Application: Equal Earth (trueworldmap.com)
Effective Date: September 6, 2026 | Version: 2.4.0
🚫 No Account or Login Required
You can use all features anonymously without creating an account or providing an email.
🔒 No GPS / Location Tracking
We do not access or request device geolocation or GPS sensors.
💾 100% On-Device Preferences
Custom comparisons and unit toggles remain safely inside your device’s browser cache.
1. Overview & Educational Purpose
True World Map (also distributed as “The True Size of Countries”) is an educational, interactive geographic application designed to demonstrate the effects of the Mercator map projection and allow users to explore the true physical scale of sovereign nations, continents, and islands.
We believe that educational software should protect user privacy by default. We do not collect, monetize, sell, or profile your personal data.
2. Data We Do NOT Collect
We do not collect any personally identifiable information (PII). Specifically:
- No Names, Emails, or Phone Numbers: The application does not contain registration, login, or user profiles.
- No Real-Time Geolocation: We never request access to your device’s GPS, coarse location, or fine location permissions.
- No Financial or Payment Data: The application is 100% free to use and does not process payments or credit cards.
- No Camera, Audio, or Microphone Access: We do not request or utilize camera or microphone permissions.
- No Contact Lists or Social Graph: We never access your device contacts, address book, or calendar.
3. Local Device Storage (LocalStorage)
The application uses your browser’s local client-side storage (localStorage) strictly to save your preferred interface settings across sessions:
- Your preferred measurement unit (square kilometers vs. square miles).
- Your selected base map visual style (e.g., Voyager, Light, Dark, Satellite).
- Active country comparisons you have pinned to the workspace.
This data remains solely on your device and is never transmitted to any external server. You can clear this data at any time by clearing your browser cache or resetting the map.
4. Third-Party Services & Network Requests
To render map imagery and geographic vector boundaries, the application connects to the following standard content delivery networks:
- CartoDB / OpenStreetMap: Public base map tile servers used to display land and ocean tiles. Standard anonymous HTTP requests are made to fetch tile images.
- Public GeoJSON: Boundary polygons are fetched from static GeoJSON files hosted on our secure CDN.
- Google Fonts: Open-source web fonts loaded via CDN for high-legibility typographic rendering.
5. Device Permissions
When installed from the Google Play Store or accessed on the web, the application operates with minimum required privileges:
- Network Access (Internet): Required to download map visual tiles and country geographic boundary coordinates.
- Storage / Media (Export Feature): When you explicitly click “Export Image” or “Download GeoJSON”, the application generates the file locally on your device and triggers a standard system download dialog. The app does not read your existing files or photos.
6. Children’s Privacy (COPPA & GDPR-K)
Our application is intended for students, educators, geographers, and general audiences of all ages. We comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We do not knowingly solicit or collect any personal information from children under the age of 13.
7. Data Retention & Deletion
Because we do not collect or store personal data on any server, there is no remote user data to retain or delete. If you wish to delete all locally stored map preferences, you may do so instantly by clearing your browser cookies and site data for this domain, or by uninstalling the application from your device.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect improvements in our application or changes to legal and Google Play Store developer requirements. Any revisions will be published on this page with an updated “Effective Date”.
9. Developer Contact Information
If you have questions, feedback, or inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy or our cartographic applications, please contact us:
True World Map Cartography Team
Email: gemnicreatives@gmail.com
Website: https://webmaster.com.ng
Google Play Developer Console Support