Privacy
Sabaidee · last updated 25 August 2026
The Sabaidee app works with no account at all, and nothing in it requires you to make one. Almost everything it does happens on your phone and reaches nobody. The exceptions, including the account you can choose to make, are listed below.
Business owners sign in too, on this website rather than in the app, to claim a listing. That needs an email address and nothing else: no password, only a code sent to you.
What stays on your phone
The places, the fares, the phrases, the guides, the transit table and the language you choose are all stored in the app itself. They are not uploaded, not backed up to us, and not readable by us. Deleting the app deletes them.
The last few destinations you opened are remembered so you can show the same card again. That list never leaves the device.
If you choose to sign in
Signing in gets you two things: your plan follows you to a second phone, and a review you write carries your name instead of nobody's. Nothing else in the app changes, and nothing in the app ever requires it.
Signing in itself needs only an email address: no password, only a code sent to you from notifications@champaai.com. Once signed in you can, if you want to, add a display name, a first and last name, a country, a phone number, a date of birth and a photo. Every one of those is optional and shown back to you as a plain field you can leave blank, change or clear at any time.
This is the same account across Sabaidee, Champa Chat and Laos Alert: sign in once and it works in all three. A photo you add is stored privately and only ever handed out as a short-lived link, never a public address anybody can keep.
Ask us to delete your account and we delete it, the same way we do for a claimed business listing below.
Your location
The app asks for your position for three things: to name the province you are standing in, to centre the map, and to attach a position to an SOS if you send one.
- Location is used while the app is open. There is no background tracking and no location history.
- Your position is not stored on our servers unless you send an SOS.
- Refusing the permission costs you the map centring and the province line. Everything else works.
When you send an SOS
The SOS screen has one button that leaves the phone. If you press it, this is sent and nothing else:
- Your position and its accuracy, if the phone has one
- What you chose from the list of what has happened, or other if you chose nothing
- A photo, only if you attached one
- The app version, so a faulty release can be traced
No name, no phone number, no email, no device identifier. Photos go to private storage that is not publicly readable. This record is kept so somebody can act on it and so a call can be reviewed afterwards.
Sabaidee is not an emergency service. The phone numbers on that screen are the emergency services. The SOS is a second channel and never a replacement for calling.
What is fetched while you use it
- Warnings and events come from our database. Reading them sends no personal data.
- Map tiles and nearby places come from OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap, and routing from OSRM. Those services see the requests your phone makes, as any map does.
- The translator sends the sentence you typed to MyMemory, and only when you press Translate. Do not type anything private into it.
- Exchange rates come from open.er-api.com once a day and carry nothing about you.
Analytics
There are none. No tracking, no advertising identifiers, no third party analytics, and nothing sold or shared with anybody.
Children
Sabaidee is a travel tool for adults. It is not directed at children and collects nothing that would identify one.
Having an SOS record deleted
Because an SOS carries no identifier, we cannot look one up by name. Write to us with the approximate time and place and we will find it and delete it.
If you run a business here
Claiming a listing stores your email address, the name and phone number you give us, and the photograph you send as evidence that the place is yours. The evidence photograph is private: only staff can open it, and it is never shown in the app.
Anything you then publish on the listing, photographs, a menu, prices, a description, is public by design. That is the point of it.
Travellers can report a listing from the app without an account. A report records what they objected to and which place it was about, and nothing about who they are.
Ask us to delete your account and we delete it, with your claims and the evidence photograph. The listing itself stays, because it describes a place that still exists, but it stops belonging to you and goes back to what the map says.
Changes
If this ever changes in a way that affects what leaves your phone, the date at the top changes with it and the app will say so on the screen that does the sending.
Contact
Sabaidee is made by XaPH Dev, a one person studio, as part of Champa AI.