# Data Stored in the European Union

> Your trips live on servers in the European Union, under the GDPR. Nobody buys your data, and you can export every trip whenever you like.

- URL: <https://lugara.me/features/data-privacy-in-the-european-union>

* Your trips and account stored in the European Union
* No ads, and nobody buys your data
* A full backup to download whenever you like

Your trips, your account, and your profile photo live on servers in the European Union, under the GDPR. There are no ads, and nobody buys what you record.

## Private Until You Share

Your profile starts private, so only you see your trips until you make it public. Your tax residency numbers stay private even then. Lugara's page analytics run on our own server and count visits anonymously.

## Outside Services Get Only What They Need

Some features rely on other services. When you add a trip with a sentence, the sentence goes to OpenAI to read the city and the dates, and the city name goes to Mapbox to find it on the map. Payments go through Stripe. The [privacy policy](https://lugara.me/privacy) lists each service and what it receives.

## Take Your Data With You

Download a full backup of your account as JSON whenever you like, and restore it into Lugara later. With Lugara Pro, you can also export your trips as CSV or Excel for spreadsheets, or as GeoJSON or KML for mapping apps such as Google Earth. [Lugara Product Brief #2](https://lugara.me/log/product-brief-02) introduced these formats.

In your account settings, you can delete all your trips, or your account together with its trips. [Start your private travel log](https://lugara.me/auth/signup).

## Read More

- Docs: [Export Your Trips](https://lugara.me/docs/export-your-trips): Download everything you've recorded in Lugara whenever you like.
- Docs: [Import Your Travel History](https://lugara.me/docs/import-your-travel-history): Bring your past trips into Lugara from a file instead of adding them one by one.

## More Features

- [Delightful Travel Map](https://lugara.me/features/interactive-travel-map): Every trip you add lands on a beautiful and interactive globe. You'll see at a glance the countries you've been to, the cities you visited, and the routes between your stops.
- [Blazing Fast Trip Entry](https://lugara.me/features/blazing-fast-ai-assisted-trip-entry): Write where you went, when, and how you got there in one sentence. You get the trip with its city, dates, and transport worked out, whether it lies behind you or ahead.
- [Travel Statistics and Insights](https://lugara.me/features/travel-statistics-and-insights): See how many days you've spent away, how far you've traveled, and which places you keep going back to. Your Exploration Score sums up how you travel and gives you a traveler type.
- [Collect Countries and Continents](https://lugara.me/features/collect-countries-and-continents): Every new country adds its flag to your pin collection, and every continent gets a card that fills up as you go. One look shows how much of the world you've covered.
- [Selective Public Profile](https://lugara.me/features/public-travel-profile): Pick a username and your map and statistics get their own address. Your profile stays private until you make it public.
- [Tax Residency for Nomads](https://lugara.me/features/tax-residency-for-nomads): See where you spent the most days each year, and which countries reached 180 days. Only you can see these numbers, even when your profile is public.
- [Sync With Your Social Profiles](https://lugara.me/features/sync-location-with-social-profiles): Turn on GitHub sync and the location on your GitHub profile follows your trips. Every few hours, it changes to the city of the trip you're on.