Last updated: April 21, 2026
Away is a private, invite-only web app and Chrome Extension owned and operated solely by Christopher Johnson for personal use with his household. It is not offered to the general public. Access is limited to a hardcoded allowlist of Google email addresses maintained in the app's source code.
Data is used exclusively to render your vacation tracker for you and the other authorized household member. It is never sold, shared with third parties, used for advertising, used to assess creditworthiness, or used for any purpose unrelated to showing you your own vacation tracker data.
All data is stored in a personal Google Firebase (Firestore) project owned by Christopher Johnson. Access is gated by Firestore security rules that deny read and write to anyone whose authenticated email address is not on the allowlist. Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS) and at rest (per Google Cloud Platform defaults).
The app relies on these Google services: Firebase Authentication
(Google sign-in), Cloud Firestore (data storage), and Firebase
Hosting (static site). The Chrome Extension uses the built-in
chrome.identity API to authenticate you via your
Chrome-signed-in Google account. No other third-party services
receive your data.
Your data is retained as long as your account is on the
allowlist. Removing your email from the allowlist (in
firestore.rules) and redeploying the rules
permanently blocks further reads and writes. On request to the
owner, your member record and vacation entries can be deleted
from Firestore.
Questions: pkchrisjohnson@gmail.com.