Privacy Notice
Vizy is a simple service: a digital business card, an address of your own. This page explains what data we process to run it, and how you stay in control. To confirm: minimum age required to create an account
Who is responsible, and how to reach us
Vizy is operated by To confirm: legal name, legal form and address of the data controller. For any question about your data, write to To confirm: dedicated contact e-mail address for data protection requests.
What data is collected
We only collect what the service needs to run:
- Account: your e-mail address, your password (never stored in plain text, only in hashed form), the name you give at registration, your chosen language, a single-use technical token to verify your e-mail or reset your password, and a count of failed sign-in attempts, used to temporarily lock the account against a brute-force attack.
- Business card: the information you enter for your card, name, role, contact details, social profiles, links. It becomes public as soon as you publish your card.
- Photo: your photo is cropped in your browser before it ever leaves your device, the uncropped original photo never reaches us. We keep the cropped image you send us, plus three resized copies used on your card.
- Cookies: one technical cookie keeps you signed in, for up to 7 days. A second one remembers your chosen language, for up to 1 year. No advertising or tracking cookie is used.
Why we use it, and on what basis
This data is used to create your account, publish your card, send you the e-mails the service needs (verification, password reset), and remember your language. To confirm: legal basis chosen for each purpose, under GDPR Art. 6 and the Swiss nLPD
Who else has access
Nobody, apart from two technical providers: the host of our servers, and the mail server that sends our e-mails. Vizy uses no analytics or advertising tool, and does not sell or share your data with anyone else.
Where your data is stored
On a single server located in Nuremberg, Germany. Daily backups stay on that same server and are automatically deleted after 14 days.
How long we keep it
Your account and card data is kept for as long as your account exists. To confirm: retention period for an account that was created but never verified, or that stays inactive After you delete your account, a trace may remain for up to 14 days in a backup, until it is replaced.
Your rights
You can ask to access your data, correct it, delete it, or move it to another service, by writing to the address above. To confirm: whether a data protection officer is appointed, and which supervisory authority to contact with a complaint
Deleting all your data
From your account, the “Account settings” page has a “Delete account” button that immediately removes your card, your photo and your account.