Beeline — Privacy Policy

Last updated 14 August 2026

Beeline compares the driving routes you save and tells you which one is fastest right now. This page explains exactly what the app stores, what it sends off your device, and who else can see it. It is written to be specific rather than comprehensive-sounding — if something isn't listed here, Beeline doesn't do it.

The short version

• There is no account and no sign-in.
• There is no analytics, advertising, or tracking of any kind, and no data is shared with data brokers.
• Your current location never leaves your device.
• The routes you save, and a notification token, are stored on a server so that alerts can reach you while the app is closed.

What stays on your device

Your location. Beeline asks for "Always" location access for one purpose: to notice when you have set off, so it can stop watching a trip you've already started. That location is read and used on the device. It is not uploaded, not logged, and not retained — no position history, no travel diary, nothing that reconstructs where you have been.

Your app settings, saved routes, and schedules are also kept on the device, and shared with Beeline's own Lock Screen widget through a private app group.

What is sent to the server

So that an alert can reach you when the app isn't open, Beeline registers with a server run by the developer. That registration contains:

• The coordinates of the routes you save — start point, end point, and any waypoints that define the road you take. These are precise by nature, because the whole point is to time one specific road.
• An Apple push notification token, which identifies your installation of the app so alerts can be delivered to it.
• Your commute schedules — which days a trip applies to and the departure time you set — plus your time zone.
• Your alert preferences, such as whether alerts are on and how large a delay must be before you are told about it.

This information is stored, keyed to the push token, so a scheduled job can check your routes at the right times and send an alert if traffic changes the answer.

What is never sent

• Your current or past location.
• Your name, email address, phone number, or contacts.
• Any advertising identifier.
• Any usage or behavioural analytics.

Who else is involved

Beeline relies on three outside services, and only for the functions described:

• Apple delivers push notifications. Apple handles the push token and the alert as part of routing it to your device.
• Apple Maps supplies travel times. The server sends route coordinates to Apple to ask how long that road currently takes.
• Google Cloud hosts the server and its database. If the app is configured to use Google's routing service instead of Apple's, route coordinates are sent to Google for the same purpose.

If you tap a route to open it in Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze, that route's coordinates are handed to the app you chose, which then applies its own privacy policy rather than this one.

How long it is kept, and how to remove it

Route and schedule data is kept for as long as the app is registered, because it is what the alerts are computed from. Removing a commute in the app removes it from the server record the next time the app syncs.

Deleting the app stops any further alerts, but does not by itself erase the registration already stored. To have everything associated with your installation deleted, email the address below and it will be removed.

Children

Beeline is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it.

Contact

Beeline is made by Limit Cycle, an independent software studio. Questions, or requests to delete your data: admin@limitcycle.net.