Haunts is a trip planner for saving places, building day-by-day plans and sharing a trip map with friends. This page explains what happens to your data and how to get help.
Haunts is published by Joshua Secker. If you have a question about this policy, email js.apps.support@gmail.com.
Trips, saved places, lists, tags, notes, itineraries, visit records, photos you attach to visits and the display name you set in Settings are stored in the app on your iPhone.
If you're signed in to iCloud, Haunts syncs this data to the private database in your iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit. It's stored under your Apple Account, and the developer has no access to it. Apple's handling of iCloud data is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
When you share a trip, Apple's iCloud sharing makes that trip available to the people you invite. They can see and edit its places, lists, plans, notes and photos, along with your display name and who added each place. You can stop sharing or remove participants at any time. Trips you haven't shared stay private.
With your permission, Haunts uses your location to show how far you are from saved places and to power the Nearby Places widget. If you turn on Nearby Reminders, Haunts asks for "Always" access so iOS can tell you when you're close to a place you want to visit, even when the app is closed.
Location is processed on your device. Haunts keeps only your most recent approximate position on the device so the widget can use it. It is never sent to us. You can change or revoke location access at any time in iOS Settings, and Haunts works without it.
When you share a link to Haunts (for example from Google Maps, Apple Maps, Instagram, TikTok or a restaurant's website), your iPhone contacts that website directly to read the place's name and address. When you import a Google Maps list, your iPhone asks Google for the list's places in the same way. That website receives an ordinary web request from your device, including your IP address, as it would if you opened the link in a browser. Haunts sends no cookies or account details with these requests and doesn't pass the link on to anyone else.
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence turned on, Haunts may use Apple's on-device language model to find a place name in a post's caption. This runs entirely on your iPhone.
Maps, place search and travel times use Apple's MapKit. Search queries and map requests are handled by Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy.
To provide a few features, your iPhone contacts these services directly. None of them receive your name, your device location or any account details, and Haunts doesn't send this data to us.
These services receive an ordinary web request from your device, including your IP address.
Reminders are local notifications created on your iPhone. Widgets, Live Activities, Spotlight results and Shortcuts read your trips on your device. None of this sends data to us.
Haunts isn't directed at children and doesn't knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
If Haunts starts handling data differently, we'll update this page and change the effective date above before the change reaches the app.
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Please include your iOS version and the Haunts version, which you'll find in Settings → About in the app.
In the other app, tap Share and choose Haunts. Haunts reads the link, finds the place and lets you pick which trip and list to save it to. You can also paste a link with Add from Link on the map.
Yes. In Google Maps, open the list under You → Saved, tap Share and choose Haunts. In Apple Maps, open the guide, tap Share and choose Haunts. Haunts shows every place in it, already ticked, so untick any you don't want, pick the trip and tap Add. Places that are already in the trip start unticked.
A Google Maps list has to be shared so that anyone with the link can view it. If Haunts says it can't open the list, check the list's sharing setting in Google Maps and share it again. Haunts imports up to 200 places from one list, and any notes you wrote in a Google Maps list come across with the places.
Open the trip and tap the share button, then invite people through Messages, Mail or a link. Everyone needs to be signed in to iCloud. Anyone you invite can add places and edit the plan, and changes show up for everyone.
Check that you're signed in to the same Apple Account on each device and that iCloud is allowed for Haunts in iOS Settings. In Haunts, open Settings to see the iCloud status and tap Sync Now.
Haunts works fully offline, so anything you add without a connection syncs when you're back online.
Nearby Reminders need notifications turned on and location access set to "Always" for Haunts in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services. They cover the places marked "Want to go" in your current trip.
See Deleting your data in the privacy policy above.