Privacy policy

Last updated: September 27, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Meridian handles information when you use the Meridian Passport app, website, and related services.

New passports are public by default after profile setup. You can make your passport private in Settings.

1. Who is responsible for your data

Meridian is operated by Meridian, a personal small business registered in Denmark under CVR 46426703.

Privacy contact: support@meridianpassport.com.

Postal address: Meridian, c/o Marinus Traynor, Guldsmedgade 24, 2. mf, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.

2. Information Meridian handles

Depending on how you use Meridian, we may handle account and sign-in information; profile, residence, avatar, social-link, and visibility information; country marks, bucketlist marks, Passport Stamps, dates, descriptions, tags, mentions, photos, and Passport progress; follows, Nice activity, notifications, community and leaderboard information; reports, blocks, moderation, feedback, and support information; and legal acceptance records.

Meridian and its providers may also receive technical information needed to operate and protect the service, including IP addresses, device or browser information, server requests, authentication records, errors, security logs, and push-notification tokens.

Meridian does not sell personal data or use advertising trackers. Meridian does not currently use third-party product analytics or third-party crash-reporting tools.

3. Find My Stamps and photo access

Find My Stamps is optional and runs only when you start it.

With your iPhone photo-library permission, Meridian reads photo creation dates and embedded location coordinates within the photo range you select. It uses your residence country and existing Passport Stamps to help group possible travel and avoid duplicates.

The scan runs locally on your iPhone. Meridian does not send scanned photos, precise photo coordinates, or photo-library identifiers to its servers or to a third-party scanning service. The scanner does not upload or analyse the visual contents of your photos.

Temporary photo metadata is kept only for the active scan and is not saved to Meridian's servers or local database.

The scanner produces possible countries and Passport Stamps. You can review, edit, or remove them. Only results you choose to add, such as country names and Stamp dates, are sent to Meridian and stored as Passport data. Scanning a photo does not upload that photo.

This differs from manually choosing a photo for an avatar, Passport Stamp, or another feature. Photos you deliberately choose to upload are stored by Meridian so they can be displayed through the service.

If you grant limited photo access, Meridian can scan only the photos available under that permission. You can change or withdraw photo access in iPhone Settings. Withdrawing permission does not delete Passport data you previously chose to save.

Find My Stamps provides suggestions only. It does not make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

4. How information is collected and used

Information is collected when you create an account, enter or upload content, use Find My Stamps, change settings, interact with social features, submit reports or feedback, allow notifications, or connect to Meridian's services.

Meridian uses information to create and manage accounts and Passports; save and display travel information; run Find My Stamps and other requested features; operate public and private modes; provide social, search, and notification features; moderate content; investigate reports; prevent abuse; provide support; maintain security and reliability; and meet legal obligations.

Where EU or UK law applies, Meridian relies on performance of its agreement with you and steps you request, consent for permissions such as photo-library or notification access, legitimate interests in operating and securing the service, and legal obligations.

You can withdraw device permissions through iPhone Settings. You can separately edit or delete saved information through Meridian.

5. Public, private, and aggregated information

When your passport is public, other users may see your public profile, Passport Stamps, uploaded photos, country progress, travel activity, social links, follows, Nice activity, and community, search, or leaderboard presence.

When your passport is private, other users cannot browse your passport, individual country marks, Passport Stamps, or uploaded photos.

Visited countries, bucketlist countries, and residence countries from public and private passports may contribute to Meridian's anonymous Global map. That map shows relative colour intensity and does not show identities, individual marks, exact user counts, or exact percentages.

Private information includes email addresses, private Passport content, reports you submit, blocks, notification tokens, account settings, and legal acknowledgement records.

6. Service providers and sharing

Meridian shares information only where needed to operate the service, protect users, comply with law, or respond to valid legal requests.

Current providers include Supabase for authentication, databases, storage, logs, and security; Expo for app build services and push-notification delivery; Vercel for website hosting and technical logs; Resend for administrative report and feedback emails; Google Workspace for support and business email; and Google Fonts for website fonts and related request information.

Providers receive only the information needed for their role and are required to apply appropriate protection. Apple processes App Store and device-related information under Apple's own policies. Optional social links connect users to third-party platforms under those platforms' policies.

Meridian uses development tools including ChatGPT and Codex, but they are not integrated into the consumer app and are not intended to receive account data, private user content, support messages, or moderation records.

7. Storage, retention, and deletion

Meridian may store limited session information, offline Passport changes, and cached Passport or community data on your device.

Account, profile, Passport, and social information is generally kept while your account is active or until you delete the relevant content, reset travel data, change privacy settings where deletion applies, or delete your account.

Support, security, and moderation records are kept only while reasonably needed for support, safety, abuse prevention, legal obligations, or unresolved matters.

Deleted information may remain temporarily in protected provider backups until normal backup rotation removes it. It is not returned to ordinary app use.

Account deletion removes your account and associated data from normal use. Reports about your account or content may be anonymised where necessary to maintain safety records.

8. Security and international processing

Meridian uses authentication, access controls, database permissions, storage controls, and limited administrator access to protect information. No online service can guarantee perfect security.

Meridian operates from Denmark. Providers may process information in the EU, United States, Singapore, or other locations where they operate. Where required, Meridian relies on recognised transfer safeguards such as adequacy decisions, applicable provider agreements, and Standard Contractual Clauses.

9. Your choices and rights

You can edit your profile and Passport information, review scanner suggestions before saving them, change photo and notification permissions through iPhone Settings, make your passport private, remove content or social links, reset travel data, delete your account, and contact Meridian regarding access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or portability requests.

Depending on where you live, additional legal rights may apply. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent without affecting earlier lawful processing.

EU and EEA users may complain to their local data-protection authority. In Denmark, this is Datatilsynet.

10. Children

Meridian is for people aged 16 and over and does not knowingly allow children under 16 to create accounts.

11. Changes and contact

Meridian may update this Policy when features, providers, practices, or legal requirements change. Material changes will be communicated in the app and may require renewed acknowledgement.

Questions or privacy requests can be sent to support@meridianpassport.com or to the postal address above.