Privacy Policy

1. Our Core Privacy Philosophy

Planet AI is engineered from the ground up as a privacy-first, on-device companion. We believe that discovering what is around you while traveling whether walking, cycling, or riding in a car or bus should never require surrendering your personal data, daily habits, or travel history.

2. Three Core Transit Features & Privacy Protections

3. Data We Process & How It Is Used

To deliver real-time spatial awareness without compromising safety:

• Geographical Location (GPS): When you enable "Live GPS Ride Mode", your browser provides latitude and longitude. Planet AI uses these coordinates strictly in-memory to calculate the relative angle and distance to nearby points of interest. Coordinates are never transmitted to remote analytics servers.
• Microphone Audio Permissions: Microphone access is requested solely when you tap the "Ask Co-Pilot" microphone for hands-free voice interaction. Microphone input is immediately terminated once your question is transcribed.
• Planet AI mobile app (Android / iOS): The app works the same way as the website: your GPS position is used on the device to find landmarks beside you, and settings stay on the device. The app has no account and no advertising or analytics trackers.
• AI Co-Pilot questions: When you ask the Co-Pilot something, your question, your last few Co-Pilot messages and a small snapshot of the app (your current position, travel mode and nearby landmarks) are sent over an encrypted connection to our server at planet-ai.online and on to our AI provider (Anthropic's Claude or Google's Gemini, depending on which we use) to produce the answer. We do not store your conversations on our servers, and they are not used to build a profile of you or for advertising. We use paid AI plans whose terms do not allow your questions to be used to train AI models.
• Your own AI key (optional): If you add your own Claude, ChatGPT (OpenAI) or Gemini API key in Settings, it is stored encrypted on your device. It is sent over an encrypted connection to our server only to answer each question you ask, passed to that provider, and never saved or logged on our servers. Your questions are then processed under your own agreement with that provider, and usage is billed to your account there. You can remove the key in Settings at any time.
• Live place names & nearby landmarks (app): While you travel with live GPS or preview a trip, the app sends your current coordinates, and points about 1.5 km to your left and right, to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim and Overpass services to find the road, area, nearby chowk and notable places around you. These requests go directly from your device, include no account or name, and are made only while you are moving.
• Saved journeys & trip history (app): Routines you save (stops, days, times) and the history of your trips (date, time, distance, journey name) are stored only on your phone. They are not uploaded to Planet AI. When you start a saved journey, the coordinates of its stops are sent to OpenStreetMap routing (routing.openstreetmap.de) to plan the road route. Reports you create are made on your phone and shared only where you choose. You can delete routines and history in the app at any time.
• Saved spots, memos & photos (app): Places you save, their memos, event times and photos are stored only on your phone.
• Share links: When you share a spot, event or journey, the link itself contains its name, coordinates, memo and time (never your photos). Anyone you send the link to can open it at planet-ai.online/share, where it is shown in their browser; we do not store shared places on our servers, and share pages are kept out of search engines. Anyone who has the link can read it, so share it only with people you choose.
• Voice questions (app): When you tap the microphone, your phone's own speech recognition service (Google on Android, Apple on iOS) turns your speech into text, in your phone's language or the language you pick. Planet AI receives only the text, never the audio.
• Place search & directions: Place names you search for, and the start and end points of routes you ask for, are sent to OpenStreetMap services (Nominatim search, Overpass, and OSRM routing at routing.openstreetmap.de) or to OpenRouteService to find places and plan routes. These services receive the request and your device's IP address under their own privacy policies.
• Local Browser Storage (localStorage): Bookmarked landmarks, saved journey journal notes, and preference settings (e.g. Driver Safe mode, Pace selection) are stored exclusively in your browser's private local sandbox.

4. International Privacy Rights (GDPR, CCPA, Global)

Planet AI adheres to global consumer protection standards:

• European Union (GDPR): You have the right to access, rectify, or erase any locally stored journal data at any time by clearing your browser cache or tapping "Clear Journal". Because we collect no identifiable telemetry, no centralized data profile exists.
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA / CPRA): We do not "sell" or "share" personal information under CCPA definitions.
• Children's Privacy (COPPA): Planet AI does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

5. Cookie & Offline Storage Policy

Planet AI is a Progressive Web App (PWA). We utilize browser Cache Storage and Service Workers (`sw.js`) so that map tiles, audio chimes, and offline route catalogs function seamlessly when you travel through tunnels, remote mountain highways, or areas with poor cellular reception. These caches contain zero tracking beacons or third-party ad pixels.

6. Contact & Privacy Officer

If you have any questions or inquiries regarding our global data protection practices, please contact our team: