Privacy
We ask you for nothing
DoveBus has no account to create, sets no cookies and never asks where you are. It counts how often each page is opened, on a server of its own, and further down this page says exactly what that records. This page does not stop at saying so: it also lists what leaves your browser anyway when you use the site, because something always does.
In short.
- No account
- There is no sign-up, no login and no email address to leave. There is no profile of you anywhere, because there is no such thing here as a user.
- No cookies
- DoveBus writes no cookies, neither technical nor advertising ones, which is why there is no banner to dismiss. It does not use the browser's local storage either: close the tab and nothing is left behind.
- No profiling
- No Google Analytics or anything like it, no pixels, no advertising, no embedded social networks. The page count runs on a server of ours and builds no profiles: it does not know who you are, it does not follow you from one page to the next, and it does not end up anywhere else. Even the typefaces are served from here, so opening a page does not contact a font provider.
- No geolocation
- DoveBus never asks the browser for your position. You will not see the permission prompt, because the feature is simply not used: the map opens on Tuscany and you are the one who moves it.
DoveBus shows where the vehicles are, not where people are. It does not know who is on board a bus, it has no way of knowing, and it cannot be used to follow anyone.
What leaves your browser anyway.
A web page does not load out of nothing. These are all the connections your browser opens while you use DoveBus, and what the other end sees.
The requests to the DoveBus server
When you search for a line or a connection, the server receives what you asked for: the line number or the two towns, the day and the time window. When you move the map it receives the rectangle of Tuscany you are looking at, so that it does not have to send you the vehicles of the whole region. It also receives, as any server does, your IP address: it is the address it has to reply to.
What the server keeps of all that
It keeps no log of ordinary requests: a search that worked leaves no trace. It does count how many requests arrive from each IP address within a minute, to stop anyone hammering it, and that count lives in memory and disappears with the minute. If a request causes a server error, the error is written to the technical logs with the address of the request — which contains the search terms, not the IP.
The count of pages opened
When you open a page, your browser sends one line to stats.dovebus.it: which page you opened, its title, which page or which site you came from if any, and the width of your screen. That is another name for the same machine that answers the rest of the site, run by us: it is not an outside supplier, it is not somebody else's analytics service, and the data goes nowhere from there. What you searched for never travels: a search does not change the address in the bar, and the program that counts refuses outright any address carrying parameters at all.
What is left of the count
So that reloading does not count you twice, the program keeps in memory, for eight hours, a fingerprint worked out from your IP address and your kind of browser. That fingerprint is never written to disk, and neither are the IP address or the kind of browser: no row about you remains. What remains is totals — how many times each page was opened, in which hour, from which country, with which browser and at which screen size — and they remain for as long as the site does, because they are numbers and they are about nobody in particular. There is nothing to ask us to delete, and the statistics are public: what we see, you can see. If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, you are not counted at all.
The map tiles
The cartographic background is served by OpenFreeMap (with CARTO as a fallback), which are outside providers. To deliver the images they see your IP address and which tiles you ask for — indirectly, which part of Tuscany you are looking at. It is the only third-party connection the site opens, and it happens only on the map: the text pages you are reading now do not.
Who hosts the pages
The static pages are served by a hosting provider, which to deliver them handles your IP address and browser type and records them in its own technical logs, under its own policies. It is the bare minimum for a page to reach its destination, and it is true of any website.
Your data, and your rights.
An IP address is personal data, so we do not say that DoveBus “processes no personal data”: that would be convenient and untrue. We say something more precise and more useful. We keep nothing that would allow anyone to reconstruct what you searched for or where you have been. There is no archive to query, no profile to export and nothing to delete, because none of it is created in the first place.
No data is sold, handed on or used for profiling, and there is none to sell. The third-party connections are only the technical ones listed above.
The page count does not ask for your consent because it does not need it: it is first-party, it stays on a machine of ours, it produces only totals and it allows nobody to be identified. Those are the conditions the Italian data protection authority sets for measurement tools treated as technical cookies. If a single one of them stopped being true, this page would change first — and there would be a banner.
If you have a question about this page, if you think something described here does not match what the site actually does, or if you want to exercise one of the rights the European data protection regulation gives you, write to dovebusapp@gmail.com.
If this page changes
If DoveBus ever starts doing something this page says it does not, this page changes first, not afterwards. The date below is the date of the last change.
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