Privacy Ledger: What Leaves the Bay Hook

Product scope

HookBay is a free iPhone tool for shop owners. You photograph or import one SKU still. HookBay then hangs selling hooks, a shot plan, and hero or scene listing looks on that SKU's bay hook. HookBay has no account, no sign-in, and no HookBay server. This page covers what stays on your iPhone, what leaves it, and who receives it.

What you create

• SKU stills you take with the camera or pick from your photo library.
• Selling hooks, shot plans, and listing looks generated for a SKU.
• Text you type or speak onto a SKU.

These records are saved in the app's own storage on your iPhone. HookBay does not upload your bay to any server of its own.

Device permissions

• Camera: to photograph the SKU on your counter.
• Photos (add only): to save a hero or scene look you accepted. Importing a still uses the system photo picker, which only shares the photo you choose.
• Microphone and Speech Recognition: so you can speak a selling hook. When your iPhone supports it, speech is transcribed on the device. Otherwise Apple's speech recognition service may process the audio. HookBay keeps only the resulting text.

Each permission is optional. If you decline one, only the feature that needs it stops working.

Purchases

HookBay has no in-app purchases or subscriptions. Downloading it from the App Store is covered by Apple's terms and privacy policy.

AI services

HookBay uses two cloud AI services. It sends nothing to them until you allow AI sharing, and you can stop sharing at any time in Settings.

• DeepSeek receives the SKU still you tap "Hang looks" on, the SKU and bay text fields packed with it, and your selling-hook text. It returns selling hooks and a shot plan.
• MiniMax receives only a text description of the look to generate. Your photo is not uploaded. It returns a generated hero or scene image.

Please photograph merchandise, not people. HookBay does not detect or remove faces from a still before sending it. Each provider handles the data it receives under its own privacy policy.

No tracking or analytics

HookBay does not track you across other companies' apps or websites, and it does not ask for App Tracking Transparency permission. It contains no advertising, attribution, or analytics SDKs and does not collect advertising identifiers. HookBay does not show third-party ads.

Network access

Other than Apple system services, the only network destinations are DeepSeek and MiniMax, as described above, plus this website. The Privacy and Terms screens inside the app load these hosted pages; like any website request, that shares your IP address and basic browser details with the hosting provider, Cloudflare. A provider-policy screen is bundled with the app.

Retention and deletion

Your bay stays on your iPhone until you delete SKUs or remove the app. Deleting the app erases its local data. HookBay cannot recover deleted data or copies held by the services above. Contact those services about data they received.

Children

HookBay is a business tool and is not directed at children.

Changes

We will update this page when the app's data practices change and revise the effective date.

Contact

shelfhooks@hookbay.app