Privacy
Last updated 23 September 2026
Vessel is field software for construction walkthroughs, in private beta, built and run out of New York. This page says what Vessel collects, why, who else gets it, how long it is kept, and what you can have deleted.
The short version
- You can record a walk without an account. There is also an email sign-in inside the app, and the website's dashboard uses it. If you sign in, Vessel collects your email address and your company name.
- There is no tracking software in the app. No analytics, no advertising, no crash-reporting component is built into it.
- Vessel does not ask for your location. The app requests no location permission and holds no coordinates.
- Voice recordings stay on your phone. The typed text of a note is stored on our servers. Video you record on a walk is stored on our servers too.
- A link to a walk is open to whoever holds it. If you send one, anyone who opens that link sees that walk — no app, no account, no invitation.
- You photograph other people's work on someone else's site. There is a section on that below, and it matters.
What Vessel collects
What you capture is stored on your phone, and it is also stored on our servers, so a lost or broken phone does not take the job with it.
On our servers
- Your jobs and your clients
- Walks and meetings, and which walk followed which
- Every item, with its full status history
- Photos, and the pins you place on them
- Video you record on a walk
- Requests for information, submittals and change orders
- Scope exclusions and field coordination decisions, with their photo evidence
- When a change order is signed through its link, Vessel keeps the name it was signed in, the time the signature reached us, that the agreement box was ticked, and which version of the change order was on the screen
- Material requests, and deliveries — including the signature drawn on the ticket, the name signed and the time
- Manpower counts by company and trade
- Your Book of subs and vendors — name, division, kind, contact person, job title, trade, phone numbers, emails, how you reach them, whether they take WhatsApp, whether they supply materials, whether you hold an account with them, whether they are a former contact, and your own note on them
- Your company name, the person who signs, and their role
- The text of your notes
- Your minutes, and the PDF made from them
- If you sign in — your email address and your company name
- If you subscribe — your plan, and the customer reference the payment processor gives us
Only on your phone
- Voice recordings. The typed text of a note is stored on our servers; the recording itself is not, and it dies with the install.
- Your company logo image. Our servers hold the fact that you have one, not the image. It is printed into your documents from the phone.
- Where you are. The “location” on an item is a line you type — “Unit 4B”, “roof” — not a coordinate.
One note about photos: Vessel keeps the time a photo was taken, because a dated photo is the whole point of a field record.
Why it is collected
For one purpose: to hold your field record, put your documents together, and show it to the people you choose. Vessel does not sell it, does not use it for advertising, and does not train a model on it. Vessel does not read your jobs for its own purposes.
Who else gets it
Where your record is stored
Everything in the list above is held with the company that runs Vessel's servers, including the photo, video and PDF files.
Anthropic (Claude) — only when you generate minutes
When you press generate on a set of minutes, that walk's record goes to Claude to be put into your format and comes back: the job and client name, the walk's own number, its date, type and attendees, and every item on it — its own reference, its number, trade, division, its issue type, whether it was added after the walkthrough, when it was captured, status history, the note you typed, the location you typed, and the names on it: who answers for it, and anyone else you listed as involved. If you ask for changes to a draft, what you typed to describe the change and the draft you're changing go along too, so Claude can apply your edits. Anthropic may keep what it processes for a period, under its own terms — this page does not promise it is discarded right away. Photos are not part of what goes. Nothing goes unless you press the button.
Expo — app updates only
Vessel can ship a fix without making you reinstall, so on launch the app asks Expo's update service whether a newer version exists. That request tells Expo which version of Vessel your phone is running, along with the ordinary technical details any web request carries.
Apple, while Vessel is in beta
You install the beta through Apple's TestFlight, so Apple knows you installed it and gets what TestFlight collects, under Apple's own terms rather than ours.
Who sends the sign-in code, and the form on this site
The sign-in inside the app and the sign-in on this website are the same one, and both mail the code through the email-delivery service Vessel uses. That service gets the email address you type on that screen and the message carrying the code.
WhatsApp, if you tap it
Tap WhatsApp on a Book entry and your phone opens WhatsApp with that person's number in it. That hands their number to WhatsApp, the same way tapping a phone number hands it to your dialler.
No advertising network, no data broker, no analytics company and no CRM is in that list, and none gets any of it. The website has its own list, further down.
What the app asks your phone for
Three permissions, each for one job, each refusable:
- Camera — to take the walkthrough photo and record walk video.
- Photo library — to add site photos you already took today, and to save a report or walk card back to your camera roll.
- Contacts — to bring people from your address book into your Book. Vessel reads your whole address book to put a list on screen for you to pick from. The people you pick become entries in your Book, and what is in your Book is stored on our servers — their names, numbers, emails and everything else the Book holds about them. The ones you do not pick are not kept.
It asks for nothing else. There is no location permission, and Vessel sends no push notifications.
The photographs, and the people in them
This is the part most privacy pages skip, so here it is plainly. On a walk you photograph work — and sometimes people are in the frame. A crew doing the install. A driver signing for a delivery. Whoever happened to be standing at the wall.
Vessel does not do face recognition, and will not. It does not group photos by person, identify anyone, or build a profile of anybody.
But those photographs, the names and mobile numbers in your Book, and the signature on a delivery ticket are other people's information, held in your account, gathered on your client's property. Vessel's job is to keep it where you put it. Whether you are permitted to capture it in the first place is governed by your contract, your client's site rules and your own obligations — and that judgement is yours, not the app's.
Who else can see your record
People you add to a project. Add someone to one of your jobs and, on their own phone, they see that job's name, location, address and working hours, its progress photos, and its requests for information and documents. How much depends on the role you gave them: an outside party sees only the photos marked for sharing, and only the requests and documents that are both finished and addressed outward.
The owner of a job you walk on. If someone added you to their job and you capture photos, items or a whole walk on it, the owner gets all of it on their own phone. That is what being added to a job is for.
Anyone holding a link to a walk. The app can turn one walk into a web link. Whoever opens that link sees the job name, the walk's date and type, each item on it — number, title, status, trade, division and the name of the person answering for it — and that walk's photos. They need no app, no account and no invitation. There is no button in the app that closes a link once it is made: write to hello@walkvessel.com to have one closed.
How long it is kept, and deleting it
Your record is kept until it is deleted. There is no retention clock running in the background.
A job. Delete it for good from the Archive and this goes from our servers with it: every walk, every item and its history, the photos and the actual image files, the video you recorded and its sound, the pins, the requests for information, submittals and change orders, the exclusions and coordination decisions with their evidence files, the material requests, the deliveries, the manpower reports and the minutes PDFs.
One thing it leaves behind. What someone else captured on a job you shared stays — deleting a shared job does not reach into what another company's phone put there. Write to hello@walkvessel.com to have that removed too.
A note. Delete it and it is gone.
Everything, at once. You can delete your own account from inside the app. If yours is the only account in any company you belong to, the app will not delete your account today — someone else has to join each of those companies first. Or write to hello@walkvessel.com and the account is closed by hand. Your company's jobs and records stay — deleting your account removes you, not the work — and there is no window to undo it. If a whole company is closing down, write to hello@walkvessel.com and it is done by hand.
A link to a walk stays open until it is closed by hand, at that same address, or until that walk is deleted for good. Deleting the whole job for good closes the links on every walk you captured on it. A walk captured by another company's phone on a job you shared is outside that delete, and its link keeps working. The website's sign-in cookie lasts seven days.
This website
The company that hosts this site serves every page you load here. This page asks a font-hosting service for its two typefaces, so opening it gives that service your IP address and the ordinary technical details any web request carries. Signing in to the dashboard sets a cookie that lasts seven days. If a form appears here asking for your email, company and what you are working on, that goes to one address, which forwards to a person. What you typed, and the IP address it came from, are also kept in this site's own operational logs, so nothing is lost even if delivery fails silently. Delivery of that one message runs through the same email-delivery service that sends the sign-in code. The six-a-minute limit counts requests by the IP address they come from, not by email address, separately on each server this site runs — so it does not always hold. If you buy a subscription, the payment runs through our payment processor.
Children
Vessel is professional software for people running construction work. It is not intended for, or directed at, anyone under 18.
If this page changes
The date at the top changes, and anyone already using Vessel hears about it directly from a person. There are no quiet edits.
Contact
Yurii Kuznetsov, President, YK 11 Estates Corporation · New York, NY · hello@walkvessel.com
A person reads that address and answers it.