Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 14, 2026
Thatplace collects nothing. There is no account, no analytics and no server of ours. Your photos and the trips built from them stay on your device — and in your own iCloud while syncing is on. The only way we come to hold anything about you is if you write to us.
This policy covers the Thatplace app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the pages on thatplace.io. Thatplace is made by Five to Nine, LLC, a Kentucky limited liability company ("Five to Nine", "we", "us").
1. Information we collect
Information you provide
Nothing, unless you choose to write to us. If you email support@thatplace.io we receive your message, your email address, and anything you attach — because that is how email works. We use it to answer you and for nothing else. We do not add you to a mailing list, and we do not sell or share it.
If you take part in a TestFlight beta, feedback you send through TestFlight reaches us with the device model and system version Apple attaches to it, plus any screenshot you include.
Information collected automatically
None. Thatplace contains no analytics, no advertising identifiers, no tracking pixels and no third-party software development kits of any kind. It does not have an account system, so there is nothing to log you in to and nothing to log.
Apple, separately from us, provides developers with aggregate App Store statistics — how many people downloaded an app in a country, for example — and, only if you have chosen to share them with developers, crash reports and usage diagnostics. Those come from Apple's own systems rather than from anything inside Thatplace, we receive them already aggregated or anonymized, and we cannot identify you from them. You can change that choice at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements on iOS, or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements on a Mac.
thatplace.io is a handful of static files. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Our web host keeps ordinary server logs, which may include the IP address a request came from, for security and to keep the site working.
2. What the app does on your device
Thatplace asks for permission to read your photo library. With it, the app reads the date and location recorded in your photos, groups them into trips, and looks at the pictures themselves to work out what kind of place you were in. All of that happens on your device.
Thatplace never alters your photo library. It contains no code that could add, delete or edit a photo, an album or anything else in it, and a test in the build asserts as much. It does not ask for permission to add to your library, which is a second lock on the same promise.
Thatplace does not ask your device where it is. There is no location permission and there never will be — every location it uses is one already recorded in a photo you took. If you tell the app where you live, so that trips are measured from somewhere, that is a place you searched for and chose, not a reading taken from your device.
3. What reaches the network
Four things, and this is the whole list. All four are Apple services; none of them is a server of ours, because there isn't one.
- Apple Maps. Place names, details and maps come from Apple Maps. It is never sent a photo.
- iCloud Photos. If your device has offloaded one of your pictures to save space, Apple sends it back when the app needs to show it. This is Apple returning a photo you already own.
- The App Store. Buying or restoring Thatplace Pro calls Apple. Nothing about your photos or trips is sent, and we never see your payment details — Apple handles the purchase and tells the app only whether you are entitled to Pro.
- Your own iCloud. While syncing is on, your trips and places are mirrored through your private iCloud database so your devices agree. Sharing a list of places also writes that list to your iCloud, whether or not syncing is on, because the link has to have something to open.
4. Where your data is kept
On your device, in the app's own storage: your trips, the places in them, your ratings and notes, and what was read from your photos. The photos themselves stay where they always were — in your photo library. Thatplace stores references to them, not copies.
If iCloud syncing is on, the same information is kept in your iCloud account, in a private database only your devices can read. It is covered by Apple's privacy policy while it is there. Nobody else's iCloud is involved, and no server of ours is. You can turn syncing off in Settings inside the app.
5. Sharing a list of places
If you share places with someone, Thatplace writes that list to your own iCloud and gives you a link to send. It holds the places you chose — never your photos, your ratings or your notes.
Anyone who has the link can read the list, so treat it the way you would treat anything you post: send it to people you mean to. Links expire on their own after a while, and you can end every link you have ever sent from Settings → Advanced → Remove All Shared Links. Ending a link stops anyone new from opening it; it cannot take back places somebody has already added to their own copy of the app, and the app says so when you do it.
6. Deleting your data
Deleting in Thatplace removes the thing and what was derived from it. Removing a photo from a trip takes with it whatever was read in that photo; removing a place takes its name and address. Deleting the app removes its storage on iOS and iPadOS. On a Mac, dragging an app to the Trash leaves its data behind — Support explains how to remove it.
Because we hold nothing, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf. If you have emailed us and would like that correspondence deleted, ask and we will delete it.
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict the use of, or receive a copy of your personal information, and to object to its being processed. We hold no personal information about users of Thatplace, so in practice these rights reach only an email you have sent us. Write to support@thatplace.io and we will act on any such request. We will not treat you differently for making one.
We do not sell personal information and never have. We do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. There is no profiling and no automated decision-making.
8. Children's privacy
Thatplace is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. Since the app collects nothing from anyone, a child using it discloses nothing to us. If you believe a child has sent us information by email, write to us and we will delete it.
9. International use
Thatplace works the same way everywhere, because none of your information is transferred to us to begin with. Where your data goes when you use iCloud, Apple Maps or the App Store is Apple's to describe, and its privacy policy is linked above.
10. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of this page. A change to what the app does with your information is a change to the app's own Privacy screen in the same release, not a note added afterwards — that rule is written into the source, and it is the reason this page and that screen say the same things.