Privacy notice

What we keep when you join

• Your email address.
• When you joined.
• How you reached the page — hinton.so itself, or the kind of Hinton link you followed (a product, a boutique, a profile) — and any campaign tags in that link (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content, utm_term).
• Which version of the notice beside the form you saw.
• Your invite code — random, with nothing about you in it — and, if you joined through somebody’s invite link, that it was theirs.
• Whether and when you confirmed your email, and a one-way fingerprint of your confirmation link (never the link itself).
• The handle you reserve, if you choose one.

That is all. We don’t keep your IP address, your browser details or the full address of the page you came from, and joining doesn’t create a Hinton account or ask for a password. If you join twice, we keep your first sign-up and change nothing.

Invite links, and one cookie

When you join you get a personal invite link (hinton.so/r/…). Anyone you send it to can see the code in it, but the code doesn’t reveal your email address or your place, and it can’t be used to see your status. If somebody joins through your link and confirms their email, we note that they came from you and move you up 10 places; Hinton’s administrators can see who invited whom.

Joining (or opening your confirmation link) sets one cookie in this browser, hinton_waitlist: your invite code and a signature, kept for up to a year, so this browser can show you your place, your link and your handle. Opening somebody’s invite link sets another, hinton_invite: their invite code, for 30 days, so that if you join they’re credited. Neither holds an email address, and clearing them changes nothing about your sign-up.

What we use it for

To confirm your address, to email you about your place on the waitlist and Hinton’s launch, to show the number of people on the waitlist (a total, never a list), and to count — in total, not person by person — which posts and links bring people to Hinton. We don’t send your email address to analytics tools.

Who can see it

Hinton’s administrators, in Hinton’s internal console, which requires an individual administrator account. When you join, Hinton’s team also gets one email saying so, with your address and how you found us. The list is stored in Hinton’s database, hosted by Supabase; this website is hosted by Vercel; our emails are sent through Resend, which receives your address and the email to deliver it. Each export of the list is recorded.

Your choices

To be removed from the waitlist, or to ask what we hold about you, email adam@hinton.so.

We keep your waitlist entry until Hinton opens to everyone and we’ve invited you, and for no more than 12 months after Hinton’s public launch. To be removed sooner, email adam@hinton.so and we’ll delete your entry, along with any handle you reserved, within 30 days.