Privacy Policy

Last updated: 9 September 2026

Template notice. This policy is a good-faith description of how TREK works, but it is a template and not legal advice. Have a qualified lawyer review it against your obligations (e.g. GDPR, CCPA) before relying on it, and update the contact address below.

TREK ("we", "the service") is a travel-planning tool that helps you discover real places and build an itinerary by chatting with an AI agent. This policy explains what we collect, why, and who we share it with.

What we collect

Data	When	Why
Your name, email, and Google account id	If you sign in with Google	To create your account and save your journeys
The messages you send the agent	When you chat	To understand your request and reply
Journeys you save	When you save one (signed in)	So you can return to them
A session cookie and an anonymous message-count cookie	Automatically	To keep you signed in and enforce the free-message limit
Basic server logs (IP address, request times)	Automatically	Security, abuse prevention, and rate limiting

We do not collect payment details, and we never ask for a password — Google handles sign-in, so we never see your Google password.

How your chat is processed

To answer you, the text of your messages is sent to our AI provider, OpenAI, and — if that provider is unavailable — to our fallback provider, DeepSeek. Please avoid sending sensitive personal information in chat. Place information shown to you comes from our own corpus, built from Google Maps (via Apify), Reddit, and OpenStreetMap.

Who we share data with

Google — authentication (Sign-in).
OpenAI / DeepSeek — to generate agent responses.
Travelpayouts and booking partners (e.g. Booking.com, GetYourGuide) — only if you click a booking link; they may set their own cookies. See our Cookie Policy.
Our hosting provider, Google Cloud, where the service runs.

We do not sell your personal data.

Affiliate links

Some booking links are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Retention

Anonymous chats are not stored by us after your session. If you have an account, your profile and saved journeys are kept until you ask us to delete them.

Your rights

You can ask us to access or delete your account data at any time by contacting hello@charbel-trek.duckdns.org. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under GDPR, CCPA, or similar laws.

Changes

We may update this policy; material changes will be reflected by the "last updated" date above.