Alpen Pass

Privacy policy

Effective 6 November 2026

Alpen Pass: Citizenship Test is an Android app made by Marko Zanoski that helps you study for the Austrian citizenship test. This policy explains what the app does with your data. In short: it collects nothing, and nothing leaves your phone.

Five promises

  • No accounts and no sign in.
  • No ads and no advertising identifiers.
  • No analytics, crash reporting or tracking libraries.
  • No AI service: every question and text is written once and ships inside the app.
  • No selling or sharing of data, because we do not collect any.

What stays on your phone

Alpen Pass keeps a few things in its own private storage on the phone, so it can pick up where you left off:

  • Your progress. For each question you answered, how often you got it right in a row and when it should come back; which free questions you have done; and the result of your last mock exam.
  • Your settings. Your federal state, the app language, the language of the line under the questions, your test date if you set one, the exam clock, the look and the text size.
  • A note that Pro is unlocked, if you bought it.

None of this leaves your phone. Alpen Pass is left out of Android's cloud backup and out of the copy to a new phone on purpose, so your progress is stored only on this phone.

What leaves your phone

Nothing is sent by the app. It has no internet permission, so Android itself stops it from going online. The questions, study chapters, the guide to the procedure and the word list are all inside the app.

Links open in your browser: the official sources and their PDFs, the user guide, the report page and this policy. The app hands the address to your browser and sends nothing with it; from there, the browser and the site you open have their own privacy policies.

Permissions

Here is every permission Alpen Pass has, and why.

Google Play billingLets Google Play take the one time payment for Pro. Billing talks to the Google Play app on your phone.
Internet, location, contacts, camera and microphone: denied by designAlpen Pass never asks for them, so Android keeps them out of its reach. It has no storage or notifications permission either. The network permissions the billing library would add are taken out of the app.

Payments

Alpen Pass is free to install. The optional Pro inside it is bought through Google Play. Google handles the payment under its own privacy policy. The app keeps only a note on the phone that Pro is unlocked, and asks Google Play again when it starts, so a refund takes Pro away. We receive no card details and no personal data from that purchase beyond what Google Play shows every developer in aggregate sales reports.

This website

This site uses no cookies, no analytics and no outside fonts or scripts. It is hosted on Vercel, which keeps short server logs to run and protect the service. The user guide and the report forms are on GitHub, under GitHub's privacy policy; reports you file there are public.

Children

The citizenship test is sat from age 14, so teenagers use Alpen Pass. It is not directed at children under 13, and it collects no personal data from anyone, of any age.

Deleting your data

Everything Alpen Pass keeps is on your phone. Erase progress in Settings starts every question over. Clearing the app's storage in Android settings, or uninstalling the app, removes everything. There is nothing on our side to delete.

Not a government service

Alpen Pass does not represent any government entity. It has no link to the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), to any state government, to MA 35 or to the ÖIF, and it does not register you for the test. Every question in the app is our own wording, written from the official sources below, and shows its source under it.

Official sources

Law

Official study booklets

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@zanoski.com (write an email)