Add fields for terms and privacy policy

[mplsmitch]

What problem does your proposal solve? Please begin with the relevant issue number. If there is no existing issue, please also describe alternative solutions you have considered.

The specification lacks a way to express terms of service and privacy policy information. Related closed PR: #254

What is the proposal?

This proposal adds optional fields to system_information.json to hold URLs for the system terms of service and the privacy policy for the service. Along with these there are optional fields to contain the dates when these policies were last modified.

Is this a breaking change?

• Yes
• No
• Unsure

Which files are affected by this change?

gbfs.md:

• system_information.json

[mplsmitch]

I hereby call a vote on this proposal.

Voting will be open for 10 full calendar days until 11:59PM UTC on September 1st, 2021.

Please vote for or against the proposal, and include the organization for which you are voting in your comment.

Please note if you can commit to implementing the proposal.

[kanagy]

Google Maps supports this proposal, but we don't plan on ingesting and using the new fields yet.

Nit: Could you make the date format consistent? The example for system_information says "start_date": "2010-06-10" (i.e. using hyphen as date separator). It would be nice to extend the example too with privacy & terms fields.

[richtaylor-ito]

Ito World supports this proposal.

[nbdh]

Nextbike supports this proposal and we would add those fields to our feeds in the future.

[dirkdk]

Google Maps supports this proposal, but we don't plan on ingesting and using the new fields yet.

Nit: Could you make the date format consistent? The example for system_information says "start_date": "2010-06-10" (i.e. using hyphen as date separator). It would be nice to extend the example too with privacy & terms fields.

I agree with the date format consistency. It would probably be best to have a higher level definition of date formatting somewhere that we can always refer back to. This would improve consistency

[viestat]

Dott supports this proposal, we could add this in the near future.

[evansiroky]

IBI Group supports this proposal.

[cait32]

BCycle supports this proposal and we would add it to our feeds in the future.

[ncancelliere]

Spin support this proposal, and we would likely implement this in our feeds.

[ezmckinn]

Superpedestrian supports this addition, and we would add it to our GBFS feeds.

[josee-sabourin]

This vote is now closed, and it passes!

Votes in favour:
Google Maps (consumer)
Ito World (producer)
Dott (producer)
IBI Group (consumer)
BCycle (producer)
Spin (producer)
Superpedestrian (producer)

There we no votes against.

Regarding @kanagy's and @dirkdk comment: We will make that change when we merge this into v2.3-RC, thanks for the input!