TravelBud does not contain advertising, analytics or third-party tracking SDKs. It does not sell personal data or use it for advertising.
Data stored on your device
TravelBud stores trips, plans, saved places, reservations, packing lists, book settings and locally cached place images on your device. A reservation may contain details you enter, such as a confirmation code or note.
You can choose photos individually or enable album suggestions. With your permission, TravelBud scans photos from the trip’s dates plus one day before and after, using the photo-library access you grant in iOS. Limited access restricts this scan to authorized photos; full access allows it to search your library. Image analysis and photo grouping run on your device. Photo-derived coordinates may be sent to Apple Maps and geocoding services to name suggested stops, before you confirm which photos to save. Photo files and local image caches are not uploaded through TravelBud’s CloudKit trip sync. Selected album metadata, including photo references, captions, capture dates and coordinates, can sync between your devices and be visible to invited trip collaborators.
Saved private travel documents and scanned document details are kept in a device-only Keychain vault protected by device authentication. They are not included in iCloud trip sync. When you share a document into TravelBud, its photo and extracted details first wait in protected temporary storage shared by the app and its Share Extension. You review the document and authenticate before saving it to the vault. The temporary copy is deleted after a successful save or when you discard the import; older pending imports are removed when the inbox exceeds 20 items.
On-device reading with Apple Intelligence
TravelBud uses Apple’s on-device Foundation Models framework, when available, to understand shared content and suggest bookings or places. Ticket recognition, boarding-pass barcode decoding and passport text recognition also run on your device. TravelBud does not send these documents or model prompts to a remote AI service. Apple Intelligence requires a supported device, enabled settings and an available model. When it is unavailable, deterministic reading and manual review remain available.
iCloud sync and sharing
When iCloud is available, TravelBud uses Apple CloudKit to synchronise trip content between your devices. This can include an itinerary, saved places and coordinates, reservations, notes, packing lists, book settings and album metadata. The data is associated with your Apple Account only for this purpose, not for tracking or marketing.
You can invite collaborators to a trip. Invitees can see shared trip content. Local ticket attachments, document-vault content, photo files and local image caches are not shared through TravelBud’s CloudKit trip sync.
Permissions and feature data
- Photos: choose photos for a trip album or allow album suggestions from the library access you grant. Image analysis runs on your device; naming suggested stops can use Apple services.
- Location: centre maps, find nearby places and save locations you add to a trip.
- Camera: scan a ticket or private travel document into the relevant local store.
- Face ID or device passcode: unlock the local document vault. TravelBud does not receive or store biometric data.
You can change permissions in iOS Settings. Declining a permission leaves unrelated features available.
Network requests
The app makes direct, feature-specific requests from your device: Apple Maps and geocoding for map search, travel-book maps and naming suggested photo stops; a webpage you choose to share to read preview metadata; selected place websites, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage or Wikimedia Commons to find place imagery; Frankfurter’s ECB-backed service for optional reference exchange rates. This release has no in-app purchase and does not contact StoreKit.
These requests are not used to profile you or to show advertising.
Feedback you choose to send
You can send feedback to feedback@travelbud.me from the app or this site. TravelBud prepares a message in your email app; the message contains only the category and text you enter. It never attaches trip data, booking codes, private documents, location, diagnostics, purchase information or screenshots. You review the message before sending.
Feedback sent to feedback@travelbud.me is forwarded through Cloudflare Email Routing to TravelBud’s monitored support inbox. Only the TravelBud account owner can access that inbox. Feedback is retained for up to 12 months, then deleted from the inbox. Contact feedback@travelbud.me if you want us to delete a message sooner.
Retention and choices
You control trip content in the app. Delete a trip, reservation, album or document to remove its local content; synced trip changes are sent to iCloud when sync is available. Deleting the app removes local app data, subject to iOS and iCloud retention settings.
Changes to this policy
If TravelBud changes its data practices, this policy and its App Store privacy details will be updated before the changed practice is released.