Privacy

Trip Pocket keeps your travel ideas on your phone, not on our servers. There's no account to sign up for, no cloud sync of your screenshots, and nothing for us to sell. This page covers what data the app touches, where it goes, and how long it sticks around.

The short version

• Your trips, screenshots, captions and place cards live in local storage on your iPhone.
• To turn an image into a place, we send it to a stateless extraction proxy. It isn't logged.
• To enrich a place card (photo, address, rating), we look up the place name and city against Google Places and Apple Maps.
• Crashes and anonymous usage telemetry go to Sentry so we can fix bugs.
• We don't sell data, run targeted ads, or load tracking SDKs.

What stays on your phone

Everything you create inside the app is stored locally on your device. That includes:

• The screenshots and photos you import.
• Captions and text you bring in from shared Instagram or TikTok posts.
• The structured place cards we generate (name, city, category, summary, photo URL, address, rating, price level).
• Your trip names and how you've organised them.
• Your in-app settings.

We don't replicate any of this to a server. Deleting the app from your iPhone deletes the data. If you want to keep your data safe across phones, use iCloud or iTunes device backups.

The AI extraction proxy

When you save a screenshot or share a post, the app sends the image and any caption text to an extraction proxy run by us. The proxy is stateless: it doesn't log the request body, store the image, or keep the result. It forwards the content to Google's Gemini API, which processes it under Google's API terms. On the paid Gemini API tier we use, Google does not use the content you send for model training.

The extracted JSON comes back to your phone, and that's where the place card lives from then on. No user identifier, account, or device ID is attached to extraction requests.

Place enrichment

Once we have a place name and city, the app calls Google Places and, for some lookups, Apple Maps to fetch a real photo, a short summary, the address, a rating, and a price band. Those requests send only the extracted place name and city, never your image, caption, or device info.

Subscriptions and the App Store

Billing runs entirely through Apple. Trip Pocket receives only the subscription status (active, in trial, expired) needed to unlock features. We don't see your name, email, payment details, or App Store account. Apple's own privacy policy covers everything on their side.

Crash reports and anonymous telemetry

To keep the app from breaking in silence, we use Sentry to collect crash reports and a small amount of anonymous usage telemetry. A typical event contains the crash stack trace, the app version, the iOS version, a Sentry-generated install identifier, your device's IP address, and breadcrumbs noting which screens you visited before the problem. The contents of your place cards, screenshots, and captions never leave your phone. We rely on this under our legitimate interest in keeping the app stable.

We never collect your name, email, precise location, or advertising identifiers through Sentry or anywhere else. If you want the crash data tied to your install wiped, email [email protected] and we'll remove it.

The marketing website

This website (trippocket.app) serves static pages and doesn't run third-party advertising trackers, analytics SDKs, or social pixels. The host we use sees standard request metadata (IP address, user agent, the URL you asked for) to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. Logs are kept briefly and not joined to any other data we hold.

What we don't do

• We don't sell, rent, or trade your data.
• We don't show advertising, and we don't profile you for ads anywhere else.
• We don't read your camera roll. Only the photos you actively import enter the app.
• We don't track your precise location. Trip Pocket has no location permission.
• We don't use the content of your saves to train AI models.

Children

Trip Pocket isn't designed for, marketed to, or knowingly used by children under 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area). If you believe a child has used the app, please contact us and we'll help.

Your rights

Because almost everything lives on your phone, exercising the usual data rights is mostly a matter of opening the app:

• Access: open Trip Pocket and your data is right there.
• Correction: edit any trip or place card directly inside the app.
• Deletion: delete a place, a trip, or the whole app. Crash reports stored at Sentry can be wiped on request.
• Objection / restriction: email us and we'll honour reasonable requests, or stop using the app.

If you're in the EEA, the UK, California, or another region with statutory data rights and want help exercising them, email [email protected]. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

International transfers

Our model providers and Sentry process data in countries that may be outside your own, including the United States. When data leaves the EEA or the UK, we rely on the providers' standard contractual clauses and the safeguards described in their privacy policies.

Data retention

Local data is retained on your device until you delete it or uninstall the app. Extraction requests aren't retained at all. Place enrichment lookups follow the cache policies of Google Places and Apple Maps. Crash reports at Sentry are kept for up to 90 days and then deleted automatically.

Security

On-device data benefits from iOS's standard sandboxing and encryption-at-rest. Network traffic between the app and our proxy is encrypted with TLS. No system is perfectly secure, but we try to keep the moving parts to a minimum.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles data, we'll update this page and bump the date at the top. Material changes will also be flagged in the app the next time you open it.

Getting in touch

Email [email protected] with any privacy question, request, or concern, or find other ways to reach us on the contact page. We'll reply within a few days.