Effective date: August 5, 2026
Peak Passport is operated by Maxx Countryman LLC, doing business as Alpine Tech Systems. This Privacy Policy explains how Alpine Tech Systems collects, uses, shares, stores, and deletes information when you use the Peak Passport iPhone application, website, and related services (the “Service”).
1. Information We Collect
Account and authentication information
You may create or access a Peak Passport account with Sign in with Apple or an email address and password.
Sign in with Apple may provide your name, an email address or Apple private relay address, and an identifier unique to Peak Passport. We do not receive your Apple ID password.
Email authentication uses your normalized email address, a one-way password hash, verification and password-reset records, and revocable session records. We do not store your password in readable form. If you link both sign-in methods, both credentials remain attached to the same Peak Passport account. We do not automatically merge accounts because email addresses match.
Profile, hiking, and journal information
We store information you provide or create, which may include:
- your display name, email address, hiking bio, and home region;
- official and custom collections, active collections, and private user-created peaks;
- peak completions, completion dates, and the collection context in which a completion was recorded;
- notes, photos, favorites, and other journal information;
- collection invitations and public-profile information you choose to share;
- support requests and other information you send to us.
Memories, statistics, and progress views are created from your hiking and journal information.
Photos and image metadata
Photos selected from your library are uploaded as the selected image file. That stored file may retain embedded image metadata that was present when selected. When readable, Peak Passport extracts and stores the image dimensions, capture time, and GPS coordinates to support photo display and optional completion-date suggestions. Peak Passport does not store orientation as a separate database field.
Photos taken inside Peak Passport are rendered into a normalized JPEG before they enter the same durable photo and synchronization system. This preserves the visible orientation while ordinarily removing the original camera file's embedded EXIF, GPS, capture-time, and orientation metadata from the normalized copy. The normalized photo is also saved to your iOS Photos library.
Metadata may be missing, invalid, or unavailable. Peak Passport does not silently replace a completion date with a photo's capture time; you choose whether to apply a supported suggestion.
Premium and App Store information
Apple processes subscription purchases. Peak Passport receives verified transaction information needed to determine Premium access, such as product and transaction identifiers, purchase, expiration, renewal, revocation, signing, and App Store environment information. A Peak Passport account token may associate verified App Store state with your account. We do not receive your full payment-card details.
Premium status, administrative testing grants, and a signed, time-limited offline entitlement lease may be stored to provide and protect Premium access.
Product analytics
Peak Passport records limited first-party product events in its own database. Current events cover account creation; collection viewing, previewing, starting, stopping, and opening; peak search and completion filtering; peak completion; and photo or note creation and updates.
Event properties may include internal collection or peak identifiers and names, the selected filter, and search-query length. Peak Passport does not record the raw search text. The application does not include a third-party analytics SDK.
Website, waitlist, and shared links
If you join a launch waitlist, we store the email address you submit and limited campaign, source, status, and timestamp information.
If you create a collection-progress invite or enable compatible public-profile sharing, the information you choose to publish can be viewed by anyone who has the link. Invite tokens are stored as one-way hashes. Public invite pages expose only the limited presentation information required for the shared experience.
Device and technical information
Our servers and service providers may receive IP addresses, request paths and timestamps, app or operating-system information sent with a request, session information, and sanitized operational or error logs. Logs are designed not to contain passwords, verification codes, raw session tokens, email-message bodies, or service credentials.
2. How We Use Information
Alpine Tech Systems uses information to:
- create, authenticate, secure, and support your account;
- provide collections, completions, notes, photos, Memories, sharing, and Premium features;
- save changes locally and synchronize them when a network is available;
- send account verification, password recovery, and other transactional email you request;
- process verified App Store state and restore eligible purchases;
- prevent abuse, investigate errors, and maintain reliability;
- understand use of existing product features;
- respond to support and privacy requests;
- enforce the Terms of Service and comply with law.
We do not sell personal information or use it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
3. Your Hiking Data
Your hiking memories belong to you. Peak Passport stores your completions, notes, photos, and related content only to provide the features you request.
Deleting your account removes user-owned hiking content from Peak Passport's active systems as described below. Peak Passport is not intended to be the only copy of important photographs. Keep original photos and other irreplaceable records in your Photos library or another backup you control.
4. Offline Storage and Synchronization
Peak Passport keeps account-scoped data on your device so authenticated users can use supported features without a network connection. This may include cached collections, peaks, completions, notes, photos, Memories, image files, Premium lease information, and pending completion, note, or photo changes.
Authentication secrets are stored in the iOS Keychain. Offline files use iOS file protection and remain separated by account. Cached data may remain after logout so the same account can return offline. Account deletion removes the account's Keychain identity, offline snapshots, pending changes, pending media, and account-scoped caches from the device.
Pending changes synchronize in the background when service is available. Network interruption may delay synchronization. Peak Passport preserves queued content rather than deleting it because Premium status cannot temporarily be refreshed.
5. How We Share Information
We share information only as needed for the following purposes.
Service providers
- Apple provides app distribution, Sign in with Apple, iOS Photos access, StoreKit purchases, and verified App Store transaction state.
- Render provides application hosting and managed PostgreSQL database infrastructure.
- Cloudflare provides private R2 object storage for uploaded photos and collection covers, and Pages hosting for the public website.
- Resend delivers account verification and password-recovery email using the address you provide. Transactional email uses support@peakpassport.app for replies.
These providers process information under their own terms and privacy practices while providing services to Alpine Tech Systems.
Sharing you initiate
Peak Passport can create images locally for the native iOS share sheet. The destination you choose then handles the shared image under its own privacy practices.
Official collection-progress invitations and any previously enabled public profiles disclose only the information presented by that sharing feature. You can revoke collection invitations. Contact support@peakpassport.app if you need help with previously published profile information.
Legal, security, and business needs
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law or valid legal process, investigate fraud or abuse, protect users or the Service, or complete a merger, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets subject to applicable law.
6. Storage and Security
Account and application data are stored in PostgreSQL infrastructure provided by Render. Uploaded photos and custom-collection covers are stored privately in Cloudflare R2 and are read through authenticated Peak Passport services. Website pages are hosted by Cloudflare Pages.
We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. No electronic system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Retention
We retain account and hiking information while your account is active and as needed to provide the Service. Short-lived verification, reset, session, idempotency, rate-limit, backup, and operational records are retained only as long as needed for their stated security or operational purpose, subject to applicable law.
When account deletion archives verified App Store transaction evidence, the resulting immutable audit records are retained for seven years and then permanently purged under the documented retention process. These records contain no Peak Passport user ID, appAccountToken, Apple subject, email address, authentication credential, administrative-grant link, or internal profile identifier. They cannot identify a deleted Peak Passport account or restore deleted hiking data. They exist only for operational, accounting, fraud-prevention, support, or legal purposes.
Account-free App Store notification receipts may be retained when needed to process notifications safely, prevent duplicate processing, and meet operational or legal obligations. Information may also remain temporarily in encrypted backups or security logs until their normal retention cycles expire.
8. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, receive, object to, or restrict processing of personal information, and to appeal certain privacy decisions. Contact support@peakpassport.app to make a request. We may need to verify your identity.
You control the information you enter, the photos you select, whether you apply a photo-date suggestion, which native share destination you use, and which collection invitations you keep active. Device and Photos settings control camera and photo-library access.
9. Account Deletion
You can initiate account deletion in Peak Passport Settings. Deletion requires a current authenticated session and fresh proof from a linked Apple or email credential.
Account deletion removes the account, linked credentials, active sessions, profile, completions, notes, photos, custom collections, private peaks, collection state, Premium entitlement, administrative grants, and other user-owned product data. Referenced photo and cover objects are removed from object storage. Local Keychain identity, offline files, pending media, and account-scoped caches are also removed.
Account deletion does not cancel an Apple subscription. Manage or cancel subscriptions through Apple. If you later create a new account, Restore Purchases can use newly verified App Store state to restore eligible subscription access, but it cannot restore the deleted identity or hiking content.
Only the deidentified transaction audit described in Section 7 may be retained from account-linked App Store transaction records.
10. Children
Peak Passport is not directed to children under 13, and Alpine Tech Systems does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Contact support@peakpassport.app if you believe a child under 13 submitted personal information.
11. International Use
Peak Passport is operated from the United States. Information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate. Privacy protections may differ from those in your country.
12. Third-Party Services and Links
Third-party websites and services have their own terms and privacy practices. This Privacy Policy does not govern information after you choose to share it to another service or follow an external link.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy. We will publish the revised policy with a new effective date and provide additional notice where required.
14. Contact
Questions or privacy requests may be sent to:
Alpine Tech Systems
support@peakpassport.app
https://peakpassport.app