PlymouthTrains User Reviews

Response from developer

Hi Rob517, Thanks for downloading the app and giving us an opportunity to answer your questions. You are correct that you are not required to allow the app access to your location, or to access the email address associated with your Facebook account. As the Location Permissions prompt states, we only require your location if you would like to receive location based notifications. By default, location permissions are not granted until the user indicates explicitly that they will allow them. If the user does not want to receive location based notifications, they can simply deny the application permission when initially prompted. The application also clearly displays whether location services are enabled in the "Notification Center" view (reached by tapping the calendar icon in the top right corner of the main view). By tapping on the "Location Based Notifications:" navigation link, the user can see a detailed description of how location based notifications work and how the applications uses location data. These permissions can be changed any time from your device settings. In order to keep records of a user's in-app settings (notification times, which crossings they would like to receive notifications for, &c) the app must associate each instance of the app with a unique-- and most importantly static, identifier. Like most applications, this is derived from the user's email address. We offer many different ways to provide the application with an email address, only one of which is through the email associated with the user's Facebook account. The "Sign In With Apple" option, for example, conveniently allows the user to submit an anonymized email address generated by Apple, adding an additional layer of obfuscation if the user so pleases. The user may also decide to enter an email address manually. We hope that you continue to use the app and find it useful. Best, ITS