Daily Travel Log Privacy Policy

Effective November 6, 2026

Who we are

Daily Travel Log (the website at travel.happyheartsoftware.com and the Android and iPhone apps) is made by Happy Heart Software LLC, doing business as Happy Heart Software, based in Ohio, USA ("Happy Heart Software", "we", "us"). This policy covers Daily Travel Log only.

What stays on your device

• Your home location (coordinates) and the home radius you choose.
• Your trips: date, time you left, expected return, destination and return time.
• Settings, such as your Google Sheets spreadsheet ID.

This is kept in your browser's storage, or in the app's storage on your phone. We never receive it. If Android backup is turned on for your phone, Android may include the app's data in your Google backup.

How location is used

The app uses your location only to notice when you leave and return home. On the website, your position is checked while the app is open and is used only to work out your distance from home; it isn't saved. The Android and iPhone apps ask for "Allow all the time" location so they can record departures and returns while the app is closed. They do this by giving your home location to your phone's built-in geofencing service (Google Play services on Android, Apple Location Services on iPhone), which alerts the app when you cross the boundary. Your location is never sent to us, and isn't used for ads.

Notifications are created on your phone. We don't send push notifications.

Google Sheets (optional)

If you choose to connect Google Sheets, you sign in with Google and allow the app to use the files it creates or that you choose. The app then creates a spreadsheet in your Google Drive, or uses one you pick in Google's file picker, and copies the five log columns into it: Date, Time Leave, Expected Return, Destination and Return Time. Your home location is never sent to the sheet. Your trips go directly from your device to Google.

So that the website stays signed in, it keeps Google's sign-in (a refresh token) in one cookie on your browser, dtl_google, encrypted so only our server can read it. When the website needs to reach your sheet, our server (a Cloudflare Worker at travel.happyheartsoftware.com) uses the cookie to get a short-lived access from Google and hands it back to your browser. The server doesn't store the cookie, your trips or anything else, and never reads your sheet. Sign out of Google in Settings removes the cookie and ends the app's access. The Android app keeps its sign-in with Google Play services on your phone instead, and doesn't use the cookie.

The app can see only the spreadsheets it created and the ones you pick, not the rest of your Google Drive. Daily Travel Log's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. You can remove the app's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

News by email (optional)

The news by email link opens the signup on our company blog (blog.happyheartsoftware.com), outside the app. If you sign up there and confirm, we receive your email address and use it only to email you new posts, at most once a month; the blog's privacy policy covers it. Daily Travel Log itself sends nothing when you tap the link.

Backups (optional)

Back up now in Settings saves a file with your trips, home location, home radius and Google Sheets settings. On the website it goes to your downloads; in the phone apps, you choose where it goes from the share sheet, such as Google Drive, email or Files, and that service's own privacy policy then covers the copy. We never receive it. Because it contains your home location, keep it private. Restore from backup reads a backup file you choose on your device and adds its trips to the app; nothing is uploaded.

Contact and feedback

Send feedback in Settings opens a short form. When you press Send, what you write, the email address or phone number if you choose to leave one, the app's version, and whether you use the website or the Android app are sent to Heartforms, Happy Heart Software's own form service at forms.happyheartsoftware.com (hosted by Cloudflare), under its own privacy policy. It keeps the message and emails it to the people who make Daily Travel Log. Nothing about your trips or your location goes with it, and nothing is sent until you press Send. We use your feedback to improve the app, and your contact details only to answer you or set up a chat you asked for. In the iPhone app, Send feedback opens a new email to us in your email app instead, with the app's version filled in; nothing is sent unless you send it. You can also email us at the address below, which is also where to ask for your feedback to be deleted.

What we don't do

There are no accounts, ads or crash reporting, the app sets no cookies except the Google sign-in cookie described under Google Sheets, and we don't track you across other websites. Apart from the website's visit counts described under Analytics, nothing records how you use the app. We don't sell your information or share it for advertising.

Analytics

The web version of Daily Travel Log uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits. It's run by Cloudflare, which hosts the app, not by an advertising company. It doesn't use cookies or store anything on your device, doesn't give you an identifier, and doesn't follow you to other websites, so nothing links separate visits back to you.

It records, in total across all visitors:

• which pages were viewed, and the referrer (the site that linked to the page);
• general browser, operating system and device type;
• approximate country, worked out from your IP address, which isn't used to identify you;
• how quickly pages loaded.

The Android and iPhone apps don't use it.

Services involved

• Cloudflare hosts the website, provides the website's visit counts (Cloudflare Web Analytics) and, like any web host, may keep basic request logs such as IP addresses for security.
• Google provides sign-in and Google Sheets if you connect them, the fonts used in the app (your device requests them from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address), and geofencing on Android.
• Heartforms (forms.happyheartsoftware.com), Happy Heart Software's form service, receives feedback you choose to send.
• Apple provides geofencing on iPhone.

Deleting your data

• Delete any trip from the Travel log. If Google Sheets is connected, its row is removed from the sheet too.
• Uninstalling the app, or clearing this site's data in your browser, removes everything stored on that device, including your home location.
• Your Google Sheet belongs to you; delete it in Google Drive whenever you like.

Download CSV on the Travel log page exports your trips at any time, and Back up now in Settings saves everything the app keeps on your device. Backup files you saved are yours to delete.

Children

Daily Travel Log isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has sent us information, contact us and we'll delete it.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it. Email contact+travel@happyheartsoftware.com and we'll help. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights, and we'll honor them.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll post the new version here and update the date at the top. If a change affects information we already hold, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.

Contact us

Questions about your privacy? Email contact+travel@happyheartsoftware.com.