Privacy Policy
Our promise, up front
- No ads. Taccuino shows no advertising.
- No tracking. We don't use analytics or advertising tools that follow you around.
- No sale of personal data. We don't sell your information, and we don't share it for advertising.
The rest of this page explains, in plain language, what we do keep and why.
What we collect, and why
- Your account. Your email address and a password. We store the password only as a salted hash, never in readable form. We use these to sign you in and to sync your trips between your devices.
- Your trip content. The trips, destinations, places, plans, notes, packing lists and expenses you choose to add. We store them so the app works and syncs.
- Your photos. The photos you choose to add to a place or a trip, stored so you can see them on your other devices.
- Sign-in attempts. When you sign in or sign up, we record the internet address (IP address) of the request and the time. We use it only to slow down people who try to guess passwords.
- The waitlist. If you join the waitlist on our website, we keep your email address and the time you confirmed it, so we can tell you when the app is ready.
Taccuino saves to your phone first, so it works without a signal, and then syncs to your account when you're online.
Photos and location
Many photos carry a hidden location and date inside the file. When you add a photo, the app reads that location and date on your device to fill in the place and date for you. The coordinates are then saved with the place or photo so it can appear on your own map and timeline.
- Your photo locations are used only to power your own map and timeline. We never sell or share them.
- Photos you add are shrunk to a smaller display copy and a small preview on your device before they are uploaded. This process drops the hidden metadata from the uploaded copy, and the app does not keep the full-size original on our servers. Your original stays in your phone's own photo library.
- A photo you have just taken with your phone's camera usually has no location saved in it. When you add such a photo on the Photos screen or while creating a new place, the app can ask your phone for where it is right now, if you allow location access. It uses that spot only to place the photo on your own map, and it asks once for each batch of photos you add. If you do not allow it, or your phone cannot find a precise spot within a few seconds, the photo is saved with no location. The app does not track where you are at any other time.
- You can remove a location by editing the place, or remove a photo entirely by deleting it in the app.
Some photos added earlier, or photos the app could not shrink, may have been uploaded at full size and may still contain their hidden location data. Deleting those photos removes them.
Services we use
Taccuino relies on a few outside services. We don't use any of them for advertising or tracking. Here is what each one receives:
- Cloudflare hosts our website, your account and trip data, and your photos.
- OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) turns a place name into a spot on the map, and a spot into an address. It receives the text you search for, or the coordinates being looked up, along with your device's internet address.
- OpenFreeMap supplies the map pictures. It receives the area of the map being shown, along with your device's internet address.
- unpkg.com delivers the open-source code library that draws the map in the app. Loading it shares your device's internet address with that service.
- Frankfurter supplies currency exchange rates. It receives the currencies and dates being looked up.
- Resend sends the confirmation email for our waitlist, and the password-reset and email-confirmation emails for app accounts. It receives the email address you give us.
Cloudflare and Resend act as our service providers (processors). They handle information only for us, to run Taccuino and the waitlist, and not for their own purposes.
The links in password-reset and email-confirmation emails can be used once and expire (reset links after 1 hour, confirmation links after 48 hours). We keep only a scrambled (hashed) form of each link's secret, never the link itself.
None of these services receives your account, your trips or your photos from us. When you tap a link to a travel site or to Apple Maps, you leave Taccuino and that site's own privacy policy applies.
AI features
Taccuino does not use artificial intelligence today. If we add an AI feature, such as a trip storyteller, we will update this policy before it goes live. We intend it to be your choice each time you use it, to send only trip details and never your raw photos or any expense information, and to use a provider that does not keep or train on that data.
Your rights and choices
- Access and correction. You can see and edit your trips, places, notes, expenses and photos in the app at any time.
- Export. The Annual Report screen can export your expenses as a CSV file. For a full copy of everything we hold about you, email us at taccuino.travel@gmail.com.
- Deletion. See the next section.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account yourself in the app: open Settings and choose Delete account. You can also ask us to delete it by emailing taccuino.travel@gmail.com from the email address on the account. A deleted account's data is removed from our active systems: your email and password hash, your trips and everything in them, and your photos.
Copies of the database in our backups can remain for up to 7 days after you delete your account, then they expire.
Security and where your data lives
Your data travels over encrypted connections, and passwords are stored only as salted hashes. No system is perfectly secure, so we can't promise absolute security, but we keep what we store to a minimum.
Your data is stored with Cloudflare.
Children
Taccuino is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information. If you think a child has given us their information, please email us and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we'll update the version and date at the top and, for changes that matter to you, tell you in the app or by email.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email taccuino.travel@gmail.com.