Privacy Policy

The short version: Trip Chronicle is a private group travel journal, built for fun. We collect what we need to run your trips and account — nothing about your health or precise location. We don't sell your data. You can export your data, delete your account, or ask us to delete selected data.

1. What we collect

Information you give us

• Account details. When you sign in with Google or Apple, we receive your email address, display name, and a profile photo if you have one, plus a unique account identifier from the sign-in provider. You can edit your display name and avatar in the app.
• Session content. The trips you create or join, the activity you log in them — scenes, moments, food and ideas, and any photos ("snapshots") you add — plus reactions, group prompts (shown in the app as quests), nudges, and chat messages you send in a session. Logging records only the type of thing logged, for entertainment stats — never any health measurement.
• Support messages. If you email us, we keep your message and contact details to respond.

Information collected automatically

• Device & technical data. Basic information needed to run the service — app version, device type, and a push-notification token so we can send you session alerts. Your IP address is processed transiently by our server and hosting provider for security and rate limiting; we do not use it to track your location.
• App usage analytics. We use Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the app is used, so we can fix problems and improve it: which screens are opened, plus a few in-app events such as creating a trip, starting or ending a day, logging a moment, reading a chronicle, viewing a narrator pack and completing a purchase, together with an app-instance identifier and basic device information. Analytics never receives your names, notes, messages or photos, and we do not use the advertising identifier.
• Abuse & integrity signals. We use Google Play Integrity and Apple App Attest (via Firebase App Check) to help block bots and fraudulent sign-ups.

What we do NOT collect

Trip Chronicle does not collect or calculate medical or health data, or your precise location. Every "vibe" metric in the app (Chaos, Side Quest, Plot Armor, and similar) is fictional and for entertainment only.

2. How we use your information

• To create and run your account, sessions, and recaps.
• To power live commentary, group vibe meters, group prompts, nudges, and shareable recaps.
• To send push notifications about your sessions (you can turn these off in your device settings).
• To process Trip Pass, Trip Keep Forever, and narrator-pack purchases and apply the features they unlock.
• To keep the service safe — preventing abuse, spam, and fraudulent accounts, and handling reports of inappropriate content.
• To respond to your support requests and to comply with legal obligations.

3. Who we share it with

We do not sell personal information or share it for advertising. We send information to invited trip members when you choose to participate or share content, and to the service providers that make the app work, only as needed:

These providers process data to deliver their part of the service. We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users or the service. We do not use advertising identifiers or cross-app tracking.

4. AI Day

Trip Chronicle includes AI features: the AI narrator on a day ("AI Day") and the premium recap "Chronicle of the Day". AI narration is on when a trip has Trip Pass, and on your account's first day as a one-time free taste; everyone on that day sees a notice that the AI narrator is on. When AI is on, the app sends limited session context to our AI provider (Anthropic) to write a short line of commentary or a recap: the type of thing logged, moment and prompt events, the display names or nicknames of the crew, the day or trip name, awards and timeline highlights, earlier narrator lines, and short free-text notes members choose to send to the narrator. Photos and chat messages are never sent.

Notes you send to the narrator are not stored by us, and your exact words are never shown to anyone, but the narrator may retell what you wrote to the crew in its own words. Anthropic processes this context only to generate the text and, under its commercial terms, does not use it to train its models; it may keep it for up to 30 days, or longer if it is flagged for a safety review, before deleting it. Commentary and recaps written this way are AI-generated. When AI is off, no session data is sent to the AI provider and the app uses pre-written commentary instead.

5. How long we keep it

We keep your account and session data while your account is active so your history and recaps remain available. After a trip ends it has a scheduled removal date, shown in the app; its days, chronicles and photos are then deleted, unless Trip Keep Forever was bought for it. Session photos also go when you delete them or your account. In-session chat messages are ephemeral: they are deleted when the session ends. Messages you report are kept for up to 90 days for safety review, then deleted. Photos hidden after reports are removed from the app and kept in restricted storage for up to about 13 months, so that serious reports can be reviewed and, where the law requires, preserved and reported to the authorities; they are then deleted automatically, together with the report details (who reported it, when and why), which are kept for the same period even if an account involved is deleted. When you delete your account, we remove or irreversibly anonymize your personal information, keeping only what we're required to retain for legal, security, or fraud-prevention reasons (for example, a minimal record of a purchase). Deleted chat messages and other deleted personal data may remain in restricted disaster-recovery backups for up to 30 days, after which they are deleted automatically. Backups are used only to recover the service after a failure. If one is ever restored, we re-apply the deletions we have a record of before the service resumes. Some changes leave no such record, such as an edited photo caption or a changed name, and may return to their earlier state.

6. Your rights and choices

• Access & export. You can export a copy of your data from the profile screen in the app (Profile → Export my data), or by emailing us at support@samtech.solutions.
• Delete your account. You can permanently delete your account from the profile screen or follow the steps on our account-deletion page.
• Delete selected data. You can ask us to delete particular photos, profile data, messages, or trip content without deleting your account. See Delete selected data.
• Edit. You can change your display name and avatar in the app.
• Push notifications. Turn them off in your device's system settings.
• Block & report. You can block other users and report photos or accounts inside the app.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or CCPA — including the right to access, correct, delete, or port your data, and to object to certain processing. To exercise any of these, contact us at support@samtech.solutions. We don't sell personal information or use it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

7. Security

We protect your data with encryption in transit, access controls, per-user authorization on every request, and rate limiting against abuse. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to keep your information safe and to respond quickly if something goes wrong.

8. Age and children

Trip Chronicle is for adults aged 18 and over, and the app asks you to confirm this. It is not directed to anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 has provided us information, contact us and we will remove it.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the app evolves. When we make material changes, we'll update the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app. Continuing to use Trip Chronicle after an update means you accept the revised policy.

10. Contact us

Questions about your privacy? Email support@samtech.solutions and we'll help. See also our Terms of Service and Support page.