Privacy isn't a setting here. It's our charter.
Most apps promise privacy in their terms of service. We wrote ours down as a charter: seven articles that bind every feature we ship, every contract we sign, and every request we answer. What we don't know about you, no one can query, sell, leak, or demand.
The Hookay Privacy Charter
Not a marketing page and not fine print — the standard we hold ourselves to, versioned and public. Every product decision is checked against these seven articles before it ships.
Privacy Charter
v1.0 · Effective 2026 · Binding for all Hookay servicesWe collect the minimum.
Every feature is built to work with the least data possible. If a feature needs more than we're willing to know, we change the feature — not the principle.
Your location is never precise.
Hookay works with neighborhoods, never coordinates. We will never store, display, or process your exact position — and we will never know the routes you take.
Your conversations are yours.
Messages are encrypted so that their content belongs to the people in the conversation. We do not read them, mine them, or train on them.
We never sell, share, or advertise.
No ads, no ad networks, no data brokers, no "partners." Your sexuality is not inventory. Our revenue comes from subscriptions — from you, openly.
Everything stays in Europe.
All of Hookay runs on European infrastructure, operated by European companies, under European law alone. No provider in our chain answers to non-EU authorities.
Intelligence stays on your device.
AI features run locally on your phone. There is no server fallback: if your device can't do it, we don't do it. What the AI learns about you never leaves your hands.
You can always leave — completely.
Deletion means deletion: full, final, and available in the app at any time. An app built to be kept must be just as easy to leave.
What we replaced
Each of these swaps trades an industry habit for a better idea. You'll barely notice them — which is exactly the point.
What we don't know about you
The most honest privacy policy is a list of blanks.
- Your precise location
- Your legal name
- The content of your chats
- Your movements through the city
- Your ad profile — it doesn't exist
- What our AI thinks about you
European by charter, not by accident
Sovereignty doesn't mean "GDPR-compliant, hosted somewhere." It means your data lives in Europe, with European companies, under European law — from the first server to the last subprocessor.
Hosted in Europe
Every server runs in the EU, operated by European companies.
European law, end to end
No provider in our chain is subject to access by non-EU authorities.
Built for your rights
The GDPR isn't a hurdle for us. It's the blueprint.
No US cloud provider. No CLOUD Act exposure. No exceptions.
When the state comes asking
Platforms for queer people receive government requests — and how a platform handles them is a privacy feature. We publish every category of request, twice a year, in plain numbers.
Minimal, lawful, on the record
We comply only with legally binding orders under EU law, scrutinize every request for legal validity and scope, and challenge requests that are overbroad or lack a proper legal basis.
Where the law permits, we notify affected users before any data is disclosed.
Architecture limits every answer
The most important line of defense isn't legal — it's structural. Precise locations, chat contents, and movement patterns can't be handed over, because they were never collected.
A request can only ever return what exists. At Hookay, that is deliberately little.
Government Request Report
Reporting period: Jul – Dec 2025Built in, not begged for
Your GDPR rights are features in the app — not a letter exchange with a legal department.
See what we see
Available in the app at any time, complete and in plain language.
Take everything with you
One tap exports your data in an open, machine-readable format.
Leave when you want
Full deletion, simple and final. An app you're free to keep is an app you're free to leave.