An app with no account has very little to know about you.

1. Who we are

Election Tracker is made by Chinese Powered ("we"). You can reach us at [email protected]. This policy explains what data the app handles, which third parties are involved, and the choices you have.

2. What the app stores on your device

Everything the app remembers lives in the app's own storage on your phone and is deleted when you uninstall it:

• Cached data — the most recent polls, approval figures and market prices, so the app opens with numbers when you are offline.
• Polls already listed — the identifiers of the polls in each list when you last left it, so the next visit can mark the ones that arrived since.
• Preferences — your theme choice, whether election reminders are on, the races you have pinned, the order you chose for race lists, and which notices you have closed (the election card, a hint, a suggestion).
• Timing — how many times the app has been opened, how many full-screen ads it has shown, and when it last asked for a store rating or mentioned Remove Ads. Used only to pace what the app itself shows: no full-screen ad in your first session, and a rating request, a mention of Remove Ads or (where offered) of the tip jar only now and then.
• Purchase state — whether the Remove Ads unlock is active, so ads stay off without waiting for the network.

None of this is transmitted to us. There is no analytics SDK of our own in the app.

3. Data sources the app reads from

To show you numbers, the app requests public data directly from third-party services. Those services see the same thing any website visitor's browser sends — your IP address and a generic device description — and nothing more from us:

Links to pollster releases, Polymarket pages, vote.gov and election-results pages open in an in-app browser; from that point the site you are visiting applies its own policy.

4. Advertising

Election Tracker is free and supported by advertising served through Google AdMob: a banner at the bottom of each screen and, occasionally, a full-screen ad when you return to the app. Google may collect and use data to serve and measure those ads — including your device's advertising identifier, approximate location derived from your IP address, and information about how the ad performed. Google's practices are described at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Your controls

• iOS — App Tracking Transparency. The app asks before it uses your advertising identifier. If you decline, or if tracking is off in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking, ads are requested without it (non-personalised).
• EEA, UK and Switzerland — consent. Where the law requires it, Google's consent form appears before any ad is requested. You can change your choice at any time from Settings › Ad privacy options in the app.
• Android. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device's Google settings.
• Remove Ads. The one-time purchase in Settings removes every ad; the app then makes no advertising requests at all.

Ad content is limited to Google's "general audiences" rating. No content in the app is gated behind watching an ad.

5. The Remove Ads purchase, and tips

Remove Ads is a single, non-consumable in-app purchase. Where it is offered, the app also has an optional tip jar: one-off tips that unlock nothing. Payment for either is taken by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play) under their own terms and privacy policies; we never receive your payment details or store account.

To check that a purchase is valid and to restore it on your other devices, the app uses RevenueCat as our service provider. RevenueCat receives the purchase receipt from the store, an anonymous identifier generated on your device, and basic device information (platform, app version, locale). It does not receive your name or e-mail, and we do not link the anonymous identifier to anything else. RevenueCat's policy: revenuecat.com/privacy.

Remove Ads can be restored from Settings or from the purchase sheet with Restore purchases; a tip is a one-off and has nothing to restore. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies.

6. Notifications

Election reminders are optional and off by default. When you turn them on, the app schedules a handful of local notifications on your device (30 days, a week and a day before election day, on the morning of, and in the evening as polls close). There is no push server; nothing about your choice leaves your phone.

7. Children

Election Tracker is a news and reference app about US politics and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

8. Your rights

Because we hold no account or profile for you, there is nothing for us to export or correct. Uninstalling the app deletes everything it stored on your device. Requests about advertising data go to Google, and about purchase records to Apple, Google or RevenueCat, under the links above. If you are in the EEA, UK or California and believe we hold personal data about you, write to us and we will respond within 30 days.

9. Changes

When this policy changes we update the date at the top of this page and, for material changes, mention it in the app's release notes. Continued use after a change means you accept it.

10. Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected].