Course Seat Alert — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 31 August 2026 · Package: com.ibrahimtxy.seatalert · Developer: ibrahimtxy

In short: this app collects no personal data, does not ask you to create an account and sends nothing to any server of ours — we do not operate one. Everything you enter stays on your phone. There is no advertising network, no analytics and no crash reporting.

Important: This app never signs in to your student account, never asks for your student ID or password, and never registers you for a class. It reads the same public class-search page you can open in a browser without signing in, and tells you when a seat opens. You enroll yourself, in your school's own system.

1. What the app does

Course Seat Alert checks section seat counts on your school's public Banner class search at an interval you choose, and sends a notification to your phone when a seat opens. An example watch: Temple University · 2026 Fall · CIS 1068.

The app never buys, reserves or holds anything. It points you at your school's own registration system; you act there yourself.

2. Data we collect

None. The developer runs no server and receives nothing from your device — not your watches, not your device identifier, not your usage, not crash reports.

3. What is stored on your device

The watches you create (campus, term, subject, course number), your interval setting, the records already seen so the app does not tell you twice, and the measured data usage. All of it lives in the app's private storage and is deleted when you uninstall the app.

4. Servers the app talks to

The app connects ONLY to the school you choose. Three campuses ship as presets; you can point it at any other school by pasting your own class-search link, in which case the app connects to that address and no other. The presets are:

prd-xereg.temple.edu
selfservice.uncc.edu
banner.buffalostate.edu

These requests are ordinary public web requests over HTTPS, the same ones your browser makes on the class-search page of the school you picked. They carry no identifier of you.

5. Permissions

Permission	Why
`ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`	To avoid pointless attempts while offline, and to tell mobile data from Wi-Fi.
`INTERNET`	To reach the class-search page of the school you picked.
`POST_NOTIFICATIONS`	To tell you a seat opened. That is the whole app.
`RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`	So your watches resume after the phone restarts.
`VIBRATE`	To vibrate when a notification arrives.
`WAKE_LOCK`	So the phone does not fall asleep in the middle of a check. The app does not ask for this itself; the background work library (Android Jetpack WorkManager) adds it.

6. Children

The app is not directed to children and collects no data from anyone.

7. Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.

8. Contact

ibrahimtopbasi@mail.com