Effective: September 7, 2026 · Publisher: KWIP LLC
Summary
Kwip Contacts creates, stores, receives, and shares contact-card snapshots on your iPhone. KWIP LLC does not operate a server that receives your cards, contact handles, received-card history, private occasions, follow-up notes, nearby peers, or sharing activity.
Information processed by the app
The app may process:
- Card labels, display names, phone numbers, email addresses, websites, social links, payment handles, and custom links that you choose to add.
- Your selected built-in symbol and color palette for each card.
- Immutable card snapshots that another person shares with you, along with the local date received.
- An optional reason to reconnect and link that you explicitly include with a shared card.
- Private occasion names, connection assignments, and personal “I said I’d…” follow-up notes. These are not included when sharing a card or saving it to Apple Contacts.
- Your selected card, Quick Share default, purchase entitlement, and other local preferences.
- Temporary nearby-exchange state, confirmation codes, encrypted transfer material, and App Clip handoff state needed to complete a sharing session.
Local storage and received history
Your cards and received snapshots are stored in the app’s local container using Apple’s complete device-data protection. The full app and App Clip may use a private Apple App Group to complete a handoff after installation. Received history retains up to the newest 100 snapshots. You can also remove snapshots or delete all local data; app removal is subject to Apple’s platform behavior. Private occasions and follow-up notes are stored locally alongside the connections they organize.
Contacts
Kwip Contacts requests Contacts access only after you choose Fill from Contacts or Save to Contacts. Filling a card uses Apple’s contact picker for the one contact you select. Saving opens Apple’s system contact editor so you can review the proposed contact before saving.
The app does not upload your address book to KWIP and does not provide KWIP with a browsable copy of your contacts.
Camera and QR codes
Camera access is requested only after you choose to scan a card. QR generation and recognition are performed on the device. The app does not send camera frames to KWIP.
A Kwip Contacts QR contains an encrypted snapshot and the information needed for the intended recipient to open it. Anyone who can successfully receive a shared snapshot may retain or copy it. A snapshot cannot be revoked or silently updated after it has been shared.
Nearby exchange
Nearby discovery begins after you explicitly choose Nearby. It stops when you leave the exchange surface or the app goes into the background. Nearby discovery does not intentionally broadcast your personal card contents. The apps compare a short confirmation code and require consent on both devices before completing a mutual exchange. Card data moves directly between the participating devices over Apple-provided local networking.
App Clip and Apple services
A person without the full app may receive a snapshot through an Apple App Clip experience and choose whether to save it. Apple may process App Clip invocation, installation, device, purchase, and storefront metadata under Apple’s own privacy policy.
Shared-card links use the kwip.info domain. An encrypted card payload may appear in the link query while its decryption key remains in the URL fragment, which browsers do not send to the website. The static fallback page does not read or decrypt the card. As with ordinary website traffic, the hosting provider may process technical request data under its own operating practices, but neither it nor KWIP receives the decryption key through the web request.
Purchases
The optional Unlimited Cards lifetime unlock is sold and managed by Apple through the App Store. Kwip Contacts reads verified entitlement state through StoreKit. Apple handles Apple Account, billing, Family Sharing, and storefront information; KWIP does not receive your card content through a purchase.
No tracking, advertising, or sale
Kwip Contacts does not contain advertising SDKs, third-party analytics SDKs, cross-app tracking, or a KWIP account system. KWIP LLC does not collect or sell your card information.
Backups and exports
You may export a portable deck backup containing your cards, preferences, received history, private occasions, and follow-up notes. Unlike a shared card, a full backup includes this private context. The backup leaves the app only when you choose a destination using Apple’s system file interface. After export, the destination you select controls its copy. Importing a backup validates its format before replacing the local deck.
Deletion
You can remove an individual received snapshot and its private note, or choose Delete all local data in Settings to remove cards, received history, occasions, and notes. Removing an occasion alone keeps its connections and their notes. Deleting local data cannot revoke snapshots already shared with another person or remove contacts already saved in Apple Contacts.
Children
Kwip Contacts is a general contact-sharing utility and is not directed to children. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children through a KWIP service because it does not transmit card content to KWIP.
Changes to this policy
If the app’s data practices materially change, this page and the App Store privacy disclosure will be updated before those practices are released.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to [email protected].