Effective October 18, 2026

Amerie is a U.S. citizenship-preparation application. This policy explains how information is handled when you use the Amerie iPhone app, visit amerie.org, or contact support.

The essential point: Amerie does not require accounts. Your citizenship-preparation progress is stored on your iPhone rather than in an Amerie database.

1. What Amerie Does

Amerie offers educational eligibility guidance, a citizenship preparation path and timeline, civics study, English reading and writing practice, speaking practice, Full Mock Interviews, and related progress tools.

Amerie is not affiliated with USCIS or any other government agency and does not provide legal advice, legal representation, official eligibility decisions, or predictions of immigration outcomes.

2. No Account or Email Required

You can use Amerie without creating an account, signing in, providing an email address, or identifying yourself to Amerie for the preparation experience. Amerie does not offer account creation or sign-in in this version.

The app uses a random identifier stored locally in the iOS Keychain to associate preparation records with this device. It is not an online Amerie account.

3. What Stays on Your Device

Depending on the features you use, Amerie may save your eligibility and preparation responses, state and congressional-district selections, timeline and checklist information, civics bookmarks and study history, practice scores, Full Mock results, and language or study settings on your iPhone.

Amerie does not maintain a backend database copy of these individual preparation records and does not currently provide cloud synchronization or cross-device recovery for this progress.

4. Microphone, Speech Recognition, and Interview Answers

For current Speaking Practice and Full Mock interview questions, Amerie uses Apple speech recognition on your device and grades responses locally. Amerie does not transmit microphone audio or interview-response transcripts to Amerie servers or third-party AI services for these current speaking features.

If on-device speech recognition is unavailable, Amerie does not automatically switch to cloud speech recognition. You control microphone and speech-recognition permissions in iOS Settings.

Transcripts are used during the practice session to evaluate responses. Saved Full Mock history contains results and scores rather than the spoken answer transcripts. Amerie cannot verify whether personal facts spoken during practice are true; scores are educational feedback only.

5. Public Civics Information and Internet Connections

Amerie may retrieve updated, publicly available civics information from a public data file hosted through GitHub Pages. Those requests are for public reference information, not for uploading your individual citizenship-preparation history.

Like other Internet requests, a public-data request may reveal ordinary connection information, such as an IP address, to the receiving service or its network providers. Opening external resource links also takes you to sites governed by their own privacy practices.

6. Security of Local Information

Amerie uses local-first storage and device security controls intended to protect sensitive preparation records. Sensitive local files use AES-256-GCM authenticated encryption; keys and selected secure values are stored in the iOS Keychain. Selected Keychain entries are configured to stay on the device and not synchronize through iCloud Keychain.

Sensitive file-based stores use iOS file protection and are excluded from device backups. These safeguards reduce risk but cannot guarantee absolute protection, especially if a device is unlocked, stolen, compromised, or shared with others.

7. Deleting Data and Losing Progress

You can go to Profile → Your Data → Delete Preparation Data to remove locally stored preparation records and associated secure values. This is a permanent action.

Because there is no Amerie account or preparation-data cloud backup, progress may be lost if you delete the app, reset or lose your phone, or move to a different device. No online account recovery is available.

8. Website and Support

The Amerie website is hosted using Google Sites; the amerie.org domain is managed through Cloudflare. Google, Cloudflare, and underlying network services may process routine visitor information such as IP addresses, request times, browser/device information, and security or delivery logs under their own policies.

The Amerie support page provides contact information rather than collecting messages through a web form. If you email Amerie, the message, sender address, and any information you choose to include can be used to respond and maintain the support correspondence. Please do not send passwords, identity numbers, or unnecessary immigration-case details by email.

Amerie does not use third-party advertising or behavioral analytics in the app. Apple and other service providers may separately retain technical, delivery, error, security, or diagnostic information under their own practices.

9. What Happens If We Receive a Subpoena or Legal Request

Amerie may be required to respond to valid legal process for information it actually possesses or controls. Because individual preparation records are stored locally on the device rather than maintained in an Amerie backend database, Amerie generally does not have a server copy of that information to produce.

This does not make any device or information “subpoena-proof.” A user’s device may be accessed under applicable law, and website, email, Apple, or other service providers may hold their own technical records and receive legal requests.

10. Retention and Sharing

Local preparation records generally remain on your device until you delete them, reset preparation data, uninstall the app, or iOS removes the data. Amerie does not sell your preparation records and does not share them with advertisers.

Correspondence sent to Amerie is retained as needed for support, legitimate recordkeeping, and applicable obligations; provider-managed website/network records are subject to the provider’s retention practices. Amerie does not promise a fixed deletion period for records controlled by third-party platforms.

11. Children and Supervised Programs

Amerie is intended for people preparing for naturalization; it is not specifically directed to children. If a school, nonprofit, or community program uses Amerie, that organization may set its own participation, supervision, and device-handling rules. Amerie does not provide organizations a backend dashboard of learners’ device-local preparation histories.

12. Changes to This Policy

We will update this policy before making material changes to how Amerie handles personal information and provide additional notice or obtain permission where required. The effective date at the top will show the latest version.

13. Operator, Contact, and Other Policies

Amerie is operated by Vedica Chudiwale, based in Virginia, United States.

Website: https://www.amerie.org/

Privacy and support email: amera.path@gmail.com

Support: https://www.amerie.org/support

For more information about provider practices, visit the privacy-policy pages of Apple, Google, Cloudflare, and GitHub.