Your data should not be a mystery.

Who operates H/CTOR

Hctor.com, referred to here as “H/CTOR,” is operated by Lead Better, LLC, a New York limited liability company. This policy applies to the public H/CTOR website and its email signup.

Information collected

When you join the email list

We collect your email address, subscription date and status, signup page, and delivery status for a welcome message. If you allowed analytics, the signup may also include the anonymous visitor identifier, first landing page, signup-session source, original referring website origin, and UTM campaign values associated with that visit.

When you request an app-idea prompt

When you use “Turn a Problem Into an App,” we store your email, answers, personalized build prompt, creation and verification dates, delivery status, and email-list signup status and disclosure wording. Signing up for the prompt joins the H/CTOR email list for updates, resources, and offers after you verify your email. You can unsubscribe anytime. We also use this information to deliver and retrieve your prompt. The prompt is assembled from a template; your answers are not sent to a generative AI service. Do not enter passwords, confidential workplace information, or other people’s personal information. Choices made through earlier versions of the form are preserved.

When you allow anonymous analytics

H/CTOR uses first-party analytics to collect a random anonymous visitor ID, a session ID, page path, timestamps, referring website origin, normalized traffic source, UTM values, and clicks to featured projects. Query strings are not stored as page paths. H/CTOR does not use browser fingerprinting or advertising trackers.

When you contact us

We receive the information you choose to send, such as your email address and message.

Technical information handled by service providers

Hosting, database, security, and email providers may process technical information such as IP addresses and server logs to deliver and protect their services. H/CTOR does not intentionally save your IP address in its own audience analytics database.

How information is used

• Operate, secure, maintain, and improve H/CTOR.
• Understand audience growth, traffic sources, content interest, and project interest.
• Manage the email list, send requested updates and any offers you opted in to receive, and honor unsubscribes.
• Respond to questions, requests, and legal obligations.
• Detect abuse, bots, security threats, and technical problems.

When information is shared

Information may be shared with service providers that help run H/CTOR, including OpenAI Sites and Cloudflare infrastructure and, when configured, Resend for email delivery. These providers process information for the services they perform. Information may also be disclosed when required by law, to protect rights or safety, or as part of a merger, financing, reorganization, or transfer of the business.

H/CTOR does not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or use it for targeted advertising.

Tracking choices and browser signals

Anonymous analytics stay off until you select “Allow analytics.” If you decline, H/CTOR removes its anonymous visitor and session identifiers from that browser and stops future analytics collection there. You can change the choice on the Tracking Preferences page.

H/CTOR also treats an enabled Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track browser signal as a direction to keep analytics off. Blocking or clearing browser storage may reset your saved choice.

Essential security storage

The app-idea tool uses an essential, HTTP-only access cookie after you verify your email. The cookie lasts up to seven days; the private access link expires after thirty days. Initial verification must happen within forty-eight hours. Keep the email link private: anyone with it can access that prompt. Optional tool analytics record steps and actions, not your answers or email address.

Cloudflare may set strictly necessary security cookies, such as a bot-management cookie, to protect H/CTOR from automated abuse and keep the site available. These security functions are separate from H/CTOR’s optional audience analytics and are not used by H/CTOR for advertising.

Data retention and security

App-idea submissions are retained for resource support and lead management until deleted; link expiry does not delete the record. You can request deletion at privacy@hctor.com. Only verified submissions with newsletter consent are added to the email list. Existing unsubscribe preferences are preserved.

Subscriber records are kept while a subscription is active. After an unsubscribe, limited information may be retained to honor the request and meet legal or security obligations. Analytics and operational records are kept only as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here and are reviewed periodically.

Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards are used, including restricting subscriber and analytics data to the authenticated CEO dashboard. No online system can be guaranteed completely secure.

Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or information about disclosures of personal information. You may also withdraw consent for future analytics or unsubscribe from email at any time.

Send a request to privacy@hctor.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

California residents

California law may provide additional rights concerning categories, sources, purposes, recipients, access, correction, and deletion. H/CTOR does not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Global Privacy Control is honored as described above.

Children and international visitors

H/CTOR is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child provided information, contact us. If you visit from outside the United States, information may be processed in the United States or other locations used by service providers.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated as H/CTOR changes. The date at the top will be revised when a new version is posted. Material changes will be highlighted where appropriate.

Contact

Questions, requests, and privacy concerns can be sent to privacy@hctor.com.