Privacy policy

Last updated: [date]

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In short

CityDots has no accounts, no analytics and no ads, and doesn’t send your location to its server. The map inside the app comes from Mapbox, which collects usage data unless you turn it off.

Who we are

CityDots is a free iPhone app for Cluj⁠-⁠Napoca’s buses, trolleybuses and trams, made by [name], [address]. CityDots isn’t affiliated with any transit operator. Questions about this policy: [support email].

What CityDots collects

No account or sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting service and no advertising. The server keeps short-lived logs with IP addresses (below).

Your location

Location is optional. If you allow it, CityDots uses it on your iPhone to show the stops near you and to center the map on you. CityDots doesn’t send your location to its server and doesn’t write it to its log. Mapbox, which draws the map, can receive it as part of its usage data (see Mapbox, below).

What the app asks our server for

To show bus times, the app downloads timetables and the buses’ latest locations from the CityDots server. These requests don’t include your location or the stops you open. Like any server, ours sees your IP address, the app version and the iOS version. Server logs with IP addresses are kept for [n] days, to keep the service running and safe from abuse. This is our legitimate interest under the GDPR.

Mapbox

The map in the app is provided by Mapbox. By default, Mapbox collects usage data from the app, including your location when the app can use it, a random identifier and how the map is used, to run and improve its maps. In the App Store’s privacy details, this data is listed as not linked to you and not used to track you. To turn it off, tap ⓘ at the lower left of the map and opt out of Mapbox Telemetry. Mapbox’s own privacy policy is at mapbox.com/legal/privacy.

On your iPhone

CityDots keeps the timetables, your recent stops and lines, and a few settings on your iPhone. A small technical log helps fix problems. It never holds your location, and the app doesn’t send it anywhere. Deleting the app removes all of it.

If you write to us

We use your email address and message only to answer you. An email started from the app includes the app and iOS versions, to help us find the problem. We delete support emails after [n] months.

This website

This website has no cookies, no analytics and no ads. Its host, Vercel, keeps server logs with IP addresses for [n] days.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, and object to how we use it. Write to [support email]. You can also complain to Romania’s data protection authority, ANSPDCP (dataprotection.ro).

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version appears here with its date.