Trip Detection & Location Disclosure
NarraLife™ LLC · Life Story Compiler · Effective: June 19, 2026 · Last updated: June 27, 2026
This Trip Detection Disclosure explains how the optional "Notice my trips" feature in Life Story Compiler, operated by NarraLife (NarraLife LLC), uses your location — what we sample, how it's stored, and how to turn it off — so you can decide with full information.
What this feature does
"Notice my trips" is an optional, off-by-default feature. When you turn it on, Life Story Compiler quietly notices when you've travelled somewhere meaningful and offers to turn it into a memory — "Looks like you went to ___ — want to record it?" You're always in control: nothing is saved as a journal entry unless you choose to.
What's sampled
While the feature is on:
- Only while the app is open. We sample your location only when Life Story Compiler is in the foreground. There is no background or always-on tracking.
- Coarse, low-power readings. We take an approximate location reading on open and occasionally while you keep the app open — using low-power settings, not precise high-accuracy GPS.
- Lightly, not constantly. A new point is only kept when you've moved a meaningful distance or enough time has passed — to keep things light on your battery and your data.
Only your own location
This feature tracks only your own location — never other people. It records nothing about anyone around you, and it is not a way to see where friends, family, or anyone else has been.
How it's stored & protected
Your location data is tied to your account and handled carefully:
- Encrypted at rest. Your coordinates are stored encrypted on our backend, so raw locations are not readable straight from the database.
- Owner-scoped to you. Only your account can read, write, or delete your travel data. We never sell it or share it for advertising.
- Processed only to notice trips. Your locations are used to learn your usual places (like home and work) and to spot real travel — nothing else.
- No lookup until you engage. Detecting a trip never looks up a place name. A readable place is only ever requested at the moment you tap a trip prompt to start a memory — and only if you've allowed place-name lookups. If you ignore or dismiss the prompt, your destination is never turned into a place name at all.
Sensitive places
Some places are personal in ways a place name shouldn't assume. When you tap a trip prompt, we sort the destination into one of three levels and offer it accordingly — and a place is only ever a suggestion you can edit or remove, never something saved for you:
- Everyday places (like a city, park, or restaurant) may be offered as a named suggestion you can accept or change.
- Could-be-personal places are only ever offered as a broad area (like a neighborhood or city), never the specific spot.
- Sensitive places — anything that could reveal something private, such as a medical, religious, legal, or support location — are never named. We simply offer to help you write about the day in your own words.
Whenever we're unsure, we treat a place as more sensitive, not less. You can also turn on "Extra careful with sensitive places" in Settings so anything that could be personal is only ever offered as a general area.
You're in control
You can manage this feature at any time:
- Turn it off instantly. Toggling "Notice my trips" off in Settings stops all sampling and deletes your stored location samples, learned places, and any pending trip prompts.
- Delete individual data. You can remove any detected trip or saved place.
- Quiet, gentle prompts. Trip prompts are capped to a small number each day (just one by default, and you choose how few in Settings), and you can switch on quiet hours so none arrive overnight. There are no streaks, scores, or reminders to "catch up" — only a calm, occasional offer.
- Pause any time. You can pause prompts for a week or a month — or tap "Show these less often" on a prompt — without turning detection off, and resume whenever you like.
- Decline or revoke permission. You can deny location permission, or revoke it later in your device settings, and the feature simply stops.
Permission
Before your device asks for location permission, we show a plain-language reason so you know why. Granting permission only lets the app read your location while it's open — there is no background permission requested.
What's coming later
Today, trip detection runs only while Life Story Compiler is open — there is no background location and no push notifications. Automatic background detection (noticing a trip even when the app is closed) and push notifications on arrival are coming in a future version. They are not active now, would require their own clear, separate opt-in, and we'll update this disclosure before either is ever turned on.
Contact Us
If you have questions about how trip detection uses your location within Life Story Compiler, please contact us:
NarraLife LLC