borderpulse-mobile

BorderPulse Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 9, 2026

BorderPulse (“we”, “us”, “the app”) is an independent mobile application that displays public US-Mexico border crossing wait times. This policy explains what data the app collects, why, and what choices you have.

Summary

• We do not require an account.
• We do not ask for your name, phone number, email, or location.
• We do not sell or share data for advertising.
• We do not track you across other apps or websites.
• We collect anonymous diagnostic and product analytics data to keep the app stable and improve it.

Data we collect

Crash and performance diagnostics (Sentry)

We use Sentry to receive automatic crash reports and performance traces when the app misbehaves. These reports include the device model, operating system version, the app version, the screen the crash happened on, and a stack trace. They do not include your name, email, or any content you typed into the app.

Anonymous product analytics (PostHog)

We use PostHog to understand which features are used and how the app performs in aggregate. Events are tied to a randomly generated, app-local identifier - not to your Apple ID, phone number, or any personal account. The data we receive is statistical and not linked back to you.

Information you do not provide directly

The app fetches data from the following public services on your behalf when you use it. The app does not send your identity to these services; only the request itself (for example, the latitude and longitude of the crossing whose weather you are viewing).

• US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) - border wait time data
• Mapbox - map tiles for the traffic map view
• Apple Maps - map tiles where applicable
• Open-Meteo - weather data for each port of entry
• A public exchange rate API - currency conversion

These services may log standard request metadata (such as IP address) under their own privacy policies.

What we do not collect

• Personally identifiable information (name, email, phone, address)
• Your precise or approximate device location
• Contacts, photos, calendar, or microphone data
• Health, financial, or biometric data
• Anything you type that we have not explicitly described above

Tracking

BorderPulse does not engage in tracking as defined by Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework. We do not link our analytics data to data from other companies for advertising purposes, and we do not share device identifiers with data brokers.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Your choices

You can stop all data collection at any time by uninstalling the app. There is no account to delete because we do not maintain accounts. iOS-level controls (Settings > Privacy & Security) also apply.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the “Last updated” date above and post the new version at the same URL.

Contact

Questions or concerns can be sent to:

Luis Bracamontes lmbdv50@gmail.com

You can also open an issue at https://github.com/LMBraca/BorderPulse/issues.