Last updated 2 September 2026
Civia is built so there is almost nothing to collect. There is no account, no sign-up, no sign-in, and no email address. You never tell us who you are.
Your study progress, which questions you have answered, your streak, and everything you entered during setup — your first name if you gave one, your filing date, your birth year, the year you got your green card, your interview date, your ZIP code, the language you chose, and how long you want to study each day. All of it is stored on your device.
To keep your study plan working across app updates, a copy of those setup answers and your session results is stored on our server, labelled only with a random identifier your device generates. That identifier is not linked to your name, your email, your phone number, or your Apple or Google account. We cannot work out who you are from it, and neither can anyone else.
We do not receive your street address. The ZIP code is used to look up your senators, representative, governor, and state capital, which are four of the civics answers that depend on where you live.
Spoken practice uses your device's own speech recognition to turn what you say into text so it can be checked against the accepted answers. Audio is not recorded, not stored, and not sent to us. On iOS, speech recognition may be processed by Apple under Apple's privacy policy; on Android, by Google under theirs.
Purchases are handled by Apple and Google. We use RevenueCat to tell whether a subscription is active. We never see your card details.
We do not sell or share your data. There is no advertising and no ad tracking in Civia. We do not build a profile of you for marketing.
Civia is for adults preparing for naturalization and is not directed at children under 13.
Deleting the app removes everything stored on your device. To have the server-side copy deleted, email support@civia.app — you do not need an account to ask, and we will confirm when it is done.
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of this page.