Privacy

What we collect

  • Email: when you sign up for updates, request a scan report or an email copy of a free scan, sign in or subscribe.
  • Game links: the Steam games you scan or watch and the Roblox experience or group links you send us, plus scan results.
  • Name: only if you enter it at Stripe checkout. Stripe keeps it with your payment details; we store your email and Stripe customer and subscription ids, never card details.
  • Abuse protection: a hashed IP address and a random browser id for free-scan limits.
  • Public X posts: to find developers dealing with clones, we save links to public X posts where a developer says their game was copied (post link, handle and game name). We never message anyone automatically.

Why

To run scans, send the alerts, sign-in links and updates you asked for, email you the automated scan reports, copies and alerts you asked for (and a welcome email when you subscribe), manage your subscription and stop abuse of the free tier. Sign-up emails may also be stored in our email marketing tool (ActiveCampaign) once it's connected; you can unsubscribe anytime.

How AI scan reports are processed

Reports are generated automatically by software and AI and emailed to you without review by a person. They are not legal advice.

  • xAI (Grok): we send the public names, descriptions, icon images and store links of your game and similar games to xAI to compare them and to search the web and X for copies. Your email address is not sent to xAI.
  • Supabase: stores scan requests (your email, game link and a hashed IP address), matches and reports, in the United States.
  • Resend: delivers report emails, scan copies, alerts and account emails, only to the address that requested them.

Cookies

We use two functional cookies and no tracking or analytics cookies: cr_session keeps you signed in, and cr_anon counts your free scans. Our own staff also get a ch_admin cookie when signing in to the admin log. There are no ad trackers or analytics scripts.

We don't sell your data

We never sell or rent your data. We share it only with the services that run CloneHound: hosting (Vercel), databases (Neon and Supabase), AI comparison and search (xAI), payments (Stripe) and email delivery (Resend).

Deletion and questions

To see or delete your data, email clonehound.support@gmail.com. We'll confirm when it's done.