Travel Globe privacy policy

Updated October 16, 2026

Travel Globe is an iPhone app for marking the places you’ve been and want to go. This page says what the app keeps, where, for how long, and how to delete it. There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking.

On your phone

Your places (with their years and notes), your settings and your photos are kept on your phone. The app keeps a copy of them in its own files, so they survive the phone clearing the app’s storage. Nothing leaves the phone unless you sign in or share.

Your account

Signing in with Apple makes an account on Travel Globe’s server (run on Cloudflare). Travel Globe asks Apple for no name and no e-mail address; it keeps only a fingerprint of the identifier Apple gives it for you, so you can sign in again on another phone. With an account, a copy of your globe is kept on the server: the places with their years and notes, your photos, your friends’ names and live links, and your trips (your answers and the itineraries). That is what lets your devices share one globe.

Purchases

Purchases go through Apple. The server keeps a record of what your account bought (the product, Apple’s transaction identifier, and whether it was refunded), so what you bought stays yours across devices. Travel Globe never sees your payment details.

Trip itineraries

When you ask for an itinerary, your answers to the trip questions (where, when, who’s going, what you like) are sent to Anthropic’s Claude to write it, after you agree in the app; you can withdraw that agreement in About, and nothing is sent after. Anthropic receives only those answers, under its API terms, which hold it to the same care with your data that this policy describes. The itinerary is kept with your account.

Sharing

A live link shows your globe to anyone who has the link, as you set it: with or without years, notes and photos. Turn it off any time and the link stops working. Anyone who sees a shared globe can report it; a report keeps which globe and the name on it, the reason and the note, and who sent it (your account when signed in, or else a fingerprint of the internet address it came from). Once decided, who sent it is no longer kept, and the report is deleted 90 days later; one not yet decided is deleted after a year. A globe taken down after a report keeps the fingerprint of its owner’s Apple identifier, so deleting the account doesn’t undo it. The sharing rules say what’s allowed.

The map

Close-up satellite pictures come from Esri’s map servers (or EOX’s) as you zoom in; those servers see the usual web request. Finding your location uses the phone’s location service only while you use that feature, and nothing about it is kept.

Who else

Cloudflare runs the server and stores the data. Apple handles sign-in and purchases. Anthropic receives trip answers to write itineraries. Esri and EOX serve map pictures. None of them receive your data for any other purpose, and Travel Globe sells or shares nothing.

Deleting

Delete account (in Account, in the app) deletes everything the server keeps for you: your globe, your photos, your friends, your trips and your sign-ins. The record of a purchase is kept, without an account, so that what you bought can be restored if you sign up again. Signing out takes the globe off that phone. The app itself can be deleted like any app; your places on the phone go with it unless you kept a backup.

Children

Travel Globe is not meant for children under 13, and asks for no information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with its date.

Travel Globe is made by Chris Karalis. Questions: ckaralis85@gmail.com.