Countrail

Last updated: 4 October 2026

Privacy policy

Countrail does not collect your data. The developer receives nothing you record in the app. There is no account, no server, no analytics and no advertising, and the app contains no third-party SDKs.

What the app stores on your iPhone

Your journal is kept in the app's own storage on your device:

• trips you enter (country, dates, an optional city) and your decisions about days;
• automatic recordings, if you turn them on: the time, the country, and the reading itself — coordinates and their accuracy — kept so a day can be checked later;
• trips found in your photos: for each photo, its capture date and the place recorded in it (coordinates), plus the country worked out from them. The photos themselves are not copied or stored;
• the start date of the free trial, also kept in the iPhone Keychain so that reinstalling the app does not restart it.

Countries are worked out on the device from a built-in map of borders. Nothing is looked up online.

Location

Countrail asks for location access only when you choose to turn on automatic recording. With “Always” access, iOS wakes the app after a significant move or when you arrive at or leave a place; the app then records which country you are in. There is no continuous GPS tracking. Location readings never leave your iPhone. You can pause or turn off recording in the app at any time, or withdraw access in iOS Settings — manual trips keep working without it.

Photos

If you choose to find trips in Photos, the app reads the date and place of your photos on the device to suggest trips. You can give access to all photos or only selected ones. Images are shown only on your device and are never sent anywhere. Only the trips you confirm are added to your journal.

What leaves your iPhone

• Only what you send yourself. If you save a backup or export a report or CSV, the file goes only where you send it with the iOS share sheet. A backup contains your whole journal, including the coordinates of recorded readings and photo places, so keep it somewhere you trust.
• The App Store. To show prices, and when you subscribe, buy or restore Countrail Pro, iOS talks to the App Store on your behalf. Countrail never sees your name, email address or payment details — only Apple's answer about the purchase. This is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes the journal from your iPhone. The trial start date may remain in the Keychain so that the free trial is not repeated; it contains no other information. Backups you saved elsewhere are under your control.

Children

Countrail is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: almazic91@gmail.com

Developer: Almaz Nurmukhametov.