Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how the Network-Networth team (“Network-Networth”, “we”, “us”) collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use the Network-Networth mobile application (the “App”) and our website at networthk.com (the “Site”). Network-Networth is a networking app for entrepreneurs: a live map of nearby people and events, profiles, connections, and direct messages.

1. Information we collect

Information you provide

• Account: email address, a password (stored only as a secure hash by our authentication provider), username, and full name. Optionally a phone number and date of birth (a phone number, if given, is stored unverified).
• Profile: headline, industry, skills, city and country, bio, portfolio and other links, goals, team status, and a profile photo (avatar) if you upload one.
• Content: direct messages, connection requests, community memberships, event RSVPs, and reports you file about other users or content.
• Communications: messages you send to us for support.

Information collected automatically

• Location (optional): if you opt in to the map, we collect your device location to show you nearby entrepreneurs and events. See “Location” below.
• Device & push: a push-notification token so we can deliver notifications you’ve enabled, and basic device/technical data (such as IP address and app version) processed by our infrastructure providers to operate and secure the service.
• Usage: actions within the App needed to provide features (for example, whom you connect with or which events you RSVP to).
• Crash diagnostics: if the App crashes or hits an error, we collect a technical report (error message, stack trace, device model and OS version, app version) to diagnose it. These reports are configured to exclude personally identifying data.

Information collected through our website

• Waitlist: if you submit the launch waitlist form, we store your email address and which part of the page you submitted it from, and we send ourselves a Telegram notification containing that address. We use it only to tell you when the App launches, and you can ask us to remove it at any time.
• Abuse prevention: to rate-limit that form we compute a salted, irreversible hash of your IP address and store only the hash. We do not store the raw IP address of waitlist submissions, and the hash cannot be turned back into your IP.

2. How we use your information

• To create and operate your account and profile.
• To power discovery — the nearby map, communities, events, and search.
• To enable connections and direct messages between users.
• To send notifications you’ve enabled (new connection requests, accepted connections, and new messages).
• For safety and moderation — to review reports, enforce our Terms, and block abuse.
• To send you product news, only if you opt in to marketing.
• To comply with legal obligations and protect our rights and users.

3. Legal bases (EEA/UK users)

Where GDPR applies, we rely on: performance of a contract (to provide the core service), consent (for location sharing and marketing, which you can withdraw at any time), legitimate interests (to keep the service safe and functioning), and legal obligation where required.

4. Location

Location sharing is off by default and entirely opt-in. When you opt in, we collect your device’s precise location and store it so the map can work. It is coarsened before it is shared with anyone else — your precise coordinates are never readable by other users. You choose who can see you at all: everyone, only people you are connected with, or nobody. When you are visible:

• The position other users see is coarsened on our servers before it ever leaves them: your point is snapped to a fixed grid of roughly 450-metre cells, so what is shared is the cell, not your location. Distances and ordering are computed from that snapped point too — so your true position cannot be recovered by comparing results.
• Positions older than 24 hours are excluded from the map.
• You can change your visibility or turn location off at any time in the App, and you can revoke the location permission in your device settings.

5. How your information is shared

• With other users: your profile information, and your fuzzed location if you opt in, are visible to other users according to your settings. Messages are shared with the recipient.
• With service providers who process data on our behalf:
  • Supabase — authentication, database, and file storage (hosted in the EU, Frankfurt region).
  • Expo — delivery of push notifications.
  • Google Firebase Cloud Messaging — the transport that delivers those push notifications to Android devices.
  • Google Maps — map tiles and rendering.
  • Sentry — crash and error diagnostics.
  • Vercel — hosting for our website, including the waitlist form.
  • Stripe — payment processing for organizer promotions. Stripe collects payment details directly; we never receive or store your card number.
  • Telegram — operational alerts to our own team. Two kinds: a moderation alert when a new report is filed, containing only the report’s category, the reason selected, and internal identifiers (never message contents, names, or email addresses); and a waitlist alert when someone joins the launch list on our website, which does include the email address submitted.
• For legal reasons — if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, and property of Network-Networth, our users, or the public.

We do not sell your personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

6. Cookies and similar technologies

Our website uses no advertising or analytics cookies, and we do not track you across other sites. The waitlist form posts directly to our own server; it sets no tracking identifier.

The App is not a browser and does not use cookies. It does store data on your device to function: your authentication token (so you stay signed in) and a cache of recently viewed content (so the App opens instantly and works briefly offline). Both are removed when you sign out or delete the App.

7. Data retention

We keep your information for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account, your profile and associated personal data are removed (see below). Some records may be retained where required by law or to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

What deletion does and does not remove. Deleting your account removes your profile, photo, location, connections, memberships, RSVPs, blocked list, and push tokens. Messages you sent remain visible to the people you sent them to, because they are part of that person’s own conversation history — but they are stripped of your name, username, and photo and attributed only to “Deleted user”. Reports you filed are deleted with your account; moderation actions already applied to other accounts are not reversed. Residual copies may persist in encrypted backups for up to 30 days. The full breakdown is on our account deletion page.

8. Your rights & choices

• Delete your account at any time from the App (Profile → Settings → Delete account), or by emailing us if you no longer have the App installed. See Delete your account for exactly what is removed and what is kept.
• Access, correct, or export your data — edit your profile in-app, or contact us for a copy.
• Block and report other users or content directly in the App.
• Withdraw consent — turn off location sharing or marketing at any time.
• If you are in the EEA/UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

To exercise any right, email info@networthk.com.

9. California privacy rights

If you are a California resident, the CCPA/CPRA gives you specific rights over your personal information. In the preceding 12 months we have collected the categories listed in section 1 — identifiers (name, username, email, phone number), personal information under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80 (date of birth), commercial information (organizer promotion purchases), geolocation data, internet or network activity (app usage and crash diagnostics), and user content (profile text, photos, messages) — for the purposes in section 2, from the sources in section 1, and we disclose them only to the service providers listed in section 5.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We have not done so in the preceding 12 months, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16.

You have the right to:

• Know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose, and to request a copy of it.
• Delete the personal information we hold about you.
• Correct inaccurate personal information.
• Limit the use of sensitive personal information — for us that means your precise location, which is opt-in and which you can turn off at any time.
• Not be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights. We do not offer a different price or level of service based on them.

Exercise any of these by emailing info@networthk.com from the address on your account, or by using the in-app controls. We will verify your request against your account and respond within the timeframe the law requires. You may use an authorised agent; we will ask for proof of their authority.

10. Security

We protect your data with row-level security in our database (each user can only access what they’re permitted to), encryption in transit, and least-privilege access for backend operations. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect your information.

11. Children

Network-Networth is intended for users 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.

12. International transfers

Your data is primarily processed in the EU (Frankfurt). Where data is transferred internationally by our providers, appropriate safeguards are applied.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will revise the “Last updated” date above and, for material changes, provide notice in the App.

14. Contact

Questions or requests: info@networthk.com — the Network-Networth team, the data controller for the App and Site.