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Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 30, 2026

Overview

TTSL Ferries ("the App") provides ferry schedule information for Transtejo and Soflusa routes in Lisbon, Portugal. It is an unofficial app, built independently of the operator.

There are no accounts and nothing to sign in to. Looking up schedules, live departures and announcements sends nothing that identifies you or your device. Two things you choose to do — sending feedback and turning on notifications — do send data, and this page says exactly what.

Feedback you send

If you open the feedback form and send it, the submission carries:

  • your star rating of the app
  • the message you wrote, if you wrote one
  • your email address, if you chose to leave one so we can reply
  • an installation identifier — a random value, explained below
  • the platform (Android or iOS), the app version and the interface language
  • the route and the schedule date you were looking at when you opened the form
  • technical details — the app's own error log — only if you ticked that box. The box appears only when there is a recent error to send, it is never ticked for you, and the log is cleared from your device once it has been sent.

We use this to find bugs and decide what to improve. It reaches the author of the app, not Transtejo or Soflusa.

The installation identifier

The first time the app runs it generates a random identifier and keeps it on the device. It is not linked to an account, a name, an advertising ID or anything else about you; its only job is to let us tell one person's three messages apart from three people's one message, and to enforce a daily limit on how much can be sent. If you reinstall the app or clear its data, a different identifier is generated and nothing connects it to the old one.

How long we keep it, and what we delete sooner

Feedback is kept for 24 months from the day it was sent, and is deleted after that.

Your email address is used for nothing but replying to that message. Once the reply has been sent, the address is removed from our records; the message itself stays, without it. If you would rather not be reachable at all, leave the field empty — everything else works the same.

The network address your submission arrives from is not stored. The server uses it in flight, to limit how many requests it accepts per hour, and keeps no record of it — not on the message, not in a log, not in hashed form.

Notifications you turn on

Notifications are off until you enable them. When you do, the app registers with Firebase Cloud Messaging and stores, on our server: the registration token issued to your device, the platform, the interface language, and the routes (or all announcements) you chose to follow. It holds nothing else — no name, no address, no contact details.

The token identifies the installation to Google's delivery service, not you. Turning notifications off in the app removes the registration from our server and discards the token on the device.

What we never collect

  • Your location
  • Advertising identifiers
  • Usage analytics, behavioural tracking or profiling
  • Cookies or similar technologies
  • Contacts, photos, or anything else on your device

Local Storage

Your preferences (theme, language, chosen route, which announcements you have read) are stored locally on your device and are not sent anywhere. The app also keeps a short log of its own errors on the device; that log stays there unless you explicitly attach it to a feedback message.

Network Requests

Requests for schedules, live departures and announcements carry only the route and date needed to answer them. Nothing that identifies you or your device is attached to them.

Third-Party Services

The App integrates no analytics, advertising or tracking services. The one third party involved is Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google), which delivers push notifications, and only if you have turned them on.

Children's Privacy

The App is not directed at children. It asks for no personal information from anyone; the only personal data it can hold is an email address a user chooses to type into the feedback form.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or you want feedback you sent to be deleted, contact us at [email protected].

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