Privacy Policy

Who we are

HelloMyNameIs (“we”) is the mobile app and this website, made and run by Oscar Pedersen, Gunderupvej, 9260 Gistrup, Denmark. Oscar Pedersen is the data controller for the personal data described here. You can reach us at hello@hellomynameis.io.

What we collect

The app is built to need very little. This is all of it:

• Your location, if you allow it. It is used to find openings near you, and it is not stored on your profile. In the background it is only used for proximity pings, and only if you switch them on.
• That you reached a place you asked to hear about, if you turn on proximity pings. This one deserves a paragraph of its own, below.
• Your preferences: the kind of work, hours and times you say you are open to. All optional; “anything” is the default.
• Your account, if you create one: an identifier from Apple, Google or your email address. There are no passwords. You can use the app without an account.
• Your first name and avatar, if you choose to add them.
• Basic technical data needed to run the service, such as your device type, app version and the server logs any online service keeps.

There is no CV, no work history, no photo requirement and no public profile page. We do not collect contacts, photos, or advertising identifiers.

What we use it for

• Showing you openings and open doors near you, ranked by fit and distance.
• Telling you when you pass a place you might want to walk into, if you turn on proximity pings.
• Keeping the app running, secure and free of abuse.

We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it for advertising.

Proximity pings, and why they are not tracking

If you switch them on, the app can tell you when you are passing somewhere worth walking into. It does this without following you.

Your phone is given a short list of circles - at most twenty, because that is what iOS allows - drawn around places we think you would want to hear about. Your operating system holds that list and watches it. HelloMyNameIs is woken only when you reach one of them, and learns nothing in between: no route, no trail, no record of where else you went. We could not reconstruct your day if we tried, because we are never sent it.

This needs the “always” location permission, because the alternative is only ever telling you about a place after you have already walked past it. You can switch proximity pings off at any time under Me, and the circles are removed from your phone when you do.

What companies can see

Nothing. The app does not show you to companies, and creating an account does not change that. A company can tell people that its door is open, but it cannot see who looks, who walks past or who comes in.

If the app one day lets companies see people nearby, being discoverable will be a separate, explicit switch that is off by default, and a company would see at most your first name, your avatar, what you are open to and roughly how far away you are - never your coordinates, your address or a position on a map. This policy will be updated before that happens.

If you use the app for a company

A shop or workplace can sign in and say that people are welcome to walk in and ask about work. For that we keep the account, the place you picked from the map, your opening hours if you add them, how people should get in, and the name of a person to ask for and a place to meet, if you add them. We look at every new place by hand before anything is shown, to stop people claiming a place that is not theirs.

Once approved, the place, the way in, the name and meeting place you gave, and whether someone is free to talk right now are shown to job seekers in the app. Use a first name, or leave it out. You can close the door at any time, and deleting the account removes all of it.

If you buy unlimited pings

The purchase goes through the App Store. We receive only the fact that it was made, kept on your phone as a yes or no; Apple handles the payment and never shares your card or bank details with us. How many pings you have used this month is counted on your phone and never sent anywhere.

Who else handles data

• Supabase hosts accounts and app data, in the EU.
• Apple and Google handle sign-in if you choose “Continue with Apple” or “Continue with Google”. We receive an identifier and, if you allow it, your email address.
• Public job banks - Arbetsförmedlingen in Sweden, the Bundesagentur für Arbeit in Germany and France Travail in France - are the source of public job openings. Places to walk into come from OpenStreetMap. We read from them; we never send them anything about you.
• OpenStreetMap draws the maps. When a map is shown, your phone fetches the map images from the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s servers, which see your IP address and the area on screen, as any website you visit would. When you ask for directions, the place is handed to the map app on your phone.

How long we keep it

Your position is used for the current session and not stored on your profile. A proximity ping records that you reached one named place, so the app does not mention it again for a week; that record is a place and a date, never a route. Your profile and preferences are kept until you delete your account. Server logs are kept for at most 90 days.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for a copy of your data, have it corrected or deleted, restrict or object to how it is used, and complain to your national data protection authority (in Denmark, Datatilsynet). Most of this you can do yourself inside the app: pause discovery, turn off proximity pings, or delete everything. For the rest, write to hello@hellomynameis.io.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account and everything attached to it from inside the app, or by request. Details are on the delete account page.

Children

The app is for people of working age and is not directed at children under 15. We do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top is the date of the current version.