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Give everyone a clear answer — possible or not — then a full plan to get there: real budget, itinerary, recommendations and procedures. No jargon, no bad surprises.

For each project, Zarya runs a web search and favours official sources (immigration services, embassies, universities). The rules shown are tied to a dated source; those that can't be confirmed are explicitly flagged as unverifiable. Since August 2026, every page has one address per language — /faq in French, /es/faq in Spanish — and declares itself a variant of the others. Search engines can therefore offer the right version to each reader, instead of indexing French only.

The budget is estimated item by item (transport, stay, visa, tuition, cost of living) from recent data. Results remain decision support: rules change, always confirm with official authorities before booking.

The budget you enter doesn't only produce a verdict: it calibrates what Zarya suggests. On a tight budget you're pointed to hostels, markets and public transport, and told plainly what isn't within reach; on a generous one, to renowned tables and private transfers. The chosen tier is shown on the result, because a silent calibration would read as an arbitrary choice. And if you don't know your budget, you can leave it out: Zarya then prices the trip you describe and returns three levels — budget, comfortable and generous — without ever judging feasibility on price. Since August 2026 that tier no longer calibrates only the advice but the booking links themselves: sorted by price and private rooms at the low end, four and five stars at the top, and the per-night ceiling passed to the platform when we know it. The “activities” line is no longer a hunch either: it adds up the price of the places actually in your day-by-day plan, plus a 15% margin, and the calculation is shown.

The free tools — country sheets, passport comparator, converter, time zones — involve no AI. The clocks — one per offset actually in use, recomputed on every view — are computed entirely in your browser from its own time database: nothing is asked of the server, no location is read, and daylight saving is right on both sides of the equator. They read local, versioned data: the 250-country base, today's rates, and twenty-one free-movement agreements drawn from public treaties. A monthly pass can additionally document destinations from those countries' own government sites; every rule kept this way carries its URL and date, and falls back to grey after three hundred days without recheck. How many destinations are actually documented right now is shown on the passport tool — it is zero until the pass has run, and the map says so. Green stays in the minority, and that is deliberate: anything unsourced shows as “to be checked” rather than being guessed.

Zarya also checks what nobody checks: the RETURN. If you live outside your country of nationality, your readmission depends on your residence permit, not your passport — a permit expiring mid-trip is enough to leave you outside. The return leg is treated as a leg in its own right. Likewise, your travel document is recorded for what it is: a refugee or stateless person's document does not open the same doors as an ordinary passport from the same country, and the analysis says so explicitly.

The “suggest me a destination” path runs in two stages, and that is a deliberate choice. Zarya first returns four or five comparable destinations: estimated budget, entry regime and lead time, a fit score broken down criterion by criterion, safety, and the thing that actually decides it for your journey — the season, tuition and proof of funds, the invitation letter, or the legal residence route. Nothing more: no itinerary, no activities, no map. Once you have chosen, the real analysis runs for that destination alone and produces the full guide, identical to one for a destination you had named yourself. Producing all five guides at once was the old behaviour: five times the wait, for four guides nobody read. Moving from one to the other is explicit: choosing a destination opens a summary — dates, travellers, passport, budget used — that you have to confirm, because an analysis takes one to two minutes and an accidental click in a list you are scrolling through should not trigger it. And the list stays available: a button brings it back with nothing to re-run, to keep comparing or to analyse another destination. Since August 2026, running an analysis requires an account — destination suggestions stay open to everyone, as do country pages and the other tools. The reason is concrete: an analysis draws on a full web search across official sources, and that is what lets every visa rule be tied to a dated source.

What we refuse to do is worth writing down. We never invent an entry rule: a wrong visa fact doesn't look wrong — it shows in green, it looks certain, and someone gets turned away at boarding. Twenty-six automatic checks run before every release; each was born from a real failure, including Croatia shown in kunas three years after it adopted the euro. Blog articles citing no official source carry a warning, and two were withdrawn in August 2026 for substantive errors. Since August 2026 the confidence level shown is no longer declared by the model but COMPUTED: visa rule confirmed on every leg, government source, source under 18 months old, precise dates, observed flight price. The breakdown unfolds under the badge, along with what would raise it — an indicator you can neither explain nor improve does not inform, it worries. The fit score of suggested destinations follows the same rule: six weighted criteria, recombined on the server, each with its justification. Since September 2026, the figures that drive a decision — tuition, proof of funds, the lead time on a residence permit — must in addition come from the body that issues the rule, and the server checks that the figure actually appears in the page cited. A compiler, however good, is no longer enough: it compiles without issuing, and it can be one reform behind. Anything that fails this check is still shown, but struck through and out of the ranking, with the reason — a study comparison had returned the same tuition for four countries, and it was seeing it in bold in a table that stopped anyone from doubting it.

Zarya works entirely without an account: your project and travel journal stay in your browser's memory, and nothing reaches our servers. An account adds four things: having your analyses save themselves to your dashboard — the only place they live — and finding them again across devices, saving a traveller profile that pre-fills your forms and sharpens your analyses, syncing your journal, and posting a review on a country page — signed with your first name and your surname's initial, never more. Sign-in is by email or Google. Everything is exportable and erasable from the account page, without writing to us.

The interface exists in French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic, with a layout adapted to right-to-left writing. Analyses are written in the language shown while you fill the form, and that language stays attached to the project: switching afterwards doesn't rewrite the result, it offers to translate it. Since September 2026 the language also follows your device on a first visit: if your phone is set to Spanish, Zarya opens in Spanish, without you having to hunt for the switcher. An explicit choice always wins and is never overwritten.

Last updated: 15 August 2026.

This page describes what Zarya actually keeps, where, for how long, and how to erase it all. It is written from the code, not from a template.

Without an account

You can use everything without an account. In that case nothing reaches our servers: your project stays in your browser's memory and your travel journal in a database local to your device. Clearing your browser data deletes them for good.

With an account

An account lets you find your projects across devices and receive your deadlines. Here is everything that is then stored:

• Account: first name, last name, email address. Via Google, only what Google passes on — name and verified address.
• Traveller profile, if you fill it in: nationality or nationalities, country and residence status, date of birth, passport issue and expiry dates, departure city, currency, and your free-text constraints.
• Saved projects: the trip parameters and the analysis produced.
• Synced travel journal: your notes, and your photos in a private storage area only you can reach.
• Reviews posted on a country page: these are PUBLIC, signed with your first name and the initial of your last name. Nothing else from your account appears there.
• Reminders: the deadlines you ask us to track.

What we never keep

• A past visa refusal. It changes the analysis, so it travels in the request — but it is stripped before any storage. It exists in none of our tables.
• Your passport number: we never ask for it.
• Your home address.
• Any payment method: Zarya asks for none.

Who else sees this data

Zarya relies on service providers. None of them receives your name or email address together with your trip parameters.

• Supabase — database, accounts and photo storage.
• Vercel — website hosting.
• OpenAI and Tavily — the analysis. They receive the trip parameters (origin, destination, budget, dates, passport, your notes), never your identity.
• Google Places and OpenStreetMap — checking the addresses of suggested places.
• Resend — sending verification and reminder emails.

For how long

• Your account and projects: until you erase them. We do not delete them on our own initiative.
• Cached analyses: 24 hours. They are indexed by a cryptographic fingerprint of the parameters, never by your identifier — that table holds nothing that names anyone.
• Your public reviews stay online until you take them down.

What you can do, right now

From your account page, without writing to us or waiting:

• Export all of your data into a readable file.
• Correct your profile, or empty it field by field.
• Delete a project, or your whole account. Deleting the account also erases the profile, the projects, the journal and the photos.

Trackers

None. No analytics, no ad network, no third-party cookie. The only cookie we set keeps you signed in; your browser also remembers your language and your draft, on your device only.

Contact us

For any question about your data, or to exercise a right the account page does not cover: privacy@zaryaonline.ca. We reply within 30 days.

Zarya provides a feasibility opinion and planning help for information only, and does not constitute legal advice. The user remains responsible for the final verification of applicable rules and for their bookings.