Privacy Policy

Effective date: May 21, 2026

ParkBeast ("ParkBeast," "we," "us," or "our") provides ParkBeast Wait Times, a read-only mobile app for viewing Walt Disney World wait times, attraction information, park hours, favorites, and optional wait-time alerts.

This Privacy Policy explains what information the app handles and how we use it. ParkBeast Wait Times does not require accounts, does not provide account creation, and does not ask users to enter names, email addresses, phone numbers, payment information, or other direct personal information.

Information We Collect

The app does not include forms or account features for users to submit personal information.

The app may store preferences on your device, including your selected appearance, default park, onboarding status, favorite attractions, pinned attractions, and alert settings.

If you allow location access, the app uses your device location to help choose the park you are visiting and sort nearby attractions first. Location access is optional and can be changed in your device settings.

If you enable wait-time alerts or push notifications, the app and our Firebase backend may process a randomly generated installation ID, a Firebase Cloud Messaging token, app version, bundle ID, platform, notification enabled status, alert rules, and timestamps related to alert syncing and evaluation. If Firebase reports that a push notification token is invalid or no longer registered, our backend removes that FCM token from the installation record and stores an invalidation timestamp and reason.

The app uses Firebase services, which may process technical information needed to provide Firebase functionality, secure backend requests, deliver push notifications, and operate the app backend.

How We Use Information

We use information handled by the app to display wait times and attraction information, support favorites and pinned attractions, detect the park you may be visiting when location permission is enabled, sync wait-time alert rules, send push notifications, protect backend services from abuse, and maintain, debug, secure, and improve the app.

We do not sell personal information.

Third-Party Services

ParkBeast Wait Times uses Firebase, ThemeParks.wiki API, and Apple services that are part of iOS, including device location permissions and push notification delivery. These third parties may process information under their own privacy policies and terms.

Data Sharing

We may share or disclose information with service providers that help operate the app and backend, when necessary to provide app functionality, to comply with law, to protect rights and safety, or in connection with a business transaction.

Data Retention

Device-stored preferences remain on your device until you delete them, uninstall the app, or change the relevant setting. Location information used for park detection and attraction sorting is handled by the app on your device. ParkBeast does not currently store your precise location in Firebase.

Firebase public wait-time data from ThemeParks.wiki is updated periodically and retained as operational app data.

Firebase installation records used for notifications currently remain in Firebase until ParkBeast deletes them, unless a specific field is removed by the backend. These records can include the installation ID, app version, bundle ID, platform, notification status, FCM token when available, alert rules, alert state, App Check status, and related timestamps.

Alert rules marked to expire at the end of the day are ignored after expiration and are automatically removed from Firebase by a scheduled cleanup. That cleanup runs daily at approximately 3:00 AM America/New_York and removes expired alert rules after the end of the alert's creation day plus a 3-hour grace period. When alert rules are removed, related alert state is pruned.

Alert rules that are not marked to expire at the end of the day remain in Firebase until they are changed or removed by the app or deleted by ParkBeast. If an FCM token becomes invalid or unregistered, the backend removes the token from the Firebase installation record and stores an invalidation timestamp and reason. The installation record itself is not automatically deleted solely because a token is invalid.

You may contact us at contact@parkbeast.com to request deletion of backend notification data associated with your app installation. We may need information from you to identify the relevant installation record.

Your Choices

You can use the app without creating an account, decline or disable location access, decline or disable notifications, delete favorites, pinned attractions, and alert rules where controls are available, uninstall the app, or contact us with privacy questions or deletion requests related to backend notification data.

Children's Privacy

ParkBeast Wait Times is intended for a general audience. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information handled by the app. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

U.S. Users

The app is primarily intended for users in the United States. If you use the app from another location, you understand that information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the effective date and may provide additional notice where appropriate.

Contact Us

ParkBeast
contact@parkbeast.com