PSB IDEAS · BUZZING BEE
Privacy policy
Effective September 28, 2026. This policy covers the Google Play edition of Buzzing Bee: Mock Location and its search service.
Who provides Buzzing Bee
Paul Steinberg LLC, trading as PSB Ideas, provides this location-simulation app. Contact support@psbideas.com or write to 418 Broadway STE N, Albany, NY 12207, United States. Our website is PSB Ideas. No Buzzing Bee account is required.
Locations and data on your device
The app reads device location to center the map. Saved locations, routes, groups, preferences, editing sessions, recent history and recorded simulated paths are stored on your device. Recent history keeps the last ten locations and ten routes. A recorded simulated path stays until replaced or deleted. We do not upload your saved route database to a publisher account or sharing feed. The Play edition has no user-to-user sharing service.
When you start simulation, the app supplies mock locations through Android. Other apps may receive those fixes under their own permissions and policies. Simulation can affect navigation, including Android Auto. Stop simulation before relying on real-location navigation; pausing continues supplying a simulated position.
Maps, search and map links
Maps use OpenFreeMap and its resource hosts. Requests expose your IP address and requested map area, which may correspond to your real or selected location. Entering coordinates and reading full map links happen on your device. If you choose to open a shortened map link, the link is sent to its provider to resolve it; that provider receives connection information.
When you submit a place or address search, your query goes through our Cloudflare-hosted search service to Geoapify. Cloudflare processes your IP address, query and anonymous access credential to deliver and protect the service. Geoapify receives the query and the server connection, rather than a forwarded phone IP address. A query may contain location information or personal information you choose to enter. Avoid including unnecessary personal information.
The search service stores quota counters linked to a daily pseudonym of your network address and a random credential identifier. These records expire at the next UTC midnight and are removed by scheduled cleanup. Its database does not store raw IP addresses, search text, search results or bearer tokens. The anonymous credential is stored in private app preferences for up to 30 days and is excluded from app exports and Android backup. Cloudflare platform/security processing and Geoapify operational logs are separate from this database and follow the providers' policies. Geoapify describes successful-request log retention generally up to 24 hours. Search availability and limits are shared across users.
Advertising and choices
The free edition uses Google AdMob banner and rewarded ads. Google advertising services may process IP addresses and inferred approximate location, device or advertising identifiers, app/ad interactions and diagnostic information for advertising, measurement and fraud prevention. The app does not attach saved routes, favorites or route names to ad requests. An active ad-free subscription removes banner and rewarded ads.
Google's User Messaging Platform manages applicable consent and opt-out messages. When available, use Ad privacy choices in the app to review your choices. Android also provides advertising-ID controls. Refusing personalized advertising does not necessarily stop all advertising-related processing. The app turns off ad personalization for its ad requests and requests general-audience ad content. These settings do not stop all advertising-related data processing. We do not sell saved route databases. Advertising partners' processing may be considered a sale, sharing or targeted advertising under some privacy laws; use the applicable privacy choices to opt out.
Complimentary access
If PSB Ideas provides a complimentary ad-free code, the app verifies its digital signature locally and stores it in private app storage. The code is not sent to a publisher server and is excluded from app backups and exports. It has no expiry. Remove complimentary access in Subscription or clear app storage to remove it; keep the code if you want to restore access. Redeeming or removing a code does not cancel an existing Google Play subscription.
Subscriptions and route rewards
Google Play handles payments and billing details. Buzzing Bee queries subscription purchase records, verifies purchase signatures locally and acknowledges completed purchases to provide ad-free access. It does not receive your payment card details or send purchase records to a publisher billing server. Restore purchases checks Google Play. Subscription entitlements are not included in backups.
For rewarded route starts, the app stores reward eligibility, the first successful start time and device boot information locally to manage the three-minute correction window. These values are not exported in backups. An active route continues after that window ends.
Permissions and controls
Location access and Android mock-location setup support the simulation workflow. Notifications show active sessions and a Stop action. Optional display-over-other-apps permission enables the floating joystick; it receives touches in its own window and does not inject keyboard input into other apps. Optional stability settings can increase battery use. User-enabled recovery can display a reminder to reopen the app after a restart or interrupted session.
Buzzing Bee data deletion
To request deletion of information held by Paul Steinberg LLC (PSB Ideas), email support@psbideas.com with the subject Buzzing Bee data deletion. Describe the information you want removed, such as a previous support message, and contact us from the associated email address where possible. Do not send passwords, payment details, search access tokens or unnecessary location history.
We can delete identifiable support correspondence and attachments we hold, subject to records we must retain for applicable legal obligations or resolving a dispute. We will explain any applicable exception and retention period in our response. We cannot look up your local saved routes through a server account because Buzzing Bee has no such account. Search quota records expire at the next UTC midnight; they are not a stored search history. Providers' operational, security, advertising and Google Play billing records are governed by their own retention and rights procedures linked below.
For data on your device, delete saved items and recorded paths or clear recent history in the app. Android Settings → Apps → Buzzing Bee → Storage → Clear storage removes app-local data, including local preferences and the search credential. Exported copies must be deleted separately from your chosen destination. Uninstalling or clearing app storage does not cancel a subscription: manage or cancel it through Google Play.
GPX and JSON exports can contain precise selected locations, route geometry, names and groups. They are written to a destination you choose, which may be a cloud document provider. Recent history and search access credentials are not included in backups.
Support, rights and international processing
If you contact us, we receive the email address, message and attachments you send and use them to respond. We retain support correspondence as needed to resolve the request, maintain relevant business records and meet applicable obligations. You can request access, correction or deletion of information we hold about you, or exercise other rights available under the laws where you live, by contacting support@psbideas.com. We may need proportionate information to verify a request. You may also contact the relevant privacy regulator. Service providers handle their own records and applicable requests.
We process information to provide requested app functions, manage purchases and support, protect services, honor your choices and meet applicable obligations. Service providers may process information outside your country. App-configured map and search connections use HTTPS. No security measure can guarantee absolute protection.
Age range and advertising protections
Starting with version 1.26.9, the app asks for an age range before opening its main screen. We do not ask for a birthday or identity document. The selected range stays in private app storage and is not included in route exports or app backups. It is used to configure age-treatment signals sent to Google advertising services. Ages 13–15 receive the more restrictive under-consent ad treatment; ages 16–17 receive teen ad treatment. Personalization is disabled for all age ranges. A self-declared range is not independent age verification. You can correct it in Privacy & app behavior; doing so stops any active simulation before asking again. Selecting under 13 prevents entry to the app. These settings do not grant a free subscription or bypass rewarded route access.
Audience and changes
Buzzing Bee is intended for users aged 13 and older and is not directed to children under 13. Contact us if you believe a child has supplied personal information to us. We will update this page when our practices change and show the revised effective date.