Around a World is developed by XYK Labs. Neither Around a World nor XYK Labs collects or receives personal data through the app. The app builds and stores your travel passport on your device. It has no account, advertising, analytics, or developer-operated server.
Photo access
If you grant Photos access, Around a World reads the capture date, library-added date, and location metadata attached to the photos you selected. The library-added date lets the app discover an older trip you import later. It does not request image pixels.
Exact coordinates are reduced to an approximate one-kilometer area before they can be stored. Photo identifiers are protected with a one-way hash and a random secret kept in the device’s Keychain.
Information stored on your device
Around a World stores inferred country visits, supported state or province codes, approximate places, scan progress, review decisions, and settings in its private on-device database. This information is not sent to XYK Labs, sold, used for advertising, or shared with data brokers.
Apple services
Around a World may ask Apple’s mapping service to translate an approximate location into a country. Apple may return additional address fields, but the app discards them before building or caching the passport. State and province matching is performed on-device.
XYK Labs does not receive your photo metadata.
Your choices
You can limit or revoke Photos access in iOS Settings, use the app with manual entries only, and erase the passport data Around a World keeps from the app’s Settings screen. Erasing does not change or delete anything in your Photos library.
Children’s privacy
Around a World does not collect personal data from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version and effective date will be published on this page.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to hi@xyklabs.com.