Privacy Policy
This policy explains how we process personal data when you use the Hunch app and this website. We process data in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and German data protection law.
1. Controller
2. What data we process
- Account data: email address, username, display name, profile picture, bio, app language and selected interests. If you sign in with Apple or Google we receive the email address (or Apple’s relay address) and, if you allow it, your name.
- Social data: who you follow and who follows you, follow requests, and users you blocked.
- Game data: predictions you create, your picks (YES or NO), the points you earned, XP, levels, streaks, badges, likes and comments.
- Messages: content of 1:1 and group chats, including predictions shared in chats.
- Safety data: reports you submit or that concern your content, disputes and moderation decisions.
- Notifications: in-app notifications and, if you allow push, a push token and basic device information (device type, OS version, app version, language, time zone).
- Usage data: which screens of the app you open and which actions you take (e.g. signed in, picked, created a prediction), with time, app version, platform and app language. It contains nothing you type and is only used, in aggregated form, to improve the app.
- Technical data: IP address and request logs processed by our hosting providers to deliver the service and keep it secure.
The app shows no ads and does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites. We do not ask for access to the advertising identifier.
3. Purposes and legal bases
- Providing the app, your account, the prediction game, chats and notifications in the app: performance of our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
- Push notifications: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time in your device settings.
- Security, preventing abuse and point farming, moderating content and handling reports: our legitimate interest in a safe and fair service (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- Usage data: our legitimate interest in understanding how the app is used and improving it (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- Complying with legal obligations, e.g. responding to authorities: Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR.
4. Automated checks by AI
When you create a prediction, its title, description, category and dates are sent to Anthropic’s Claude API, which checks whether it is a clear, verifiable yes/no question about a future event and may suggest a corrected version. After the event, the question and public information about the event are sent again to determine the result. No account data (such as your email or username) is sent. The results are automated and can be wrong; if the AI cannot verify a result, the creator decides and people who picked the other side can dispute that decision, which cancels the prediction without a result. These automated steps do not produce legal effects for you within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR, because points have no monetary value.
5. Recipients and processors
We use the following service providers, bound by data processing agreements:
- Supabase (database, authentication, file storage, server functions) – hosted in the EU (Frankfurt, Germany).
- Anthropic (Claude API for checking and resolving predictions) – USA; transfers based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
- OneSignal (push notifications) – USA; EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
- Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (delivery of push notifications on Android) – via OneSignal.
- Resend (welcome email) – USA; EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
- Apple and Google (only if you use Sign in with Apple or Google).
- Vercel (hosting of this website) – USA; EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
Other users see what you make public: your profile, public predictions, comments, likes, your picks on public predictions and leaderboard stats. Chats and chat predictions are visible only to the members of that chat.
6. Retention
We keep your data as long as your account exists. You can delete your account at any time in the app (Settings → Delete account); this immediately and permanently deletes your profile, predictions, picks, comments, messages, likes, points and all related data. Reports concerning abuse may be kept for up to 12 months to protect other users. Backups are overwritten on a rolling basis. Server logs are kept only briefly.
7. Your rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object to processing based on legitimate interests. You can withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your rights, email support@getbetchat.app. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU member state of your residence.
8. Minimum age
Hunch is intended for people aged 13 and over. Users under 18 (or the age of majority where they live) need the permission of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly process data of children under 13; if you believe a child under 13 uses Hunch, please contact us and we will delete the account.
9. This website
This website does not use cookies, tracking or analytics. Fonts are served from our own server; no data is sent to Google Fonts. Our host Vercel processes access data (IP address, time, requested page) to deliver the website.
10. Changes
We may update this policy when the app changes. The current version is always available here and in the app.