Cove Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 10, 2026

Cove (“Cove”, “we”, “us”) is an app for planning trips with friends. This policy explains, in plain words, what information Cove uses, why, who else sees it, and the choices you have.

The short version:

• We use your information only to run Cove for you and the people you plan with.
• We never sell your information, never show ads, and never track you across other apps or websites.
• You can delete your account and data at any time from the app.

1. Information you give us

Your account. When you sign in with Apple, Google, or Microsoft, we receive your name and email address, and we create an account ID for you. You can also use Cove without an account; then your trips stay on your phone.

Your trips. Trip names, dates, the towns you’re staying in, the days’ plans, places you add, likes, notes, the names of people on the trip, and amounts in the bill. If you share a trip, this information is stored on our servers so everyone you invite sees the same plan.

Bookings. Details of bookings you add (for example flight numbers, hotel names, dates, confirmation codes, and prices), whether you paste them or Cove finds them for you.

2. Information you choose to connect

Email (Gmail or Outlook). If you connect your email, Cove reads your messages only to find travel confirmations (flights, stays, rental cars, tours, restaurant reservations). Access is read-only: Cove never sends, deletes, or changes email. Our mail service looks at messages when you check for bookings and passes booking details back to your phone. It does not keep the content of your emails. It keeps your email address and the access token that lets it check again, until you disconnect or delete your account.

Cove’s use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. We do not use Gmail data for ads, do not sell it, do not use it to train AI models, and do not let people read it, except where you ask us to for support, where the law requires it, or where it is needed for security.

Calendar. If you allow it, Cove reads your calendar to find flights and hotels, and adds your trip plan to your calendar only when you tap “Add the plan to my calendar.”

Location. If you allow it, Cove uses your location once to suggest your home city. Nothing is saved until you confirm the city. Cove does not track your location.

Camera and photos. If you scan a receipt, the photo is read on your phone to split the bill. Receipt photos and profile photos stay on your phone.

3. Services that help run Cove

To show places, photos, weather, and exchange rates, Cove sends only what’s needed (a place name, a search such as “dinner in La Fortuna”, or map coordinates) to these services. We never send your name, email, or trip details to them.

• Google Places: place suggestions, details, and photos.
• Unsplash: trip photos.
• MET Norway and NASA POWER: weather forecasts and typical weather for a place.
• open.er-api.com: currency exchange rates.
• Google public holiday calendars: public holidays where you’re traveling.

When Cove drafts a day-by-day plan, it may send the trip’s places, dates, and preferences (never names, email addresses, or confirmation codes) to Anthropic, which helps write the plan and does not use it to train its models.

These services also help run Cove:

• Clerk: sign-in.
• Cloudflare: hosts our servers and stores shared trips and email connections.
• Apple Push Notification service / Expo: trip update notifications, if you turn them on.

Each service handles information under its own privacy policy.

4. How we use information

Only to: - run Cove’s features for you and the people on your trips; - keep Cove secure and prevent abuse; - answer you when you contact us.

We do not sell or rent your information. We do not use it for advertising. We do not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

5. Who can see your trips

Only you and the people you invite. Anyone with a trip’s invite link can join that trip, so share links only with people you trust. You can reset a trip’s invite link at any time. If you “send a plan” to a friend, they get a copy of the places and days only. No people, bookings, confirmation codes, notes, or bill are included.

6. Keeping and deleting your information

• Delete your account: Home → ••• menu → Delete account. This removes your sign-in, disconnects email, and clears Cove’s data from your phone.
• Shared trips stay with the other people on them after you leave or delete your account, because the trip belongs to the group. To remove a trip for everyone, use Delete this trip before deleting your account.
• Disconnect email or calendar at any time: Home → ••• menu → Calendars & mail, or from your Google or Microsoft account settings.
• Information on our servers that is no longer needed is deleted.

7. Security

Information is sent over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Shared trips are protected by private invite codes, and each email connection is protected by a secret that only your phone holds.

8. Children

Cove is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.

9. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example in the EU, UK, or California), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your information, or to object to how it’s used. You can do most of this in the app. For anything else, email us and we’ll respond within 30 days.

10. Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change is important, we’ll tell you in the app.

11. Contact

Cove Email: help@covetrips.com