Privacy Policy
Whats Next Parks for iPhone and Android · Last updated 7 September 2026
The short version. Whats Next Parks has no accounts, no database and no analytics. It cannot know who you are. The only personal data that ever leaves your phone is an approximate position, only if you switch walking times on, and only so a server can work out how far each ride is and put that on your lock screen. How approximate depends on how far away you are: about ten metres at the park, about a kilometre anywhere else. It is held in memory for the life of the card and then gone.
Who is responsible
Whats Next Parks is an independent app made by one person. Questions about this policy or about your data: crschnicker@gmail.com.
What the app collects
| Data | Leaves your phone? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Approximate location | Yes — see below | To measure how many minutes it is to each ride, and to rank rides by what they cost to reach. |
| Steps and walking distance (Apple Health, iPhone only) | No. Never. | To show today's total on your lock-screen card, if you switch that on. Not read at all on Android. |
| A push token | Yes | Issued by Apple for one Live Activity, or by Google for one installation of the app. It addresses a card on a lock screen, not a person. |
| Your card's settings | Yes | Which rides, what wait limit, what colours — so the server can work out what the card should say. |
Location, in detail
If you turn on Walking time, the app sends your position to the service that updates your card. Four limits apply, and they are enforced in the app's code rather than promised:
- Rounded, and rounded harder the further away you are. At the park, coordinates are rounded to roughly ten metres — the accuracy a walking time actually needs, since a walk is priced at 65 metres a minute. More than 1.5 km away, they are rounded to roughly a kilometre instead. That is still enough to tell you the park is a six-hour walk from your house; it is not enough to tell anyone which house.
- Only for walking times. Turn that setting off and no position is transmitted at any point, ever.
- Held in memory only. It is never written to a disk, a database or a log file. Restarting the service erases it.
- Deleted when the card ends. When you stop the card, when it expires after eight hours, or when the app stops sending a position, it is discarded.
Turn Walking time off and no location is transmitted at any point. The app still asks your phone for your location to decide which of the two parks you are in; that answer stays on the phone.
The app does not ask for location when you first open it. It asks on the screen that explains what it is for, so you can read the reason before answering.
Health data
On iPhone, and with your permission, Whats Next Parks reads today's step count and walking distance from Apple Health. It is read on your phone, written to the app's own shared storage, and drawn on your card by iOS.
Health data is never transmitted anywhere. It is not sent to the update service, not used for advertising or marketing, not shared with anyone, and not used for any purpose other than showing it to you on your own lock screen. Whats Next Parks never writes to Apple Health. You can revoke this at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health.
On Android, no health data is read at all. The app requests no Health Connect permission and holds none. The steps row simply is not part of the Android card.
What Whats Next Parks does not do
- No account, sign-in, email address or user profile — there is nothing to identify you with.
- No advertising, no ad identifier, no third-party analytics or tracking SDKs.
- No tracking across other companies' apps or websites, and no data brokers.
- Nothing is sold or shared for anyone else's purposes.
- No background location. The app only asks where you are while it is open.
- No crash reporting and no analytics of any kind, on either platform.
Others involved
- Apple Push Notification service (on iPhone) and Firebase Cloud Messaging (on Android) deliver each update to your card. Each carries the card's rows and the token that addresses it, and nothing else; their handling is covered by Apple's and Google's own privacy policies. Firebase is used for message delivery only — there is no Firebase Analytics, no Crashlytics and no advertising identifier in this app.
- Render hosts the update service. It processes the data described above on our behalf and stores none of it.
- queue-times.com supplies public ride wait times. The app requests these without sending anything about you.
- themeparks.wiki supplies public show schedules, for the showtimes on the card. The app requests these without sending anything about you.
Children
Whats Next Parks is not directed at children under 13 and knowingly collects nothing from them. It has no account system, so there is nothing for a child to sign up for.
Your choices
- Revoke location in Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Whats Next.
- Revoke Health in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Whats Next.
- End the card at any time from the app's last step; its data is discarded immediately.
- Delete the app. Everything the app stored goes with it, and nothing survives on any server.
Because nothing is stored under an identity, there is no archive to request a copy of or to have erased — a request would find nothing to return.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what leaves your phone, the date at the top changes and the app's release notes will say so.