Tourism Beats Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 16, 2026

Tourism Beats is an iPhone app for destination discovery, travel research, food journaling, and trip planning. We designed the app to keep personal data handling narrow and local-first wherever possible.

This policy currently covers the iPhone experience.

Summary

Tourism Beats does not require you to create an account to use the app.

Most information you create in the app, such as saved restaurants, trip plans, trip activities, ratings, notes, and meal photos, is stored locally on your device. The app also makes limited network requests to support specific features such as weather, city facts, Apple Music results, Spotify handoff, and remote city images.

What Tourism Beats Stores

Data	Purpose	Stored Where	Shared With Our Servers
Saved restaurants, trip plans, trip days, trip activities, ratings, notes, and statuses	Lets you keep a personal food journal and trip planner.	On-device using SwiftData.	No
Meal photos you choose to add	Lets you attach your own food photos to restaurant entries.	On-device in the app’s local Application Support storage after optimization.	No
City image cache	Keeps destination imagery loading quickly.	On-device in the app cache.	No
City fact cache	Stores fetched city facts for faster repeat viewing.	On-device in the app cache.	No
Spotify access token (optional)	Supports the optional Spotify feature if you choose to authenticate with Spotify.	On-device in the iOS Keychain.	No

What Tourism Beats Sends Off Device

Tourism Beats only sends data off device when needed to provide a feature you actively use.

Apple Weather

To show weather for a city, Tourism Beats sends the city’s catalog coordinates, not your device location, through Apple’s WeatherKit framework.

• Tourism Beats does not request your live device location for weather.
• Weather requests are based on the destination you open in the app.

Apple Music

If you use the music feature, Tourism Beats can interact with Apple Music and MusicKit to:

• load chart or playlist information for the selected city or country
• request Apple Music playback authorization from the system when you choose to play a track
• hand playback to Apple’s media frameworks

Tourism Beats does not store your Apple ID credentials.

Spotify

If you choose to use the optional Spotify handoff feature, Tourism Beats can:

• present Spotify’s sign-in flow using ASWebAuthenticationSession
• receive an access token from Spotify after you authenticate
• store that token securely in the iOS Keychain on your device
• search Spotify for a matching track and open it in Spotify or the Spotify web experience

Tourism Beats does not collect your Spotify password.

City Facts

To generate city facts, Tourism Beats requests public article summaries from Wikipedia and caches the results locally on your device for performance.

Remote City Images

Tourism Beats loads destination images from URLs in its city catalog and caches those images locally on your device for faster loading later. These image hosts may include public content hosts such as Wikimedia Commons.

What Tourism Beats Does Not Collect

Tourism Beats currently does not:

• require a Tourism Beats account
• collect your live device location
• collect contacts, calendars, health data, microphone input, or camera data
• upload your saved restaurants, trip plans, notes, ratings, or meal photos to our own servers
• use advertising SDKs
• use third-party analytics or tracking SDKs
• sell your personal information

Photos and Media

If you add meal photos, you choose those images yourself through the system photo picker.

• Tourism Beats only accesses the items you explicitly select.
• Imported meal photos are optimized and stored locally on your device.
• You can remove meal photos from a restaurant entry inside the app.

Maps and Destination Discovery

Tourism Beats uses destination coordinates included in the app’s city catalog to power map and discovery experiences.

• The app does not need your live GPS location to show supported destinations.
• Opening a city or browsing the map does not create a Tourism Beats user account.

Data Sharing

We do not sell your data or share it with advertising networks.

When you use specific features, limited information may be handled by the service providers that power those features:

• Apple for WeatherKit and Apple Music
• Spotify if you choose to authenticate and open music through Spotify
• Wikipedia for city fact summaries
• Remote image hosts referenced by the app’s destination catalog

Those providers handle data under their own terms and privacy policies.

Retention and Deletion

• Saved restaurants, trips, notes, ratings, and statuses remain on your device until you edit or delete them, or until you remove the app and its local data.
• Meal photos remain on your device until you remove them from the app or delete the related restaurant entry.
• Caches such as city facts and images may remain until the app or iOS clears them.
• Spotify tokens remain in the device Keychain as needed to support the optional Spotify integration on that device.

Children’s Privacy

Tourism Beats is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children through a Tourism Beats account system because the app does not currently use one.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as Tourism Beats evolves. When we do, we will update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at arieltyson30190@gmail.com.