested. The app speaks to you; it never listens or records. There is no speech recognition.
Contacts	Not requested.
Location	Not requested. No GPS, no coarse location.
Camera	Not requested.
Files, photos and media	Not requested.
Call logs, SMS, phone	Not requested.
Calendar	Not requested.

The app uses your device's built-in text-to-speech engine to read questions aloud. That is an output function. It requires no permission and does not involve the microphone.

Your rights

Data protection law, including the GDPR, gives you rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection and portability over personal data held about you. We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to give you, correct or delete. You already hold everything the app produces, on your own device, and you can erase it at any moment without asking anyone.

For data processed by Google in connection with advertising, exercise your rights directly with Google using the links above, or reset or delete your advertising ID as described there. If you are in the EEA or the UK you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the Last updated date at the top of this page changes with it. Material changes — a new SDK, a new data category, a change to the consent mechanism — will be described in the app's release notes as well as here.

Not a government service

This app is an independent study aid. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or any government agency of the United States or any other country.

Contact

Novanest ATLAS — quizzy.quest.planet@gmail.com

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