Privacy Policy
BoardingNext · last updated 6 October 2026
BoardingNext shows live Swiss public-transport departure times. It has no accounts to sign up for, no advertising, and no analytics or tracking of any kind. This page describes exactly what the app does with data, in plain terms.
What the app collects
| Data | Why | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Approximate or precise location | To list and map the stops nearest to you. | Read only while the app is open, and only after you allow it. Your coordinates are sent to our server to look up nearby stops, and are not stored or attached to you afterwards. Background location is explicitly blocked by the app. |
| An anonymous account identifier | So the boards you build are kept and can sync to your devices. | Created automatically. It is a random identifier — no email, name, phone number or password is requested or held. |
| The boards you build | They are the app's whole purpose. | Stored against your anonymous identifier: which stops, lines and directions you chose, and how you ordered them. |
| A daily request count | To stop one device exhausting the shared transit-data quota for everyone else. | A number per day against your anonymous identifier. No request contents. |
| Feedback you choose to send | So you can report bugs, missing stops or ideas — and get a reply, if you want one. | Only when you send it from Settings: your message, an email address if you add one (optional), and your app version and platform, stored against your anonymous identifier. Read only by the developer; never published or shared. Leave the email field blank to stay anonymous. |
The app does not collect your name, phone number, contacts, photos, files, advertising identifier, or device identifiers, and it only ever receives an email address if you type one into the optional feedback field above. It contains no advertising SDK and no analytics SDK.
What is stored on your device
- Whether you have seen the welcome screen.
- A cache of recently loaded departure times, so opening the app shows real information immediately instead of a spinner.
- Your anonymous session, so your boards are still there next time.
Uninstalling the app removes all of it.
Services the app relies on
- opentransportdata.swiss — the official Swiss open transport data platform, which supplies timetables and real-time departures. Stop requests reach it through our server, not directly from your device.
- Supabase — hosts the database and the server functions that store your boards and feedback, and cache transit data.
- swisstopo — supplies the map tiles. When you open the map, your device requests tiles for the area you are looking at directly from the federal geodata service.
- Expo (EAS) — delivers app updates.
Sharing
Nothing is sold, rented, or shared for advertising. Data is passed to the services above only as needed to answer what you asked for — for example, a coordinate is passed on so the transit service can say which stops are nearby.
Keeping and deleting
- Your boards are kept until you delete them or delete your account.
- Feedback is kept until you delete your account; the developer may delete it sooner once it has been dealt with.
- Cached transit data expires on its own within days; it describes vehicles, not people.
- Location coordinates are used to answer a request and are not retained against you.
Delete my data, in Settings, permanently removes your account, every board on it and any feedback you sent from our servers. It is immediate and cannot be undone.
Clearing the app's storage, or uninstalling it, only removes what is on your device — your boards stay on our servers under the same anonymous identifier, simply not reachable from that install any more. To actually remove them, use Delete my data first.
Children
The app is not directed at children. It asks no one, including children, for personal information — the only exception is the optional email field in the feedback form.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the current version always lives at this address.
Contact
Questions about privacy: [email protected]. For deletion, use Delete my data in Settings rather than writing in — an anonymous account has no email or name attached to it, so there is no way to look one up from an email alone. See deleting your data for details.