Privacy
MyTrip has no accounts, only asks where you are when you tap Near me, and doesn’t sell or share anything about you. Your settings and your location stay on your device. The only things that leave it are a notification address, if you turn on alerts, feedback, if you send some, and your questions, if you use Ask.
Last updated 5 November 2026.
Who
MyTrip (mytrain.fyi and train.dermotdooley.com, in the browser or installed as an app) is run by its developer, Dermot Dooley, in Ireland, who is responsible for the data described here. Contact: hello@mytrain.fyi.
On your device
MyTrip remembers these in your browser’s storage, so they’re there next time. They aren’t sent to us, and clearing the site’s data in your browser (or uninstalling the app) deletes them.
- Your stations · Your home station, your city station, any fixed destination, and the last few stations you picked.
- MyTrain · The train you’ve picked, its timer, reminder, delay alert and lock screen countdown settings, and which alerts it has already given.
- Regular and planned trains · The trains you’ve set to repeat and their days, the trains you’ve planned for later, and a reference to their notification watch.
- MyLuas · Your Luas stop, where you get off, and the last few stops you picked.
- MyBus · Your places (the names you give them and their bus stops), which way you’re going, and the bus you’ve picked.
- Irish Rail alerts · Which alerts you’ve dismissed or already seen.
- Display · Which board you last used (train, Luas, bus, Dublin Bikes or MetroLink), whether the frequency line and its chart are on, and which cards you’ve closed.
- Theme, text size and language · Light or dark, a larger text size, and English or Irish, if you’ve picked them.
- Tips and news · Whether you’ve seen the welcome and closed the tips about bookmarks and repeating a train, and the latest news you’ve read.
On train.dermotdooley.com the theme is also kept in a cookie, so the other dermotdooley.com sites use the same one. It holds only “dark” or “light”. MyTrip sets no other cookies.
Your location is used only on your device, and only when you tap Near me (in a picker, or in MyBikes): once, to find the nearest station, stops or bike station, and never tracked. It isn’t stored or sent to us. Only the station or stops you pick are, as when you pick them yourself; MyBikes sends nothing.
Your browser or phone asks your permission first, and you can turn it off in its settings. To work out where you are it may use its own location service (Google’s or Apple’s, for example), under that service’s policy.
Notifications
Notifications are off until you allow them. If you do, and turn on a reminder, delay alerts or the lock screen countdown for MyTrain or a regular train, your browser gives MyTrip a push address: a web address at your browser maker’s push service (Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft) with keys to encrypt messages to it. It doesn’t say who you are.
That address goes to our server with the train to watch (its code, your stations, times and alert settings), your language (so alerts come in English or Irish) and whether you’re using the Android app, and nothing else. A background job on Vercel checks the train every minute and sends alerts through your browser’s push service. Vercel stores the job’s input while it runs, in the United States (Vercel’s data processing terms cover the transfer):
- for a train you’ve picked, until it leaves (an hour or two), plus a day;
- for a regular train, until you stop repeating it or turn its alerts off, plus a day.
To stop, forget the train, stop repeating it, or turn off notifications for the site in your browser or phone settings. When a push service says the address is no longer valid, the job ends by itself.
Feedback
If you send beta feedback from the feedback page, our server files it as an issue in MyTrip’s private code repository on GitHub, in the United States, where only the developer can see it. The issue holds your message, what it’s about if you pick, your email address if you give one, your home and Dublin stations, which board you were on, whether the app is installed, your theme, the app’s version, the site’s address and your browser’s user agent (its name, version and operating system). It stays until the issue is dealt with; email hello@mytrain.fyi to have it deleted sooner.
To stop the form being abused, Vercel’s bot check runs when you send, and a scrambled form of your IP address (a keyed hash, which can’t be turned back into the address) is kept for a day to limit how many messages one address can send.
Ask
If you ask a question on the Ask page, our server sends the conversation (your questions, and the answers so far) toAnthropic, in the United States, whose AI, Claude, writes the answer from the live times our server looks up. Anthropic gets the text only, not your IP address or anything else about you, and handles it under its commercial terms. MyTrip keeps nothing: the conversation lives in the page and is gone when you leave it. So don’t put anything personal in a question.
As with feedback, Vercel’s bot check runs when you ask, and a scrambled form of your IP address is kept for an hour to limit how many questions one address can ask.
Services the page uses
Your browser contacts these while you use MyTrip. Each has its own privacy policy.
- Vercel
Hosts MyTrip in Dublin. Like any web host it sees your IP address and browser with each request, and keeps short-lived logs to run and secure the service.
- Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights
Count page views and measure how fast the page loads. No cookies, and no identifier that lasts beyond a day: visits are grouped by a hash of your IP address and browser that resets daily, and only totals are reported.
- OpenFreeMap
Serves the map, so it sees your IP address and which part of the map you’re looking at (not your location).
Train, Luas and bus times and alerts come from Irish Rail, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (Luas) and the National Transport Authority through our server, so none of them sees your requests. See Credits for each source and its licence. Links out (Irish Rail on X, irishrail.ie, Buy Me a Coffee) open those sites, under their own policies.
Train history
To show how late trains usually run, MyTrip records every train’s timetabled and actual times each night, from Irish Rail’s public data. That database holds train data only: nothing about you or what you look at.
Why, and your rights
Notifications and feedback rely on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time as above. Hosting logs and anonymous analytics rely on a legitimate interest in running the service and seeing whether it’s used. There are no accounts, so we can’t link any of this to you. If you want to ask about it, or use your rights under data protection law (access, deletion, objection), email hello@mytrain.fyi. You can also complain to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission.
MyTrip isn’t aimed at children and doesn’t knowingly collect anything from them.
Changes
If what MyTrip collects changes, this page will change first, with a new date at the top.