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Privacy notice · Beta

Your privacy,
your choices.

BusBus is built to work without an account and with as little data as possible. This page explains, simply, what happens when you use the map.

Updated 6 October 2026
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Google Analytics and optional cookies

When Google measurement is enabled on this site, GA4 loads only after you accept analytics. Consent is the legal basis. Declining does not limit the map; no requests are sent to Google Analytics before consent.

We measure visits and actions such as viewing a line, opening or following a vehicle. Google receives technical connection and device data and pseudonymous identifiers: these statistics are not anonymous. We do not send your coordinates, search text or vehicle identifiers. The tag disables Google Signals and advertising personalization; we do not set User-ID or link Google Ads.

The technical busbus_consent cookie saves your choice for 186 days. Only with consent, GA4 uses _ga and _ga_*, configured for 180 days without automatic renewal. Withdrawal deletes Google cookies accessible to the site and reloads the page to stop the tag. Theme preferences stay on your device and are not sent to Google.

Google may process data outside the European Economic Area: see purposes, recipients and safeguards in Google’s documentation. Event and user data retention is set to two months in the GA4 property, without resetting on new activity; aggregated reports may have different retention periods.

You can change your choice at any time using “Cookie preferences”. Where applicable, you can request access, rectification, erasure and restriction through the contacts in this notice and complain to a data protection authority. Withdrawal does not automatically erase previously collected data or affect the lawfulness of earlier processing.

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My location

Geolocation is optional and is only requested when you tap “Use my location”. The browser shows its own permission prompt.

The coordinates are used in the browser’s memory to show the blue dot, centre the map and count the vehicles within two kilometres. BusBus doesn’t send them to its backend, doesn’t record them in logs, doesn’t store them on the device and doesn’t pass them to Analytics.

When the map moves to your area, the browser requests the needed map tiles from the map provider, just as it does when you pan the map by hand. The request can therefore tell the provider which area is shown, but it carries no BusBus profile or personal account.

You can hide the blue dot from the same button. Your location is discarded anyway when you close or reload the page; BusBus doesn’t use location in the background.

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Map data

The buses, lines and stops come from the ACTV/AVM GTFS and GTFS-Realtime feeds. This data is about the vehicles and isn’t linked to your identity.

The map tiles are provided by OpenFreeMap and its contributors. As with any resource loaded from an external site, the provider may receive technical connection data, such as your IP address and the tiles requested.

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Vercel statistics without cookies

BusBus keeps Vercel Web Analytics for aggregated visit statistics without cookies or recognition across days. App actions are measured separately by Google Analytics, only after consent. We do not send free text, coordinates or vehicle identifiers to Vercel.

For more on the technical processing done by the provider, see Vercel’s privacy documentation.

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Contact and choices

The data controller is Osteria Digitale di Daniele Biasini. For privacy questions or to exercise your rights, email [email protected].

You can revoke the location permission at any time from your browser settings. Even without location, all of BusBus’s core features stay available.