Last updated 7 September 2026
ST Tracker has no accounts, does not collect personal identity, and never sells anything to anyone. It displays non-intrusive advertisements served by Google AdSense to help fund server hosting, and it records how the app is used, linking those records to a random ID stored on your device — so it can tell that the same install came back, without ever knowing who you are. It also uses Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, third-party services — see below for what that means. Clarity records a replayable session, not just a count of screen views. This page says exactly what is kept, what is not, and who to contact about it.
These are stored in your browser only. They are not sent anywhere, not backed up to any server, and they disappear if you clear the app's data from Settings.
When you track a bus or search a timetable, the app asks the operator's system for that information through this server. The request contains the bus number or the two stations — it does not contain anything about you. These requests are logged for a short period so that faults can be diagnosed, and those logs include an IP address, as with any web server.
Your location is used on your device to work out how far a bus is from you and to sort nearby stops. It is also sent to this server, at the owner's direction, and kept: this is a change from an earlier version of this page, which said it never was. What is kept is a position fix — latitude, longitude, and how accurate the fix was — tied to your device's random ID and to the IP address the request arrived from, timestamped. This is why: to see where riders actually are across Gujarat, which routes and stations matter in practice, and where the app should improve next. It is kept indefinitely, with no automatic deletion. If you want your location history removed, ask directly — see Contact.
The app records which features you use, and links those records together with a random ID created when you first open it. That ID is generated by your own device, is not derived from your hardware, your network or anything about you, and exists only so that separate visits can be recognised as the same install.
This is pseudonymous, not anonymous, and the difference matters enough to say plainly: individual visits can be seen as a sequence, and one install can be told apart from another. What cannot be done is connect any of it to a person — there is no account, no email, no phone number and no name anywhere in the app to connect it to.
| What is recorded | Examples |
|---|---|
| Each visit | When it started, how long it lasted, how it was opened (directly, a shared link, or a notification) |
| The steps you take | Which screens you open and in what order; which buttons you use |
| Actions | Setting an alert, saving a bus, sharing, reporting how full a bus is |
| Onboarding | Whether you finish or skip the walkthrough, whether you install the app |
| Your settings | English or Gujarati, light or dark, font style, which map style, text size |
| Rough platform | Android, iPhone or desktop — not your model, browser version or screen size |
| Errors | When something failed, so it can be fixed |
| Which buses you track | The number plates you look up, recorded against your install's random ID |
| Your location | A position fix, how accurate it was, and the IP address it arrived from — recorded against your install's random ID, kept indefinitely rather than the 90 days everything else on this page follows |
It is used to decide what to build and what to fix — which features earn their place, where people give up, whether the Gujarati translation is worth maintaining. It is not used to target you with anything, and it is never shared or sold.
Recording which buses you look up, against an ID that persists between visits, means the records could show that one install repeatedly checks a particular bus at a particular time of day. If you ride the same service every morning, that pattern is visible in the data — not tied to your name, because there isn't one, but visible.
It is kept because it is what makes the app better at the thing it exists for: knowing which services people actually depend on decides which get accurate timetables, crowding predictions and alerts first. It is never sold, never shared, and never used to contact or target anyone.
There is no in-app switch to turn this off or reset your install's ID — this app runs on exactly this data to decide what to build next, so it stays on for every install. If you want your own records looked at, corrected, or deleted, write to the contact below and a real person will handle it directly.
Records older than 90 days are deleted automatically — except location, which is kept indefinitely. That is the one exception to the retention promise on this page, and it exists because a location history is only useful for seeing patterns over a longer span than 90 days gives.
In addition to the app's own recording described above, ST Tracker uses Google Analytics, a third-party service operated by Google. Earlier versions of this page said no third-party trackers were used at all — that was true until 27 August 2026 and is not true now, and this section exists so that change is stated plainly rather than quietly.
Using the app sends Google your IP address, your device and browser type, and which screens you view and when. Google's own systems use the IP address to estimate roughly where you are (city-level, not a precise position) before discarding it, under Google's own data handling — that step happens on Google's side, not this app's, and is not something this app can verify or control directly. Google Analytics runs under Google's own privacy policy, which governs what Google itself does with the data once it has it.
There is no in-app switch to opt out of this, for the same reason as the app's own analytics above. If you want to block it yourself, a browser extension that blocks Google Analytics (an ad blocker or tracker blocker) will stop it without affecting the rest of the app.
ST Tracker uses Microsoft Clarity, a third-party service operated by Microsoft. This one goes further than the counting described above, so it is worth being precise about: Clarity records a replayable session — where you tap, how you move and scroll, and how the screen changed as you did — which can be played back afterwards as a recording of your visit. It also builds heatmaps of where people tap on each screen.
It is used to find out where the app is confusing or broken: which screens people abandon, which buttons get tapped twice because nothing appeared to happen, where a layout fails on a particular phone. Microsoft receives your IP address, device and browser type, and the interaction data described above, under Microsoft's own privacy statement.
Clarity masks text content by default, so what you type into a search box is not meant to appear in a recording. As with the analytics above, there is no in-app switch; a browser extension that blocks trackers will stop it without affecting the rest of the app.
ST Tracker displays non-intrusive advertisements served by Google AdSense to help support server hosting and live tracking infrastructure. Google AdSense may use cookies, web beacons, and device signals to serve relevant ads based on visits to this and other websites. You can manage personalized advertising settings through Google Ad Settings or read how Google uses information from sites that use its services at Google's Partner Policy. If you use an ad blocker, the app respects your choice and simply collapses ad slots with zero empty space.
If you use Send feedback in Settings, what you write is stored on this app's own server so it can be read and acted on. This is the only place in the app where text you typed is kept — everywhere else records fixed counters chosen from a list, precisely so that no free text about anyone can end up there.
There is no name field and no contact field, deliberately: a suggestion box that asks who you are stops being anonymous. Stored alongside your message are the rating you gave, which kind you picked, the app version and which screen you were on — and the same random, resettable install id described above, used only to stop one device flooding the box. It means there is no way to reply to you, which is the trade for not holding your identity.
Please do not type anything personal into it — your name, phone number or address are not needed and are stored exactly as written. Feedback is kept for up to a year. Ratings are shown as an average inside the app, and published as a review rating for search engines once enough have been left; individual messages are never published.
If you report how full a bus is, that it never came, or that a different bus ran the trip, that report is stored so other riders can see it. It records the bus, what you said, and the day — not who you are. To stop the same person reporting the same bus repeatedly, a scrambled, shortened one-way version of your IP address is kept alongside it; it cannot be turned back into an address, and it is not used for anything else. Reports are deleted after 30 days.
If you ask to be notified when a bus is near, your browser gives the app an anonymous notification address from Google or Apple. That address, the bus, and the point you want to be told about are stored so the alert can be sent. There is no name or account attached. The alert is deleted once it fires or expires, and you can cancel it at any time — after which nothing about it remains.
ST Tracker is an independent community app. It is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by GSRTC.
The app is a public transport timetable. It is not directed at children and collects nothing that would identify anyone of any age.
Settings → Clear saved data removes everything held on your device. Cancelling an arrival alert removes it from the server. Usage counts and bus reports contain nothing that identifies you, so there is nothing personal to retrieve or erase — but if you have a question, the contact below is a real person who will answer.
If what is collected ever changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. The app will not begin collecting something that identifies you without saying so plainly first.
ST Tracker is built and run by one person. Questions about anything on this page can go to shivrajsinh.in.