Privacy policy
In short: Boarded has no account, no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting. Everything you put into it stays on your phone. The developer receives no data from the app at all.
What the app keeps, and where
All of the following is stored only on your phone, in the app's private storage:
- your flights and bookings, with the details you enter or that come from a scanned boarding pass (flight number, airports, times, seat, booking reference, notes);
- boarding-pass barcodes you scan or import, kept exactly as read. A boarding-pass barcode contains the passenger's name and booking reference;
- your first name and surname, if you enter them in Settings. They are used only to check whether a scanned boarding pass is yours;
- pictures of cities you choose yourself;
- your settings, and, if you use live status, your FlightAware key and FlightAware's answers.
When the app uses the internet
Only in these cases:
- Refresh airports (Settings, when you tap it): downloads the public airport list
published by OurAirports, from
davidmegginson.github.io. Nothing about you or your flights is sent. - Live flight status, only if you enter your own FlightAware AeroAPI key. The app then
sends that key, a flight number and a date range to FlightAware
(
aeroapi.flightaware.com), automatically at up to four moments around each flight (five if you switch on Last check before boarding) and whenever you tap Refresh live status. When you tap Fill in from FlightAware while adding a flight, it sends the key, the flight number and the date you typed. FlightAware's own privacy policy applies to those requests. Remove the key in Settings and nothing more is sent.
As with any internet request, the server you connect to sees your device's IP address.
Scanning a boarding pass
The camera scanner is provided by Google Play services on your phone. The app does not get the camera image, only the decoded barcode text. A boarding pass read from a screenshot, photo, PDF or Apple Wallet pass that you pick, share to the app or open with it is processed on the phone; only the pass's barcode text is kept, and the file itself is not.
What you share yourself
A calendar file, a picture of a flight, a CSV export or a backup file leaves the app only when you share or save it, and goes only where you send it.
Android backup
If backup is on in your phone's settings, Android may include this app's data (flights, settings and city pictures, not the FlightAware key) in the backup to your Google account, under Google's terms. You can turn this off in the app: Settings → Backup.
Permissions
- Internet: for the two cases above.
- Notifications and alarms: for the check-in and head-to-the-airport reminders, which are worked out on the phone, and - only if you switch them on and have a FlightAware key - for a delay, a gate change, a cancellation, a connection at risk or the baggage belt, read from the answers described above. They add no question to FlightAware and send nothing more.
- Run at startup: to set those reminders again after the phone restarts.
The app does not ask for location, contacts, camera, microphone or storage access.
Deleting your data
Delete flights in the app, or uninstall it: uninstalling removes everything the app stored on the phone. A copy in your Google account's backup can be deleted in your Google account settings. Because the developer holds none of your data, there is nothing to request from the developer.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 and collects no data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new effective date.