Privacy Policy

UpHunt ("UpHunt," "we," "us," or "our") is an AI sales copilot for Upwork and LinkedIn freelancers and agencies. We provide a real-time job feed, AI job scoring with a plain-language reason for each job, instant alerts, a free Upwork Profile Optimizer, an Upwork jobs dataset, and an opt-in auto-apply service that submits proposals on your behalf.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit https://uphunt.io, use our dashboard, or use any of our tools, how we use and share it, and the choices you have. For the purposes of data protection law (including the EU and UK GDPR and Turkey's KVKK), UpHunt is the data controller for the personal data described here. You can reach us about privacy at any time at info@uphunt.io.

2.1 Account and profile information

When you create an account we collect:

• Email address, used to sign you in, send service messages, and provide support.
• Password, which we store only as a salted hash. We never see or store your password in plain text.
• The profile and positioning text you write for your feeds (for example, the description of your skills, niche, and ideal clients that powers AI scoring and proposals), along with your keywords, rate and country filters, proposal templates, and auto-apply settings.
• API keys you generate to use our external integrations.

2.2 Subscription and billing information

Payments and subscriptions are processed by Dodo Payments, our merchant of record. We do not collect or store your full card number or bank details on our servers. We store the billing-related identifiers Dodo returns to us (such as your customer and subscription IDs), your plan tier, status, trial end date, and remaining auto-apply credits.

2.3 Upwork and agency connection

Our auto-apply service is designed to be ToS-safe: instead of asking for your personal Upwork login, you add an UpHunt-managed business-developer account to your Upwork Agency Plus, and that managed account submits proposals on your behalf. To operate this we store identifiers needed to route applications correctly, such as your assigned managed account, your agency identifier, and the public staff and profile identifiers within your agency. We do not ask for or store your personal Upwork account password.

2.4 Notification channel data

If you connect a notification channel, we store what is needed to deliver alerts to it: your Telegram chat identifier, your Slack workspace and OAuth authorization, or the webhook URL you configure. You can disconnect any channel at any time.

2.5 Free tools and lead information

When you use our free Upwork Profile Optimizer, we collect the email address you enter and the public Upwork profile URL you submit, fetch the publicly available information from that profile, and store the resulting analysis. We may use the email you provide to send you your report and occasional information about UpHunt. You can unsubscribe from marketing messages at any time.

2.6 Job and profile content we process for you

To power your feeds we collect and process publicly available job postings from platforms such as Upwork and LinkedIn, and we score them against the profile criteria you provide. When you generate a proposal, we process the relevant job description together with your profile and proposal settings.

2.7 Usage, device, and cookie data

Like most online services, we and our analytics and advertising partners automatically collect technical information when you use UpHunt, including your IP address, approximate location, browser and device type, pages viewed, referring pages, and how you interact with the product. Section 5 lists the specific tools involved.

We use the information above to:

• Create and secure your account and authenticate you.
• Deliver the core service: AI job scoring, real-time feeds, search, and instant notifications via Telegram, Slack, or webhooks.
• Generate, refine, and submit proposals on your behalf when you enable auto-apply, and manage your auto-apply credits.
• Process subscriptions and payments, send billing and service messages, and provide customer support.
• Operate the free Profile Optimizer and the Upwork jobs dataset, and respond to leads.
• Measure, debug, secure, and improve the product, and develop new features.
• Market UpHunt, including measuring advertising and referrals, where permitted.
• Comply with our legal obligations and enforce our terms.

Where the law requires a legal basis, we rely on performance of our contract with you (to provide the service), your consent (for example, for non-essential cookies and marketing), our legitimate interests (to secure and improve the product and to grow the business), and compliance with legal obligations.

AI features are central to UpHunt. To score jobs, generate and refine proposals, generate keywords and screening-question answers, and analyze profiles, we send the relevant inputs (such as the job description and the profile and proposal text you provide) to third-party large language model providers, currently OpenAI and Anthropic.

These providers process the data to return results to us under their business and API terms. We ask you not to put sensitive personal information into profile, proposal, or feed text, since that content is processed by these AI providers to produce your output.

We use essential cookies for authentication and session management, and we use the following analytics and advertising technologies, which may set cookies or use similar identifiers and may collect data such as your IP address and interactions:

• PostHog for product analytics, in-product support, and AI usage analytics.
• Google Analytics for site and usage measurement.
• Meta Pixel and the LinkedIn Insight Tag for advertising measurement and audiences.
• SiteBehaviour for analytics and heatmaps.
• Affonso for affiliate and referral tracking.
• RB2B for identifying business visitors to our website for B2B marketing.

You can control cookies through your browser settings, and you can opt out of many advertising cookies through your device or the relevant provider. Disabling some cookies may affect how the site works.

We do not sell or rent your personal information. We share it only with service providers that help us run UpHunt, and only as needed for them to perform their function. Our main subprocessors are:

• Dodo Payments: payments and subscriptions.
• Our hosting and database providers (including MongoDB and Redis): storing and running the application.
• OpenAI and Anthropic: AI processing (see Section 4).
• Mailgun (transactional email) and Loops (email and customer messaging).
• Telegram and Slack: notification delivery, only if you connect them. Webhook delivery goes to the URL you configure.
• GoLogin: secure browser infrastructure used to run the managed accounts that submit applications.
• Sentry: error monitoring.
• The analytics and advertising providers listed in Section 5.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect our rights, users, or the public, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, in which case we will notify you of any change in how your data is handled.

To power our job feeds and to identify freelancers and agencies who may be interested in UpHunt, we collect publicly available professional information from platforms such as Upwork and LinkedIn, including public profile and company details and public job postings. We use this for product features, research and analytics, and business-to-business outreach.

If you believe we hold public professional information about you and you would like it corrected or removed, or you no longer wish to receive outreach, contact us at info@uphunt.io and we will action your request.

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data, including:

• Encryption in transit (TLS) for traffic to and from our services.
• Hashing of passwords and encryption of sensitive stored credentials.
• Access controls and authenticated, secret-based service access.
• Rate limiting and standard security headers across our services.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a breach affecting your personal data, we will notify you and the relevant authorities as required by law.

We keep your personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the service. If you ask us to delete your account, we will delete or anonymize your personal data within 30 days, except where we must keep certain records to meet legal, tax, accounting, or fraud-prevention obligations. Aggregated or de-identified data and publicly sourced job and profile data may be retained for research and analytics.

UpHunt is operated from Turkey and our providers operate in various countries, including the United States and the European Union. When we transfer personal data across borders, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as the providers' standard contractual clauses, where required by law. By using UpHunt, you understand that your information may be processed in countries other than the one where you live.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you.
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Delete your data.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Receive a copy of your data in a portable format.
• Opt out of marketing at any time using the unsubscribe link or by contacting us.

To exercise any of these rights, email info@uphunt.io. We will respond within the time required by applicable law. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

UpHunt is intended for working professionals and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

UpHunt connects to and links to third-party services, including Upwork, LinkedIn, Telegram, Slack, and our payment and analytics providers. Their handling of your data is governed by their own privacy policies, not this one. We encourage you to review the policies of any third-party service you connect or visit.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page with a new revision date, and for significant changes we may notify you by email or in the product. Continued use of UpHunt after an update means you accept the revised policy.

If you have questions or requests about this Privacy Policy or your data, contact us at:

Email: info@uphunt.io

By using UpHunt, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.