Who can view the raw automatic timeline?

Only the user can see the raw personal timeline. Managers, finance, integrations, and agents work with submitted hours, approvals, and invoice-ready business output.

What data can integrations and agents access?

Integrations and agents can use approved business data like client, project, rate, approval status, and invoice context. Private raw timeline data never leaves your device.

How does Half5 make automatic tracking work for teams?

Half5 separates personal suggestions from company output. Users review and submit hours first, then team leads approve before finance or connected systems get the data.

Trust center

Remind, don't monitor.

Half5 tracks what you worked on, so you don't have to remember. Only you can open that timeline. Your manager only sees what you log.

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Managers

What does your manager see?

Only what you log. An admin sees everything for the whole organization, a department manager sees their department and its projects. Everyone else only sees their own entries.

Can see

Your hours: date, duration, description, client, project, and activity
Your leave and sick days
The trips you log, with route and distance
Reports on those entries, also by person

Never

Your timeline: programs, windows, websites, files, and commits
Your AI sessions in Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor
Your meetings from Google or Outlook
Your location and visits, unless you turn them into a drive or an hour yourself
Suggestions you haven't saved
Screenshots or keystrokes: Half5 doesn't capture these

This isn't a setting an admin can change. Your timeline is encrypted with a key that's only on your devices, so Half5 has nothing to share.

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How the boundary works.

No one else can access your timeline
Your timeline is encrypted on your device and only synced between your own devices. The key isn't on the server. So a manager, admin, or Half5 can't open it—not even with extra permissions.
Nothing counts as an hour without you
A suggestion only becomes a record when you save it. Only then can your manager see, approve, or reject it.
Integrations don’t get a timeline
Accounting software receives clients, projects, and invoices. An AI agent via MCP only reads and logs hours for the user who connected it. No integration can access your timeline.
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Security

Where your data is stored.

Need a data processing agreement or a security questionnaire filled out? Email us.

Encrypted on your device End-to-end, like WhatsApp. The server only stores your timeline encrypted, without the key. Half5 and the providers who process data for us can't read it.
Stored in the EEA Server and database are at DigitalOcean in Amsterdam; files and email are at AWS in Frankfurt. Any processing by other services is listed per service on the subprocessor list.
You decide what goes in Programs and websites on your exceptions list won't show up in your timeline. You also choose how long your timeline is kept.

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Questions about privacy or security?

Ask the assistant in the app, or email [email protected]. You'll get the answer by email, so you can forward it.

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