Privacy and cookies

This page explains what YouVisited stores about you, who can see it, and the cookies we use.

What we store

• Your account: name, username, email address, a hashed password (or your Google account ID if you sign in with Google), bio, home country and profile photo.
• Your travel records: countries and cities you mark as visited, dates and notes, your bucket list, trips, journal entries and photos.
• Social activity: friends, friend requests, shared-trip invitations and notifications.

Photos are resized and stripped of embedded metadata, including GPS location, when you upload them.

Who can see it

You choose. Your profile can be public, visible to friends only, or private, and each trip and journal entry has its own visibility setting. Private and friends-only profiles are never shown to search engines. Your email address is never shown to other users.

Cookies

• Sign-in cookie (essential): keeps you signed in. It's only set when you sign in.
• Preferences (essential): your light/dark theme and cookie choice are kept in your browser's local storage.
• Google Analytics (optional): only if you click Accept on the cookie banner. It sets _ga cookies and tells us, anonymously and in aggregate, which pages are visited so we can improve YouVisited. Google processes this data on our behalf.

You can change your choice at any time: Cookie settings. Declining stops Analytics and removes its cookies.

Your data, your control

Signed-in users can download everything we hold about them, or permanently delete their account and all its data, from Settings.

Where it's stored

Data is stored with our hosting providers: Vercel (website and photos) and Neon (database), with emails sent through Resend.