Busly Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Busly by Alex Perez. If you have any questions or comments regarding this policy, please feel free to contact me directly.

Location

If you'd like, you can authorize location permissions to enable additional functionality, including seeing your location on the map, viewing nearby stops, highlighting the nearest stop to your location, and getting distances from your current location to particular stops.^[1] Your location will never leave your device and never be sent to our servers.

These features can be disabled at any time by turning off the app’s location permissions in the iOS Settings app.

Notifications^[2]

If you enable Notification permissions, the following information will be stored on our backend server in order to deliver the appropriate notifications:

Token:

Required for us to send notifications to your particular device

Agencies:

The agencies for which you want to receive notifications

Language:

For localizing notification content (assuming I ever get around to adding support for this)

App Identifier:

Required for ensuring the notification gets sent to the correct app

App Version:

To aid with backwards compatibility if notification payload changes

This data is anonymized insofar that only Apple can trace it back to a particular user and device. The Token and App Identifier will be shared solely with Apple for the purpose of requesting a notification be sent to your device. If you would like to stop receiving notifications, you can disable notification permissions via the iOS Settings app.

Server

Bus data including routes, stops, vehicle positions, arrival times, etc. as well as additional supporting data like the regions list, bus ticketing information, FAQ questions, feature flags, etc. will be retrieved via the Busly backend server.

Each request will include information utilized solely for backwards compatibility and serving the appropriate response data. This data will not be stored beyond what is needed to fulfill the request and will not be used for any other purpose. The following fields will be sent:

IP Address:

Numeric label for identifying device on a network

User Agent:

Contains information like the app name and additional versioning fields

App Name:

The name of the app

App Version:

The version of the app currently running

App Build:

The build of the app currently running

App Identifier:

The unique identifier for the application

Device Type:

The device type (e.g. iPhone, iPad)

Device Epoch:

Timestamp of the device’s current time

Device Language:

The device’s preferred language

Device Locale:

The device’s preferred locale

Device Model:

The device’s model number

OS Version:

The version of the operating system

OS Name:

The name of the operating system (e.g. iOS, watchOS)

Experiment Identifier:

Used for A/B testing (assuming I ever get around to building support for this)

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