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Privacy

The short version: your trip lives on your phone first, we collect the little we need to run an account, we sell nothing, and there are no third-party trackers on this site or in the app.

Last updated 27 September 2026.

What we collect

• Your account — email address, a display name, optionally a first and last name (used so a split can say who paid), and a password that is only ever stored hashed. If you sign in with Google we store the Google account identifier instead of a password.
• Your trip content — everything you put in: itinerary events, stays, expenses and splits, decisions and votes, journal entries, and booking emails you forward to us.
• How you found us — when you visit this site we record, under a random visit identifier made in your browser: the campaign tags on the link and the site that sent you, which parts of the page you scrolled to and what you clicked, your browser's language and time zone, your screen size, your approximate location (country, and region or city where our network provider supplies it), and your device type and browser. We do not keep your IP address and set no cookie. It tells us which channels work, is attached to your waitlist entry or account if you give us your email, and is deleted after 13 months.
• Whether you want email from us — your answer to the "email me occasionally" box, the date you gave it, and which screen you gave it on. We keep the date and the screen so we can show where the permission came from, which is what the law asks of us. Changing your mind overwrites it.
• Usage data — information about how the app is used, stored under a random identifier. You can turn it off in Settings. Details below.
• Operational logs — the server writes short-lived request and authentication logs (for example "a verification email was sent") to help us fix things and to rate-limit abuse.

We do not use advertising cookies, third-party analytics tags, session recording, or any third-party script. That is also why this site has no cookie banner: there is nothing to ask you about.

Usage data

To understand how the app is used and make it better, we collect information about how it's used: for example, which features and screens are used, how people move through them, and the type of device and app version.

It's stored under a random identifier rather than your name or email, and it never includes the content of your trips or anything you type. We look at it only as totals across groups of people, never at one person. It stays on our own servers, isn't shared with or sold to anyone, and is deleted after 13 months.

We rely on our legitimate interest in improving the app. You can turn it off at any time in Settings → Privacy, and ask us to delete what's been collected by emailing [email protected].

Where it lives

The app is offline-first: the working copy of your trip is stored in your browser or device so it keeps working with no connection. A synced copy lives in our database on servers we operate, so the people you travel with see the same trip and so you can restore it on a new device.

Who else touches it

A few services help us run Globejar. Each sees only what it needs to do its job:

• Email and network: delivering our emails and the address you forward bookings to.
• Maps, place search and walking routes: they see the area or place looked up (for a walking route, its start and end), never who you are or what is on your trip.
• Sign-in with Google: only if you choose it, and only to confirm it is you.
• AI booking reader: when you forward a booking email we can't read ourselves, that one email is sent to an AI service to pull out the booking. Nothing else of yours is sent, and nothing at all if you never forward an email.

Some of these services are based outside your country. We don't sell your data or share it with anyone beyond them. Ask us at [email protected] and we'll tell you exactly who they are.

Connecting your own AI assistant

You can choose to connect an AI assistant you already use (such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini) to your trips. You set this up yourself, in the assistant and in Settings → AI connections, and nothing is connected until you do. Once connected, the assistant can read the trips you belong to, including who is on them and what has been spent, and can suggest additions, which wait in your Inbox until you accept them. It cannot change bookings or money on its own. What your assistant does with what it reads is governed by that company's privacy policy, not this one. You can disconnect it at any time in Settings → AI connections.

Email we send you

There are two kinds and they work differently.

• Email your account needs — confirming your address, resetting your password, a trip invitation, and someone accepting one you sent. You get these because you or someone you travel with asked for them, and there is no way to switch them off: a switch that stopped a password reset would lock you out of your own account.
• Email about the product — occasionally, about new features. You only get these if you ticked the box, we never tick it for you, and we send at most one a month. Every one of them has an unsubscribe link in it that needs no password, your email app's own Unsubscribe button works on it, and the same switch lives in the app under Settings → Emails from us. One tap and we stop.

We do not have a newsletter you get signed up to by accident, we do not send you anything on a schedule, and we do not put tracking pixels in our email — so we cannot tell whether you opened one, and we have not built anything that would.

Deleting your account

There is no self-serve delete button yet — this is honest rather than ideal. Ask us and we will delete your account and the trips only you belong to. Trips you share with other people stay with them, minus your personal details.

Keeping it

We keep your account and trip content until you ask us to delete it. Usage data is deleted after 13 months. Operational logs are short-lived and are not used to build a profile of you.

Children

The product is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.