Terms of Service

1. These terms

These are the terms on which you may use TravelKit, a travel-record app for iPhone and Android published by Base 55 Studio LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, of 30 N Gould St, STE R, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA ("we", "us"). By downloading, opening or using TravelKit you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the app. We have tried to write them in plain language; where a sentence describes what the app does, it describes what this version of the app actually does, and we update these terms when that changes.

2. What TravelKit is

TravelKit is a personal record of where you have been and where you want to go. You scratch countries and regions off a world map, stamp a digital passport, plan trips with destinations, to-dos and notes, keep a bucketlist, and export any of it as an image or a file. Everything in it is created by you, for you. TravelKit is a record-keeping and inspiration tool: it is not a travel agency, a booking service, a navigation app or a source of travel, visa, safety or immigration advice, and you should not rely on it as any of those.

3. Who can use it

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live sets a higher minimum age for using an online service without a parent’s consent — in much of the European Union and the United Kingdom that age is 16. If you are under the age at which you can agree to a contract where you live, you may only use TravelKit with the involvement of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these terms on your behalf. TravelKit is not designed or directed at children under 13 and we ask that they do not use it.

4. TravelKit runs on your device

In this version, TravelKit stores everything you create in the app’s own private storage on your device. It does not have user accounts on a server, it does not sync between devices, and it does not send your travel data anywhere. This has one consequence you should understand before you start: your data is only as safe as your device. If you lose the device, reset it, or delete the app, the data goes with it, and we cannot recover it because we never had a copy. Use Profile → Export to keep your own copies, and keep your device backed up. If we add accounts and sync in a future version, we will update these terms and the Privacy Policy and tell you in the app before anything is uploaded.

5. Accounts and your profile

TravelKit has no accounts in this version: there is nothing to sign up for, and every feature works without one. You can put a name and a photo on your profile; like everything else, they are kept on your device only and never sent to us. If accounts arrive in a future version, we will update these terms and the Privacy Policy and tell you in the app before that ships.

6. TravelKit PRO, the free trial and billing

TravelKit PRO is an auto-renewing subscription sold through the Apple App Store or Google Play, not by us directly. It is offered at $1.49 per month or $12.49 per year, in each case after a 7-day free trial, and the price shown in your local currency is set by the store and may differ. Payment is charged to your Apple or Google account when the trial ends, and the subscription then renews automatically for the same period and price until you cancel. You can cancel at any time in your Apple or Google account settings; cancelling at least 24 hours before the current period ends stops the next charge, but it does not refund the period you are in. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Refunds, restores and billing disputes are handled by Apple or Google under their own policies — we cannot issue refunds for a store purchase. If you subscribe on one platform, the subscription is tied to that store account. Whether your subscription is active is worked out for us by RevenueCat, Inc., a subscription-management service that reads the receipt your store issues and tells the app which entitlement you hold. RevenueCat never takes payment and never sees your card or your store password — money moves between you and Apple or Google only, exactly as described above. Section 9 of our Privacy Policy sets out what it receives.

7. Read-only mode

If your free trial ends without a subscription, or a subscription lapses, TravelKit switches to read-only mode. Everything you have already created stays on your device, stays visible and stays exportable — you never lose access to your own record. What requires an active subscription is adding to or changing it: new stamps, newly scratched countries and regions, new or edited trips, to-dos, notes and bucketlist items. Subscribing again restores full access to everything that was already there.

8. Your content is yours

The photos, notes, stamps, trips, bucketlist items and map you create in TravelKit are yours, and we claim no ownership of them and no licence to use them. Because this version keeps your content on your device and never uploads it, we do not need a licence to store, display or process it, and we do not take one. You are responsible for having the right to use what you put into the app — in particular, for photographs of other people, and for anything you go on to export and share.

9. Photos and the camera

You can attach a photo to a bucketlist item, a trip, a to-do, a note or your passport data page. You choose each photo yourself, either from your photo library through your device’s own picker or by taking one with the camera. TravelKit does not browse, read or index your photo library: the system picker hands the app only the single image you selected, which is why the app does not ask for library access. The camera is different — it needs your permission, and TravelKit asks for it at the moment you tap "Take a photo", not before. You can refuse, and the rest of the app works normally. Photos you add stay on your device with the rest of your data.

10. Friends and sharing

There is no way to connect one traveller’s app to another’s in this version. TravelKit is a record of your own travels, kept on your device: there is no directory of users, no way to look someone up, and no mechanism by which another person could see any part of what you have made. If a connected version ships later it will arrive with its own terms, describing exactly what would be shared and with whom, and you will be told in the app before anything is switched on.

11. Exporting and what happens next

You can export a passport page, an open spread, an image sized for social media, or your whole passport as a set of files, and a trip as a PDF. TravelKit writes the file to temporary storage on your device and then hands it to your operating system’s own share sheet, where you choose what happens to it — save it, message it, post it, or cancel. We are not involved in that step and we never receive the file. Once you send an export somewhere, it is governed by whatever service you sent it to, and you should assume you cannot take it back. Please look at what an export contains before you share it: your passport pages carry the personal details you typed onto your data page.

12. Countries, regions and disputed territories

TravelKit counts against the United Nations list of 195 sovereign states — the 193 member states plus the Holy See and the State of Palestine — as its default. Borders and sovereignty are genuinely contested in a number of places, so Region Settings let you choose for yourself how disputed territories are counted and drawn, whether dependent territories are tracked separately, and which continent a transcontinental country belongs to. These settings change your own counts, stamps, lists and suggestions. They are display preferences that you control; neither the defaults nor the options are a political statement by us about any territory or claim.

13. Third-party data and attribution

TravelKit draws on public geographic datasets that are bundled into the app rather than fetched while you use it: map shapes derived from Natural Earth, which is in the public domain; city data from GeoNames, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; and World Heritage site data from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. This section is the attribution notice those licences call for, and you can reach it at any time from Profile → Terms of Service. These datasets are provided by their publishers as-is, and place names, borders and coordinates in them may be incomplete, out of date or disputed.

The photographs on the suggestion cards in Feeling Adventurous are bundled into the app in the same way, and every one of them is used under the Unsplash Licence. That licence grants an irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide right to use the photographs commercially and non-commercially, free of charge, without asking permission from and without crediting either the photographer or Unsplash. No attribution is required for them, which is why the app shows none, and no further clearance or mark is needed. They remain the work of their photographers; nothing here transfers ownership of them to us or to you. They are part of the app rather than part of your content: you may look at them and open them full-screen, but you may not extract, copy, redistribute or republish them out of the app, and you may not use them to assemble a similar or competing service — the one thing that licence does not permit. Photographs you add yourself are a different thing entirely and are covered by section 8.

14. Acceptable use

Use TravelKit for your own travel record. Do not put content into it that you have no right to use, that is unlawful, or that harasses, endangers or defames anyone. Do not use the app to impersonate someone or to store or distribute illegal material. Do not attempt to bypass subscription checks, reverse-engineer or tamper with the app, or use it in a way that breaks the App Store or Google Play terms you also agreed to. We may end your access if these terms are seriously or repeatedly broken.

15. Availability and changes to the app

TravelKit is under active development. Features may be added, changed or removed, datasets may be updated, and the app may be unavailable at times — for example while your device is updating it. We do not promise that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every device or future operating-system version. Where a change meaningfully reduces what you have paid for, you can cancel your subscription through your store account.

16. Disclaimers and our liability

TravelKit is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for lost data or lost profits. Our total liability to you for any claim connected with TravelKit is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or ten United States dollars. Because your travel record is stored on your device and we hold no copy of it, we are not liable for data you lose when a device is lost, reset, damaged or restored, and we ask you to use the export feature and your device’s backup. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law — including, where they apply to you, your statutory consumer rights, which these terms do not affect.

17. Deleting your data

You can remove everything TravelKit holds in two ways. In the app, Profile → Delete my data asks you to confirm and then erases your profile name and photo, your passport and its stamps, your map and region progress, your trips, your bucketlist and your pins from the device. Your preferences — language, map theme, travel buddy and Region Settings — are kept, so the app does not reset itself around you. Deleting the app itself removes everything, preferences included, because it all lives in the app’s private storage. Either way the deletion is permanent and immediate, we cannot recover it for you, and you should export anything you want to keep first. Neither action cancels a subscription: cancel that in your Apple or Google account.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as TravelKit changes. When an update meaningfully affects your rights or what we do with your information, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect and update the date shown at the top of this screen. Continuing to use TravelKit after that means you accept the updated terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the app and, if you have a subscription, cancel it through your store account.

19. Apple and Google

These terms are between you and us, not with Apple or Google. Apple and Google are not responsible for TravelKit or its content, and have no obligation to provide support for it. If TravelKit fails to conform to any warranty that applies, you may tell Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price; beyond that, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Your use of the app must also comply with the applicable third-party terms of the store you downloaded it from.

20. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the courts of that jurisdiction have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another place whose law gives you the protection of your local courts and mandatory consumer rules, nothing here removes that protection and you may bring proceedings where you live. If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, it will be applied to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.

21. Contact

Questions about these terms, about your subscription, or about anything the app does: email admin@base55.studio. A person reads every message.

TravelKit is published by Base 55 Studio LLC. Questions: admin@base55.studio