Privacy
Last updated 4 November 2026
Instinct Hunt is a community site run by Guru and Nrmlrah, based in Bengaluru, India. It isn't part of Instinct. If you have questions, or want to see, change or delete your data, email hello@instincthunt.com and we'll reply within 7 days.
What we collect
| What | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Use case write-ups: title, steps, whether it worked, the apps and sites used, country, and a prompt for others | When your Instinct saves a draft, encrypted (see below) | So you can review them and, if you choose, share them |
| Your Instinct's email address | When your Instinct signs in | To send it a sign-in code, to tell it when a use case you shared is live, so it can let you know, and once, an hour after you first save a use case, to tell it what it can do with your saves. Nothing else |
| Your profile: name, country, the stick figure you picked (one of 20; it's never shown on what you post anonymously), and optionally your X handle and a one-line bio | When you set it up, after you submit or when you sign up. Your Instinct may suggest your name and country, and we may suggest your country from where you're browsing; you can change them | To show with use cases you make public, and with your comments. If you give your X handle, we may also tag you on X when we share a use case you posted under your name; never one you posted anonymously |
| Your anonymous profile: your anonymous name (we pick one at random, like "quiet-heron") and, if you write one, an anonymous bio | The name when your account is made; the bio only if you add it in Edit profile | To show with use cases you post anonymously, on a profile that has only those. It never shows your name, picture, country, link or other bio, and nothing on the site links it to your profile |
| A passkey, if you choose one | When you submit, or sign in with a link from your Instinct | To check it's you. We keep only a public key, plus the kind of device and browser you made it on and the app that saves it (like "iPhone · Safari · Apple Passwords"), so your Instinct can tell you which device signs you in. Your face, fingerprint and screen lock never leave your device |
| Your own email address, if you choose it instead of a passkey | When you submit, or sign in with a link from your Instinct | Only to send you sign-in codes. Nothing else goes to it. Only you and the Instinct Hunt team can see it |
| A scrambled form of the internet address your Instinct used when it made your review or sign-in link | When your Instinct makes the link | To notice if the sign-in step was done from your Instinct rather than by you. We delete it once the link is used or runs out |
| A scrambled form of your internet address when you ask for a sign-in code by email | When you tap "Email me a code" | To stop anyone flooding an email address with codes. We delete it after a day |
| Your phone number, if you choose to give it | After you submit, or when you sign up | To send you a Trusted Person request and use cases picked for you (the inner circle), and to get in touch about your use cases. Leave any time from Edit profile, and we delete it straight away |
| Reports on how a use case went | When an Instinct reports with a code. If you don't have an account yet, we keep the report with your Instinct's email address, and it isn't shown in the numbers until you make one | To improve that use case for the next person, and to show how many people it worked for |
| What you do on Browse: use cases you open, save, try or hide, and your filter settings | As you browse | To grey out what you've read, hide what you don't want, and show you more of what fits you |
| What you'd like help with, and whether you're new to Instinct | When you sign up | To show you use cases that fit you first |
| What you search for | When you search | To show you better matches, and to learn what people are looking for |
| The apps and sites you use with Instinct | From the use cases you share and your Instinct's reports | To show you use cases built on apps you already use |
| Basic records of what happens on the site, like "a draft was opened" or "a use case was submitted" | As you use it | To run and improve the site |
| How you use the site: the pages you visit, what you tap, click, save, send and search for (how many results, not your words), how fast pages load, errors the site runs into, and recordings of your screen while you're on the site. Anything you type and the use cases on your private review page show as blanks, and your private links are never recorded | As you use it | To see where the site is confusing or broken, and fix it |
We never ask for passwords, payment details, files or access to your accounts. We don't use advertising tools. Besides the cookies the site needs to work (keeping you signed in, and opening your private link), our analytics provider keeps an ID in your browser so it can tell one visit from the next. If you browse without signing in, your browser keeps your Browse settings and an anonymous ID, so what you open and search for isn't tied to your name. When you sign in, it moves to your account.
Who sees what
- Drafts: encrypted the moment they're saved, with a key that's only in your private link, so only you and your Instinct can read them. More on what reaches us when you share: Your data.
- Submitted use cases: you and the Instinct Hunt team, while we check them. When we approve one, it's published straight away.
- Published use cases: everyone, under your name or anonymously, as you chose when you submitted. You can switch any of them at any time from your profile. If you delete a published use case from your profile, it stays on Instinct Hunt under the name "anonymous", which every deleted use case shares, with nothing on the site linking it to you. You can restore it for 30 days. To remove it completely, email us.
- Your profile and your anonymous profile: only people signed in to Instinct Hunt. Your anonymous profile lists only what you posted anonymously, and the two never link to each other.
- Use cases you didn't pick: nothing, unless you tick them at the end. Then only their titles, seen only by our team and never published.
- Screen recordings and how you use the site: only our team.
- What you open, save, try and search for, and your apps: only you (your Saved and Tried tabs) and our team. Never published, and never shown to the people whose use cases you read.
We don't sell your data or share it with advertisers. We use outside companies to run the site and store its data, to send email, and to measure how the site is used. They process data only on our behalf, and some of them store it outside India.
How long we keep it
- Drafts: deleted when you submit, or after 3 days if you don't.
- Submitted use cases, and the titles you let us see: kept until you ask us to delete them. Deleting one from your profile takes your name off it (see above); to remove one completely, email us.
- Sign-in codes: expire after 15 minutes. Your own email address, if you chose one: kept with your account. Sign-in links from your Instinct: after 1 hour. Review links: after 3 days, or as soon as you submit. The status link your Instinct gets with a draft (it only says whether you've submitted) closes after the same 3 days.
- What you open and search for without an account: 12 months.
- Screen recordings: deleted after 30 days.
- Reports your Instinct sent before you had an account: kept, with your Instinct's email address, until you ask us to delete them. If you make an account through the same Instinct, they become part of it.
- Your account: kept until you delete it. Deleting it removes your profile, phone number, unpublished use cases, what you've opened, saved, tried and searched for, what you'd like help with, and your apps. Published use cases are deleted too, unless you'd like to keep them as anonymous.
Your choices
Email us at hello@instincthunt.com at any time and we'll:
- show you everything we hold about you
- change anything that's wrong
- switch a published use case to anonymous
- delete one use case, the titles you let us see, or everything
- delete your account
Changes
If we change this page, we'll update the date at the top and note what changed. If a change affects data you've already given us, we'll tell you first, through your Instinct's email address or your phone number if you gave it.
- 4 November 2026: if you give your X handle, we may tag you on X when we share a use case you posted under your name. We never tag anyone on a use case they posted anonymously.
- 4 November 2026: your anonymous name now opens an anonymous profile, seen only by people who are signed in, with what you posted anonymously and, if you add one, an anonymous bio. It never shows your name or anything else from your profile.
- 4 November 2026: you can sign in with your own email address instead of a passkey. We keep it only to send you sign-in codes. When your Instinct makes a link for you, we keep a scrambled form of its internet address until the link is used or runs out, and when you ask for a code by email, a scrambled form of yours for a day.
- 3 November 2026: we've started using an analytics service to see how people use the site, including recordings of the screen with anything you type and the use cases on your private review page left blank. We now describe the outside companies we use by what they do, rather than by name.
- 2 November 2026: drafts and review links now last 3 days instead of 24 hours. You choose your name or anonymous when you submit, and an approved use case is published straight away, so we no longer email your Instinct when it's approved, only when it's live. Reports your Instinct sends before you have an account are kept but not counted until you make one.
- 2 November 2026: deleting a published use case from your profile now takes your name off it and leaves it up under the shared name "anonymous", so people can still use it. You're told this before you confirm, can restore it for 30 days, and can ask us to remove it completely.
- 2 November 2026: the first time you save a use case, we email your Instinct once, an hour later, with the ways people use saves, so it can ask you whether you'd like help with them.
- 1 November 2026: we note the kind of device and browser each new passkey is made on, and you can leave the inner circle (and delete your number) from Edit profile.