Haystack.it

Haystack is the World's 1st Zero Knowledge Chat & Cloud Storage Privacy App. What is zero knowledge? Simply put, your data is encrypted and you hold the keys, meaning we have no access; we don’t know anything, thus we can’t tell anything. Finally, your messages, stored data and shared files truly belong to you, in one place, on one platform with Haystack’s one mission – Privacy.

WHY USE HAYSTACK.IT:

USER ACCOUNT: Your Haystack.it account is setup with an email and your selection of a unique Haystack ID. Therefore, no mobile number is required, eliminating unwanted lookups or harassing connection requests. Without being tied to a mobile number, your account can be synced and accessed across multiple devices. In My Profile, personal data is optional and even still you can select how much or how little information about yourself is displayed to your desired connections.

MESSAGING: Haystack.it uses your device’s Internet connection (4G/3G/2G/Edge or Wi-Fi, as available) to allow messaging to friends and family around the world*. Whether in a single chat or group chat, your conversations are end-to-end encrypted for your security and privacy. If you are offline, no worries your received messages will update and sync upon logging on. No need to worry about messaging the wrong person’s phone number anymore. With Haystack.it, you must approve connections and each connection maintains his or her unique Haystack ID. Messaging is free for the 1st year.

CLOUD STORAGE: Haystack.it is a place for your photos, videos, audio, passwords, identification records, docs and other files. Files stored on Haystack.it are maintained in a zero knowledge environment and are safety backed up across multiple servers around the world giving you continuous access from all of your devices. Given that Haystack.it is cloud based, none of your information or data remains on your device, so that eliminates the worry of losing a device or someone gaining unauthorized access. Cloud Storage offers additional plans up to 1TB including messaging.

SHARING: Haystack.it currently provides 2 ways to share information with your Haystack Connections. In messaging, you can simply attach a media file or document and share within your chat conversation or use 2-step verification file sharing. In 2-step, the receiver must identify his or herself with 2 unique pieces of information, one being an OTP code and the other is the user’s email address to gain access. Once accessed, files can be accepted or rejected.

USER CONTROL: Haystack.it believes a part of privacy is control. Therefore much control is built into the app. In messaging, at any point you can delete a sent text or shared file from the conversation on your device and the device of the recipient…not hide, actually delete it. You can also set your conversations to sync or destroy at logoff. Destroy simply means all of your chat conversations will be deleted from your account, thus deleted from your devices as well as all sent messages and files from the devices of all recipients. Note, shared files via messaging can not be forwarded or download to the recipient’s device for your protection.

In 2-step verification, permission controls are provided allowing you to give permissions to the recipient to view only, download or re-share. As the owner of the file, you will always have access to deleted the file within the Haystack environment even if your Haystack Connection re-shares the file 1 or 50 times. You can delete it from everyone with the swipe of a button.

AND THERE IS EVEN MORE: Haystack.it provides free storage promotions, login via email, SMS OTP* and fingerprint (where applicable), auto inactive logoff where users can set the time and more!

*Data charges may apply. Contact your provider for details.

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