What a shop sees on your eCard

Your name, your certifications and your dive count. Not your logbook, and not your account.

Scanning your eCard opens one web page, and that page is the whole of it: who you are, what you're certified for, and how much diving you've done. Your logbook is not on it, and nothing on it lets anyone into your account.

What's on the card

• your name and your profile photo
• your certifications, each with the agency and level, the certification number if you entered one, and the date it was issued
• your specialties, listed the same way
• how many dives you've logged, and the date of your most recent one
• some of your insurance, covered below

The certification list is distilled rather than complete. For each agency and kind of diving a shop sees your highest level, not every step you took to reach it, while specialties are all listed because each one is its own card.

The page also tells the shop, in writing, that all of this is self-declared by you, and that a certification number should be checked with the issuing agency when it matters.

Note: the QR on your diver card in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet opens this same page.

Which insurance a shop sees

Only the kinds a shop checks at the desk: dive accident, membership and liability. Travel, equipment and anything you filed under other stay on your own card and never reach the shared one.

For a policy that does appear, a shop sees the provider, the plan name, the policy number, the expiry date, whether it's still valid, and the emergency hotline. That last one is deliberate. A card someone might scan on a bad day should have a number on it they can call.

What a shop never sees

• your dives: sites, depths, durations, buddies, your notes
• any date from your logbook other than your last dive
• your email address, or anything that could sign someone in as you
• your travel, equipment and other insurance policies
• your friends

One thing to know about the count: it counts every dive in your logbook, whatever visibility you've set for it. Only the total travels, never the dives behind it.

The page is also kept out of search engines, so it is reachable by someone holding your link and nobody else.

Taking the card back

Open Divemates → your profile photo → eCard and use the sharing menu beside the close button.

Get New Code issues a fresh QR and link. Every copy of the old one stops working immediately, including screenshots and anything you sent in a message. Turn Off Sharing takes the page down altogether, so a scan just says the card isn't available.

A shop needs no app and no Divemates account to open your card, which is what makes handing over the QR quick. It also means the link works for anyone holding it, so a new code is the right move whenever you'd rather it didn't.