Privacy policy

Travel Archive helps you connect places with photos and memories and turn your travels into personal books. You can use it without creating an account or providing an email address. Your memory archive is stored on your device; we do not host a copy of that archive on our servers.

Some features use online services. Map and place content requests and historical weather requests send the information described below to their providers. This policy explains both local processing and these transfers. We do not show advertisements, sell your personal data, or build behavioral profiles for advertising. We do not integrate third-party advertising, usage analytics, or automatic crash-reporting services into the app.

The app processes the memories, notes, photos, places, dates, trips, books, search history and settings you save to provide its features. It may read photo capture times and embedded location information to suggest places and organize memories. Importing photos creates local app copies where needed; it does not upload your personal photos to our servers or weather and place-content providers.

Choosing an individual photo differs from granting access for a library import you initiate. In a library import, the app can read photos and metadata within the access you grant. If an original photo is stored in your system photo service's cloud, the operating system may retrieve it under that service's settings and terms.

• Location: Your permitted approximate or precise location supports Nearby and map positioning. The app does not continuously track your location in the background. A location saved with a memory is distinct from your current device location.
• Photos and camera: Access supports photo selection/import, taking a photo you choose to attach, and saving exports to your library.
• Notifications: If you enable reminders, the app schedules them locally. The operating system processes their text and any included photo; visibility on the lock screen depends on your settings. We do not send your memories to a remote push-notification service.

You can refuse or change permissions in device settings. Related functions may become unavailable or limited. Weather uses public destination coordinates independently of location permission; it does not use your current GPS, photo GPS or memory coordinates. Permission prompts do not replace any separate disclosure or consent required for a particular transfer.

Online requests expose your IP address to the receiving service and may include technical connection information, such as the request time and app/client information. Providers' own logging and retention practices apply.

Provider policies: OpenFreeMap, Wikimedia, Wikimedia retention guidance, Open-Meteo. These links supplement our explanation; they do not replace our responsibilities.

When you choose to share or export, the selected files or information go to the app, person or storage destination you choose. Opening directions sends the selected destination to an external mapping service. Those recipients process the information under their own policies.

Password-protected backups are prepared and encrypted on your device. You choose where to save them. Your backup password is used locally and is not sent to us. Device or cloud backups operated by your platform are separate from Travel Archive's backup feature. Android automatic app backup is disabled; other system backup behavior depends on the platform and device settings.

Active records remain locally until you delete them. Deleted memories, places, trips and books can remain in the app's Trash for 30 days unless you permanently delete them earlier. Expired items are removed when the app next performs its cleanup; this may not occur while the app is closed. Media still used by another record can remain for that record.

Deleting an app record does not automatically delete original photos from your system library, exported files, external backups, or copies already shared with others. Manage those copies at their respective destinations. Deleting local data also does not automatically erase providers' existing server logs. Public content may be cached on your device for reuse. You can remove app-local data using the app's deletion controls or your operating system's app-data removal functions, where available. We cannot remotely restore an archive we do not hold.

We use the app's private storage area and HTTPS for the online service requests described here. Password-protected backups use encryption; this does not mean every local database, photo or exported document has separate app-level encryption. No storage or transmission method is completely secure. Device access controls and keeping your backup password private also protect your information.

If you contact us, we process your email address, message and any attachments or diagnostic information you choose to provide to respond and resolve your request. Do not send your archive or sensitive attachments unless needed. Our email/support provider is Netlen. The retention period or criteria for correspondence and related copies are 12 months after the request or issue is resolved.

Privacy requests: privacy@travelarchive.app. App support: support@travelarchive.app.

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to information, access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, data portability, withdrawal of consent and complaint to a competent data protection authority. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing based on consent. We do not use your data for solely automated decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects.

For questions or requests about your data, contact privacy@travelarchive.app. We may ask only for information needed to verify your request. We cannot view or erase your local archive remotely because it is not on our servers; use the app’s local deletion controls for that data.

Travel Archive is not specifically directed at children. We do not request dates of birth for account registration because there are no accounts. Where a child's use requires parental authorization under applicable law, that authorization must be obtained. Contact us if you believe a child's personal information has been sent to us improperly so we can assess and address it.

Netlen hosts this website. When you visit, the web server processes your IP address, requested URL, access time and browser/device information to deliver pages and protect the service; these details may be recorded in access logs. We do not use advertising, usage analytics or tracking cookies on this site. Visiting this policy website is separate from using the app.

We will update this policy when relevant practices change and show the effective date. Material changes will be communicated appropriately; where fresh consent is required, a policy update alone will not substitute for it. Questions and requests: privacy@travelarchive.app.

Effective date: 2026-10-01.