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Privacy Policy

Last updated · June 20, 2026

Phileas ("the app", "we", "us") is a travel-planning app. This policy explains what information the app handles and how. Phileas keeps the trips you create on your device — we do not operate accounts or servers that store them. To understand how the app is used and to keep it fast and stable, we use anonymous product analytics and performance monitoring, described in Analytics and performance.

01The short version

  • No account, no sign-in. You can use Phileas without an account.
  • Your trips stay on your phone. Everything you create — destinations, dates, notes, accommodations, itineraries, saved links — is stored only in a local database on your device. We never receive or store it.
  • Anonymous analytics only. We use anonymous product analytics and performance monitoring to improve the app, tied to a random per-install identifier — not to your name or an account. See Analytics and performance.
  • The app uses a few third-party services (maps, photos, place lookup) to make features work — described below.

02Information stored on your device

When you use Phileas, the trips and details you enter are saved locally on your device. This can include:

  • Destinations, trip names, dates, and notes you type
  • Accommodations, itinerary days/items, and "want to visit" places
  • Links you save or share into the app
  • Map coordinates associated with those places

This information lives only on your device. It is included in your device's own backups (e.g. iCloud / Google backup) if you have those enabled, but it is never transmitted to us. Uninstalling the app, or deleting individual trips inside the app, removes it.

03Location

With your permission, Phileas uses your device location only while you're using the app ("when in use"). We do not request background or "always" location access.

Your location is used to:

  • Center the map on where you are
  • Estimate the distance from you to a trip destination (calculated on your device)

Your location is used on your device and is not transmitted to us. You can grant or revoke location access at any time in your device's system settings; the app works without it, with some convenience features limited.

04Analytics and performance

To understand how Phileas is used and to keep it fast and reliable, the app collects limited, anonymous usage and performance data. It is tied to a random identifier generated for your app install — not to your name, email, or any account.

  • Product analytics — which screens you view and broad in-app actions (such as creating a trip or saving a place), along with standard technical details like device type, operating-system version, app version, and language.
  • Performance and diagnostics — how the app performs (for example, how long it takes to launch) plus basic crash and app-version information, so we can find and fix slowdowns and stability problems.

What analytics does not include: we do not send the contents of your trips. Your notes, full itineraries, accommodations, saved link URLs, and place coordinates are not transmitted — only the limited activity and technical data described above.

We use this data solely to operate and improve Phileas. It is handled by our analytics and performance providers under their own privacy policies. Because the data is anonymous and not tied to an account, we cannot identify it as yours; uninstalling the app stops all further collection.

05Third-party services

Phileas relies on a few third-party services to power core features — maps, trip cover photos, looking up the places you search, and link previews. The relevant service receives only what that feature needs (for example, the map area you're viewing or a place name). Each provider handles that data under its own privacy policy, and we don't attach any identifier of you to those requests.

06What we do NOT do

  • We do not collect or store your trip data on our own servers (we don't run any).
  • We do not create user accounts or profiles.
  • We do not link analytics to your identity — there is no account, and the analytics identifier is random and anonymous.
  • We do not show advertising or use advertising identifiers.
  • We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information for marketing.

07Data retention and deletion

Because your trip data is stored only on your device, you control it directly:

  • Delete a trip inside the app to remove its data.
  • Uninstall the app to remove all of its local data from your device.

The anonymous usage and performance data described in Analytics and performance is held by our providers under their own retention policies; because it is not linked to your identity, it cannot be tied back to you individually.

08Children's privacy

Phileas is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your region), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

09Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the app evolves. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date above. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect for new app versions.

10Contact

If you have questions about this policy or your data, contact us at: