Terms & Privacy Policy
What you're agreeing to, and what we do with your data.
Plain-English version, because you shouldn't need a law degree to know where your data goes or what you're signing up for. This page covers Shared Voyage (shared-voyage.com) — the Terms of Use come first, then the Privacy Policy.
Effective 2026-09-18
Terms of Use
By creating an account or using Shared Voyage, you agree to these terms. If you're using it on behalf of someone else (like your family), that's fine — you just vouch that they're okay with this too.
Using the service
- You keep what you make. Your trips, plans, and everything you type into Shared Voyage are yours. We claim no ownership of your content.
- Don't abuse it. No attempting to break, scrape, overload, or disrupt the service, and no using it to do anything illegal.
- One account per person. Create your own account rather than sharing credentials — trips are built around who's collaborating, and shared logins break that.
- We may change or retire features. It's a live product that's still growing. If we remove something material, we'll say so here first.
The email import feature
If you use your private forwarding address to turn booking confirmations into trip items, you confirm you're only forwarding mail you're allowed to handle. Drafted items always wait for you to review and add them — nothing lands on your calendar automatically.
Availability and disclaimers
We run the service as reliably as we can, but it's provided "as is" — no guarantee it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We're not a travel provider: we help you organize trips, but we don't sell, book, or refund flights, hotels, or activities, and we're not responsible for what those companies do with your bookings.
Liability
To the maximum extent allowed by law, Shared Voyage isn't liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from use of the service — including lost trip data. Keep exports of anything you can't afford to lose.
Signing up, signing off
You can stop using the service any time. To delete your account and all associated trips, send us a request through the Feedback page from the address on the account. We may suspend accounts that clearly violate these terms, and we'll tell you why.
Changes to these terms
If we change these terms in a way that matters to you, we'll update the effective date on this page — and for anything significant, we'll notify you in-app or by email before it takes effect.
Privacy Policy
Here's the data part — what we collect, what we store, and what we never touch.
Google user data
When you sign in with Google, we request exactly three OAuth scopes — openid, email, and profile — which give us:
- Your name — shown to your trip collaborators so they know who edited what.
- Your email address — used to create and recognize your Shared Voyage account. We check Google's
email_verifiedclaim and only accept verified addresses. If your email matches an existing Shared Voyage account (for example one created with a password), we link the two so you keep the same trips. - Your Google account ID (the
subclaim) — a stable identifier so the same Google account maps to the same Shared Voyage account. If an email is already linked to a different Google account, we refuse the link rather than merge them.
We do not request access to your Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, or any other Google data. Nothing beyond name, email, and account ID leaves Google via sign-in.
What the app stores
- Your trips and shared-collaboration data — plans, items, invites, and edits — stored on our servers so everyone you invite sees the same calendar.
- Your profile — name, email, and an optional avatar image you choose to upload.
- Email import is opt-in and temporary — if you connect your own mailbox so booking confirmations turn into trip items automatically, you choose what gets forwarded. Once a message is parsed, the source email is deleted from the mailbox (IMAP
\Deleted+EXPUNGE). We keep the extracted trip items, not your inbox.
Who sees your data
Only the collaborators you invite to a trip. Trips are private by default; nothing is public, searchable, or visible to other Shared Voyage users unless you add them to your trip.
No selling. No trackers.
We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties. Our site carries no advertising or analytics trackers — no Google Analytics, no gtag, no third-party pixels. We keep our own minimal server logs for security and debugging, nothing more.
Deleting your account
There is no self-serve delete button yet. To delete your account and your trips, send us a request through the Feedback page from the account you want removed, and we'll take care of it.
Contact
Questions about these terms or your data? Reach us through the Feedback page — it's the fastest route to a human.