MeanToGo privacy policy

Last updated 13 November 2026

MeanToGo saves places you want to go to, from links, text, screenshots and photos, and shows them by country and city on a map. This policy explains what data the Android and iPhone apps use, why, who else handles it, and the choices you have.

MeanToGo is run by Raffaele La Brocca, who is responsible for your data (the data controller). Contact: raffaelelabrocca@gmail.com.

What you capture

When you save a place, the app sends what you shared or picked (a link, text, a screenshot or a photo) to our server. There, an AI model reads it and we look up the real place with Google Places. If you take a photo, where it was taken may be sent too, to find the exact place.

• Pictures are used only to read them and are never stored, on our server or by the model provider.
• Links are opened by our server to read the page or video (for example Google Maps, YouTube, TikTok or a website).
• The model is run by Groq, which doesn't keep or train on what we send it.
• Place addresses come from Google each time you open a place and aren't stored.

Your places

Places you save, with their notes, lists and where they came from, are stored on your phone.

If you sign in (with Google or Apple), they're also kept on our server so they survive a new phone and stay the same on your devices. Sign-in is handled by Google Firebase Authentication, which holds your email address (or Apple's private relay address) and a user ID. Our server stores only that user ID, not your email, together with your places, notes, lists and sources.

You can delete your account in the app (Settings), or by writing to us if you no longer have the app. That deletes your account and everything stored with it on our server, and clears the places from your phone.

Sharing places

When you share a place, a list, a city or a country, our server keeps a copy of those places as they are at that moment, and makes a link to it. Sharing needs you to be signed in. The copy holds the title you gave it and each place's name, type, category, location and city, plus your notes on them only if you chose to include them. It's stored with your user ID, not your email or name.

• Anyone who has the link can see it. Without the app, the link's page shows the title and the place names. In the app, it also shows where the places are and the notes you included.
• Chat apps that build a preview of the link (for example WhatsApp or iMessage) read the title, the number of places and a photo of the city or country from Wikimedia Commons.
• Someone who saves places from your link gets their own copy, which stays theirs.
• The copy doesn't change when you edit or delete the places afterwards.

A link works until you delete your account, which deletes every copy you shared. To take back a single link, write to us and we'll turn it off; once off, it shows nothing about what it held.

Crash reports and usage

Published versions of the app send crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics) and usage events (Firebase Analytics), such as a capture starting, how it ended and how many places were saved. They help us fix problems and improve capture. They never contain what you captured, your places or your notes.

No ads, no tracking

The app shows no ads, doesn't use your device's advertising ID and doesn't track you across other apps or websites.

Who else handles your data

We share data only with the services that run the app for us, and only for that:

• Vercel runs our server, and Neon hosts its database (accounts and synced places).
• Groq runs the AI model that reads what you capture.
• Google: Places and YouTube (finding places, reading videos), Firebase (sign-in, crash reports, usage).
• Apple, if you sign in with Apple.
• The websites behind links you share, which our server opens to read.

Some of these services process data outside the EU and UK. Where they do, they rely on safeguards such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. We don't sell your data.

Why we can use your data

• To capture, save, sync and share your places: because you asked us to (performing our service to you).
• Crash reports and usage events: our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and improving it.

How long we keep it

• What you capture: only while it's being read; pictures are never stored.
• Your account and synced places: until you delete your account.
• Places you shared: until you delete your account, or we turn the link off when you ask.
• Crash reports and usage events: as long as Firebase keeps them (up to 90 days for crash reports and 14 months for usage events).

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, object to how we use it, or withdraw consent, by writing to raffaelelabrocca@gmail.com. You can also delete your account yourself in the app. If you think we've handled your data wrongly, you can complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

MeanToGo isn't meant for children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date.