Privacy policy
The short version. Hyfive works on your phone. Your card, the people you meet and your notes are stored on your phone. Hyfive has no accounts, no ads and no tracking. We never receive the people you meet. Only if you share your card by link do we keep a copy of that one card, so the link works and shows your latest details.
Who we are
Hyfive is made by AMTECCO (Amtecco BV), Antwerp, Belgium, VAT BE0748.398.550. We are responsible for this policy. Questions or requests: privacy@amtecco.com.
What the app uses, and why
| What | Why | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Your card details | Name, title, company and the links you add, to show and share your card. | Stored on your phone. Shared only when you share your card, with the person you share it with. |
| People you meet | Cards you receive, with your notes. | Stored on your phone. |
| Camera | To scan QR codes. | Images are processed on your phone and not stored. |
| Photos you pick | To read QR codes in screenshots you choose. | Processed on your phone. |
| Contacts | Only if you choose: to read your own contact card during setup, and to save someone when you tap Save to Contacts. | Stays on your phone. |
| Bluetooth and NFC | To swap cards with people nearby. | Directly between the two phones. Bluetooth swaps are encrypted. |
| Clipboard | During setup and when you tap Paste, to read a link you copied. | Stays on your phone. |
| Apps on your phone | During setup, to suggest the networks you use. | Stays on your phone. |
| Location | Only if you allow it: the place where you received each card. | Stored on your phone. To show a street name, the coordinates are looked up through your phone's built-in service (Google on Android, Apple on iPhone) when you're online. |
| Calendar | Only if you allow it, read only: the name and place of the event you were at, from the calendars you choose. | Stored on your phone. |
| Map | When you open the map, map images are loaded from OpenFreeMap (based on OpenStreetMap). | OpenFreeMap sees which area is shown, not who you met. Your pins stay on your phone. |
When you share your card, the person you share it with receives the details on that card. You choose what each card contains.
Card links on hyfive.app
When you tap an iPhone without Hyfive, it opens your card on hyfive.app/c. Your card travels inside the link, after the # sign. Browsers never send that part to our server, so the page shows the card on the visitor's phone and we don't see or store it.
Sharing your card by link
When you choose Send your card and share a link (for example in WhatsApp, Messages or email), the app sends that card to hyfive.app: the name, role, company and contact details on it, and two pictures of it that your phone draws. We keep them so the link (hyfive.app/s/…) shows your card and a preview in chats, and stays up to date when you change your card. We store nothing about the people you meet or who opens the link. Anyone with the link can see that card, as with a paper card. Card pages are hidden from search engines.
You can stop a link at any time in the app (Send your card › Stop this link). We then delete the card and its pictures from our server.
The website
hyfive.app uses no cookies, no analytics and no third-party trackers. Like every web server, ours keeps short technical logs (such as IP address, time and page requested) for security and to keep the site running. The fonts are served from hyfive.app itself.
Services from Google and Apple
Hyfive uses features built into your phone, such as QR scanning (Google ML Kit on Android, Apple Vision on iPhone), the phone-number suggestion during setup on Android, and the street-name lookup mentioned above. These may send technical data to Google or Apple under their own privacy policies.
If you use your phone's backup (for example Android backup to your Google account), your phone may include Hyfive's data in that backup. That backup belongs to your account; we have no access to it.
How long we keep data
Everything Hyfive stores is on your phone, for as long as you keep it. You can edit or remove people, cards and details in the app at any time. Uninstalling Hyfive deletes its data from your phone. A card you shared by link stays on hyfive.app until you stop the link in the app or ask us to delete it (see below); uninstalling the app does not remove it by itself.
Your rights
- You can ask to access, correct or delete personal data we hold about you, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable format.
- You can withdraw any permission (location, calendar, contacts, camera, Bluetooth) at any time in your phone's settings.
- To use your rights, email privacy@amtecco.com.
- You can complain to the Belgian Data Protection Authority: dataprotectionauthority.be.
Children
Hyfive is a business app and is not aimed at children under 16.
Changes
If this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top.