Privacy Policy

BizHunt ("BizHunt," "we," "us") operates bizhunt.ai, a platform that helps buyers discover, analyze, and pursue businesses for sale. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. It also covers the brokers and business owners we contact for our buyers, and people who book a call on a buyer's booking page. By using BizHunt you agree to this policy.

Information we collect

• Account information. Your name, email address, and password (stored as a secure hash), or your Google account profile if you sign in with Google.
• Google sign-in data. If you use "Sign in with Google," we receive your name, email address, and profile picture from Google. We use this information only to create and authenticate your BizHunt account. Connecting Gmail for Auto Hunt is a separate choice, explained below. BizHunt's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
• Profile & preferences. Information you add to the platform, such as your acquisition criteria ("buy box"), saved deals, pipeline activity, notes, and documents you upload (e.g., CIMs).
• Auto Hunt settings. If you use Auto Hunt: your email signature, phone number, mailing address, booking link, booking page settings (like your call hours and time zone), and the deal team contacts you add (like your lawyer or lender).
• Phone and text choices. If you turn on Auto Hunt: your cell phone number, when you confirmed it, and whether you agreed to text alerts (with the exact words you agreed to and when). See "Your phone number and text messages" below.
• AI assistant connections. If you connect BizHunt to an AI assistant such as Claude: the app's name, its sign-in keys (stored scrambled), and the requests it sends to BizHunt. See "Connecting BizHunt to an AI assistant" below.
• Payment information. Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number; from Stripe we receive only your subscription status, billing period, and customer and subscription identifiers.
• Usage data. Log data such as pages viewed, features used, browser type, and IP address, plus the link that brought you to BizHunt, used to operate and improve the service. We use PostHog to count visits and the steps of signing up and starting a trial, and to record visits to our public pages (not the BizHunt app and not booking pages) so we can see where people get stuck. These recordings hide anything you type and any email address on the page. Once you sign in, this data is linked to your account by an internal ID, never by your email.

How we use your information

• To provide the service: accounts, deal search, AI analysis, pipeline tools, and the buyer network.
• To run Auto Hunt for you: find deals that fit your buy box, reach out to brokers and business owners in your name, and keep track of their replies.
• To process subscriptions and billing through Stripe.
• To send transactional emails (account confirmation, password resets, service notices) and, with your consent, product updates. You can unsubscribe from non-essential email at any time.
• To email you when Auto Hunt needs your OK or someone replies about a deal. You can turn these emails off in Auto Hunt settings.
• To text you a code that confirms your phone number and, only if you opt in, to text you when Auto Hunt needs you.
• To run your booking page, so brokers and owners can book a call on your calendar.
• To secure the platform, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations.

Connecting Gmail for Auto Hunt

Auto Hunt can send email from your own Gmail, so brokers and owners hear from you. Connecting it is your choice. Google shows you the exact permissions before you agree. We connect through our email partner, Unipile.

• Sending. When you connect Gmail, BizHunt can send email from it for your deals: intros, follow-ups, and replies. It sends only what your Auto Hunt settings allow or what you approve. By default, intros, follow-ups, the CIM request, and routine replies go out on their own; offers, LOIs, NDAs, and deal team intros wait for your OK.
• Reading. BizHunt reads your incoming mail only to find replies about your deals.
• Calendar. For your booking page, BizHunt also checks when your calendar is busy and adds the calls people book. See "Your booking page" below.
• What we keep. We save replies tied to your deals, including files like CIMs, so you can see each deal's history. For all other mail, we keep only the sender, the recipients, the subject, the date, and the message ID for up to 7 days, so we can still match a late reply. We never keep its text. Then we delete it.
• What we never do. We never sell your data or use your mail for ads. Mail we do not match to one of your deals is never sent to AI. No one at BizHunt reads your mail unless you ask us to help, or we must for security or the law.
• Disconnecting. You can disconnect anytime in Auto Hunt settings or in your Google account. We stop sending and reading right away. Replies already saved to your deals stay in your account until you delete it. If your plan ends, we disconnect Gmail for you.

Your phone number and text messages

We ask for your cell phone number once, when you turn on Auto Hunt.

• Why we need it. Many listing contact forms ask for a phone number. When Auto Hunt fills in one of those forms for you, it types your number in, so the broker can see it and call you.
• Confirming it. We text a 6-digit code to make sure the number is yours. Our text provider, Twilio, sends and checks the code. We never store the code. To stop abuse, we keep a record of code requests that holds only a scrambled (hashed) form of the number, and we delete it after 30 days.
• Text alerts (your choice). If you tick "Text me when Auto Hunt needs me," we save that choice, the exact words you agreed to, and when. Once we switch these alerts on, we will text you when Auto Hunt needs you, like when a card is waiting for your OK. Message frequency varies. Msg & data rates may apply. Agreeing to texts is not a condition of any purchase.
• Stopping texts. Reply STOP to any text, or turn alerts off in Auto Hunt settings. Reply HELP for help, or email support@bizhunt.ai. We keep a record of your opt-out so we keep honoring it.
• What we never do. We never sell your phone number. We do not share mobile numbers or text opt-in data with third parties for their marketing. Twilio gets your number only to deliver our texts.

Your booking page

With Auto Hunt you get a booking page at bizhunt.ai/meet/your-name. Brokers and business owners use it to pick a time to talk with you, and Auto Hunt adds a "Pick a time" link to its replies when someone wants to meet. If you booked a call on a buyer's page, this part is for you too.

• What the person booking gives us. Their name, email, the time they pick, and their time zone, plus a phone number and a note if they choose to add them. We use these to set up the call, email each side a confirmation, add the call to the buyer's calendar with the person invited, and let either side cancel. The note goes only to the buyer. If the booking came from one of the buyer's deals, that deal moves to "Meeting set."
• What the person booking sees. The buyer's name, time zone, and open times, never what the buyer's other events are. Their confirmation email includes the buyer's phone number, if the buyer added one.
• Your calendar. Your page uses your real calendar, through the same Unipile connection as your Gmail. BizHunt only checks when you are busy (free/busy) and adds the calls people book. It never keeps, shows, or uses your events' titles, guests, notes, or other details. It keeps only busy start and end times, and refreshes them each time it checks.
• Your settings. We keep your call hours (Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, unless you change them), meeting length, time zone, and your page's web address.
• Stopping abuse. We limit how often anyone can book. To do that we keep a scrambled (hashed) form of the visitor's internet address, never the address itself, and delete it after a day.
• Your own booking link. If you use your own Calendly or Cal.com link instead, people who book there share their details with that service, under its own privacy policy.

AI processing

Some features send the business-listing content or documents you choose to analyze to AI service providers (such as OpenAI and xAI) to generate analysis. For Auto Hunt, xAI also writes drafts, reads the replies tied to your deals so it can sort them and suggest answers, and searches the public web for broker and owner contact details. We send only what is needed for the feature you use, and we do not permit these providers to use your content to train their models under our agreements with them.

Connecting BizHunt to an AI assistant

You can connect BizHunt to an AI assistant, such as Claude, to search listings and work your deals from a chat. Connecting is your choice: you sign in on a BizHunt page and click Allow.

• What the assistant can get. Only what it asks BizHunt for on your behalf, and only what you can see in BizHunt yourself: listings, BizScore and Deal Analyzer results, your pipeline and Auto Hunt deals, replies from brokers and owners (with their names and contact details), cards waiting for your OK, your credit balance, and your account status.
• What it can do. The same things you can do in the app: save a listing, start an Auto Hunt, and answer a card when you tell it to. It can never pay, change your card, or buy credits.
• What BizHunt receives. The app's name, the web address it sends you back to, when it was last used, and the requests it sends, like a search phrase, a listing, or your answer to a card. We never receive your chat, the assistant's memory, or your files. We do not save search phrases. We save only what an action needs, like a saved listing, a hunt's buy box, or your answer to a card. If a request fails, we log the tool's name and the error, not what you asked.
• The assistant's provider. Data BizHunt sends back to the assistant is handled by the company that runs it (for Claude, that is Anthropic) under that company's own terms and privacy policy, not this one.
• Sign-in keys. We store the connection's sign-in keys (tokens) only in scrambled (hashed) form. Access keys expire after 1 hour. Refresh keys change every time they are used and stop working after 90 days without use.
• Disconnecting. Remove BizHunt in your assistant's connector settings, or email support@bizhunt.ai and we will cut the connection.

Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We share data only with service providers who help us run BizHunt, under agreements limiting their use of the data, or when required by law:

• Hosting and database: Supabase and Netlify.
• Payments: Stripe.
• Product analytics: PostHog (servers in the United States). It receives the usage data above, not your email, name, or deal data.
• Email delivery: Resend. It also receives replies sent to your Auto Hunt reply address, so we can match them to your deals.
• Gmail and calendar connection: Unipile. It links your Gmail so Auto Hunt can send from it and spot replies. For your booking page, it checks when your calendar is busy and adds booked calls.
• AI: OpenAI (analysis and chat) and xAI (Auto Hunt drafts, analysis, and web search).
• Web robots: Apify. It collects public business-for-sale listings. On listing sites where it works, it fills in the listing's contact form with your name, email, phone, and message. For off-market hunts, it looks up a business owner's contact details (skip trace).
• Business lookup: Google Maps Platform (Google Places).
• Contact lookup and checks: Apollo, FullEnrich, and NeverBounce, plus Cobalt Intelligence for public business filings.
• Printed letters: Lob. It gets your name and return address, and the owner's name and mailing address.
• Phone and text: Twilio (phone number codes, text messages to you and to our team, and phone calls) and Retell (software for phone calls placed through BizHunt, including call recordings and transcripts).
• Other tools: MapTiler (maps) and Featurebase (support chat and feedback; it gets your name, email, and plan status).

We also share data when you ask us to. When Auto Hunt contacts someone for you, they see your name, email, and signature, and your phone number if a listing's form asks for it. When someone books a call on your booking page, they see what is described in "Your booking page" above. If you connect BizHunt to an AI assistant such as Claude, it gets the BizHunt data it asks for on your behalf, and its provider handles that data under its own terms (see "Connecting BizHunt to an AI assistant" above). You can remove that connection at any time.

People we contact for buyers

BizHunt helps buyers reach brokers and business owners. If we contacted you for a buyer, this part is for you.

• What we collect. Public business info, like a business name, address, phone, website, and reviews. Contact details, like a name, work email, phone number, or mailing address. We get these from public sources (listing sites, business directories, public records, and the web) and from data providers.
• Why. To reach out, for a buyer who uses BizHunt, about buying your business or a business you list for sale. That buyer can see your contact details and your replies.
• How we reach out. By email from the buyer's own email account, through a listing's contact form, or by letter. If you do not answer an email, the buyer's account may send up to three short follow-ups. Our team may call business owners on a buyer's behalf. You can also pick a time to talk on the buyer's booking page (see "Your booking page" above).
• How to opt out. Reply STOP to any message, or email support@bizhunt.ai. If we call you, you can also ask the caller to stop. Opt-outs are honored across BizHunt, not just by one buyer. We keep your opt-out on file so we can keep honoring it.
• Your other choices. To ask what we have about you, or to have it deleted, email support@bizhunt.ai.

Network features

If you use the BizHunt Network, the profile information you choose to publish (name, headline, roles, activity) is visible to other members. You control what you share there.

Data retention & deletion

We keep your data while your account is active. You can delete your account and associated personal data at any time by emailing support@bizhunt.ai; we will complete deletion within 30 days, except where retention is required by law (e.g., billing records). Opt-out requests are kept so we can keep honoring them. Auto Hunt activity logs are deleted after 90 days. Records of phone code requests are deleted after 30 days. Bookings stay with the buyer's account until it is deleted. AI assistant access keys expire after 1 hour, and refresh keys after 90 days without use.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. Access to production systems is restricted and audited. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password.

Cookies

We use essential cookies and local storage to keep you signed in, remember preferences, and remember the link that brought you to BizHunt. Our product analytics (PostHog) uses local storage, not cookies, and is not used for advertising. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, our website loads no analytics in your browser. We still count on our servers when a free trial starts, linked to your account by an internal ID (never your email or name), so we know how many trials begin. We do not use third-party advertising cookies.

Children

BizHunt is not directed to individuals under 18, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced on this page with an updated date above.

Contact

Questions or requests: support@bizhunt.ai