List of Countries is a reference almanac. It has no accounts, no sign-in and no profile, and its whole dataset — 249 countries, their flags, facts and outlines — is bundled in the app and read offline. This page sets out the little that does leave your device, who receives it, and how to stop it.
This app is published by the developer of List of Countries ("we", "us"), an independent developer based in the Republic of Türkiye. We are the controller of the limited personal data described here.
This policy covers the Android application List of Countries (world.country.guide.oz) and nothing else. Other apps we publish have their own policies, and the services listed in section 3 have their own.
Most of what the app remembers never leaves your phone. It is written to the app's private storage, which no other app can read, and it is deleted when you uninstall.
Android may copy some app data to your own Google Drive backup, so that it returns when you set up a new phone. That backup belongs to your Google account, is subject to Google's terms, and we cannot read it. We deliberately exclude the settings store from it; your lists and chat history are included, because losing them on a new phone would be worse than backing them up. You can turn backup off in your device's system settings.
Everything the app sends out, in full:
Free use of the app is funded by two ad formats: a full-screen ad when the app is opened, and an occasional one when you close a country page. There are no banner ads and no rewarded ads.
On first launch the app shows Google's consent form (via the Google User Messaging Platform) and requests no ad, and initialises no ad SDK, until you have answered. You can change or withdraw your answer at any time from Settings → About → Ad privacy options, which is shown wherever that form applies.
Every country page has an optional Ask AI tab. It does nothing until you type something and send it. When you do, the app sends to OpenAI — over an encrypted connection — your message, a short tail of the earlier messages in that same country's conversation, the country's name, and your app language, so the reply comes back in the right language.
The app declares four permissions and no more:
There is no location, camera, microphone, contacts, storage or phone permission, and there is no way for the app to acquire one — it would have to be declared here first.
Country pages can open Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, YouTube, Google Maps or a web search in the app's built-in browser or in your own browser. Those are other people's websites: once a page loads, what it collects is governed by its own privacy policy, not this one. You choose which search engine is used in Settings → Preferences → Search engine.
We do not record which links you follow, and the app sends no browsing history anywhere.
For readers in the EEA/UK, the legal bases under the GDPR are:
Depending on where you live you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, to portability, and to lodge a complaint with your data protection authority. Because we hold no account and no identifiable record, the practical routes are:
For data Google or OpenAI hold about you as their own controller, please use their controls: Google · OpenAI.
The app is a general-audience reference tool. It is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age where you live), and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has provided personal data through the app — realistically, only by typing it into the AI chat — contact us and we will act on it. Parents should note that the app contains a web browser and an AI chat, and that Google Play's parental controls apply.
Google and OpenAI process data on servers outside your country, including in the United States. Where data is transferred out of the EEA or the UK, those providers rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses and, where applicable, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. We transfer nothing ourselves beyond what is listed in section 3.
Data on your device sits in the app's private sandbox, which Android keeps from other apps. Every request the app makes goes over HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, but the app's design limits the damage of any single failure: there is no account to steal, no password to leak and no server-side database of readers to breach.
If the app starts collecting something new, this page changes first and its effective date moves. Material changes will also be noted in the Google Play release notes. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated policy; if you don't, uninstalling ends all collection immediately.
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with data:
Write in whichever language you prefer. We answer data-protection requests within 30 days.