Lucht Passport Privacy Policy
The short version: Lucht Passport does not collect your personal information. There are no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and Lucht Lab never receives where you've been. Your passport stays on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. A few features ask an outside service for something, such as the weather or what's on nearby; each is described below, with exactly what it is sent.
What Lucht Passport collects
Nothing. Lucht Lab has no server for the app, and does not receive, store or sell any personal information about the people who use it.
Your passport
Your stamps, trips, citizenships, residence permits, visas, stay limits, trip diary notes, settings and the name on your data page are kept on your iPhone. If you delete Lucht Passport, they are deleted with it, apart from any copy in your iCloud or in backup files you have made.
iCloud
If you are signed in to iCloud, Lucht Passport keeps a copy of your passport (stamps, trips, your profile and choices, and, unless you turn it off in Settings › iCloud & Backup, your diary notes) in your own iCloud account, so it follows you to your other devices. It is stored and handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy; Lucht Lab cannot see it. Photos and documents you keep as proof with a stamp are not put in iCloud. You can turn iCloud off for the app in the iOS Settings app, under your name, iCloud.
Your location
If you allow it, Lucht Passport uses your location to stamp the country you are in and find the nearest airport, and, with Pro and "Always" access, to notice when you land in a new country and stamp it for you. The country is worked out on your iPhone from borders bundled with the app. Your location is kept only as part of the stamp it makes.
Your location leaves your iPhone only in these requests:
- To Apple, to name the place, find the airport and its time zone (Apple Maps), and to get the weather there (Apple Weather), under Apple's privacy policy.
- To Ticketmaster, rounded to about a kilometre, to find events nearby for the Travel Kit (see below).
If you say no to location, you can still stamp arrivals by hand, and the app works the same apart from finding where you are.
The Travel Kit
The Travel Kit, at the back of your passport, shows the weather, the time, essentials, money, holidays and events for where you are, or at home for your next trip. The plugs, emergency numbers, tap water and tipping are bundled with the app and need no connection. The rest comes from these services, each asked only for what it needs, with nothing that identifies you:
- Weather, from Apple Weather (WeatherKit): the place's position, as above. Forecasts are kept on your iPhone for half an hour.
- Events nearby, from Ticketmaster's Discovery API: your position rounded to about a kilometre, the dates of the next three days, and the kinds of event you choose in Settings › Travel Kit › Local events. Results are kept on your iPhone for three hours. Turn every interest off and nothing is sent. See Ticketmaster's privacy policy.
- Exchange rates, from ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com): your currency's code, such as "AUD". See ExchangeRate-API's terms.
- Public holidays, from Nager.Date (date.nager.at): a country and a year, such as "JP 2026". See Nager.Date.
- Partner offers, from this website (luchtlab.com): the list of offers, refreshed at most twice a day. The request asks for the list and nothing else; picking the offers for where you are happens on your iPhone.
As with any request over the internet, each of these services can see the internet address your device connects from. Lucht Lab receives none of it.
An event or a partner offer you tap opens that site in a browser view inside the app, or in Safari. That site may use cookies under its own privacy policy, as any website you visit can. A partner link carries only the country it's for and which tile it came from, so the partner can credit Lucht Lab for a sale; it carries nothing about you.
Your photos
Lucht Passport asks for your photo library only for two Pro features, and only when you use them. Retrace reads only the place and date saved with each photo, to find trips you never stamped; it never opens a photo, works out every country on your iPhone without the internet, and stores nothing about your library. Your trip diary shows the photos from a trip, found on your iPhone by where and when you took them; they are shown from your library, never copied or uploaded, and only your choices (which to show or star) are kept. Choosing a photo to keep as proof shows only the photos you pick.
Camera and boarding passes
The camera reads the barcode on a boarding pass to plan a trip, and a screenshot you choose is read the same way. Both are read on your iPhone; the picture isn't saved or sent anywhere.
Calendar
When you add an event to your calendar, Lucht Passport opens Apple's own form for you to save it. The app is not given access to your calendar.
Imports
A file you import from another app is read on your iPhone and isn't kept. Apple Maps finds the country of each airport in a flight log. If you ask us to support another app, an export you attach goes only in the email you send, and is deleted once its import is built.
Widgets, Live Activities and Siri
The Passport and Travel Kit widgets read a short summary (where you are, your days, your clocks, the weather and your next trip) that the app keeps on your iPhone for them. The arrival Live Activity shows the same on your Lock Screen. Siri and Shortcuts answer from your passport on your iPhone. None of it is sent anywhere.
Notifications
Notifications, such as the welcome when you land and reminders before a stay limit or visa runs out, are made on your iPhone. Nothing is sent to Lucht Lab to make them.
Purchases
Lucht Passport Pro is a subscription sold through the App Store. Apple handles the whole purchase: Lucht Lab never sees your payment details or your Apple Account.
Sharing and email
Pictures you share (your data page, a stamp, your year), exports and backup files go only where you send them, using the iOS share sheet. A shared stamp can show the local time it was struck and the weather; you can turn that off in Settings › Travel Kit. Suggestions and messages you write in the app go in an email that you send from Mail; Lucht Lab receives only what you choose to send, and uses it only to reply.
TestFlight
If you test Lucht Passport through Apple's TestFlight, Apple may share crash reports and any feedback you choose to send with Lucht Lab, under Apple's own terms. We use these only to fix the app.
Children
Lucht Passport does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Not an official document
Lucht Passport is a travel journal made to look like a passport. It isn't an official travel document or identification, and isn't connected with any government.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: support@luchtlab.com
Lucht Lab is registered at Suite 1208, 530 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia.