Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 6, 2026

Snoop ("we," "us," or "our") operates the snoop.city website and related services (the "Service"). This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and the privacy choices and rights you have.

Snoop is an AI tool that searches publicly available web sources, plus an account-discovery service that uses an email address or phone number you enter, to surface publicly posted accounts and profiles, inferred location, and data-breach exposure shown as metadata only. It is meant for personal due diligence, like checking a new contact or reviewing your own public footprint. It is not a background-check service, and it is not a consumer reporting agency. Do not use it for any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (see our Terms of Service).

For any privacy question or request, contact privacy@snoop.city.

Notice at Collection (Summary)

This is a quick summary. The full detail is in the sections below.

A short, just-in-time version of this notice also appears at the search step and at checkout, at the point where you enter the information.

What We Collect

Information You Provide

Information Collected Automatically

We do not collect facial images, biometric identifiers, names, or address/relatives/date-of-birth records. The search flow may let you add a photo for a visual effect in your browser only. Any photo you add is processed entirely within your own browser and is never uploaded to, transmitted to, or stored by us.

Data-Breach Exposure

Where available, we show data-breach exposure as metadata only: which known services an email or phone number appeared in, and roughly when. We do not display, collect, or store leaked passwords, credentials, or the contents of any breach.

How We Use It

We use the information above to:

Categories of Sources, Third Parties, and What We Share

Below we map the categories of personal information we handle (using California's statutory categories) to where it comes from, why we use it, who we disclose it to, and whether we "share" it for advertising.

Categories of sources of personal information: directly from you; automatically from your device and browser; our service providers; and publicly available web sources (for information about a searched subject).

Categories of third parties we disclose to (service providers, in each case limited to the minimum needed for their function):

We send the search providers only the identifier you searched (the email or phone number). We never send them your account email or your payment details.

We may also disclose information to comply with the law, enforce our Terms, or protect the rights, safety, and property of Snoop, our users, or the public.

Advertising and Measurement

We advertise on Meta (Facebook), and we use product analytics. We want to be straightforward about what that involves.

You can opt out of this "sharing" at any time. See "Your Privacy Choices" below.

Your Privacy Choices

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information for money, but our use of the Meta Pixel and Conversions API is "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising. California uses the term "sharing"; a number of other U.S. states call this "targeted advertising." California and those other states give you the right to opt out, and we honor your opt-out regardless of where you live.

To opt out, use the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link (also available in our site footer), or email privacy@snoop.city. You do not need an account to opt out.

Global Privacy Control (GPC)

We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as a valid opt-out of "sharing." If your browser or a browser extension sends a GPC signal, we treat it as an opt-out request for that browser automatically, and we show you confirmation on the page that the signal was detected and honored. Because GPC is tied to a specific browser and device, you may need to set it on each browser and device you use.

Your Rights

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

How to exercise your rights. Email privacy@snoop.city. This is our single channel for access, deletion, correction, and opt-out requests, as well as "I was searched for, remove me" requests. Include the email address associated with your account or search, and the report link or token if you have one. We may need to verify your identity (or an authorized agent's authority) before acting on a request, and we will not use verification information for any other purpose.

Our response window. We will confirm receipt and respond within 45 days. If we need more time, we may extend by up to 45 additional days (longer for complex or numerous requests), and we will tell you why and when to expect a response.

Because we do not keep your report as a long-term dossier (see "Data Retention"), the practical effect of these rights is described in the next section.

If You Were Searched For on Snoop

Snoop lets people look up an email address or phone number, which could include yours. If you want to limit that, you can contact us even if you are not a customer. Email privacy@snoop.city with the email or phone number at issue. After we verify the request, you can ask us to:

To protect the privacy of everyone who uses Snoop, we do not tell you whether a particular search has taken place, or reveal the identity of anyone who may have run a search, since that would expose another person's use of the Service. And because we do not keep reports as a long-term dossier (see "Data Retention"), there is usually no stored profile about you to hand over. The protections we can offer are suppression of that identifier from future searches and a documented dispute log recording your objection so we honor it going forward.

Data Retention

Your report is not stored on our servers. Once generated, your report is delivered to your browser and held only briefly (about seven minutes) in temporary memory to complete delivery. It is never written to our database or backups, and it is not reused to serve future searches. Save anything you want to keep, because we cannot retrieve a report after delivery.

We keep only a minimal transaction record so we can bill you, prevent fraud, and provide support. That record includes your session ID, the email or phone number you searched, the payment ID, a timestamp, your plan, the tokens used, and anonymized provider telemetry. It does not include the contents of the report.

Sensitive Personal Information

To run the search you request, our account-discovery and AI search layers may surface information that can qualify as sensitive personal information about a searched subject, including account or credential-adjacent details (for example, that an account exists on a given service), information from which sexual orientation could potentially be inferred (for example, the presence of an account on a service associated with a particular community), and approximate location.

We process this information only to perform the service you requested, that is, to generate the report. We do not use it to infer characteristics about you for advertising, and we do not send it to advertising or analytics tools.

Cookies

We use a small number of cookies:

Children

Snoop is not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from minors. If you believe a minor has used Snoop, contact privacy@snoop.city and we will delete the associated data.

Security

We use industry-standard measures to protect your data, including encrypted connections (TLS), secure server infrastructure, and access controls. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect the information entrusted to us.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy. Material changes will be noted by updating the date at the top of this page. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised policy.

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