Travel Historian Privacy Policy

Effective August 21, 2026

Our privacy promise

Travel Historian does not sell precise location data, personal travel history, or personal information. The TestFlight beta contains no third-party advertising or tracking SDK.

Location

With your permission, Travel Historian sends your current coordinates to the Travel Historian service to find nearby historical places, plan a tour, and return grounded stories. A raw coordinate request may remain in the bounded story queue only while that request is pending; it is cleared when the request completes, fails, or is cancelled. We do not maintain a personal location history.

Generated historical stories and public site coordinates may be cached and reused without being linked to your identity.

Explorer Progress

The app creates a random Privacy ID and a default display name, which you may change. The service stores that ID, display name, aggregate points, selected badge, and opaque achievement tokens. These records do not contain exact coordinates or place names.

Joining the leaderboard is optional and off by default. Only the display name and aggregate achievement information are published when you opt in.

Information kept on your iPhone

Downloaded offline packs, preferences, beta access credentials, and a copy of Explorer Progress are stored on your iPhone. Beta credentials are protected by the iOS Keychain. Deleting the app removes its locally stored content, subject to normal iCloud or device-backup behavior controlled by Apple.

Service providers

Our hosting and security providers process network information such as IP address, request time, and endpoint for delivery, abuse prevention, and security. Historical-source services receive geographic search queries. AI services receive historical evidence and site context needed to draft or narrate a story, but not your Privacy ID or display name.

We require providers processing app data for us to protect it consistently with this policy and use it only to provide their service.

How information is used

• Find nearby historical sites and produce grounded stories.
• Plan requested historical tours.
• Deliver, secure, diagnose, and improve the Travel Historian service.
• Provide optional Explorer Progress and leaderboard features.
• Cache and reuse non-personal historical content to improve performance and reduce generation cost.

Retention

Pending location requests are cleared from the durable job record at the end of the request. Reusable historical stories, public-site information, and narration audio may be retained long term because they are not personal travel records. Pseudonymous Explorer Progress is retained until deletion is requested. Operational security records are retained only as long as reasonably necessary for security, reliability, and legal obligations.

Sharing and sale

Travel Historian does not sell precise location, travel history, or personal information. We do not share app data for cross-app tracking or third-party targeted advertising. Service providers receive only the information needed to operate their portion of the service.

Your choices

You may deny or revoke location permission in iPhone Settings. Offline packs remain usable without location permission. You may leave the leaderboard at any time.

To request deletion of server-side Explorer Progress, email [email protected] with the Privacy ID displayed in Status → Privacy Policy or Explorer Progress → Explorer Profile. Deleting the app removes locally stored data from that iPhone but does not by itself identify which pseudonymous server record to delete.

Children

Travel Historian is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

We will update this policy before introducing a materially different use of personal information. Information collected for one purpose will not be repurposed or sold without the notice and consent required by law and Apple policy.

Contact

Questions and privacy requests may be sent to [email protected].