Last updated 2026-08-27
Privacy
Huntear reads your email. That is the whole product, so this page is specific about what that means: which permission it asks for, what it takes from a message, what it never touches, where it goes, and how to stop it.
The short version
- Huntear asks Google for one permission: read-only access to Gmail.
- It cannot send, reply, delete, label, or change anything in your inbox. There is no code in Huntear that writes to Gmail.
- It reads the sender, the subject, and the short preview line Gmail already shows in your inbox list. It does not fetch the body of your emails.
- Email that is not about a job is discarded and never becomes a card.
- Nothing from your inbox is sold, shared for advertising, or used to train general-purpose AI models.
- You can revoke access from your Google account at any time, without asking us.
What Huntear takes from an email
When Huntear checks your inbox it asks Gmail for a bounded list of recent messages — the last 30 days, and no more than 25 messages in a single run. For each one it requests metadata only: the From address, the Subject, and the snippet Gmail generates for its own inbox list.
It is worth being exact about the order, because it is less flattering than the summary. Huntear fetches those three fields for every message in that window, job-related or not, and only then applies the filter that decides whether a message is about a job. It cannot know without looking. Messages that fail the filter are discarded: no card is created and none of their content is stored. What is kept is the Gmail message ID, so the same message is never examined twice.
The full body of an email is never requested. Huntear's Gmail client asks for format=metadata with only the From and Subject headers, and it has a single request function with no write capability, so every call it can possibly make is a read.
What is stored, and where
Your data lives in a Postgres database hosted by Supabase, with row-level security so that a row belonging to you can only ever be read by you. The application runs on Vercel.
- Your account. Name, email address, and the optional answers you give at sign-up and in the five onboarding questions — what you do, how much experience you have, what you are looking for, and what matters to you in a job.
- Your Google connection. Your Google account email, and the access and refresh tokens that let Huntear read Gmail on your behalf.
- Your board. One card per application, with the company, role, stage and dates, plus a log of everything that changed it and why.
- A record of which emails have been seen. The Gmail message ID and a short extract of the subject, so the same message is not processed twice.
Who else sees it
Nobody buys it and nobody advertises against it. The only third parties involved are the ones that run the software:
- Google — for sign-in and for Gmail itself.
- Supabase — the database and authentication.
- Vercel — hosting.
- Anthropic — for the parts of Huntear that read an email and describe it, or that give advice about your applications. Where a model is used, it receives a stripped plain-text extract of a job-related email, never your whole inbox, and Anthropic does not train its models on data sent through its API.
No human at Huntear reads your email. The exceptions are the ordinary ones and we would rather write them down than pretend they do not exist: if you send us a message asking for help with a specific card and we need to look at it, if we are legally required to, or if we have to investigate a security incident or abuse.
Google Workspace data
Huntear's use of information received from Google APIs is governed by Google's rules for that data, and the sentence below is the specific commitment they require. It is repeated here in Google's own words so there is no question about what has been agreed to.
Huntear's use of information received from Google Workspace APIs will adhere to Google's API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
In plain terms, that means Huntear does not transfer or sell your Gmail data, does not use it to serve advertising, does not allow people to read it except in the narrow cases above, and does not retain or use it to develop, improve, or train generalised AI or machine-learning models. Where a model is used at all, it is to produce something you asked for and are looking at.
Stopping it
Revoking Gmail access does not require our cooperation and never should. Go to your Google account's third-party access page and remove Huntear. Reading stops immediately, and the board you have already built stays as it is.
To have your account and everything in it deleted, email us and we will do it. A one-click delete inside the app is not built yet; until it is, the email route is the only one, and we would rather say so than describe a button that does not exist.
Changes, and how to reach us
If this page changes in a way that affects what Huntear does with your email, the date at the top changes and we will tell you rather than leaving you to notice.
Questions, or a deletion request: hello@huntear.app.