Busly Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Busly and specialized Busly apps (e.g. GT Buses) developed by Alex Perez. If you have any questions or comments regarding this policy, please feel free to contact me directly.

Location
You can enable location permissions to see your location on the map, view nearby stops, highlight the nearest stop to your location, and get distances from your current location to particular stops. Your location will never be sent to our servers but it may be used by Google AdMob for providing more geographically relevant advertisements (see “Google Mobile Ads” section below). This can be disabled at any time by turning off the app’s location permissions in the iOS Settings app.

Notifications
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

Agency:

The agency for which you want to receive notifications

Provider:

The provider the agency belongs to (e.g. Nextbus, Passio)

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.

NextBus + Passio
Transit information (including bus locations, time predictions, route configurations, etc.) is provided by NextBus or Passio and queried at regular intervals in order to keep it as up to date as possible. All requests made to these services will include the following information:

IP Address:

Numeric label for identifying device on a network

User Agent:

Contains information like the app name and additional versioning fields

Please refer to the NextBus or Passio privacy policy for more information.

Backend Server
Bus data for some transit agencies, as well as specific requests for things like buildings data or the list of supported agencies will be retrieved via our own backend server. Each request will include information utilized for backwards compatibility, serving the appropriate response data, as well as analytics purposes. In addition to the IP Address and User Agent described in the above section, the following fields will be sent:

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)

Google Mobile Ads
To support further development, advertisements are delivered via Google AdMob, which may collect, share, and/or use user data for serving personalized advertising. See the Google privacy policy for more information.

In App Purchases
If you prefer to not see ads, a “Remove Ads” in-app purchase is available that will permanently remove all advertisements within the app. This one time payment is processed directly through your Apple iTunes account and can always be restored if the app is ever deleted and reinstalled.