Privacy Policy
Name the Countries · last updated 2 November 2026
Name the Countries is a game where you name the countries of the world out loud. It has no accounts, no ads and no tracking from other companies. This page explains the little it does collect, and why.
Your voice
When you tap Listen, the game uses the microphone to turn what you say into text, so it can recognise country names. In the iPhone app this uses Apple's built-in speech recognition, which may send audio to Apple to be transcribed (see Apple's privacy policy). On the website it uses your browser's speech recognition. Name the Countries never records, stores or sends your voice or what you said to its own servers.
What stays on your device
- The countries you've named, your times, best scores, daily challenge results and streak.
- Your settings, and the name you type for your results link (if any).
- Friends' results from results links you open, for the friends leaderboard (kept for 30 days).
- Your recent duels and how they went.
Deleting the app, or clearing the website's data in your browser, deletes all of this.
What is sent to our server
- A random ID. Your device gets a random code (not linked to your name, email, Apple ID or advertising ID) so each player is counted once.
- Daily challenge scores. Your score and time for each day's challenge, so everyone can see how they compare. Shown only as anonymous totals.
- Duels. When you finish a duel, the name you typed, the countries' order and your time on each one, so friends with the link can play the same duel and compare. Everyone who opens the link sees the names and scores of the people who played it. For the Daily Duel, your score and time also go into that day's results, which are shown only as anonymous totals.
- Usage events. When the game is opened, a game, daily challenge or duel is started or finished, a result is shared, a results or duel link is opened, or Listen is tapped (and whether the microphone hit a problem, such as no microphone found), together with whether it was the app or the website and the country you're in. The country comes from your internet address at the moment of the request; the address itself isn't stored.
- Microphone diagnostics (iPhone app). Technical events such as "microphone started", "app went to the background" and error codes, to fix problems with listening. Never anything you said.
This is used only to run and improve the game: the daily challenge comparison, duels, and simple counts of how many people play and when. It's never sold, shared with advertisers, or used to track you across other apps or websites.
Turning it off: switch off Share anonymous usage stats in the game's Settings and the game stops sending usage events and microphone diagnostics. The daily challenge comparison and duels still work, because your score is needed for them.
Backups
If you tap "Back up my progress", the game saves what it keeps on your device (the countries you've named, times, achievements, streaks, daily results and settings) on our server under a backup code. It then updates that backup as you play. Anyone with the code can restore it, so keep it private. It isn't linked to your name or Apple ID. To have a backup deleted, email us the code.
Results links
When you share a daily result, the link contains which countries you got and, if you typed one, your name. Only people you send the link to can see it.
Notifications
If you turn on the daily reminder, your iPhone schedules it itself. No notification service or server is involved, and you can switch it off any time in the game's settings or in iPhone Settings.
Where it's stored, and for how long
The website and its small database are hosted by Netlify in the United States.
- Usage events: deleted automatically after 13 months.
- Microphone diagnostics: deleted automatically after 90 days.
- Duels: deleted automatically after 30 days, with everyone's results on them.
- Daily challenge and Daily Duel scores: kept so past days' comparisons keep working; they are only a score and time under a random ID.
- Backups: kept until you ask us to delete them.
Why we're allowed to use it (for people in the EU and UK)
We rely on legitimate interests: running the game you asked to play (the daily comparison, backups) and understanding, in anonymous totals, how it's used so we can improve it. You can object at any time with the switch above or by emailing us. You can also ask to see or delete data tied to your random ID or backup code, and you can complain to your local data protection authority.
Children
The game is suitable for all ages. It doesn't ask for names, emails or anything that identifies a person, has no ads, and uses its random ID only to run and improve the game. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children; if you think we have, email us and we'll delete it.
California and other US states
We don't sell or share personal information, and don't use it for targeted advertising.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.
Questions or deletion requests
Email support@seismic-eye.com. Because nothing is linked to your identity, deleting the app removes your device's ID; if you'd like scores tied to it removed from the server too, tell us and we'll help.