Privacy Policy

Only what it takes to run your trips: your account details, the trip details you and your crew enter, and the technical basics needed to keep the app working.

We don't sell your data. We don't run advertising. Your trips are visible to the people you invite, and only when you choose to make a trip public is it discoverable by others.

When you create an account we store your name and email address, and (if you sign up with email) a securely hashed password. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email from Google. We use these to create your account, sign you in, and send you service emails.

Trips hold destinations, dates, itinerary items, chat messages, votes, notes, expenses, contributions, saved links, and photos you add. This content is stored so your crew can see and work on the trip together. Only trip members can see a private trip's content.

Addresses and place names you add are sent to Mapbox to pin them on the map and to calculate travel times between stops. We don't track your current location.

When you paste a TikTok or Instagram link, we fetch that post's public information through a scraping service (Apify) to find the place and photo it mentions. When you upload a screenshot instead, an automated model reads the image to pull out the place name.

Itinerary generation, the trip assistant, and translation send your trip details and messages to automated language models to produce results. Your content is used to answer you. We don't use it to train the models.

Subscriptions and trip unlocks are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number. Stripe gives us your billing status so we know which plan you're on.

Trip notifications (a crew member joins, a vote closes, a nudge from your host, fund updates) are sent by email through Resend. You can turn notifications off in the app.

So your trip still opens with a weak connection, we keep a saved copy of recent trips in your browser's storage on your own device. Clearing your browser data removes them.

We rely on a small set of providers: hosting and database (Lovable Cloud), maps (Mapbox), photos (Unsplash), language models, payments (Stripe), email (Resend), and social post reading (Apify). Each only receives what it needs to do its job.

Want your data removed? Email us at outthechat@yahoo.com and we'll delete your account and trip data.

If this policy changes, we'll post the new version on this page. Material changes will be announced in the app.

Reach us any time at outthechat@yahoo.com.