Public rider information
Funding and donations
Rider information stays free and independent. Voluntary donations can help pay for the project’s public-interest work.
Voluntary support
Make a donation
Donations support hosting, data monitoring, translation, and accessibility. They do not provide editorial control, and essential rider information remains free.
Open the secure donation page- Payments
- Stripe-hosted checkout; Otranspo never stores card or bank details
- Independence
- No advertising or influence over reporting
Ownership and accountability
Who is responsible for Otranspo
- Owner and operator
- One independent Ottawa–Gatineau citizen, named on the independence page
- Service responsibility
- The owner named above owns Otranspo and is accountable for its product, operations, privacy decisions, security response, and public explanations.
- Editorial control
- The owner named above makes the final editorial and publishing decisions. Transit agencies, cities, data providers, hosting companies, analytics providers, and donors do not direct coverage or conclusions.
- Funding model
- The owner named above bears the project’s operating costs. Otranspo carries no advertising. If voluntary donations are available, they do not buy access, favourable coverage, or editorial control.
- Official status
- Otranspo is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by OC Transpo, STO, the City of Ottawa, or the Ville de Gatineau. It supplements official information and does not run transit service.
- Application explanation reviewed
- September 14, 2026
- Next source review due
- October 14, 2026
This review compares the public explanation with the current application source and configured capability rules. It is not a legal opinion or proof that a pending source revision has reached production. Current service health and published corrections have their own evidence pages.
What donations do, and what they do not
Otranspo does not show advertising, sell rider data, charge for core rider journeys, or place fundraising prompts inside departures, trip planning, alerts, maps, accessibility, or active-trip flows.
Donations help cover hosting, data monitoring, accessibility, and reviewed translation. They do not buy influence over evidence, scores, investigations, or editorial decisions.
How the secure checkout works
The donation page shows the amount limits, privacy choices, and refund or dispute path before checkout.
- When the live funding panel says checkout is available, one-time and monthly support is accepted in Canadian dollars through a Stripe-hosted checkout. A closed or local-simulation state sends nothing to Stripe.
- During live checkout, card and bank details are entered only on Stripe and are never stored by Otranspo.
- A contribution is voluntary and is not represented as tax-deductible; no charitable tax receipt is issued.
- Private receipts support refunds, disputes, recurring-payment management, and deletion of optional contact details.