Privacy and security

With Yivi you are in control of your digital data. You decide what to store, what to share, and who to share it with. It’s all up to you. Find everything in one place only you can access: your own phone. Without anyone watching. Not even Yivi.

Complete control

Find a clear overview of your collected personal data in the Yivi app. Everything is stored locally on your own phone. You also see what you have shared with whom and when. The organisation behind Yivi does not see any of this. Also, no one can watch when you share data with another party. Your data belongs to you, and you alone.

Did you lose your phone? Your Yivi app is blocked in a flash via My Yivi account. No one will ever be able to access what’s yours.

Only share what's absolutely necessary

Would you give your address to a complete stranger? Or your credit card number? Of course not - it’s none of their business. It should work that way online too. But it doesn’t. In fact, you’re unknowingly sharing lots of stuff with different companies and organisations. What they do with your data is anyone’s guess. If you need to prove online that you are 18+, you no longer have to share a date of birth or a copy of your passport. All you share with the Yivi app is a checkmark that you are 18+, nothing more than that. With Yivi, you’re in charge. You only share what’s absolutely necessary.

Structural protection

Yivi is not only technically secure, but also organizationally protected:

In Dutch hands
The trademark rights belong to the Privacy by Design Foundation. Caesar Groep, a Dutch family business without stock market listing, is responsible for development. There are no foreign shareholders.

Cannot simply be sold
It is contractually stipulated that Yivi cannot be sold or transferred to other parties without the foundation’s consent.

Hosting in Netherlands/EU
All servers run in Amsterdam at Scaleway and TransIP. No BigTech, no data going abroad.

Open source guarantee
The contract guarantees that Yivi remains open source, privacy-friendly and well-secured.

Governance & Trust

No one should make money off your data

Yivi is free. So what’s the catch? There is none - honestly. Yivi users don’t pay a single penny. The only ones who do are providers, so they can use Yivi’s open source software and infrastructure, so they can improve their services.

Trusted source

In its first form Yivi was developed at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 2016 it moved to the independent Privacy by Design Foundation. This foundation is non-profit and aims to enable people to use with confidence privacy-friendly digital technology, with being bombarded with targeted advertisements and other messages.

Take control of your digital data

With Yivi, you choose which data you share, and who you share it with. It’s your data, so you’re in charge. On- and offline.

All you. All yours.