Privacy Policy
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Effective 5 November 2026
Web payments: Stripe as a new processor, what RevenueCat receives for web purchases, the record of your consent before paying; change your cookie choice any time from Cookies; home location kept in the browser.
Effective 20 October 2026
Staff access to private content now covers private trip plans as well as vlogs. New paragraph in §2.14 explains how we check the quality of the plans our AI drafts: staff look at statistics and computed checks (titles and numbers only, never your text, stops, notes or nights). Opening one private plan in full follows §5: only for a report, a legal order, your own request, or a quality review of an AI-made plan; the reason is recorded first and every opening is logged. §3 adds the legal basis for the quality review.
Effective 10 October 2026
Updated for the Plans tab. New §2.13 explains planning together: who can join a plan, what members see of each other, and the plan's activity and undo history. New §2.14 explains AI trip planning: what we send to Anthropic, what we never send, and why you should not type health or other sensitive details into a request. New §2.15 explains community places: counts of how many published guides stop at a place, never who. New §2.12 explains booking a hotel in the app: the booking holder's and guests' details go to our booking partner Nuitée (LiteAPI) and the hotel and are not stored on our servers; the card never reaches us; the hotel and Nuitée are responsible for their own part. §2.3 covers private plans, walks and the live trip view (your location stays on your device). §5 adds Nuitée, the hotel and OpenStreetMap; §7 adds retention for bookings (10 years, accounting) and plan history.
Effective 2 September 2026
New disclosure of feed and viewing activity: for each public vlog or guide shown to you we record impressions, watch time, whether you finished it and whether you opened it — used to order your own feed and, in aggregate across all viewers, to score how well a post holds attention. One row per viewer per post, deleted after 90 days, never shown to other users and never used for advertising; the telemetry opt-out does not cover it. §2.8 adds the public "Top travellers" ranking and the weekly Editor's choice, §4 describes the ranking algorithm and records that none of it is a solely automated decision under GDPR Article 22(1), and §5 notes the Editor's-choice blurb sent to Anthropic.
Effective 18 August 2026
Retention re-scoped to the public-storage tier: the free 1 GB stores publicly shared vlogs, kept for as long as they remain publicly shared. The lapse row now preserves public vlogs only (newest first, up to the allowance); private vlogs without a paid plan stay on your device and are not uploaded.
Effective 24 June 2026
Adds disclosures for trip plans and guides, saved guides and remixes, public discovery and search of public content, third-party booking suggestions and affiliate links (Travelpayouts and travel-inventory partners), Mapbox maps, and updated AI / trip-guide data flows.
- Privacy Policy v7archived
Effective 8 June 2026
Clarifies that cloud-saved vlogs are permanently deleted 30 days after a paid plan lapses or is downgraded.
Effective 8 June 2026
Adds disclosures for comments and companion co-tagging / POV trip groups (data collected, legal basis and retention), including companion stat cards.
Effective 27 May 2026
Material update: adds §2.8 Social graph and interactions (follow, heart, block); public profile visibility in §2.1; admin content access disclosure in §5; 3 new rows in processing table. Re-acceptance required due to new social data processing.
- AutoVlog Privacy Policy v4archived
Effective 27 May 2026
Added §2.7 Contacts (optional): on-device SHA-256 hashing for Find Friends, no server-side contact storage, iOS revocation path. Added phone number disclosure to §2.1. §2.8 replaces §2.7 with qualified contacts statement.
- AutoVlog Privacy Policy v3archived
Effective 4 May 2026
Rolled back from TEST GATE.
Effective 4 May 2026
TEST — verifying the iOS acceptance gate. Will be rolled back.
- AutoVlog Privacy Policy v1archived
Effective 4 May 2026
Initial version (v1)