Privacy Policy
Carnet turns lists of real places into a passport booklet you stamp by going there. This page says what Carnet keeps, why, who handles it, and how to delete it. Short version: Carnet keeps your books and stamps so they're there when you come back, never sells anything, shows no ads, and doesn't track you.
What Carnet keeps
- An account. Every install gets an account so your books save, even if you never sign up. If you sign in with Apple, Carnet keeps the identifier Apple gives it. Carnet doesn't ask Apple for your name or email. To let Carnet cancel Sign in with Apple when you delete your account, it also keeps a token from Apple that only Carnet's server can read.
- Your books. Book names, cover colors and icons, and the places in each book (name, area, map coordinates, and Apple Maps place ID).
- Your stamps. For each stamp: when you stamped it, whether it was stamped at the place or from somewhere else, and the location your phone reported when you stamped it.
- Photos you add to a stamp, resized, so they show on your other devices after you sign in.
- Your subscription status (Carnet Plus) and how many books Carnet has built for you this month, so the monthly limit works. Apple handles payment; Carnet never sees your payment details.
Location
Carnet asks for your location while you use the app, to check whether you're at a place when you stamp it and to suggest places near you. It does not track you in the background. The only location Carnet saves is the one recorded with each stamp.
Who handles your data
- Supabase hosts Carnet's database and photo storage.
- Anthropic receives the description you type when you ask Carnet to build a book (for example "best hikes in Kauai"), through Carnet's server, to write the list of places. Your account, stamps and location are not sent with it. Anthropic doesn't use it to train its models.
- Apple provides Sign in with Apple, Apple Maps search and map imagery (including Look Around), and in-app purchases, under Apple's own privacy policy.
- Wikimedia (Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons) receives the map coordinates of a place in one of your books when you open it and have no photo of it yet, so Carnet can show a free, credited default photo. Your phone asks Wikimedia directly, so Wikimedia also sees your IP address. Your location, account and stamps are not sent.
Carnet doesn't sell your data, share it with advertisers or data brokers, or use it to track you across other apps and websites.
Deleting your data
In Carnet, open Settings and choose Delete account. That removes your account, every book, stamp and photo from Carnet's servers and from your phone. Photos you saved to your Photos library stay there. Deleting your account doesn't cancel a subscription; manage that in your Apple ID settings. If you never signed in, "Delete all data on this phone" does the same for this phone's account.
Children
Carnet isn't directed at children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect their data.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the date above changes and the app links to the new version. Questions or requests: kawika.beaman@hotmail.com.