TEEBS privacy policy

Last updated November 2026

TEEBS is a travel budget planner for trips to Panama City. This policy explains what the TEEBS Android app and website collect, why, and the choices you have.

Your account

You sign in with Google or with an email address and password. We keep your email address, your username, and the profile settings you choose (home airport, currency, checked bags, appearance). Sign-in is handled by Google Firebase Authentication.

Trips you save

When you tap Save trip, we store the trip with your account: dates, airport, travellers, budget level, the hotel and activities you picked, any plans you added, and the flight fare you chose. This is stored in Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore) so you can open it on another phone.

Travel groups

If you start or join a travel group, the other members see your username, the trip plan the organizer shares, and the costs members add (what it was, the amount in US dollars, who paid and who it was for). Only members of the group can see it, and anyone with the group's invite code can join. The organizer can remove people from the group (costs they added stay so the totals still add up) and can delete the group, which removes the shared plan and all its costs. Deleting your account removes you from every group and deletes the groups you organize.

Trip reviews

After a trip, you can rate the hotel and the things you did with 1 to 5 stars. Each rating is stored with your account in Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore): the place, your stars, the destination and the trip it came from. TEEBS staff see the average stars for each place in our admin tools, to decide what to suggest. Other users don't see your ratings. You can change a rating any time, and deleting your account deletes your ratings.

Savings, checklist and spending

For a trip you have saved, your savings goal and savings entries, checklist ticks and spend tracker entries are stored with your account in Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore), so they aren't lost if you change phones. Only you can see them. They are also kept on your phone so the app works without data.

Reporting a problem in a group

Any member can leave a group, and can report a problem with a group or someone in it. A report stores what you wrote, your username and the group it's about, so TEEBS staff can look into it. We may remove content or accounts that break our rules.

Kept only on your phone

A trip you haven't saved yet (with its savings, checklist and spending), your reminder settings and your fare watches stay on your phone. They are not sent to us.

Flight prices and fare watch

To show live fares, the app sends your departure airport and dates to the TEEBS server, which asks our flight-price provider (Ignav). For fare watch, the app checks the watched route once a day the same way. We don't link these searches to your name or account. Exchange rates come from ExchangeRate-API.

Ads

The app shows ads from Google AdMob. AdMob may collect your device's advertising ID and information about ad interactions to show and measure ads. Where the law requires it (for example in the EU and UK), the app asks for your consent first, and you can change it in Profile > Ad privacy choices. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.

Sponsored banners

The Plan tab can show banners from TEEBS and from businesses that sponsor TEEBS, labelled "Sponsored". We count how many times each banner is shown and tapped, without recording who saw or tapped it. Tapping a banner opens the business's own website or app, which has its own privacy policy.

Affiliate links

Some booking links, such as GetYourGuide tours, are affiliate links: if you book through them, TEEBS may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. The booking site can see that you came from TEEBS; it has its own privacy policy. We don't receive your booking or payment details.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the app reminds you before your plans, nudges you about your savings goal if you turn that on, and tells you when a watched fare drops. These are created on your phone.

What we don't do

• We don't sell your personal information.
• We don't use your location. "Use my location" only uses your phone's time zone to suggest an airport.
• TEEBS picks are personal recommendations. We have no sponsors.

Keeping and deleting your data

We keep your account and saved trips until you delete them. You can delete a saved trip in the Trips tab, and delete your whole account in the app: Profile > Delete account. That removes your account, username, profile, saved trips (with their savings, checklist and spending) and trip ratings, removes you from your travel groups and deletes the groups you organize. See how to delete your account.

Security

Data is sent over encrypted connections (HTTPS) and stored with Google Cloud and Firebase. Each person can only read their own account data, and only members of a travel group can see that group.

Children

TEEBS is not directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If we change this policy, we'll update the date above. Questions? Contact us through the app listing on Google Play.