Privacy Policy

• Account data such as email, login, and session information.
• Profile data such as username, date of birth, photos, bio, and your Travel Chemistry answers (travel style, pace, interests).
• Trip data: destinations, dates, and trip invite links you create.
• Matching, connection, messaging, and notification data.
• Travel tips you leave after a trip.
• 5pm photos, captions, and Cheers reactions, if you use Cheers.
• Your time zone, if you turn on the 5pm alert, so we know when it's 5pm for you.
• Block, report, moderation, and support request information.
• If someone enters an under-18 date of birth, we record that an attempt was made and the age in years, so we can review the account. We do not keep the date itself.
• Basic technical data needed for security, sessions, error monitoring, and logs.

We use information to operate accounts, enforce 18+ eligibility, show profiles and trips, match travelers going to the same place around the same time, support connections and messaging, send notifications (including the optional 5pm alert), investigate reports, improve reliability, and keep the service safer for users.

• Your profile, trips, and 5pm photos are only visible to signed-in F8TD members aged 18+. People you block, and people who block you, cannot see each other.
• Your exact “last active” time is only shown to people you're connected with. Others see the day.
• Anyone you send a trip invite link to can see the city, your dates, and your username. You can turn a link off at any time.
• Travel tips are shown to other travelers without your name, as “a traveler who visited in [month]”.
• 5pm photos show your username, the city, and the local time, and appear on the Cheers wall for 24 hours.

Before a 5pm photo is uploaded, the app re-saves it on your device, which removes hidden data such as GPS location, camera details, and timestamps. We only show the city, never an exact location. Photos are stored privately and shown to members through short-lived links. After 24 hours a photo leaves the wall; the file is kept for safety review until you delete it or your account. Photos that are reported may be reviewed by our team and removed.

Messages, reports, blocks, and related account information may be reviewed when needed for safety, moderation, support, legal, or abuse-prevention purposes. Reporting a travel tip or a 5pm photo sends it to our team for review; the person who posted it is not told who reported it. Do not share sensitive information you would not want processed as part of the service.

F8TD uses cookies or similar browser storage for authentication, session management, security, and basic product operation. We may add analytics or monitoring tools as the beta matures.

• Supabase: authentication, database, and file storage.
• Vercel: hosting and deployment.
• Google Maps Platform: destination search. What you type in the destination box is sent to Google to suggest places.
• Resend: sending account emails.
• Sentry: error monitoring, with personal details filtered out where possible.
• Travelpayouts (Aviasales): flight prices on your trip cards. Our server sends your home city, trip city and dates (never your name or contact details) to look up fares. “See flights” opens Aviasales, and F8TD may earn a commission if you book.

F8TD does not intend to sell personal data. If this changes or if laws require more specific disclosures, this policy should be updated before launch.

You can delete your own 5pm photo from the Cheers wall, turn off trip invite links, and turn off the 5pm alert at any time. You can delete your whole account from Profile → Delete account. That deletes your profile, photos, trips, tips, 5pm photos, chats, and connections straight away; chats disappear for the other person too. Two things are kept for safety: reports made about an account (with the username at the time and, for reports still under review, the messages between that account and the person who reported it), and, if an account was banned, a one-way scrambled version of its email address so it can't be used to sign up again. Reports you made are kept without your name.

Depending on where you live, including the UK and EU, you can ask to access, correct, or delete your personal data, or object to how we use it. Contact us using the details below. If you are in the UK and unhappy with our response, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

For privacy, account, or support requests, contact support@f8tdtravel.com. We may need to verify account ownership before acting on a request.