Who is responsible
Bykart is published by Bani Younes, a sole proprietorship trading as BlueOak Interactive, St. Halvards gate 22, 0192 Oslo, Norway, represented by Ghada Khalifah Saleh Bani Younes. Under the General Data Protection Regulation, which applies in Norway through the Personal Data Act (personopplysningsloven), that business is the controller of any personal data described here. Email byen@baniyounes.rent.
What the app writes down
- the cities you have marked as visited, and your wishlist;
- your starred favourites and your completion ring;
- your best quiz score;
- settings: language, starting region, accent colour.
A list of places somebody has been is a small biography, so it is written to the app's private storage on the device and goes no further. There is no server on our side to receive it and no account it could belong to. Android's own backup, if you have it switched on, may include this data in the copy Google keeps under your account, on Google's terms rather than ours.
What it asks for, and where it goes
No permissions at all. Bykart does not read your location, so the map of where you have been is only ever the map you tapped yourself. No camera, no contacts, no files, and no network connection: the photographs and the texts ship inside the app.
Nothing collected, nothing measured
No sign-in, no advertising identifier, no analytics library, no crash SDK of ours, no profiling. We cannot tell how many cities anyone has visited, or whether the app has been opened since it was installed.
Google Play
The download itself runs through Google Play under Google's own privacy policy. Where a device is set to share usage and diagnostics with Google, aggregated crash and performance reports may appear to us in the Play Console; no one is identifiable in them and we read them only to fix faults.
Children
Nothing is collected from anyone of any age. There is no chat, no link out and nothing to buy, which makes it a reasonable thing to hand to a child on a long drive north.
Reading it, and travelling by it
Bykart is a reference book about places. It is not a route planner, a ferry timetable or a weather service, and the "good to know" notes are general character rather than current conditions.
For an actual journey, check official road and traffic information, mountain-pass and ferry status, and the forecast before you set out; Norwegian distances are long and winter conditions change fast, especially above the Arctic Circle. Emergency numbers in Norway: 112 police, 113 ambulance, 110 fire.
If you write to us
An email brings us your address and your message, which we use to answer you and to correct the guide. The basis is our legitimate interest in replying to correspondence, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, and the thread is deleted within twelve months of our last reply unless the law requires longer.
Your rights, and the authority
Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability apply in full, although correspondence is the only personal data we could hold. Ask and we answer within a month. If our answer does not satisfy you, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet, takes complaints at datatilsynet.no; if you live elsewhere in the EEA you may go to your own national authority instead.
Clearing the map, and changes here
Open Bykart in Android's app settings, go to storage and clear the data: visited cities, wishlist, scores and settings all go together, and uninstalling does the same. Nothing is held anywhere else, so a cleared map cannot be recovered. This page is rewritten, with a new date under the title, before any release that changes how the app handles data.
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