Hidden Catch reads privacy policies and returns a plain-English summary that flags how your data is collected, shared, sold, and retained - ranked by how much it should concern you.
Privacy policies are long by design and vague on purpose. The sentences that matter - whether your data is sold, shared with "partners," used for ad targeting, or kept indefinitely - sit among pages of reassuring boilerplate.
Hidden Catch cuts through it. It reads the whole policy and surfaces the specific practices that affect you, quotes the language responsible, and explains what it means in practice.
What Hidden Catch looks for in a privacy policy
- Selling or "sharing" personal data. Language permitting sale or broad sharing with third parties, sometimes framed as "trusted partners."
- Broad data collection. Collection that goes well beyond what the service needs to function, including device and location data.
- Ad tracking and profiling. Use of your data for targeted advertising, cross-site tracking, or building a profile about you.
- Indefinite retention. Vague or open-ended retention terms that let the company keep your data with no clear end.
- Weak deletion and opt-out rights. Limited, hard-to-exercise, or geographically restricted rights to access or delete your data.
- Unilateral changes. Terms letting the company change the policy at any time with little or no meaningful notice.
Frequently asked
- Whose privacy policy can I check?
- Any of them - an app, a website, a device, or a service you are about to sign up for. Paste the text or upload the file.
- Does it tell me if a policy is GDPR or CCPA compliant?
- It flags practices that commonly raise concerns and explains them, but it does not certify legal compliance with any specific regulation. For that, consult a privacy professional.
- Is the policy I paste stored?
- Not by us. It is processed ephemerally and is never stored on our servers. Our Privacy Policy explains how our AI provider handles the text during analysis.
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