Vice Companion · Android app

Privacy Policy

GTAVI Vice: Companion Hub · Effective 1 November 2026

The short version

• No account, no sign-in. The app never asks for your name or email address.
• Your finds, saved items, journal and settings stay on your phone unless you turn on sync, which is part of Vice Companion Pro.
• Journal photos never sync. A photo leaves your phone only if you share that place on the public map.
• Community check is public. Anything you send there (something you’ve spotted, or a photo) is shown publicly straight away for other players to vote on. Votes are anonymous.
• No analytics or tracking of our own. The app doesn’t send us usage statistics.
• Content comes from gtavi-vice.com. Our host, Cloudflare, processes standard request data (such as your IP address) to deliver and protect it.
• If your version shows ads, they come from Google AdMob. In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland, Google asks for your consent first.
• Purchases go through Google Play. We never see your payment details.

1. Who we are and what this covers

This policy covers the Android app Vice Companion, listed on Google Play as GTAVI Vice: Companion Hub (package com.n0xen.gtavivice). The app is published by n0xen (“we”, “us”). Contact: contact@n0xen.dev.

Vice Companion is an unofficial fan app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive.

The app works with the GTAVI Vice website, gtavi-vice.com, which has its own privacy policy. Where this policy refers to something you do on the website, that policy applies too.

2. What stays on your phone

These are stored on your phone only, in the app’s private storage:

• Finds you mark as found or save, and vehicles, characters or weapons you save.
• Your journal: the titles and notes you write, any places you pin on the map, the category and links you pick, and whether each entry is done.
• Your settings: whether to show spoilers, and whether you’ve seen the welcome screens and tips.
• Photos you add to journal entries. You pick them with Android’s photo picker, and the app stores a smaller copy. Photos aren’t part of sync, and they’re left out of Android backup.
• Your sync code, if you turn on sync, and whether you own Vice Companion Pro.
• Copies of what the app has downloaded (lists, articles, pictures and map tiles, up to about 250 MB) so it works offline.

We can’t see any of this unless you turn on sync (section 3). Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android settings, deletes it.

If Android backup is switched on for your Google account, Android may include the app’s data in your device backup, and when you move to a new phone. That backup is made and stored by Google under your Google account, not by us, and you control it in your phone’s settings.

3. Sync (Vice Companion Pro)

Sync is optional and part of Vice Companion Pro. It keeps your finds, saved items and journal the same in the app, on the website and on your other devices.

• What’s sent: when sync is on, a copy of your found and saved items and your journal (as listed in section 2) is sent to the GTAVI Vice server, hosted on Cloudflare, each time it changes. While the app is open, it checks about once a minute for changes from your other devices.
• How it’s stored: the copy is stored under a one-way code made from your sync code. The sync code itself isn’t stored on the server, and there’s no name, email address or IP address kept with your copy.
• Who can see it: anyone who has your sync code can read and change your synced copy, so keep it to yourself. Your journal stays private even when synced. It is never shown on the public map unless you choose to share a place (section 8).
• Spam protection: to stop people guessing codes or flooding the service, requests are counted against a weekly code made from your IP address. The IP address isn’t stored, and the counts are deleted within a day.
• Links: the QR code on the website opens the app with a gtavivice:// link. The app always asks before it uses a sync code from a link.
• Turning it off: in the app, go to More, Sync. Stop syncing on this phone keeps everything on your phone. Delete the synced copy removes the copy from our server. Your other devices keep their own copies. You can do this whether or not you still own Pro.
• Automatic deletion: a synced copy that hasn’t been used for 12 months is deleted automatically.

4. What the app downloads

The app downloads public information from gtavi-vice.com: the map and its finds, news, guides, the vehicle, character and weapon database, and lists of videos, shorts and live streams. It checks for updates when it opens, and again when you come back to it after a while.

To answer these requests, our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes standard request data: your IP address, the app’s request details (such as the address requested and a user agent) and the time. Cloudflare uses this to deliver the content, prevent abuse and keep short-lived operational logs. We use it only to run and secure the service.

The app doesn’t send us visitor statistics or analytics, and it doesn’t include any analytics SDK of ours.

5. Videos, shorts and live streams

Videos, shorts and streams play inside the app, using players from YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com), TikTok, Twitch or Kick. A player loads only when you press play, and those services then process data under their own privacy policies.

Preview images in the lists load from those services (for example i.ytimg.com for YouTube) when the lists are shown. Those services therefore receive your IP address and device details.

News stories from other websites open in an in-app browser tab, under that website’s own privacy policy.

6. Ads

The free version of the app shows a banner ad from Google AdMob. Vice Companion Pro removes it.

• What Google processes: to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google’s Mobile Ads SDK processes information such as your device’s advertising ID, your IP address (used to estimate your approximate location), how you interact with ads, and diagnostic information about the app. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
• Consent: in the UK, the EEA and Switzerland, Google’s consent form asks for your choice before personalised ads are shown. You can change your choice at any time in More, About, Ad privacy choices.
• Advertising ID: you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone’s settings (Settings, Privacy, Ads on most phones).
• With Pro: if you own Vice Companion Pro, the ads SDK isn’t started and no ad requests are made.

7. Purchases

Vice Companion Pro is a one-off in-app purchase made through Google Play. Google handles the payment under the Google Payments privacy notice. We never receive your card or payment details.

The app only learns from Google Play whether you own Pro, so it can remove the ads and unlock sync. That status is checked with Google Play when the app starts, and remembered on your phone in between. Refunds are handled under Google Play’s policies.

8. Sharing with the community

Nothing you write in the app is made public unless you choose to send it.

• Sharing a place on the public map: Share on the public map on a journal entry opens the website’s Add a find form in an in-app browser tab, filled in with that entry’s title, note, place and category. Nothing else is sent until you press Send.
• Sharing with a photo: if the entry has a photo, the app uploads it to the GTAVI Vice server first, and the form opens with it attached. Until you press Send, the photo is kept privately and isn’t shown to anyone. If you don’t send the form, it’s deleted after a day. Once sent, it becomes the find’s screenshot and is shown with the find on Community check.
• Suggesting a correction or adding a find: these open the same form on the website. Every find and correction needs proof: a screenshot, or a link to a video or picture showing it. It’s shown on Community check for other players to vote on.
• Submitting a guide: this opens the website’s Submit a guide form.

What’s stored, and for how long, is set out in the website’s privacy policy. New finds and corrections, with their screenshot, are shown on Community check for other players to vote on (section 8a). In short:

• We keep what you entered and a weekly spam-protection code made from your IP address.
• We never ask for an email address.
• Submissions we don’t use are deleted after 30 days.
• A credit name you give is shown with your submission.

8a. Community check

Community check is where players add things they’ve spotted in the game and vote on each other’s. It’s the same list as on gtavi-vice.com/community.

• Adding something: when you send a vehicle, weapon or character you’ve spotted, or a photo of an entry or a map find, the app sends what you typed (name, type, where you saw it, details, whether it’s a spoiler and any credit name) and the photo to the GTAVI Vice server. It’s shown publicly straight away. The photo is picked with Android’s photo picker, shrunk on your phone, and its hidden details (such as the place a photo was taken) are removed before it’s stored.
• Voting: the app keeps a random voting id on your phone so it can vote once on each item. With each vote the server stores a one-way code made from that id, a weekly code made from your network (so only a few phones on one network can vote on the same item), and whether you voted legit or fake. Neither code can be turned back into your id or IP address. Your votes aren’t shown to anyone.
• Reporting: if you report something, we store the reason, any details you add and the weekly network code. Reported items are hidden straight away until we check them.
• What happens next: when enough players vote something legit, or we approve it, it’s added to GTAVI Vice with your credit name. We remove anything inappropriate.

9. Permissions

The app does not ask for your location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos or files. When you add a photo to a journal entry or to Community check, Android’s photo picker lets you choose one, and the app receives only that picture. To scan the website’s sync QR code, use your phone’s own camera app. The app only receives the link.

10. How long things are kept

Step-by-step help with deleting your data is at gtavi-vice.com/app/delete-data.

11. Legal basis and your rights

We process data on these bases:

• Legitimate interests: to provide the app and its content, keep spam out, and deliver and secure the service.
• Providing a service you asked for: to sync your data when you turn on sync with Vice Companion Pro.
• Consent: for personalised ads, where the law requires it.

Under UK GDPR, and similar laws where you live, you can ask us for access to the personal data we hold about you. You can also ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. To ask, email contact@n0xen.dev.

We don’t hold your name, email address or IP address with your data, so we can’t look you up. For a request about your synced copy, include your sync code, or delete the copy yourself in the app.

You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk, or to the data protection authority where you live.

12. Children

Grand Theft Auto VI is rated for adults, and Vice Companion is made for its players. The app is not directed at children. It doesn’t ask anyone for personal information, and we don’t knowingly collect data about children.

13. Changes to this policy

If we change what the app collects or how it’s used, we’ll update this page, and its effective date, before the change reaches the app. If the change is significant, we’ll also say so in the app.

14. Contact

For questions about this policy or your data, email contact@n0xen.dev.