Privacy policy

The short version

Your trip stays in your own Google Sheet and on your own device. Trip Pocket has no database and never stores your trips on a server (its only server code checks licence keys), doesn't run ads or analytics, and its maker never sees your trips.

What Trip Pocket can access in your Google account

When you sign in with Google, Trip Pocket asks for two permissions:

• See and edit your Google Sheets (Google's "spreadsheets" permission), so you can open a trip from its link or an invite on any phone, including iPhone. Google words this broadly ("all your Google Sheets spreadsheets"), but Trip Pocket only opens the Sheets you add as trips. It never lists, searches or reads your other Sheets.
• Files you choose in Trip Pocket or that it creates (Google's "drive.file" permission), to choose a Sheet from Google Drive, turn an Excel file into a Google Sheet, and share a trip Sheet when you invite someone.

What it does with them

• Reads your trip Sheets to show them, and saves the changes you make in the app back to the Sheet.
• If you choose an Excel file from Google Drive, it makes a Google Sheet copy in your Drive. The original isn't changed.
• When you invite someone by email, it shares that one trip Sheet with them, and Google emails them from your account. The address goes only to Google; Trip Pocket doesn't keep it.
• It can't see your email, contacts or any other Drive files.

Where your data goes

• Between your device and Google's servers directly, over an encrypted connection. It doesn't pass through any server run by Trip Pocket.
• A copy of each trip is kept in your browser's storage on your device so it works offline. Removing the trip in the app, or clearing the site's data, deletes it.
• Your Google sign-in token is kept on your device only, expires after about an hour, and is never sent anywhere except Google.
• The name you type in the app is saved in your trip Sheet next to your changes, so everyone the Sheet is shared with can see who changed what.

Sharing

Trip Pocket doesn't share your data with anyone except the travel buddies you invite yourself. Who can see a trip is controlled by Google Sheets sharing, which you manage yourself – you can remove someone at any time with Share in Google Sheets.

Google API Services User Data Policy

Trip Pocket's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Removing access

To sign out, tap the trip name at the top of the app, then Sign out under This device. You can remove Trip Pocket's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/connections. Your Sheets stay in your Drive.

Licence keys

Trip Pocket is sold through Lemon Squeezy, which handles the payment, your receipt and sales tax. Its own privacy policy covers what you give it at checkout; Trip Pocket's maker sees the order (name, email, country) but never your card details.

When you activate a key, the app sends only the key and a device label (like "iPhone/iPad · Home Screen app · 2026-12-01") through Trip Pocket's small licence check to Lemon Squeezy, and checks it again about once a week. No trip data or Google sign-in goes with it. Joining a trip by invite and opening Excel files don't need a key.

Import from AI

The Trip Pocket prompt runs in your own AI account (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another) – Trip Pocket never sees that chat. What you paste into the app is read on your device. If you choose a Google Sheet, the app creates it in your own Google Drive from the template; otherwise the trip stays on your device only.

Offline Excel mode

If you import an Excel file with Add trip → Open Excel file, it's read on your device only and never uploaded.

Contact

Questions: use the support email shown on Google's sign-in screen for Trip Pocket.