Privacy Policy

1. Overview

SurvivalOps is an offline reference tool. It carries a library of documents and a language model on your own phone, and it answers your questions there.

The short version: your questions never leave your device, and we never see them. There is no account, no sign-in, and nothing to log in to. The rest of this page explains the narrow places where the app or this website does handle information, so that the sentence above can be read as a description rather than a slogan.

2. Your questions and answers

When you ask the app something, the question, the documents it searches and the answer it writes are all handled on your phone. The app does not need a network connection to answer, and it does not send your question anywhere.

This is a property of how the app is built rather than a promise about our conduct: there is no outbound network call anywhere in the part of the app that reads a question, searches the library or produces an answer.

3. Downloading the library

The app does contact a server for one purpose: to download the document packs and the model you choose to install. Making that request necessarily tells our server which pack you asked for and the network address you asked from, in the same way any download does.

It does not tell us anything about what you later ask, because those questions are never sent.

4. The local network check

If your phone is on the same network as a library server, the app looks for one there before using the internet, because a local copy is faster.

That check is unauthenticated. It asks only whether a library server is present and sends no credential of yours until a server has identified itself as ours. A device on your network that is not our software receives nothing.

5. Permissions

The app asks for storage in order to hold the library you download, and for permission to keep working while the screen is off so that a large download is not killed halfway through.

It does not ask for your contacts, your location or your microphone. If a future version needs a permission it does not have today, it will say what for at the moment it asks.

6. This website

If you join the waitlist we store the email address you give us, the device you tell us you carry, anything you type in the message box, and the network address and browser identifier your request arrives with. The last two are kept so that real sign-ups can be told apart from automated ones.

We use Cloudflare to serve this site and Cloudflare Turnstile to keep bots off the form, and Cloudflare handles your network address as part of doing that.

We run no analytics on this site. There are no advertising cookies and no tracking cookies.

7. How we use your address

We use the email address you give us to tell you when SurvivalOps is available, and for nothing else. We do not sell it, we do not rent it, and we do not pass it to anyone else.

It is not a newsletter. If you would rather not be on the list, ask and we will remove you.

8. Retention and deletion

Waitlist entries are kept until the app is released and the list has been written to, and are deleted after that.

Ask us to remove your details before then and we will, without asking why. There is nothing to delete on the app side, because nothing about your use of the app ever reaches us.

9. Children

SurvivalOps is not aimed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. Since the app collects nothing at all, the only place a child's details could reach us is the waitlist form, and we will delete any such entry on request.

10. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a revised date at the top. A change that alters what we collect will be called out rather than folded in quietly.

11. Contact

SurvivalOps is built by Defcon One. For any question about this page, including a request to remove your details from the waitlist, use the message box on the waitlist page and say what you want. It reaches us whether or not you are on the list.