Busly Privacy Policy

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.

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.

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)