Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 9, 2026
Who we are: Civicue is made by Abdirahman Hassan (an individual developer; this is the App Store seller name) ("we", "us").
Contact: vetfile.support@gmail.com · https://civicue-747.pages.dev/support · Minnesota, United States

Not affiliated with USCIS or any government agency. Civicue is an independent app and is not endorsed by or connected to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The civics questions and answers come from USCIS's public study materials.

The short version

Civicue has no account and no servers. We never ask for your name, email, phone number, A-number, or any immigration details to use the app.
Your study progress, your state and representative, your test version, and your interview date are stored only on your device. We can't see them, and we don't have a copy.
Purchases go through Apple. Our subscription provider, RevenueCat, receives purchase information so Pro works. It doesn't receive your study data.
Civicue may send anonymous usage analytics (via PostHog) and crash diagnostics (via Sentry). These do not include your name, email, state, representative, interview date, or your answers. No ads. No tracking across other companies' apps or websites.
We don't sell or share personal information. No location. No microphone.

1. What stays on your device (we don't collect it)

When you use Civicue, the information you enter is saved in a database inside the app on your iPhone. This includes:

Your test setup: when you filed (before or on/after October 20, 2025), which test version you study (2025 or 2008), and whether you use the 65/20 list.
Your location answers: the state or territory you pick and, optionally, your U.S. Representative. These are used only to show the right answers for questions such as "Who is one of your state's U.S. Senators now?"
Your schedule: an optional interview date and reminder time, used to build your study plan.
Your progress: which questions you marked right or wrong, review dates, mock interview results, and your study streak.

This data isn't sent to us or to anyone else. Under Apple's App Privacy definitions, data that stays on your device and isn't sent off it is not "collected" (Apple: App privacy details).

iCloud Backup. Because the data is in the app's storage on your device, it's included in your device's iCloud Backup if you've turned that on in iOS Settings (Apple: Back up iPhone with iCloud). Apple handles that backup under Apple's Privacy Policy. We can't access it. Civicue doesn't sync to iCloud or between devices.

2. Permissions Civicue asks for

All of these are optional, and you can change them anytime in iOS Settings.

Notifications: a daily study reminder at the time you choose. Reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device. They don't go through a server, and they work offline.

Read aloud uses the voices built into iOS on your device. Civicue doesn't use the microphone or speech recognition, and doesn't record your voice. It doesn't use your location (you pick your state from a list), contacts, camera, photo library, or health data.

3. Official answers that change

Some answers change when officials change (for example the President, your Senators, your Representative, or your Governor). These answers are built into the app with the date we last checked them, and are updated with app updates. The app doesn't download them from a server, and it doesn't send your state or representative anywhere to look them up.

4. What is sent off your device

4a. Purchases (Apple and RevenueCat)

If you buy or restore Civicue Pro, Apple processes the payment. We never see your card or payment details. Apple's handling is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.

We use RevenueCat, Inc. to check your purchase and unlock Pro. To do that, the RevenueCat software in the app sends RevenueCat your purchase history with an anonymous ID that the app creates. It isn't linked to your name or email. RevenueCat also receives basic technical details such as country/locale, currency, app version, and device type (see RevenueCat's documentation for the current field list). RevenueCat's own documentation says it doesn't collect payment information, health data, contacts, or precise location (RevenueCat: Apple App Privacy). We use this data to provide Pro features and restore purchases, and to see totals of purchases and renewals.

In Apple's App Privacy terms, we declare this as Purchase History, not linked to you, and not used for tracking. See RevenueCat's Privacy Policy.

4b. Analytics (PostHog)

We use PostHog (PostHog Inc.) to understand how Civicue is used at a high level — for example whether onboarding finished, whether a first mock interview was completed, when the paywall appears, and whether a purchase completed.

What we send:

An anonymous device/install ID created by the PostHog SDK (not your name or email; we never identify you with personal data).
Event names such as onboarding_completed, first_mock_completed, paywall_shown, and purchase_completed, plus limited properties (for example paywall source, product id, plan type, price, and currency for purchases).
A fixed app tag (app = civicue) so our shared analytics project can separate Civicue from other apps.

What we do not send:

Names, emails, phone numbers, A-numbers, or any immigration case details.
Your state, representative, interview date, filing date, or your right/wrong answers.
Ads identifiers for cross-app tracking. We do not use this for advertising.

IP addresses are anonymized in our PostHog project settings. Session replay is off. Analytics is off entirely if the PostHog key is not configured in a build.

See PostHog's Privacy Policy.

4c. Crash and performance reports (Sentry)

We use Sentry (Functional Software, Inc. d/b/a Sentry) to learn when the app crashes or runs slowly so we can fix bugs. Reports may include stack traces, timing data, device/OS/app version, and similar technical diagnostics. We configure Sentry with no default PII, no user identity, and no session replay, and we strip state, representative, date, and answer fields from breadcrumbs and extras when present.

Crash reporting is off if the Sentry DSN is not configured, and it stays off in developer builds unless explicitly forced for testing. If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in iOS Settings, Apple may also share anonymous crash reports with us.

See Sentry's Privacy Policy.

4d. When you email us

If you contact support, we receive your email address and whatever you write (the Contact support button pre-fills the app version, iOS version, iPhone model, and whether you have Pro; it includes no study data). We use it only to answer you and delete it 12 months after the conversation ends. Please don't send us your A-number, case receipt number, or immigration documents. We don't need them, and we can't help with your case. Our support inbox is a Gmail account, so Google stores and processes these emails under the Google Privacy Policy.

4e. Our App Store privacy label, in full

Purchases > Purchase History (RevenueCat): app functionality and analytics. Not linked to you. Not used for tracking.
Usage Data > Product Interaction (PostHog): analytics. Not linked to you. Not used for tracking.
Identifiers > Device ID (PostHog's anonymous SDK ID; not the advertising identifier / IDFA): analytics. Not linked to you. Not used for tracking.
Diagnostics > Crash Data and Performance Data (Sentry): app functionality. Not linked to you. Not used for tracking.
Not collected: your state, representative, interview date, filing date, study progress, and mock results. They stay on your device.

5. What we don't do

No accounts, sign-in, or social login.
No advertising and no ad SDKs. No tracking as Apple defines it, so Civicue doesn't show the "Allow tracking" prompt.
We don't sell or "share" (for cross-context behavioral advertising) personal information.
No location, microphone, or speech recognition.
No connection to USCIS or any government system. We never see or submit anything about your application.

6. Keeping and deleting your data

Data on your device: you control it. Use Settings > Reset progress in the app, or delete the app to remove everything. Copies may remain in your iCloud or computer device backups until you delete those.
We have no copy, so we can't recover your progress if you delete the app without a device backup.
Purchase data at RevenueCat: tied to an anonymous ID, not your name. To ask us to delete it, email vetfile.support@gmail.com and include your Apple order ID from your App Store receipt so we can find the record. Apple keeps its own purchase records; ask Apple about those.

7. Children

Civicue is a general-audience study app for adults preparing for the U.S. naturalization test. It isn't directed to children under 13 and isn't in the App Store Kids category. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information (for example by email), contact us and we'll delete it.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example the EU/UK, or US states such as California), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port personal information, or to object to its use. Because we don't hold your records, most of these are handled directly in the app. For the limited purchase data described in section 4, email vetfile.support@gmail.com and we'll respond within 30 days. We process purchase data to provide the app (our contract with you via Apple). The data controller is Abdirahman Hassan, Minnesota, United States. RevenueCat, PostHog and Sentry are based in the United States; data may be processed outside your country. You may have the right to complain to a data protection regulator where you live.

9. Security

Your records are protected by your device's security (passcode, Face ID/Touch ID, and iOS data protection). Data sent to RevenueCat, PostHog, and Sentry is sent over encrypted HTTPS connections. No method is perfect, so keep your device locked and backed up.

10. Changes

If we change how Civicue handles data, for example by adding sync or a new service, we'll update this policy and the "Effective date" above before the change ships, and update the App Store privacy label. For material changes, we'll also note them in the app when practical.

11. Contact

Abdirahman Hassan · vetfile.support@gmail.com · https://civicue-747.pages.dev/support · Terms of Use · Minnesota, United States