Privacy Policy

Hometrail · Updated September 2026

Who we are

Hometrail is a travel journal app made for family use. Its server is run by the developer at home, not by a company. There are no ads and no tracking.

What we collect

• Account: the anonymous user identifier from “Sign in with Apple” and the display name you provide. We never see your Apple ID password, and if you choose to hide your email, we don't get it either.
• What you record: trips, legs, expenses and to-dos.
• Documents: flight itineraries, hotel confirmations, tickets and similar PDFs or images you import.
• Photos: compressed copies of photos you add to a trip, and originals uploaded while on Wi‑Fi and charging. The capture time and location embedded in photos (EXIF) are kept to place them in your trip and on the map.

If you don't sign in, everything stays on your phone and nothing is uploaded.

Document recognition

Reading and understanding documents happens entirely on your phone (Apple's text recognition and on-device Apple Intelligence). The recognized text is never sent to us or to any third party. Only the document files you choose to save are uploaded.

How data is used and who sees it

Data is used only to provide the app's features. Your trip content (including photos and documents) is visible only to family members you invite to the same trip. We don't sell or share any data with third parties, and nothing is used for advertising.

Exchange rates come from European Central Bank public data (via frankfurter.dev); these requests contain no personal information.

Storage and security

Data is stored on the developer's home server in Italy, transferred over encrypted connections (HTTPS), and backed up daily.

Deletion

You can delete your account at any time in the app under “Account → Delete Account”: trips you created (including all photos and documents) are permanently deleted; in trips owned by others, what you added stays with the other family members. You can also delete individual items, photos or documents within a trip.

Contact

For any questions, contact: the Account screen in the app