Privacy Policy — Ping
Last updated: 12 August 2026
Ping is a personal daily companion app for Singapore — bus arrivals, a map, places you like, and people you want to stay in touch with.
This policy is short because Ping does very little with your data. It was written from a line-by-line audit of the app's own code, not from a template.
- Ping has no accounts and no login. We do not know who you are.
- Your data stays on your phone. Your places, friends, notes, saved routes and visit history are stored on the device and are never uploaded.
- There is no analytics, no tracking and no advertising of any kind.
- We do not sell, share or transfer your personal data to anyone.
- Four features need the internet, and each sends only what it needs. All four are listed below.
What we collect
Nothing. Ping has no server that stores your data and no account to attach it to. There is no database anywhere holding your information.
Everything you enter — places, ratings, notes, friends, phone numbers, saved bus routes, visits — is stored only in Ping's private storage on your own device.
What your phone sends out, and to whom
Ping works offline for the most part. The map, the roughly 9,000 bundled Singapore places, and everything you have saved all work with no connection. Four features reach the internet, and only when you use them.
1. Bus arrival times
When you view bus arrivals, your phone sends a bus stop code (and sometimes a bus service number) to a small service we run on Cloudflare, which passes it to LTA DataMall — Singapore's public transport data service — and returns the times.
Nothing identifying you is sent. To be straightforward about it: a bus stop code does indicate which stop you are interested in.
2. Travel times and address search
This is the one that involves your location, so it is worth reading.
When you use “Near me”, your phone sends your current coordinates and the coordinates of the place you are checking to OneMap, a mapping service run by the Singapore Land Authority, so it can work out how long the journey takes.
When you search for an address while adding a place, your phone sends the text you typed to the same service.
These requests go from your phone to OneMap directly. As with any website your phone contacts, OneMap can see your device's IP address. The requests carry a pass issued to Ping's OneMap developer account — not to you — so they do not identify you as an individual. What OneMap does with the request is covered by their own privacy policy.
Your location is used at the moment you ask for it and then discarded. Ping never saves your location, and Ping cannot see your location while it is closed — it does not have background location access.
3. Place details when you add a place
When you add a place, Ping can pre-fill its type, opening hours and dietary information so you do not have to type them. To do that it sends that place's coordinates to OpenStreetMap's Overpass service, a free public map database. You then confirm or correct whatever comes back.
4. Nothing else
That is the complete list.
What we never send
Your friends' names, phone numbers and any notes you write about them never leave your device. Neither do your places, your ratings, your private notes, your visit history, your check-ins or your saved routes.
Ping has no way to upload them, because Ping has no account system and no sync.
Tracking and advertising
Ping contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no tracking software of any kind. No third party receives an identifier for you or your device from Ping. We do not build a profile of you, because we have nothing to build one from.
Permissions
- Internet — for the four features above.
- Location — for the “you are here” marker on the map and for travel times. Ping asks the first time you use one of those features. If you decline, the rest of Ping is unaffected — the map, your places, bus arrivals and everything you have saved all keep working. Only the “you are here” marker and “Near me” need it, and Ping shows you how to turn it on if you change your mind.
Ping does not request background location and cannot read your position when it is not open.
Children
Ping is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.
Deleting your data
Uninstalling Ping deletes everything. Your data lives in the app's private storage on your device and is removed with the app.
Inside the app you can delete individual places, friends, routes and visits at any time, which removes them and anything attached to them.
There is nothing to request deletion of from us, because we hold nothing.
Changes to this policy
If Ping starts doing something new with data — sign-in and cloud sync are planned for a future version — this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.
Contact
A contact address for questions about this policy will be published here before Ping is released on the Play Store.
Ping is an independent personal project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Land Transport Authority, the Singapore Land Authority, OneMap, or the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Bus arrival data is provided by LTA DataMall; mapping and routing by OneMap; place details by OpenStreetMap contributors.