Privacy policy

Alternate Side is run by Jim Frederick. This page says what the iPhone app and this website collect, which is very little. Questions go through the contact form.

The iPhone app

• There is no account. You never give us a name, an email address or a password, and there is nothing to pay.
• Where you parked stays on your phone. The whole city's sign table ships inside the app, which matches your spot against it on the device; your location is never sent to us.
• The app sends no identifiers. It asks this service for the suspension calendar and for the newest street-sign table, which it downloads from our file host. Both are the same for everyone.
• The app never registers for push notifications, so there is no device token for it to send.

This service

The service stores no personal data. Its only data is public: New York City's street-sign records and the alternate side parking calendar. It runs on a hosting provider (Vercel), which keeps standard request logs (IP address, time and path) for a limited time.

This website

The website has no analytics and no tracking cookies. If you use the contact form, your message (and your email address, if you give one) is sent to the developer by email, through an email delivery provider (Resend), so it can be answered. It is not used for anything else. We don't sell data or use it for advertising.

Your choices

Deleting the app deletes everything it kept. For anything else, write through the contact form. We reply within 30 days.

Children

Alternate Side is not meant for children under 13 and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll say so on this page.