Updated September 26, 2026
Drift collects no data about you. Not "minimal data", not "anonymised data": none. To show you places and events it does go online: when you tap, it asks Apple Maps and Ticketmaster, sending a location rounded to about a kilometre and nothing that identifies you. What you save stays on your iPhone. I have no accounts, no analytics, no server, and no way to see what you search or save.
Your interests, your saved and completed places, your saved events and your route searches are stored in a database on your device.
Drift talks to exactly two outside sources, and both fire only when you tap something.
Neither request happens when you open the app, in the background, or on a schedule. Both are disclosed on the Settings screen under "Where the data comes from".
Tap Get tickets on an event and Drift opens Ticketmaster's own page in an in-app browser, only at that tap. Tap Look it up and Drift opens a Google search for the event in the same in-app browser, only at that tap. Ticketmaster's and Google's own privacy policies apply to what happens on their pages from there; Drift sends nothing of its own along with you.
If you buy tickets through Get tickets, Ticketmaster may pay Drift a small commission. It costs you nothing. To credit the sale, the link can pass through Impact, the company that runs Ticketmaster's affiliate program, and their own privacy policy applies to that step. Drift sends nothing about you.
The photographs shown while Drift is opening a place are bundled inside the app itself and fetch nothing. The Look Around scenes and map pictures you see on a place come from Apple's own MapKit, requested when you search, the same as the place data itself.
Drift asks for your location only when you tap something that needs it, and uses the coordinate on your device to build a search. The place you searched around is kept on your phone so Drift can show you the same results when you come back; only a rounded copy, about a kilometre, ever leaves the phone, as the search itself. It is never sent anywhere I control, because I do not run a server. You can also type a city instead of sharing your location, and the app works the same way either path.
If you turn on reminders, they are scheduled by iOS on your device from what you have saved. Nothing about them leaves the phone.
Deleting the app removes everything Drift stored on that phone. There is no other copy, because Drift has no server and no account to keep one in.
Earlier versions of Drift used an AI service and a places-verification service to generate suggestions, and used RevenueCat to manage a subscription. Version 2.0 removes all three. Nothing in the current app sends anything to any of them.
Drift is not directed at children under 13 and collects nothing from anyone.
If this policy ever changes, the effective date above changes with it.
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