Grand Tour ItalyPrivacy
The short version: nothing leaves your phone.
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The app's privacy policy
_Last updated: 26 September 2026_
The short version
Grand Tour Italy has no accounts, no sign-in and no server of its own. It collects nothing, transmits nothing about you, and contains no analytics, no advertising and no third-party tracking SDKs.
That includes crash reporting: there is no Crashlytics or Sentry in this app. When something goes wrong the error is written to a log on your device, which you can read, copy, clear or email from Settings → Report a problem. It is sent nowhere unless you send it.
What is stored, and where
Everything the app remembers is stored on your device using the operating system's own app storage, and nowhere else:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Bookmarked towns, sights and restaurants | So the Saved tab works offline |
| Trips you build, and their names and notes | So an itinerary survives a restart |
| Towns you check in to, and the date of each | So your Been there badges add up, and can show when you earned them |
| The towns and sights you opened most recently (the last 20) | So the Trip planner can take you back to them; Clear there, or Reset local data in Settings, empties it |
| Your language and appearance choices | So the app opens in the language and light or dark look you picked |
| Which one-time notes you have closed (the tour invitation, the booking note) | So each is shown once, not on every launch |
| Local tips you write, and the ones you shortlist | So your own notes are there next time |
| A first name, if you type one into a tip | So a tip you write is attributable to you, by you |
| A short log of recent errors (the last 20) | So you can report a problem with what actually happened |
None of it is uploaded. There is no backup to a server, no sync between devices, and no copy anyone else can read. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.
Backups you make
Settings → Back up trips and saved places puts your trips and saved places in one file and opens your phone's share sheet. You choose where it goes: your files, your own cloud storage, or an email to yourself. The app does not upload it and keeps no copy. Check-ins are not included. Restoring reads only the file you pick, when you pick it, and adds what is in it to what you already have.
Reading phrases aloud
Listen, on a phrase, hands that Italian phrase to your phone's own text-to-speech engine and nothing else. The app uses only an Italian voice installed on your phone, so it works with no signal and the phrase is not sent to an online voice; if no Italian voice is installed, the app says so. Nothing is recorded, and the microphone is never used.
No email address, phone number, contact list, photo library, precise location or advertising identifier is requested or read. Approximate location is read only as described under Your location.
Your location
The app reads your location only when you tap Check in on a town, and only approximately: Android's approximate permission, never precise and never in the background. It compares the reading with that town's centre on your phone, to confirm you are there, and then discards it. Your position is never saved, never logged and never sent anywhere; what is kept is the town and the date.
Nothing else in the app reads your location. You can turn the permission off in your phone's settings at any time; check-ins then simply cannot be confirmed, and everything else works as before.
Network connections the app makes
- Nothing on launch. The towns, sights, festivals and photographs are bundled in the app, so the whole catalogue works with no connection at all.
- Partner listings, where a partner is configured: the app asks that partner's API for listings for the region you are looking at. The request carries the place, not you.
- Google Places, only in builds where the optional ratings feature is switched on: a restaurant lookup sends the town name to Google.
When you tap a partner link
Booking, ticket, rail and transfer buttons hand off to that company's own site or app — Booking.com, GetYourGuide, Tiqets, TheFork, Trainline and others. From that point their privacy policy governs what happens, not this one.
Those links carry an affiliate identifier so that a booking can be credited to this app. The identifier describes the app, not the person tapping it: it contains nothing about you, your device or anything you have saved.
Maps, phone and email
Directions open Google Maps with a destination, on the web or in the Maps app, and Google's privacy policy applies there.
The nearest train, bus and ferry buttons, and nearest hospital and pharmacy, open a Google Maps search for that kind of place with no location attached. Google Maps then looks near the phone's own position. Any use of your location for those searches happens inside Google Maps; these buttons send no position of yours.
Opening a route in Google Maps sends the names of its stops to Google Maps as a directions link. Sharing a route or a town hands its name and a Google Maps link to whichever app you choose in your phone's share sheet; nothing is sent until you pick one.
The emergency and roadside assistance numbers open your phone's dialler with the number filled in. The app does not place calls and sees nothing about them.
Sending a local tip, or a correction to the guide, opens your own mail app with a draft already written. The app never sends mail itself, so nothing leaves your phone unless you press send in your mail app — and then it goes to the project's own inbox, not to a third party.
Other services the app links to
Some buttons open another service with nothing but a place name: Meetup and Eventbrite for meetups and events near a town, the Tripadvisor and Rick Steves Italy forums, Airbnb, and Google Maps searches for reviews, trails and taxi ranks. WhatsApp opens only when you choose to send a taxi message, with the text you picked and no recipient.
Whatever you do there — signing in, posting, joining, messaging — happens in that service, under its own privacy policy. This app has no account with any of them, sends them nothing about you, and receives no data from them. That is also why the app has no feed, reviews or meetups of its own: those would mean holding other people's posts on a server, which this app does not have.
Your calendar
Add to calendar, on a festival, opens your own calendar app with the festival filled in, and you decide whether to save it. The app asks for no calendar permission, never reads your calendar and never learns whether you saved anything. (On Android this is the system's calendar insert intent, which needs no permission by design.)
Supporting the project
On Android the support button opens an external page. On iOS it uses Apple's in-app purchase, so Apple handles the payment end to end. The app never sees card or account details on either platform, and nothing is granted in return for a contribution.
Children
This is a general-audience travel guide. It is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the updated text ships with the app version it applies to, and the date at the top of this file changes with it.
Contact
Questions about this policy go to the project's inbox — the same address shown under Settings → Privacy in the app.