GABS TimetableNo accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. GABS Timetable collects no personal data.
What stays on your phone
Your saved trips, leave reminders and settings are stored only on your phone and are never uploaded. From version 1.2.0 the app opts out of Android cloud backup, so they are not copied to your Google account either. Moving to a new phone with a cable or a direct phone-to-phone transfer may still bring them across, and the only other way to move them is a .gabs file you share yourself.
Network requests
The only requests the app makes are to check for a newer timetable and a newer version of the app:
- It fetches a small public config file from
gabs.thatdev.co.zaabout once a day, when your phone is online. - Only when that config names a newer timetable does it download the timetable file itself.
- From version 1.2.0, the same daily background check also fetches a small public
latest.jsonfile fromgabs.thatdev.co.zato see whether a newer app version is out. It never downloads or installs the app itself; Update only opens Google Play or this website.
The app works out whether it was installed from Google Play or from this website on your phone, so it can compare against the right version. That is not sent anywhere.
These requests send the app's user agent and, for the config and latest.json, an ETag so an unchanged file is not downloaded again. Nothing about you or your phone is sent. Like any web server, the host sees the IP address a request comes from; that is not used to identify you.
Notifications and alarms
Notifications and exact alarms are used only for the leave reminders you switch on. If you never turn on a reminder, the app sends you no notifications.
Sharing trips
You can share trips as a small .gabs file. That happens only when you choose to, through the app you pick, such as a messaging app or email. GABS Timetable sends nothing itself.
Permissions
- Internet and network state: to fetch the timetable config and
latest.json, to check you are online first, and to fetch only the small config on a metered connection with Data Saver on. - Notifications: to show the leave reminders you switch on.
- Exact alarms: so a leave reminder fires at the time you set.
- Run at startup: to set your reminders and the home screen widget again after the phone restarts.
- Wake lock and foreground service: used by Android's background job system so the daily timetable and version check can finish.
The app does not ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone or files.
Web app
The web app at gabs.thatdev.co.za/timetable keeps your saved trips and settings in your browser's storage on your device. It sends nothing about them to a server. It downloads the timetable from this site and stores it in the browser so it works offline.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: hello@thatdev.co.za