Survive Privacy Policy

Updated: November 8, 2026

Survive helps you prepare a household plan and use offline information. The core app needs no account. We do not show ad banners or build advertising profiles, and we do not sell personal data. The only ads are the marked Amazon partner links described below.

Information stored on your device

Household details, confirmed inventory, expiry dates, family plans, selected contacts, saved places, checklist progress, bookmarks, game progress and preferences are stored locally. The optional crisis game is a separate fictional simulation and does not read your household inventory or contacts. The optional AI processes chat on the device. Your personal plan is not sent to our analytics service.

You decide whether to print, export or share information. Family PDFs include the contacts saved in Survive. Backup files contain personal information; store and share them accordingly. Printing and sharing create temporary local PDF/JSON copies in the app cache. Copies older than 24 hours are removed during the next export; the operating system may clear its cache earlier. Survive does not upload these copies itself. Operating-system backups may also copy app data according to your device settings. Uninstalling or clearing app data removes local app information but does not remove copies you previously exported or backed up.

Optional device permissions

Permissions are requested when you use a relevant feature. The household planner does not require these permissions.

• Location: coordinates, compass, waypoints and map tools.
• Contacts: selecting people for your local family and friends list. We do not upload your address book.
• Camera: access to the camera flash for light signals; this feature does not take photos or videos.
• Microphone: receiving nearby sound messages. The app does not record microphone audio for upload.
• Notifications: optional reminders scheduled on your device.

Purchases and external services

Google Play or the Apple App Store and RevenueCat process product identifiers, purchase information and app user identifiers to sell, verify, restore and manage Pro access. Store payment and retention policies apply. These billing services operate independently of optional analytics consent.

Online maps use OpenFreeMap; the optional AI model is downloaded from Hugging Face. OpenFreeMap describes anonymized server logs and possible temporary IP logging for security investigations. Hugging Face describes its handling of download and connection information. Downloading maps or the optional AI model contacts these providers. They receive requests for resources and connection metadata such as IP addresses. Requests for map tiles also identify the map area you view or download. Opening a source link or sharing through another app uses that service's policies. Initial downloads, purchase validation and online resources require a connection. Personal plans and bundled guides remain available locally.

Shopping lists and the emergency bag contain links marked "View on Amazon". They are ads: as an Amazon Associate the developer earns from qualifying purchases. Nothing is sent until you tap one. A tap opens Amazon with the product search term and Survive's partner tag, never your household details, and Amazon then processes your visit under its own privacy policy. "Buy on Amazon" and the cart button open Amazon with the chosen products, one of each, and the same partner tag, so Amazon sees which products those are, never how many people live with you or your other household details.

Shelter map and live warnings

The shelter map uses your location on your device to find the nearest places. To get place data it downloads the region around you, about 500 km across, from the developer's server in Germany. The request names that region, not your position. The server receives your IP address as connection metadata in order to answer and does not keep a log of these requests. Saved regions stay on your device.

If that server cannot be reached and your device has no data for your area, the map asks a public OpenStreetMap service (overpass-api.de or overpass.kumi.systems) for places in a grid cell about 20 km across that contains you.

Live warnings are loaded while the map is open. Earthquakes from the US Geological Survey and disasters from GDACS, and in Germany the official NINA warnings, are downloaded as whole-world or whole-country lists and filtered on your device, so these services do not receive your position. In the United States, your position rounded to about 10 km is sent to the US National Weather Service for severe weather warnings, and the same rounded position is used to ask FEMA for open shelters within about 100 km. All of these services receive connection metadata such as your IP address. Warnings and open-shelter results are not stored.

Tapping Route opens your maps app with the destination. Place data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database License), the Polish State Fire Service (CC BY 4.0) and the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency.

Optional usage analytics

Usage analytics is off by default and unavailable in builds without an analytics configuration. If you explicitly enable it in Settings, selected event names and timestamps are sent with a random installation identifier to PostHog's EU endpoint. Events cover app sessions, first recorded plan completion, plan updates and reviews, paywall viewing, and purchase start, completion, cancellation, pending approval or failure.

No household details, inventory, contacts, locations, notes, free text, chats or emergency interactions are attached. We do not enable automatic event capture, screen recording, session replay, advertising profiles or location enrichment. This is pseudonymous data, not anonymous data. Network providers can process IP addresses as connection metadata.

When offline, up to 50 pending events are kept locally for up to seven days. Turning analytics off stops collection, aborts an in-flight request where possible, and removes the queue and local identifier. This does not remove events already received. For access or deletion requests concerning information processed by the developer, contact the address below. Analytics is not enabled in this release. Before offering it, we will publish the applicable server retention period and deletion procedure here.

Feedback you send

The app has a feedback screen. Nothing is sent until you tap Send. A message contains the text you write, its type (something missing, something wrong or an idea), the app version and build, the phone operating system and version, the app language and the screen you opened it from. It contains no installation identifier, device name, account, contacts, location or household data. Please do not write personal information into the message.

Feedback is stored on the developer's server in Germany, operated for the developer, for up to 24 months, and is used only to fix problems and decide what to add to Survive. It is not shared with third parties or used for advertising. Your IP address is processed briefly to limit abuse and is not stored with the message. Because no identifier is attached, a message can only be found again by its content; to have it deleted, contact the address below and quote the text and the day you sent it.

Website statistics

The Survive website at swissmade.xyz/survive counts visits with Umami, which runs on the developer's server in Germany. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. For each page view it records the page, the referring website, campaign parameters in the link, browser, operating system, device type, screen size, language and the country, region and city derived from your IP address, plus clicks on the store buttons and use of the water calculator. Your IP address is not stored. Visits are grouped by a hash that changes every month, so you are not recognised in a later month. The statistics are used only to see which pages and links people use, are not shared with third parties and are not used for advertising. The app itself does not use this service.

Your choices

You can change optional analytics in Settings without losing core functions or Pro access. Edit local records in the app, export a backup, or clear app data through your operating system. Purchase providers may retain transaction records under their policies and legal obligations.

Survive is a general-audience app and is not designed specifically for children. Household planning may include information you choose to record about children or other people; it remains part of your local plan.

Contact

For privacy, deletion or support requests: app@swissmade.xyz.