privacy
hoosloc has no accounts, shows no ads, sells nothing about you and doesn't track you across other apps or sites.
on your device
- your classes, home, saved stops, recent places and current trip are saved on your phone or in your browser, and never sent to us
- your location is used on your device to find nearby stops, plan and guide a trip; it isn't sent to us
what we receive
- anonymous usage counts: that the app opened, whether a plan found a bus, that a class was saved or a reminder set. each carries a random id made on your device, and no places, trips, courses or location. we pass them to PostHog without your ip address. the website honors Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control; in the app, turn them off in settings
- reminders: when you set one, our server keeps the bus, its stops and time, the trip's destination and your device's push address until the reminder is sent or you cancel it, and never more than 26 hours. it reaches you through Apple's push service (relayed by Expo in the app) or your browser's
- protection against abuse: our server counts requests per network address in memory, and keeps a pending reminder's address only as a signed key that can't be turned back into it
- course searches go through our server to UVA's public class search, with nothing about you
services
- Apple Maps draws the app's map and OpenFreeMap the website's; your device loads them directly
- live bus positions and UVA Ride estimates come from TransLoc through our server, asked with stop ids only
- Fly.io hosts the server and Cloudflare carries its traffic; on the website, Cloudflare Web Analytics measures visits and page speed without cookies
deleting
- remove classes and places in the app, or delete the app or clear the site's data to erase all of it
- cancelling a reminder deletes it from our server
- questions or requests: see support