Privacy Policy
for HuntPulse

What HuntPulse is

HuntPulse is a Chrome browser extension developed by Anshumaan Vishnu (ansh.asia). It helps members of the Reddit community r/ProductHunters discover and support Product Hunt launches posted by fellow community members, directly from their browser toolbar.

HuntPulse has a single narrow purpose: read publicly available posts from r/ProductHunters, find Product Hunt links, and display them in a popup. That is the entirety of its function.

Data we do not collect

HuntPulse does not collect, transmit, store remotely, or share any of the following:

• x Personally identifiable information (name, email, age, etc.)
• x Browsing history or activity on any website
• x Authentication credentials or passwords
• x Financial or payment information
• x Location data or IP addresses
• x Personal communications
• x Health information of any kind
• x User activity, clicks, or keystroke logs
• x Website content from any tab you visit

Data stored locally on your device

HuntPulse uses chrome.storage.local, Chrome's built-in local storage, to save two things on your device only:

This data never leaves your device. It is not synced, not transmitted, and not accessible to the developer or any third party. You can clear it at any time by removing the extension from Chrome.

External network requests

HuntPulse makes exactly one type of outbound network request: a fetch to Reddit's public unauthenticated JSON API endpoint at https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductHunters/new.json, once per hour via a background alarm.

This is equivalent to loading the subreddit in a browser. No user account, authentication token, or personal identifier is attached to this request. Reddit's own privacy policy governs what Reddit does with this request on their servers. HuntPulse has no backend server of its own.

Permissions explained

• storage Saves your voted IDs, notification preference, and feed cache locally on your device using chrome.storage.local. No data leaves your device.
• alarms Schedules an hourly background check for new posts. The service worker wakes up, fetches Reddit's public feed, then goes back to sleep. No persistent background process runs between checks.
• notifications Sends one optional system notification per calendar day when new hunts are found. Can be turned off at any time in the extension settings. No repeated pings.
• tabs Opens Product Hunt and Reddit links in a new browser tab when you click them. The extension does not read, monitor, or access the content of any tab.
• reddit.com Host permission allowing the extension to call Reddit's public JSON API. No other domains are contacted. No cookies or authentication headers are sent.

Remote code

HuntPulse does not load, execute, or evaluate any remote code. All JavaScript is bundled within the extension package. No external scripts, no eval(), no dynamic imports from external URLs. This complies fully with Chrome Web Store's Manifest V3 remote code policy.

Third parties and data sharing

HuntPulse does not share any data with third parties. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporting service, no advertising network, and no backend server. The only third-party interaction is Reddit's public API, which receives the same anonymous HTTP request any browser would send when loading the subreddit.

Developer certifications

• I do not sell or transfer user data to third parties, outside of approved use cases.
• I do not use or transfer user data for purposes unrelated to HuntPulse's single purpose.
• I do not use or transfer user data to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes.

Contact

Questions about this privacy policy? Reach out to Anshumaan Vishnu directly.