Aloha Hawaiʻi
Privacy policy
Last updated 14 November 2026
The Aloha Hawaiʻi app
No account, no advertising
The app does not ask you to create an account. It contains no advertising and does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.
Location
If you allow it, the app uses your location on your device to show where you are on the map and, during a road trip, to follow your drive and open each stop as you arrive. You can turn location off in iOS Settings at any time; the guides still work.
Activity recording and Apple Health
When you start a hike, surf or snorkeling session, location and motion permissions support your route, distance and activity statistics. Location recording can continue in the background while a session is active, including with the screen locked. With your separate Apple Health permission, the app can read relevant workout and fitness measurements, such as heart rate, energy, distance and steps, and save completed workouts to Apple Health. Detailed Health and activity records are processed on your device. When you use Aloha AI, app-recorded activity completion summaries (activity type, place and completion time) and achievement counts may be included in the context sent to our server and OpenAI for personalized answers; this excludes heart-rate readings and recorded route traces. We do not sell this information; we do not send HealthKit data to our AI server or use it for advertising. You can stop recording in the app and manage Health permissions and saved workouts in Apple Health. Deleting the app does not automatically delete workouts saved in Apple Health.
Aloha AI
When you send a question to Aloha AI, the text of your question, the language you use and the guide context needed to answer are sent to our server and to OpenAI, which generates the answer. If you choose to speak, the microphone is used only while you are talking and your voice is sent to OpenAI to be understood and answered. Please do not share sensitive personal information in a question. The server keeps a random install identifier and a count of usage so that included usage limits work.
Photos, camera and Lens
The camera and photo library are used only when you choose to: to add pictures to your gallery, or to use Lens to read text or identify what you photograph. Your pictures stay on your device unless you share them yourself or send one to Aloha AI.
Calendar and Reminders
If you allow it, My Trip can add the trip events and reminders you choose to Calendar and Reminders. The app asks first, and you can remove access in iOS Settings at any time.
Purchases
Purchases are handled by Apple. We never see your card or your Apple Account details. The app receives only a confirmation of which guides you own.
Weather, maps and media
Maps come from Apple. Forecasts are requested for the place you are viewing from Apple Weather and Open-Meteo. Photos and audio are delivered by Cloudinary. These services receive ordinary request information, such as your IP address, in order to respond.
Children
The app is a travel guide for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13.
Your choices and contact
You can revoke any permission in iOS Settings, and deleting the app removes the data it stored on your device. To ask a question or request deletion of server-side AI usage records, email giovanni@giovanniv.com.
This website
This website does not ask you to create an account and does not use advertising cookies. The hosting service processes ordinary request information to deliver and secure the site. Images and audio are delivered by Cloudinary; typefaces may load from Google Fonts. Contacting us by email shares the information you choose to send. In-app privacy information and permission prompts apply separately to the application.