Privacy Policy

1. Scope and operator

This Privacy Policy applies to the Android and iOS application Atlas - World Insights (package and bundle identifier com.azizstudios.worldinsights), referred to as “Atlas,” “the app,” “we,” or “us.” Atlas is developed and operated by Abdulaziz Jawad.

The policy covers the production application, its Privacy Center, public data features, advertising, optional diagnostics, the permanent Remove Ads purchase, sharing, and the public policy website. It does not replace the independent privacy policies of Google, Apple, the World Bank, WhatsApp, a mobile carrier, or an app you choose from the system share sheet.

Atlas is a country-intelligence and educational reference application. It presents public, country-level information and does not intentionally request your real name, email address, home address, precise location, contacts, photos, microphone, camera, health information, or government identifiers.

2. How Atlas is designed

Atlas follows a local-first design:

• No Atlas account: you do not register, sign in, or create a developer-hosted profile.
• No Atlas cloud synchronization: favorites, watchlists, recents, comparisons, theme, language, and font-size choices are not synchronized to an Atlas server.
• No developer analytics profile: Atlas does not include a developer-operated behavioral analytics service.
• Limited network use: network access is used for World Bank public data, consent-controlled advertisements, optional diagnostics if enabled and accepted, store purchases, and user-initiated external links or sharing.

The app requests Android internet and network-state permissions. It does not request Android or iOS runtime access to precise location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos, call logs, or SMS.

3. Information stored on your device

Atlas uses platform application storage to remember features you request. This information normally remains within the app's private storage and is not sent to an Atlas server.

Searches over loaded countries and indicators are performed within the app. Atlas does not intentionally transmit your search text to the developer.

Anyone with access to your unlocked device or device backups may be able to access app data subject to operating-system protections. Device backup behavior is controlled by Android, iOS, and your device or cloud-backup settings.

4. World Bank public-data requests

Atlas contacts the World Bank API over HTTPS to retrieve public country and indicator information. A request may include:

• ISO country or economy codes;
• World Bank indicator codes;
• requested years or date ranges;
• pagination and response-format parameters; and
• ordinary connection data visible to an internet service, such as IP address, date and time, and basic request metadata.

Atlas does not intentionally add your name, contact details, favorites, device contacts, or advertising identifier to World Bank requests. The World Bank processes connection information under its own terms and privacy practices. Atlas stores successful responses in an on-device stale-while-revalidate cache. Fresh data is preferred for 24 hours; usable entries may be retained for up to 30 days and are not replaced by a failed refresh.

5. Packaged public datasets

United Nations World Population Prospects data and simplified Natural Earth country geometry are packaged with Atlas for offline use. They describe countries and populations, not app users. Reading these packaged files does not require a request to a United Nations or Natural Earth server.

Source, release, and license attributions are shown in the app's “About the data” information. Public statistics can be incomplete, revised, delayed, modeled, or projected and must not be treated as personal data about an individual.

6. Advertising and consent

When Atlas requests ads

The free version can display Google AdMob banner and interstitial advertisements. Atlas refreshes advertising-consent information through Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP). The app initializes and requests advertisements only when UMP reports that ads may be requested. If consent status is unknown, unavailable, or fails to refresh without a valid previous choice, Atlas fails closed and does not request an ad.

You can revisit advertising choices from Settings → Privacy Center whenever Google indicates that a privacy-options form is required. Withdrawing consent disables active advertising requests and disposes of loaded ads. Owning Remove Ads suppresses both banner and interstitial advertisements independently of consent status.

Information Google Mobile Ads may process

According to Google's Mobile Ads SDK disclosure, the SDK may automatically collect or share:

• IP address, which may be used to estimate general location;
• user-product interactions, such as app launches, taps, and ad or video views;
• diagnostic information, such as launch time, hangs, crashes related to the SDK, or energy use; and
• device and account identifiers, which can include the resettable advertising identifier, app set ID, and identifiers associated with an account signed in on the device where applicable.

Google states that this information can be used for advertising, analytics, and fraud prevention, and is encrypted in transit. The exact data used depends on device settings, region, consent, ad configuration, and Google's limited-ad behavior. You can reset or restrict the advertising identifier through your operating-system settings where supported.

The current repository configuration uses Google's official non-monetizing test ad identifiers. A store release may use production identifiers after release checks; the consent and Remove Ads controls described above remain applicable.

Atlas does not directly sell personal information for money. Advertising disclosures to Google may nevertheless be treated as “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” under some privacy laws. Where applicable, use the Privacy Center and device privacy controls to express your choices.

Learn more in the Google Privacy Policy, How Google uses information for advertising, and Google Mobile Ads data disclosure.

7. Optional crash reporting

Current status: Firebase Crashlytics is disabled in the repository configuration and native automatic collection is disabled. If a production build is correctly configured for Crashlytics, collection remains off until you enable “Optional crash reporting” in the Privacy Center.

When you opt in, Atlas may send a deliberately limited technical failure report to Firebase Crashlytics. Atlas attaches only a redacted event code, a broad feature label, and the technical stack needed to diagnose the failure. Atlas code is designed not to attach names, phone numbers, email addresses, country-viewing activity, searches, favorites, request URLs, World Bank response bodies, purchase tokens, raw logs, or developer-created persistent user IDs.

Crashlytics itself may automatically process technical metadata necessary to group and diagnose failures, including:

• Crashlytics installation UUID, Firebase installation ID, and session UUID;
• the app package or bundle identifier, app version, and timestamp;
• operating-system version, device model, CPU architecture, available memory and disk information, and possible root or jailbreak state; and
• stack traces and crash-state information. Native minidumps may be processed if a future build enables native crash collection.

Google states that Crashlytics stack traces and associated extracted information are retained for 90 days before the deletion process begins, while some temporary native minidump handling can be shorter. Provider practices may change, so consult Firebase Privacy and Security.

You can withdraw your choice at any time in the Privacy Center. Withdrawal stops future Atlas crash-report submissions from that installation; it cannot recall reports already transmitted and still within Firebase's retention process.

8. Remove Ads purchases

Atlas offers a permanent, non-consumable product named atlas_remove_ads. Google Play Billing or Apple's in-app purchase system displays the authoritative localized price and processes payment.

The store, not Atlas, receives and processes your full card, bank, billing-address, or store-account payment details. To start, confirm, and restore the entitlement, the app and store may process the product identifier, purchase state, transaction or order reference, purchase token or receipt, price and currency metadata, and technical verification results. Atlas stores a local entitlement flag after a valid purchase or restoration so that it can hide all ads.

Atlas does not currently ask you to create an Atlas account or intentionally attach a developer-defined account identifier to the purchase. Store purchase history and retention are controlled by Google or Apple. If server-side purchase verification is introduced before production sales, this policy will be updated before that processing begins and verification data will be limited to what is necessary to validate and preserve the entitlement.

See the Google Privacy Policy or Apple Privacy Policy for store processing.

9. Images and system sharing

Atlas can create country, indicator, and two-country comparison images. The image is generated locally from the public values shown in the app, then handed to the operating system's share sheet. The system or sharing library may create a temporary file to complete this action.

Atlas does not upload the image to a developer server. Nothing is shared until you choose a destination. Once you select another app or person, that destination receives the image under its own privacy terms, and you are responsible for reviewing the content before sending it.

10. WhatsApp and telephone actions

The Settings screen provides user-initiated WhatsApp and telephone icons for contacting the developer. Tapping one opens an external WhatsApp conversation or your phone dialer for +973 3408 0866. Atlas does not read your contacts or call history, send a WhatsApp message, or place a call automatically.

When you continue in WhatsApp or through a telecommunications provider, those services may process your phone number, message, call metadata, and other information under their own privacy terms. Only provide information necessary for your support request. Do not send passwords, payment-card details, government identifiers, or other highly sensitive data.

11. Service providers and disclosures

This policy page contains no Atlas-operated analytics, advertising, tracking pixels, account forms, or JavaScript. It is hosted by GitHub Pages, so GitHub may process ordinary web-server connection data and apply its own cookies or security controls under the GitHub General Privacy Statement.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, a valid legal process, protect users or the public, investigate fraud or security issues, or protect legal rights. Because Atlas has no developer user database, the developer generally has no device-local preferences or history to disclose.

12. Purposes and legal bases

Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, processing may rely on:

• Performance of a requested service: retrieving country data, creating a share image, opening a contact method, and processing or restoring Remove Ads.
• Consent: personalized or consent-dependent advertising where required, and optional crash reporting. Consent can be withdrawn for future processing.
• Legitimate interests: limited security, fraud prevention, service reliability, non-personalized advertising where permitted, and maintaining the app, balanced against user rights.
• Legal obligations: records or disclosures required by applicable law, taxation, accounting, consumer protection, or a valid legal request.

The basis that applies depends on your location, the feature, provider configuration, and applicable law. When consent is required, refusal does not block access to Atlas's public-data features; it may prevent advertising or optional diagnostics.

13. Retention and deletion

Atlas does not offer account deletion because it does not create Atlas accounts. Clearing app storage or uninstalling removes Atlas-controlled local data, but does not delete information already processed by a third-party provider or an image already shared to another person or app.

14. Security

Atlas uses operating-system private app storage, validates cached responses before use, isolates network parsing from the interface, uses HTTPS for World Bank and provider connections, disables automatic crash collection, and blocks advertising until the consent system permits requests. No security method is perfect, and we cannot guarantee absolute security of a device, network, app store, service provider, or recipient you choose.

Keep your operating system updated, use a device lock, install Atlas only from a trusted source, and avoid sending sensitive details through support messages.

15. International processing

Google, Firebase, the World Bank, Apple, WhatsApp, carriers, and sharing destinations may process information in countries other than the one where you live. Those countries may have different privacy laws. Each provider is responsible for its own transfer safeguards, contractual terms, and legal obligations. Review the linked provider policies for details relevant to your region.

16. Children's privacy

Atlas is a general-audience reference app and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly ask children to create an account or directly submit personal information. If you believe a child has sent personal information to the developer through an external support channel, contact us so the message can be reviewed and deleted where reasonably possible.

Parents and guardians should supervise children's device, advertising, store-purchase, WhatsApp, phone, and sharing settings. A future decision to target the app to children would require a separate review of advertising SDK eligibility, store-family policies, consent, and this policy before release.

17. Your choices and privacy rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or withdrawal of consent, and to complain to a privacy regulator. These rights can be subject to legal limits and identity verification.

• Local Atlas data: use feature controls, clear application storage, or uninstall. Because this information is not synchronized to the developer, we normally cannot remotely access or delete it for you.
• Advertising: use the Privacy Center when the Google form is available and your device's advertising privacy controls.
• Crash reporting: enable or disable future reports in the Privacy Center.
• Purchases: manage payment and purchase-history rights through Google Play or Apple.
• External communications or shares: contact the relevant destination provider or recipient.

To ask a privacy question about Atlas-controlled processing, use the contact method below and specify that your request concerns “Atlas privacy.” Do not send identity documents unless we explain why they are legally necessary.

18. Third-party content and links

Atlas presents and attributes public information from the World Bank, United Nations Population Division, and Natural Earth. These providers can revise methodology, values, URLs, licenses, or availability. Atlas is not the source of their statistics and cannot guarantee that every observation is current, complete, or suitable for a particular decision.

External links leave Atlas. This policy does not govern the destination site or app. Review the destination's privacy notice before submitting information.

19. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when Atlas adds or removes a data practice, provider, SDK, permission, backend, account feature, advertising configuration, purchase-verification system, or legal requirement. The “Last updated” date will change. Material changes will be communicated in the app, store listing, release notes, or another appropriate notice before they take effect where required.

You should review the policy after significant app updates. Archived versions can be identified through the public source repository's version history.

20. Contact

Developer and privacy contact: Abdulaziz Jawad

Telephone: +973 3408 0866
WhatsApp: Open a WhatsApp conversation

For privacy requests, begin your message with “Atlas privacy request,” state your country or jurisdiction, identify the feature or provider concerned, and explain the action requested. Do not include passwords, full payment-card details, purchase tokens, government identification, or unrelated sensitive information.