Last updated: September 10, 2026
LeadHunter USA ("we", "our", or "us") operates the website at leadhunterusa.com, the LeadHunter USA desktop application for Windows and Mac, and the LeadHunter USA mobile app (iOS and Android). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your data.
When you create an account, we collect your first and last name, your email address, your phone number, and a hashed password. If you enter a business name, we store that as well. We do not store plaintext passwords. Authentication is handled by Supabase. We also record the date you accepted these documents and which version of them you were shown.
When you create an account, we also store how that visit began: the page you first landed on, the website that referred you (its name only, such as google.com), and any campaign tags in the link you clicked. We keep the page address without its query string and the referring site without any path, so this is a channel — “organic search, to the masonry page” — and not a record of your browsing. We use it to see which pages bring us customers. If you turn off advertising measurement, we do not collect it at all.
We store the settings you configure in the website, mobile app, and desktop application, including: your trade or profession, the services you offer, your ZIP code, your timezone preference, and the Facebook Groups you choose to monitor. These are used solely to filter relevant leads and deliver notifications tailored to your business.
When a post on Facebook Groups or Nextdoor matches your configured keywords, we store the following data so you can review the lead in your LeadHunter USA dashboard: the post URL, the platform it was found on, the group name, the matched keywords, and an excerpt of the post text (up to 4,000 characters) used to evaluate relevance with our AI gate (provided by Anthropic — see Section 5). We do not store login credentials, private messages, contact details, or any account information of the person who posted the lead.
Source of leads. LeadHunter processes posts from groups and feeds you have authorized us to monitor on your behalf — Facebook Groups you (the LeadHunter USA customer) are an active member of and your Nextdoor neighborhood feed. Some of these groups may be private (member-only). By configuring a group for monitoring, you confirm that you have legitimate access to its content and that you assume responsibility for the choice to surface posts from that group through LeadHunter USA.
Lead retention. Leads are retained for up to 30 days from the date they were captured, after which they are automatically deleted. Posts that the AI gate rejected are also retained for up to 30 days for de-duplication purposes and are then deleted. You may request earlier deletion of any specific lead — see Section 8 below.
No collection of identifiers we don't need. We do not store names, profile photos, email addresses, or phone numbers of the people who posted leads. The post URL, post text, and public group name are the only artifacts of the original post we retain.
Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store your credit card number or banking details. We only receive a subscription status and a Stripe customer ID.
When you use the LeadHunter USA mobile app, we collect a push notification token (to deliver lead alerts to your device). We do not collect device identifiers, location data, or contact lists.
When you use the LeadHunter USA desktop application, we collect minimal diagnostic information needed to operate the service: app version, operating system version, your push-notification token (so we can mirror new-lead alerts to your phone), and basic event logs (scan started, scan finished, error reasons such as a detected captcha). The desktop app stores your Facebook and Nextdoor session cookies locally on your computer only— those cookies are never transmitted to our servers. The Supabase refresh token used to keep you signed into LeadHunter USA is stored locally and encrypted using your operating system's keychain (Windows DPAPI on Windows, Keychain on Mac). We do not collect device identifiers, location data, browsing history outside of Facebook Groups and Nextdoor, or any data unrelated to lead detection.
Optional "Keep computer awake" setting. The desktop application includes a Settings option that, when enabled, asks the operating system not to enter sleep mode while you are signed in and scanning is active. This is a local interaction with the operating system only — no data is collected or transmitted as part of this feature. The default is off; you can toggle it at any time from the desktop Settings window.
The LeadHunter USA desktop application runs on your own Windows or Mac computer. It opens a hidden Chromium browser window in the background to load Facebook Groups and Nextdoor pages — the same pages you are authorized to access as a logged-in member — and runs lead-detection logic on those pages locally.
All scanning is performed locally:
We do not sell your personal data to third parties, and we never send your name, email address, or phone number to an advertising network. We do measure whether our own ads on Google lead to signups, which is described in Section 8b — you can switch that off at any time.
We share data only with the following service providers, strictly to operate the service:
Account data (email, settings, profession) is retained for as long as your account is active. Leads are retained for up to 30 days from capture (see "Lead retention" in Section 1). If you delete your account, your account data is permanently deleted within 30 days. You can request deletion at any time by contacting us.
Two things outlive that deletion, and we would rather name them than let you find them. First, we keep your email address on a list of closed accounts for twelve months, so that a deleted account cannot immediately be re-opened for another free trial. It is deleted automatically after twelve months, and the address can sign up again from that point. Nothing else about the account is kept with it. Second, our security audit log records that an account was deleted, with the date, the IP address and the browser or app the request came from — it does not record your email address.
All data is encrypted in transit (TLS/HTTPS). Passwords are hashed and never stored in plaintext. Access to our database is restricted to authenticated users via row-level security policies. The desktop application encrypts your refresh token at rest using your operating system's keychain (Windows DPAPI on Windows, Keychain on Mac).
As a LeadHunter USA customer, you have the right to:
If you are not a LeadHunter USA customer but believe one of your social-media posts has been captured as a lead in our system, you may request its removal at any time. The fastest way is the self-service removal form — matching records are auto-removed and you receive a confirmation email. You can also email privacy@leadhunterusa.com with the post URL. We honor every request within 14 days, with no fee.
Residents of California have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, including the right to know what personal information is being collected, the right to correct it, the right to delete that information, and the right to opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information. We do not sell or share personal information — see our Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page for the formal statement. To exercise any of your other rights, contact us at the address above.
LeadHunter USA is a tool that you, the customer, configure and operate using your own accounts and access rights to third-party platforms (Facebook, Nextdoor, etc.). You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the manner in which you use the service, the groups and feeds you choose to monitor, and the use you make of the leads delivered to you. The full indemnification terms are set out in Section 9 of our Terms of Service.
The LeadHunter USA website uses a small number of cookies set by Google Analytics 4 to count visits and measure how people use the site. These cookies do not contain your name, email, or payment data.
We also advertise on Google. If you arrive by clicking one of our ads, Google Ads stores a click identifier in your browser so that, if you go on to create an account, we can tell which ad paid for itself. This is conversion measurement only: we do not send Google your name, email, or phone number, and we keep ad personalization, remarketing, and audience targeting switched off, so your visit is not used to target you elsewhere on the web.
Microsoft Clarity, which records how people move around the public parts of this site, sets two cookies of its own: _clck, which holds a random visitor number for a year, and _clsk, which holds the current session and expires after a day. Together they are what lets several pages of one visit be read as one visit rather than as strangers. Both are set by this site, on this domain, and neither carries your name, your email or anything you typed. Clarity is notpermitted to set Microsoft's advertising cookies — no MUID, no ANONCHK, no CLID — so nothing here follows you onto Bing or anywhere else Microsoft operates. It does not run on your dashboard or anywhere behind sign-in, and it does not run at all if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or you have opted out on the page linked below.
Our ads on ChatGPT work differently: OpenAI places no tag and no cookie on this site. If you arrive from one of those ads we keep the click reference ourselves, in first-party storage, and the conversion is reported from our own server. If you have opted out, or your browser sends Global Privacy Control, we do not keep it at all.
You can turn advertising measurement off on the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page, and we honour the Global Privacy Control signal automatically. You can opt out of Google Analytics separately by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The desktop and mobile apps do not use cookies for analytics, and they carry no advertising measurement at all.
LeadHunter USA is intended for business use by adults. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under the age of 18.
LeadHunter USA is a monitoring tool that surfaces content you are authorized to access as a logged-in member of the Facebook Groups and Nextdoor neighborhoods you have authorized us to monitor on your behalf. Some such groups may be private. You are solely responsible for how you use this information and for ensuring your use complies with the terms of service of any third-party platform (including Facebook, Meta, and Nextdoor), as well as all applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction. See Section 8a and our Terms of Service for details on customer indemnification.
By using LeadHunter USA, you acknowledge that:
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms or that are used in a manner that we determine, at our sole discretion, to be abusive or harmful.
The LeadHunter USA desktop application checks for updates on startup and periodically while running. Updates are downloaded from GitHub Releases and applied automatically the next time you restart the app. We may release security, bug-fix, and feature updates at any time.
Significant updates that change what data the desktop app collects or transmits will be communicated via email and reflected in an updated Privacy Policy. Continued use of the desktop app after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
We may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes by email or by a notice on the website.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your rights, contact us at: privacy@leadhunterusa.com