HypeDuck Privacy Policy

HypeDuck helps creators, marketers, and e-commerce sellers discover and analyze public short-form content, including Instagram Reels, through the HypeDuck web dashboard and Chrome extension.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to users of HypeDuck.

Account information: We may collect information such as your name, email address, and account identifiers when you create or use a HypeDuck account.

Website content: When you intentionally use the Chrome extension to scan supported pages, HypeDuck may collect public content signals such as Reel URLs, captions, thumbnails, public engagement metadata, and related page information needed for analysis.

User activity: We may process actions taken inside HypeDuck, such as scan requests, selected Reels, analysis jobs, dashboard interactions, and extension workflow state.

Technical information: We may collect logs, device/browser information, and diagnostic data needed to secure, debug, and improve the service.

We use information to provide HypeDuck’s core functionality: scanning supported Instagram Reels pages at the user’s request, sending selected content signals to the HypeDuck dashboard, and generating analysis results for content research and marketing workflows.

We also use information to authenticate users, maintain extension and dashboard state, improve product reliability, prevent abuse, and provide support.

The HypeDuck Chrome extension requests permissions only to support its stated purpose. These permissions may include storage, activeTab, tabs, cookies, scripting, offscreen, alarms, debugger, unlimitedStorage, and host permissions for supported websites and HypeDuck services.

The extension does not use these permissions to monitor unrelated browsing activity, sell user data, or profile users for unrelated advertising purposes.

We do not sell user data. We do not use or transfer user data for purposes unrelated to HypeDuck’s single purpose, and we do not use user data for creditworthiness, lending, or similar eligibility decisions.

We may use service providers for hosting, databases, analytics, storage, authentication, and AI-assisted analysis. These providers process information only as needed to operate HypeDuck.

We retain information for as long as needed to provide the service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and maintain business records.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect information, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

You can stop using the Chrome extension, remove it from your browser, or contact us to request assistance with account or data-related questions.

Where required by applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, or export of certain personal information.

If you choose to connect your own Instagram professional account or Threads account, HypeDuck uses secure OAuth login (Instagram API with Instagram Login, and the Threads API) and receives an access token for that account.

For the connected Instagram account, we read only your own account profile (such as username, name, profile picture, account type, and account ID) and the captions of your own recent posts. We use this to confirm which account is connected and to build a content persona that personalizes the scripts and captions HypeDuck generates for you. We do not publish, comment, manage replies, or read insights on Instagram on your behalf.

For the connected Threads account, if you grant the content-publish permission, HypeDuck can publish a Threads post on your behalf — either immediately when you trigger a publish action in the dashboard, or later at a time you schedule, in which case HypeDuck automatically executes that already-approved post at the scheduled time. We do not publish content you have not created or approved. See our Security & Data Behavior page for the full capability list.

Connected-account information and access tokens are stored encrypted, are never sold, and are not shared for purposes unrelated to HypeDuck. You can disconnect a connected account at any time in Settings, or remove HypeDuck from your Instagram or Meta settings — which triggers Meta’s data deletion callback so we delete the stored connection and tokens. See our Data Deletion page for details.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or HypeDuck’s privacy practices, contact us at support@hypeduck.ai.