Suroy App Privacy Policy
Effective 6 October 2026. This policy covers Suroy: Philippine Passport on iPhone, iPad and Android.
The short version. Suroy has no account and no sign-in. It never asks for or uses your location. There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking across other apps or websites. Your Passport lives on your phone, and we never receive a copy.
Who makes the app
Suroy: Philippine Passport is made by SuroyPH Media Group OPC in Cebu, Philippines, the publisher of Suroy.ph. This page covers the app on iPhone, iPad and Android. They work the same way, and where a detail differs by phone, this page says which. The Suroy.ph website has its own policy, Our Privacy Policy.
Questions about privacy, or anything else in the app, go to app@suroy.ph.
What stays on your phone
Everything you put into Suroy is stored on the device itself:
- the provinces you mark Been and On my list, and your home province
- your name on your Biodata, if you add one
- places you know from Play, and any Worn records
- Daily answers, scores, streaks and progress in Daily Suroy, Sakto ba?, Suroy Fun Run and the Cebu Quiz
- planned and finished trips, and the visits you add, with their stamps and dates
- your notes, and on iPhone and iPad any photo you keep with a note
- a Padala sign-off, if you ask the app to remember how you sign
- saved places and app settings
The home screen widgets read a small snapshot of that record, kept inside the app on your device, such as your Been and On my list provinces and counts, your Home, the last place you marked Been, a province you pin, and whether today’s Daily is done. Your name is never on a widget, and widgets send nothing anywhere.
Been is your own record of where you have gone. The app never checks it against your location, because it never asks for your location.
Photos you keep with a note (iPhone and iPad)
On iPhone and iPad you can keep a photo with a note. You pick the photo with your phone’s own photo picker, which hands Suroy that one image and nothing else. The app never gets permission to browse your library. Suroy keeps a smaller copy inside the app with the location and camera details removed, and your original stays where it was. The app-saved copy stays in Suroy unless you explicitly export a Passport file that includes it. It is not automatically included in public share cards. Delete the note or remove the photo and the copy goes with it.
The Android app does not have photos on notes. A Padala on Android can use one photograph you pick through Android’s own photo picker, as described under Sharing a card. The app never reads your photo library.
What leaves your phone
Nothing goes to Suroy. Neither app automatically sends your Passport, notes or game records to us or anyone else. Daily Suroy checks and scores your answer on the phone. The Android app does not even have permission to use the internet.
Five things leave the app only when you choose them.
Sharing a card. The card or text you picked goes to your phone’s share menu, and the app or person you send it to handles it from there. Saving a card to your photos may ask permission to add that one image. Suroy never reads your photo library.
A Padala, and on iPhone and iPad an annual photo keepsake, can use a photograph you explicitly select and words you type. The system picker hands Suroy only the photograph you choose. On Android that photograph is held in memory only while you write, and the app keeps no copy of it. The card is rendered on your device as a new image without the original photograph’s location or camera metadata. You see the preview before sharing. Saved notes, Home and exact visit dates are not automatically included in these public cards.
Saving a Passport file. Keep a Passport copy lets you export supported local records, including your marks, visits, trips, notes and available app-saved photographs, along with Home, countdown and preferences. This file contains private records and is not encrypted by Suroy. You choose where to save it: through Files on iPhone and iPad, and through your phone’s own file picker on Android. Your Biodata name and a remembered Padala sign-off are never in a Passport file. If you choose iCloud Drive or another storage provider, that provider handles the file under its own settings and privacy practices. Suroy does not upload it automatically, and this is not Suroy cloud sync.
You can choose a saved Passport file to review before importing it. Opening the preview changes nothing. Add to my Passport explicitly imports additions while preserving existing conflicting records. Files you already saved or shared remain with their destinations when you later edit or delete records in the app.
Opening a link. Links to Suroy.ph articles, the Suroy Wear store and the sources credited in About open in a separate browser view inside the app on iPhone and iPad. On Android they open in a Custom Tab: a panel from your phone’s default browser, usually Chrome, shown over the app. The Suroy app itself still has no internet access. Once a page opens you are on that website, and it may see ordinary connection details such as your IP address and use cookies, analytics or checkout services, the way any website does. Your Passport, notes and game answers are never part of the link. The store link carries a tag that tells the store the visit came from the app. The tag names the app, not you. Those sites have their own policies: Suroy.ph and Suroy Wear.
Emailing us. Writing to us from the app opens your own email app with a message addressed to app@suroy.ph. It carries the app’s version and the topic you chose, and your phone’s model and system version only if you choose to include them. Nothing goes until you send it there. If you write to app@suroy.ph, we receive the message and the address you send it from, and we use them to reply. We cannot see anything on your phone, so there is no need to send your Passport or your notes.
Rating the app. Now and then the app may show Google Play’s or the App Store’s own rating window. Your stars and anything you write go to Google or Apple under your account with them and their policies, and reach us only as a review of the app, the way every review does. Nothing from your Passport goes with them.
Crash reports. If you have allowed it in your phone’s settings, Apple and Google may pass us anonymous crash reports. They describe what went wrong in the app. They do not carry your Passport, your notes or your name. Suroy itself contains no crash-reporting code.
What Suroy never asks for
Neither the iPhone app nor the Android app asks for any of these:
- an account, a sign-in or a password
- your location
- permission to browse your photo library
- your contacts, microphone or camera
- an advertising ID, or permission to track you across other apps and websites
- payment details, because there is nothing to buy inside the app
Neither app contains third-party analytics, advertising or crash-reporting code.
Your phone’s own backup
Like most apps, Suroy can be included in your phone’s own backup if you have turned it on: iCloud or a computer backup on iPhone and iPad, and your Google account backup on Android. If you add your name to your biodata, it stays on your phone and in your phone’s own backup (your Google account, iCloud or your computer). It is never sent to us. That backup belongs to your Apple or Google account, and we never see it. There is no Suroy cloud sync.
Children
Suroy is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone, children included. If you have a privacy concern involving a child, write to app@suroy.ph.
Your choices
You can change your Been and On my list provinces in the Passport, edit or delete any note, and change or remove the name on your Biodata. Deleting the app deletes everything it stored on your device. On iPhone, offloading the app keeps your records for when you reinstall, so delete it rather than offload it if you want them gone. Backups, cards you already saved to your photos and anything you shared are managed wherever they now live.
Because we hold no account and receive no copy of your records, there is nothing on our side to look up, correct or delete. For anything you sent us by email, write to app@suroy.ph.
The law
SuroyPH Media Group OPC follows the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012, Republic Act No. 10173. For any question or concern under it, write to app@suroy.ph.
When this page changes
We plan to add online features later, such as showing how rare your Daily Suroy answer was compared with other players. If an update ever sends anything off your phone, this page will be updated first to say exactly what, and the privacy answers on the App Store and Google Play will change with it. Every change is posted here with a new effective date.
SuroyPH Media Group OPC
Cebu, Philippines
app@suroy.ph