100Bus Privacy Policy

Introduction

This privacy policy applies to the 100Bus iOS app.

Information collected

100Bus does not collect or store any information, including and especially personally identifiable information, about you, with the following exceptions:

• Tokenized device identifiers and select user preferences for purposes of push notifications when using Wait for Bus (see below for more details)
• Anonymized app crash reports, through Apple’s internal app analytics framework, if you have opted into “Share With App Developers”
• Aggregated app telemetry and usage statistics, through Apple’s iCloud service
• Usage statistics, detailed below (v2.2 and later)
• Voluntary user-submitted feedback

Information usage

100Bus uses the information collected to provide functionalty, improve the app, and fix bugs internally; no data is shared.

Third parties

API calls are made to the following third parties:

• DataMall by LTA, for obtaining next bus arrival timings
• Wikipedia and Wikimedia, for identifying and showing photos of landmarks near the selected bus stop
• Amazon Web Services, to provide push notification functionality

No additional private or identifying data are transmitted to these third parties at any time.

Stats

From v2.2, 100Bus optionally collects statistics about when the following events occur:

• App launched
• Bus stop screen opened
• Bus arrival timing requested
• Wait for Bus started
• Journey started

These statistics are never transmitted off the device unless by explicit user action. Statistics collection can be disabled and collected statistics can be deleted.

Location

100Bus does not store your location data. Location data remain in the app and are not shared to, by, or with anyone.

Notify on Arrival uses a geofence set up and maintained by iOS. 100Bus does not access your location while in the background.

From v1.3, journey-tracking Live Activities use background location to give real-time updates on journey progress. When no Live Activity is in progress, 100Bus does not access your location while in the background. iPhones without Dynamic Island will display the blue location services status bar indicator when 100Bus is accessing your location in the background.

Servers

From v1.4, 100Bus uses servers hosted by Amazon Web Services to provide functionality that cannot be provided on device. Your data is stored only for as long as it is necessary and is deleted immediately after.

The following information is transmitted to 100Bus servers when Wait for Bus is requested:

• Identifiers
  • Randomized request ID
  • Random push notification token
• Parameters
  • Date and time of request
  • Bus stop code and bus service number
• Preferences
  • Time format specifier
  • Advance notice minutes
  • Whether to dismiss the Live Activity upon bus arrival (v1.5.1 and later)
• Telemetry
  • App version and build number (v1.5 and later)
  • iOS version number (v1.5.1 and later)
  • Database version number (v2.0.1 and later)

Audit

You may audit 100Bus’s privacy claims with App Privacy Report on iOS.

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If you have any concerns, please feel free to get in touch.