Terms of Use

1. Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and MD Shahariar Nazim Joy ("we", "us", the "Developer") governing your use of the World Map: Countries Visited mobile application and this website (together, the "App"). By downloading, purchasing, subscribing to or using the App, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the App.

You must be old enough under the law of your country to enter into a binding contract in order to purchase. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the App only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who accepts these Terms on your behalf and who is responsible for any purchase.

2. Apple's standard EULA also applies

The App is licensed, not sold, to you through the Apple App Store. In addition to these Terms, Apple's standard End User Licence Agreement for App Store applications also applies to your licence to use the App. You can read it here:

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Where these Terms and Apple's standard EULA differ, these Terms apply to the extent that they are more protective of you, or that they address a matter Apple's EULA does not; in all other respects Apple's standard EULA governs. Nothing in these Terms limits any right that Apple's standard EULA gives you.

3. Licence grant

Subject to these Terms and to your holding a valid, active subscription or a Lifetime Access purchase, the Developer grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to download and use one copy of the App for your own personal, non-commercial purposes, on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions and the Usage Rules therein.

You may not: copy the App except as expressly permitted; sell, rent, lease, lend, redistribute or sublicense the App; reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, or attempt to derive its source code, except to the extent that such a restriction is prohibited by applicable law; remove or alter any proprietary notice; or circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with the App's purchase or entitlement checks.

All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by the Developer.

4. The App requires a purchase — there is no free tier

The App is a free download from the App Store (US$0.00), and every feature — marking countries, marking regions, the Passport statistics, the 3D globe, the shareable map card and trip logging — is unlocked by an In-App Purchase. This is disclosed here, on the home page and in the App Store listing so that you know before you download.

5. Products, prices and free trial

The App offers the following purchases through the Apple App Store, using StoreKit:

Prices are stated in United States dollars and apply to the U.S. App Store storefront. In other storefronts, the App Store displays the equivalent price in your local currency, set according to Apple's pricing matrix, and that displayed price — inclusive of any applicable taxes — is the price you pay. The App Store always shows you the exact price and the renewal terms before you confirm a purchase.

Payment

Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. All purchases are processed by Apple. The Developer never receives or stores your payment card details.

Free trial

The Yearly subscription includes a 3-day free trial for new subscribers. If you do not cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the free trial, the trial converts automatically into a paid Yearly subscription and your Apple Account is charged US$12.99. Any unused portion of a free trial period is forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where a free trial is offered. The trial is available once per Apple Account, per Apple's rules on introductory offers.

6. Auto-renewal and how to cancel

The Monthly and Yearly plans are auto-renewable subscriptions. This means:

• Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Your Apple Account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the price for the plan you selected.
• Renewal continues on the same cycle (monthly or yearly) until you cancel.

To manage or cancel a subscription, open the iOS Settings app and go to Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions, select World Map: Countries Visited, and choose to cancel. You may also turn off auto-renewal there at any time after purchase, or manage subscriptions at https://apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.

Deleting the App from your device does not cancel your subscription. You must cancel through Settings as described above.

Lifetime Access is a one-time, non-consumable purchase. It is not a subscription, it does not auto-renew, it will never be charged again, and there is nothing to cancel.

7. Restoring purchases

Your purchase is tied to your Apple Account, not to a single device. If you get a new device, reinstall the App, or the App does not recognise an entitlement you already own, open the App's Settings screen and tap Restore Purchases. You must be signed in to the same Apple Account that made the original purchase. See the Support page for step-by-step help.

8. Refunds

Refunds are handled by Apple, not by the Developer. Because Apple is the merchant of record for every purchase made through the App Store, the Developer cannot issue, approve or deny a refund and has no ability to reverse a charge.

To request a refund, use Apple's process at reportaproblem.apple.com, or contact Apple Support directly. Apple's decision is governed by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

Nothing in this section limits any statutory right of withdrawal, cancellation or refund that you may have under the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence.

9. The map is illustrative — not authoritative

Please re-read the note at the top of this page; it forms part of these Terms. In summary:

• The App is a personal travel-logging tool. Its purpose is to let you record where you have been.
• The map is illustrative. It is not a navigational tool and must not be used for navigation, for surveying, for emergency purposes, or for any decision where an inaccurate boundary could cause harm.
• Boundaries, names, regions and territories shown in the App are not authoritative and carry no legal or political significance. Their depiction is not a claim, a recognition, an endorsement or a denial of anyone's sovereignty.
• The statistics the App calculates — countries visited, percentage of the world, continents, UN member states, regions — are derived from the boundary dataset and from what you yourself have marked. They are a convenience, and the Developer makes no warranty that any count matches any particular official list.
• The Developer takes no position on any territorial dispute.

10. Acceptable use

You agree to use the App only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to:

• use the App in any way that violates any applicable law or regulation;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the App, to another user's device, or to any system;
• tamper with, disable or circumvent the App's In-App Purchase or entitlement mechanism, or use the App without a valid purchase;
• extract, scrape, re-publish or commercially redistribute the App's code, assets or compiled data as a product of your own;
• use the App to harass, threaten or harm anyone, or to promote hatred against any group or nation.

The App has no accounts, no servers and no communication between users, so there is no user-generated content that reaches anyone else and nothing you write in a trip note is ever seen by us or by any other person.

11. Your content and your responsibilities

The countries and regions you mark, the trips you log and the notes you write are yours. The Developer claims no ownership of them and, as explained in the Privacy Policy, never receives them: they stay on your device.

Because the App stores everything locally and the Developer holds no copy, you are responsible for your device and for any backup you wish to keep. Using the App's delete-all-data option, or deleting the App, permanently erases your data, and it cannot be recovered by us. If your device is lost, damaged or wiped, and you have no Apple backup, your travel log is gone.

12. Intellectual property and attribution

The App — its source code, its interface, its design, its icon, its text and its branding — is owned by the Developer and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. © 2026 MD Shahariar Nazim Joy. All rights reserved. The licence in section 3 does not transfer any ownership to you.

Natural Earth

Map boundary data used in the App is derived from Natural Earth, a public-domain map dataset made available at naturalearthdata.com. Natural Earth data is released into the public domain: as its terms of use state, no permission is needed to use it and crediting the authors is not required, though it is appreciated. We credit it here gladly. Natural Earth and its contributors make no warranty as to the data, do not assume liability for it, and do not endorse this App.

Apple, App Store, iPhone, iPad and iOS are trademarks of Apple Inc. Use of those names here is descriptive and implies no endorsement.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, quiet enjoyment and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any defect will be corrected, that the App will be compatible with every device or future version of iOS, or that the boundary data, region lists, country counts or statistics it shows are complete, current, accurate or fit for any particular purpose. Your use of the App is at your own risk.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. In that case, any implied warranty is limited to the minimum period and extent permitted by law.

14. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the Developer be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the App — whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or any other legal theory, and whether or not the Developer has been advised of the possibility of such damages. This expressly includes any loss arising from reliance on the map or on any boundary, name or statistic it displays.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Developer's total cumulative liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the App or these Terms shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you actually paid for the App in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty United States dollars (US$50.00).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here affects your mandatory statutory consumer rights.

15. Apple's role

You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and the Developer only, not with Apple, and that Apple is not responsible for the App or its content. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the App. In the event the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the App to you, if any; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App.

The Developer, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the App, including product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation. The Developer, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any third-party claim that the App infringes that party's intellectual property rights.

You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

16. Changes to the App and to these Terms

We may update, modify or discontinue features of the App at any time. We may also update these Terms; when we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page and, for material changes, give notice in the App or in the App Store release notes. Changes do not apply retroactively, and for subscribers they take effect from the next subscription period. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the App and cancel your subscription before the next renewal.

17. Termination

This licence remains in effect until terminated. It ends automatically if you fail to comply with any of these Terms. You may terminate it at any time by cancelling your subscription and deleting the App from your devices. On termination you must stop all use of the App. Sections 9 and 12 to 15, and section 18, survive termination.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, being the jurisdiction in which the Developer is established, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the courts of Bangladesh shall have jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App.

This choice of law and forum does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection law of the country in which you habitually reside: if you are a consumer, you keep the benefit of those mandatory rules and you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your own country where the law entitles you to do so.

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and the Developer regarding the App.

19. Contact

MD Shahariar Nazim Joy
Developer, World Map: Countries Visited
Email: dmjks120@gmail.com

See also the Privacy Policy and the Support page.