Welcome to Travelie. We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing a secure experience.
1. Data Collection
Authentication: We collect your name, email, and profile picture via Google or Apple Sign-In to create your account.
Location: We use your GPS location to provide accurate travel routing and to show nearby points of interest.
Travel Data: We store your trip itineraries and route preferences to provide consistent service across your devices.
2. Storage and Analytics
We use trusted industry providers to store your data and improve our service:
AWS & Supabase: For secure data and image hosting.
PostHog: For internal analytics to improve app performance and stability.
3. Financial Information (Tour Guide Payouts)
If you publish paid Tour Guides on Travelie, we collect the following financial data exclusively for processing payout transfers of your earnings:
Full Name (as registered with your bank)
IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
SWIFT/BIC (Bank Identifier Code)
This information is encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption and is used solely to transfer your earnings to your bank account. We do not share your financial data with any unauthorized third parties. You may update or delete your payout details at any time through your account settings.
4. User-Generated Content & Media
Travelie allows you to upload photos and other media ("User Content") to travel locations within your trips. How your User Content is treated depends on the visibility status of your trip:
Private Trips
When a trip is set to Private, all associated User Content — including photos, itinerary details, and location data — is treated as confidential. Private trip content is accessible only to you and to any companions (collaborators) you have invited to the trip. It is never displayed publicly or used by Travelie for any commercial purpose.
Public Trips
When you change a trip's status to Public, you acknowledge and agree that all User Content included in that trip becomes publicly accessible. By making content public, you:
Retain original copyright over all User Content you have uploaded.
Grant Travelie a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, and commercialize your User Content in any media or format, whether now known or hereafter developed, without any further notice, consent, or compensation to you.
Represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights to all User Content you upload and that such content does not infringe upon any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights.
Acknowledge that once content is made public and accessed or purchased by other users, the granted license cannot be revoked for copies already distributed, even if you later revert the trip to Private status or delete your account.
Tour Guides & Marketplace
Tour Guides are curated travel itineraries published to the Travelie marketplace. Unlike Public trips, Tour Guide content is not freely accessible — it is shared only with users who purchase the guide. The following terms apply:
Access: All locations, photos, and itinerary details within a Tour Guide are visible only to the author and to buyers who have unlocked the guide. Tour Guide content is not displayed on the public feed.
Pricing: Authors set a price in US dollars for their Tour Guide. Prices are displayed in the buyer's local currency by the respective app store (Apple App Store or Google Play).
Revenue split: The Tour Guide author earns 70% of the listed USD price for each sale. The remaining 30% is retained by Travelie as a platform fee. Earnings are credited to the author's in-app wallet and can be withdrawn via bank transfer at any time.
Content license: By publishing a Tour Guide, you grant Travelie the same perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable, and transferable license described above for Public trips, for the purpose of operating, promoting, and distributing the Tour Guide on the marketplace.
Buyer rights: Purchasing a Tour Guide grants the buyer a personal, non-transferable right to view and use the itinerary for their own travel planning. Buyers may not redistribute, resell, or republish the content.
Travelie reserves the right to remove or refuse any User Content that violates these terms, applicable law, or community guidelines, at its sole discretion.
5. Push Notifications
Travelie uses Apple Push Notification service (APNs) and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) to send you push notifications. These may include:
Social activity alerts (likes, comments, saves on your trips)
Tour Guide sale notifications and earnings updates
Trip companion invitations and collaboration updates
To deliver notifications, we store your device push token on our servers. You can disable push notifications at any time through your device settings or within the app's notification preferences. Your push token is deleted when you log out or delete your account.
6. Device Permissions
Travelie requests the following device permissions to provide its core features:
Photo Library (Read): To allow you to upload photos to travel locations and set a profile picture.
Photo Library (Write): To save generated trip itineraries and shared trip images to your device gallery.
Location: To show your position on the map and help you navigate between trip stops.
Push Notifications: To notify you about social activity, Tour Guide sales, and trip collaboration updates.
You can manage these permissions at any time through your device settings.
7. Your Rights & Data Deletion
You have the right to access or delete your personal data at any time. You can permanently delete your account and all associated personal information via the Profile Settings within the app.