Privacy
Last updated 4 November 2026
WayFriend turns a short conversation about your trip into a day-by-day guide. To do that it has to know things about the trip — some of them personal, like where you are staying and when you fly. This page says what is kept, who else sees it, and how to take it back.
What we keep
- Your account: your email address, the name you give, and, if you sign in with Google, Google's identifier for your account.
- Your trips: the conversation, the trip details it collects — destination, dates, flights, where you stay, who you travel with — and the guides written from them.
- Your travel preferences, if you fill them in on your profile.
- Usage: what each request to the model cost, and which steps you took (signed in, started a trip, got a guide, opened it), with the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer) and whether a step failed or ran out of tokens. In your own guide we also note which days you looked at, when you open a place or a route in maps, when you tick a checklist or mark a stop, and how long the page was open. This is how we count your tokens and see whether the product works. It holds no trip details.
- What you ask to change in a guide, in your words, and whether the change worked — kept with the guide, to see what guides get wrong, and deleted with your account.
- Your IP address, in memory only, to limit how often one address can send sign-in links or join the waitlist. If you use the conversation before signing in, its cost is recorded against your IP address instead of an account. We do not keep a log of the pages you request.
- Opening a sample guide in the public library: which guide, which site sent you, the kind of device, and what your browser says it is (its name, version and operating system) — no IP address and no cookie. This tells people from automated visitors.
Who else sees it
- Anthropic runs the AI model. Your conversation and trip details are sent to it to write the sketch and the guide. Anthropic does not train its models on this data.
- Resend sends the sign-in emails, so it receives your email address.
- Google, only if you choose to sign in with it.
- Pixabay receives the names of the places in your guide, to find photos of them — nothing about you.
- When you open a guide, your browser loads map tiles, weather, fonts and the map library from OpenFreeMap, OpenStreetMap, Esri, OpenTopoMap, Open-Meteo, Google Fonts, cdnjs and jsDelivr. They see your IP address, as any website you load does.
- Hetzner hosts the server, in Germany.
We do not sell your data, show ads, or share it with anyone not listed here.
Shared links
If you share a guide, anyone with the link can open it — including where you are staying, if the guide says so. Stop sharing from the guide or your profile and the link stops working at once. Shared guides are not indexed by search engines.
How long it stays
- Your account and trips stay until you ask us to delete them.
- A conversation started without an account is deleted after 30 days.
- A sign-in lasts 30 days, or until you sign out everywhere.
- Backups are kept for 14 days, then deleted.
- When you delete your account, its trips, guides, preferences and links are deleted with it. The record of what the model cost stays, without your name or any trip.
Your choices
From your profile you can sign out on every device. To get a copy of everything your account holds, or to delete the account, write to us and we will do it.
Cookies and storage
One cookie keeps you signed in. A guide remembers in your browser which stops you have marked as visited and how you like map pins shown. There are no tracking or advertising cookies.
Children
WayFriend is not meant for anyone under 16.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that matters, we will say so in the app before it takes effect.
Questions, or a request about your data: wayfriend26@gmail.com