Your trips are yours.

What we collect

• Account: your email address and a user ID, from signing up with email or with Apple or Google.
• What you plan: the trip requests you type or dictate, the itineraries Loci builds, and what you save, list, review or contribute.
• Location: your precise location, only while you use a feature that needs it (places near you, planning from where you are, a walk you start). Loci does not track you in the background otherwise.
• Voice: when you turn the mic on, the audio is sent to our own transcription server, turned into text and discarded. It is not sent to a third party and not kept.
• Usage: product events (screens opened, buttons used, errors) so we can see what works and fix what breaks.
• Field score: a record of what earned it (a place saved or kept, a note on a saved place, a trip stop you marked walked or skipped, a day or trip finished, a place visited, a new neighborhood or city, a confirmed report), the city and week each one counts in, and your rank. Older records of daily check-ins, searches and streaks are kept as history and no longer count.
• Notes on saved places: to decide whether a note counts toward your field score, we compare its words with the place's description. The note itself is only shown to you.

Friends

• Friends are mutual: someone asks and you accept, or you open their invite link. Only then are you friends.
• Friends see your name, username, photo and home city, your trips you share with friends, and on the friends board your weekly field score and rank. They never see your location, your phone number or your email.
• City boards: people who are not your friends can see your display name, your rank and your field score for the week in a city where you scored. They never see your saved places, trips, notes or photo. Turn this off in Settings → Notifications ("Show me on city boards").
• You can leave your friends' board in Settings → Notifications ("Show me on my friends' board"). Blocking someone ends the friendship and hides you from each other, on every board.
• Contacts: if you choose to find friends from your contacts, your phone turns each number and email into a one-way fingerprint (SHA-256) and sends only those. We compare them with Loci accounts that verified that number or email and keep nothing for contacts who are not on Loci.
• Phone number: if you choose "Let friends find you by number", we text you a code to check the number is yours, then keep it on your account so people who have it in their contacts can find you. It is never shown to anyone.
• Facebook: if you connect Facebook, we receive your Facebook ID for this app and the list of your Facebook friends who also connected Loci. We use it only to suggest those friends, replace it each time you connect, and never post to Facebook.
• Visits: when the app records a place you reached (Near me, or walking a trip day), it sends where your phone was at that moment so the visit can be checked before it counts. It is not used to track you.

How we use it

• To build, save and show your trips, and to sync them between the web and the iOS app.
• To check live conditions for the places in a plan: weather, public holidays, natural hazards and exchange rates.
• To learn which places you keep and skip, so suggestions fit your taste. You can see and delete what Loci has learned in Settings → What Loci remembers.
• To fix bugs and decide what to build next.

Who else sees it

• AI model providers (Google Gemini, OpenRouter) receive the text of a trip request to write the itinerary. They do not receive your email.
• Live-data services (weather, holidays, hazards, exchange rates) receive city names or coordinates, never who is asking.
• Maps: on the website, Mapbox serves the map tiles; the iOS app uses Apple Maps.
• PostHog stores usage events.
• Apple or Google confirm your identity when you sign in with them.
• Twilio sends the text message with your code, if you verify a phone number.
• Meta (Facebook) confirms your Facebook account and the friends list above, if you connect Facebook.
• Calendly or Telegram, only if you connect them yourself in Settings.
• We do not sell your data and do not use it for advertising.

Keeping and deleting

• Your data is kept while your account exists.
• Settings lets you export everything Loci holds about you, or delete your account.
• Deleting your account removes your trips, saves and profile, and with them your friendships, field score, badges, verified phone number and Facebook link.
• Disconnect Facebook at any time in your Facebook settings (Apps and websites); deleting your Loci account removes everything we got from it.

Children

• Loci is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Contact

Questions or requests about your data: fernandocorreia316@gmail.com. We will tell you here if this policy changes. For help with the app itself, see Support.