Your Data & Deletion

How to export or erase everything

Last updated 20 August 2026

What this page is for

The Privacy Policy explains your rights. This page is the practical version: which button does what.

Seeing your data

Everything Travelogue holds about you is visible in the app: your profile, your reviews, your passport, your friends, your bucket list and your goals. There is no hidden layer.

Exporting everything

Settings has an export that writes your entire diary to a single file you keep. It needs no account, no server and no request to us, and you can import it on a new device.

It is worth knowing what an export is not: it is a snapshot from the moment you took it. It helps if you took one before losing your phone, and not at all if you did not. If that worries you, sync is the answer.

Deleting a single review

Open the review and tap the bin icon. It goes immediately, along with its photos, documents and the passport stamp it earned.

Turning sync off

Switching back to keeping your diary on your phone deletes the copy we hold of it. That is a real deletion from our systems rather than a flag that hides it, and backups follow within 30 days. Your diary stays on your device.

It does not un-share the entries you shared. An entry set to Friends or Public stays where you put it until you set it back to Private, because withdrawing your writing from the people you gave it to is your decision to make and not a side effect of a backup setting. To take one back, open it and set it to Private — our copy of it goes then.

Un-sharing an entry

Open the entry and set it to Private. Our copy is deleted, it disappears from your friends' feeds and from search, and it stays on your device as it always was.

One honest limit, which is true of anything ever shared anywhere: we cannot recall what somebody has already read, remembered or screenshotted. Un-sharing stops it being available; it cannot undo it having been available.

Deleting your account

Deleting your account removes your profile and everything you created, including anything you shared, and cannot be undone. If you keep your diary on your phone and have never shared an entry, signing out and clearing the app's stored data has the same effect, because we never held anything of yours.

What survives deletion

Aggregate counts that cannot identify you — for example how many reviews mention a country — may remain in leaderboards. Nothing that identifies you is kept.

Where the law requires us to keep something, such as a purchase record for tax, we keep only that record and only for as long as required. The retention section of the Privacy Policy lists each period.