Burning DJs is a guide to DJ sets at Burning Man's sound camps and art cars. The short version: it collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, no data collection of any kind. There is no setting to find and switch off, because nothing is on.
The app makes two kinds of request, and neither says anything about you.
www.navigatetoyes.com/api/music/schedule — the same public lineup feed the Navigate to YES app reads. No account, no key, no request body; the server sees what any web server sees for any request: an IP address and a user agent, used to answer the request and nothing more. The response is cached on your device, which is why the app keeps working with no signal.u.expo.dev, operated by Expo — 650 Industries, Inc.) for over-the-air fixes to the app's own code. That request identifies the app version and platform so the right update can be served, plus a random identifier generated on install that Expo uses to count update deliveries — it is tied to nothing about you, and we never see it. This is how the app stays current; it is not analytics. Expo's handling of these requests is covered by Expo's own privacy policy.That is the complete list. Your location, your starred venues, your searches — none of it ever enters a network request.
Location is requested When In Use only, and only from the Compass screen — the one screen whose whole job is knowing where you are. It is used on the device to compute a bearing and a straight-line distance to the camp or art car you picked, and to keep the distance on the lock-screen card current. It is never transmitted.
The app declares iOS's location background mode for exactly one reason: that lock-screen card. Set a target, pocket the phone, and the distance keeps counting down while the screen is locked — computed on the device, shown by a local Live Activity, no push server involved. iOS shows its blue location indicator the whole time this runs, and clearing the target stops it immediately.
Decline location and everything else still works — lineups, camps, DJs, search, the map. Only the distances and the arrow are absent. The compass heading (the magnetometer) also stays on the device.
Everything the app stores lives in its own local storage: the cached schedule, the venues you starred, and the compass target. No copy exists anywhere else. Delete the app and all of it is gone.
Venue pages link to camps' Instagram accounts and websites, and there is a card for Navigate to YES. These open in the relevant app or in your browser — there is no in-app webview — and nothing about you is passed along. From there, that site's privacy policy applies, not this one.
Burning DJs is a nightlife schedule for an adult event. It is not directed at children and is not intended for anyone under 13.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Given what the app is, a change would mean the app started doing something new — that gets said plainly, not edited in quietly.
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