Privacy policy

Last updated 8 October 2026

Happy Travel keeps your trips on your phone. There’s no account to create, no server of ours that stores your trips, and no advertising, analytics or tracking. This policy explains the few things that do leave your phone, who receives them and why. It also covers our websites, happyimva.com and go.happyimva.com.

Who we are

Happy Travel and these websites are run by Maksim Karavaichyk, a business registered in Poland (“we”, “us”), who is responsible for your personal data under data protection law, including the EU and UK GDPR. You can reach us at [email protected].

What stays on your phone

Everything you add to Happy Travel is stored on your phone, not with us:

• trips, stops, dates, packing lists, steps, notes and reminders;
• the people and pets you add, including any photos you choose;
• your settings, such as your home city, nationality and language;
• emergency cards. Medical details (blood group, allergies, medication) are kept in your phone’s secure storage. If you turn on protection, they open on this phone only with your parent PIN or your phone’s Face ID or fingerprint.

We can’t see or access any of it. If you delete the app, your trips are removed from your phone. On iPhone, the few things kept in secure storage (emergency-card medical details, your parent PIN and settings such as your home city) stay in the phone’s encrypted keychain after the app is deleted, where no other app can read them. If you install Happy Travel again, it clears them before it starts. Copies you make, such as an exported backup, a shared list or your phone’s own iCloud or Google backup, stay under your control.

What leaves your phone, and why

Weather and place search: Open-Meteo

To find places and show the weather, the app sends Open-Meteo the places in your trips and settings: the names of destinations, stops and your home city or country (including while you type them), those places’ coordinates and, for trips beyond the forecast range, the month you’re travelling. It also sends the app’s language, so place names come back in it. These lookups happen automatically whenever the app shows the weather. They don’t include your own location, your name, your trip names or any identifier. Like any website, Open-Meteo also receives your device’s IP address.

Maps on emergency cards: Apple or Google

If you pin where you’re staying on an emergency card, the map and its address lookups come from your phone’s map service: Apple Maps on iPhone, Google Maps on Android. To place the map, the app sends that service the hotel name and address typed on the card (with the trip’s city), the area shown on the map and, if you tap the locate button or the map opens where you are, your current location. On Android, your phone asks for location access before it can look up addresses. The SOS screen’s “Open in Maps” passes the pinned place to your maps app. Apple’s privacy policy or Google’s privacy policy applies.

Your location

The app uses your location only while it’s open, and only if you allow it. Besides the map above, the optional Location-aware step (part of Happy Go, off until you turn it on) uses it to notice when you’ve reached a place on your trip. That check happens on your phone: your location isn’t sent to us or to anyone else. You can stop it at any time by turning off location access for Happy Travel in your phone’s settings.

Sharing lists and emergency cards

Nothing is shared unless you choose to share it.

• A shared packing list carries the trip’s name, dates and items. If you share it as a link or QR code and someone opens it in a web browser, the link passes through our website host, Cloudflare, like any web address, and the page reads the list in their browser. We don’t keep a copy.
• An emergency card is shared as a QR code or a file meant for your child’s phone, never as a web link. It carries the child’s name, your contacts, where you’re staying, any note you add and your name as the sender, but never medical details or your PIN: you add medical details on your child’s phone itself. Anyone who scans the code or opens the file can read what it does carry, so show or send it only to the phone it’s for.
• PDFs and backups you export can include names and photos. They go wherever you send them.

Subscriptions: RevenueCat

Apple or Google handle payment for Happy Go, and we never see your payment details. The app uses RevenueCat, a US company, to manage subscriptions. Each time the app starts, even if you never subscribe, it contacts RevenueCat with a random identifier created for the app and basic device and app details such as the system version and country. If you buy Happy Go, RevenueCat also receives your purchases from the store.

Emails you send us

If you email [email protected], we receive your email address and message. Cloudflare forwards it to our inbox at Google (Gmail). We use it only to answer you, and keep it only as long as we need to for that.

Reminders

Reminders are scheduled on your phone; there’s no push service. A reminder can show your trip’s name on the lock screen.

Our websites

happyimva.com and go.happyimva.com are hosted by Cloudflare. They set no cookies and use no analytics or tracking. Cloudflare processes your IP address and basic request details to deliver the pages and protect them from attacks.

Permissions the app may ask for

• Camera: to scan list and emergency-card QR codes. Nothing is photographed or stored.
• Photos: to choose a picture of a family member or pet. Only the picture you choose is copied into the app.
• Contacts: to pick an emergency contact. Only that contact’s name and phone number are saved.
• Location, while you use the app: see “Maps on emergency cards” and “Your location” above.
• Face ID or fingerprint: to unlock an emergency card’s medical details. Your phone does the check; the app only learns whether it succeeded.
• Notifications: for trip reminders.

Every permission is optional, and you can change it at any time in your phone’s settings.

Children

Happy Travel is meant for parents and other adults who plan trips. Kid mode lets a child use a locked packing list on a family phone, and parents can make emergency cards for their children. All of this stays on your phone unless you share it. If you install Happy Travel on your child’s phone to receive a card or a list, it works the same way there: it doesn’t send your child’s name or the card’s details anywhere, but like any copy of the app it contacts RevenueCat when it starts and Open-Meteo for any weather it shows. We don’t knowingly collect personal data from children.

Our legal basis

Where we or our providers process your personal data, we rely on:

• performing our contract with you, to provide the features you use and any subscription you buy;
• our legitimate interests, to answer your emails and to run and secure our websites.

Transfers outside Europe

Some of the providers above, such as RevenueCat, Google, Apple and Cloudflare, may process data outside the EU, EEA or UK. They do so under recognised safeguards, such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

How long we keep data

We don’t hold your trips at all. We keep emails only as long as we need to deal with them. Our providers keep data under their own policies, linked above.

Your rights

You can ask us to access, correct or delete personal data we hold about you, to restrict or object to how we use it, or to receive a copy of it: email [email protected]. Because your trips are on your phone, you can also see, change, export or delete them yourself in the app. If you’re unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the app or our websites handle data, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. Happy Travel has no analytics or crash reporting today; if that ever changes, we’ll say so here first.