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Photinerary is built around a simple rule: your trip plans, your saved locations, and your photos are yours. This page describes what the app actually does with your data today.
Your saved locations, trips, shot plans, and journal entries are stored using Apple's SwiftData framework directly on your device. They are backed up and synced between your own devices only through your personal iCloud account, using Apple's private CloudKit database — the same mechanism Apple provides for any app's own data. We do not operate a server that stores this data, and we cannot see it.
Photinerary's AI trip and shot planning features run entirely on your device, using Apple's on-device Foundation Models. No prompt you type, and no location or trip data used to generate a draft, is sent to us or to any third-party AI service. Every place the assistant suggests is checked against real map data before it's shown to you, and nothing it drafts is saved until you review and accept it.
To find real places, routes, and conditions, the app makes requests to a small number of outside services, using only the coordinates or search terms needed to answer the request — not your identity or account (the app currently has no account system):
These are ordinary map/data lookups, not analytics — we don't operate advertising infrastructure and don't sell or share data with data brokers.
Photos you add to a location, shot, or journal entry are stored the same way as the rest of your data — on your device and synced through your own iCloud account. They're never uploaded anywhere else by the app.
Photinerary is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from children.
If Photinerary adds features that change what data is collected — accounts, community-submitted content, or subscriptions — this page will be updated before those features ship, not after.
Questions about this policy: support@photinerary.app
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