Legal Data Hunter Privacy Notice
Effective date: August 11, 2026. This document applies prospectively and does not alter pre-publication records or obligations.
This Notice explains how Legal Data Hunter, Inc. (LDH) handles personal data when you visit legaldatahunter.com, create an account, use LDH services, or contact us.
1. Who is responsible
For personal data LDH uses for its own purposes, the controller is:
Legal Data Hunter, Inc., 2810 N Church St STE 89040, Wilmington, DE 19802, United States.
Email: zach@legaldatahunter.com
LDH is a Delaware corporation.
Legal Data Hunter, Inc. is the controller from this Notice's effective date. Before that date, the predecessor operator and controller was Zacharie Laik, entrepreneur individuel. If the controller changes in the future because of a reorganization, transfer, or other corporate transaction, LDH or its successor will provide notice where applicable law requires it.
When LDH processes personal data on behalf of a business or institutional customer, that customer is generally the controller and LDH acts as processor or subprocessor under the applicable agreement and Data Processing Addendum.
2. Personal data we handle
Depending on how you use LDH, we may handle:
- account information, such as your name, email, organization, role, authentication details, and plan;
- technical and usage information, such as IP address, browser, timestamps, request identifiers, endpoint, status, usage, and security signals;
- billing and transaction information handled with our payment provider;
- support messages, feedback, and other communications;
- public legal-source information published by courts, legislatures, regulators, registries, and other legal sources;
- Query Content, meaning queries, prompts, submitted references, search parameters, and other information you submit through a query; and
- Service Output, meaning retrieved results, documents, rankings, summaries, and other outputs returned by LDH.
We use limited website analytics as explained in our Cookie Notice. Query Content is not sent to website analytics.
3. How we use personal data
We use personal data to:
- create and manage accounts;
- provide search, retrieval, citation, reference-resolution, API, MCP, and related services;
- secure the services and prevent fraud, abuse, and incidents;
- provide support and investigate errors;
- administer subscriptions, billing, and business relationships;
- communicate about the services;
- comply with law and protect our legal rights; and
- analyze, maintain, and improve LDH.
We may send necessary service, billing, security, and contractual communications. We send optional marketing only with the permission required by law, and marketing messages include a simple unsubscribe method.
4. Query Content and Service Output
Free Services
LDH may use Query Content submitted under the Free Services to provide, secure, maintain, evaluate, and improve LDH, including to develop and train models and systems owned or controlled by LDH.
Query Content used for model development or training is not linked to your account. LDH may retain and reuse it for the disclosed purposes for as long as those purposes continue, subject to applicable law and your statutory rights.
Service providers may process Query Content and Service Output only to provide services to LDH. LDH does not authorize them to use either category for their own model training, advertising, profiling, or unrelated purposes.
LDH processes Service Output to provide, secure, maintain, and evaluate the Services. Service Output is not Query Content and is not covered by the Free-service permission to develop or train LDH models and systems.
Do not submit privileged, confidential, or highly sensitive information through the Free Services.
If you later move to a Paid Service, Query Content previously submitted under the Free Services remains governed by the Free Services policy that applied when it was submitted.
Paid Services
Query Content and Service Output processed under a Paid Services agreement are handled under that agreement. LDH does not use either category to train LDH models unless the customer expressly agrees in writing.
LDH configures the ordinary Paid Services query path so that Query Content is processed in the European Economic Area: application handling is in France, inference and embedding are in France, and query-derived vector retrieval is in the European Union. LDH does not intentionally route paid Query Content or paid result payloads to a non-EEA provider in that ordinary path. This commitment does not describe account, authentication, billing, communications, or security metadata, which is handled separately as described below and in the Subprocessor List.
Where LDH acts as processor or subprocessor, it processes personal data only as permitted by the applicable agreement and Data Processing Addendum.
5. Legal bases
Where EU or UK data-protection law applies, LDH relies on one or more of the following legal bases:
- performance of a contract or steps requested before entering one;
- legitimate interests in operating, securing, maintaining, and improving LDH, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights;
- compliance with legal obligations; and
- consent where the law requires it, including for certain marketing or analytics activities.
For LDH-owned model development and training using Query Content submitted under the Free Services, LDH relies on legitimate interests in improving the quality, usefulness, security, and reliability of its legal-research services. LDH does not offer a general product opt-out from this use, but you may object where applicable law gives you that right.
LDH does not make decisions about users that produce legal or similarly significant effects solely through automated processing.
6. Where personal data comes from
We receive personal data:
- directly from you or your organization;
- from authentication, payment, and other connected-service providers;
- automatically when you use LDH; and
- from official and public legal sources.
7. When we share personal data
We may share personal data with:
- providers supporting hosting, databases, inference, vector search, authentication, payments, email, analytics, security, and monitoring;
- your organization or account administrator;
- professional advisers and insurers;
- public authorities where lawfully required; and
- a buyer, investor, lender, or successor in a corporate transaction, subject to appropriate protections.
Our currently documented providers and their stated purposes are listed in the Subprocessor List. The list is maintained through the change-notice process described there; it is not represented as an independently audited or exhaustive inventory.
LDH does not sell or rent personal data. It does not disclose Query Content or Service Output for advertising or data-broker purposes.
8. International transfers
LDH and its providers may process personal data in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other locations described in the Subprocessor List.
The non-EEA processing described here concerns limited account, authentication, billing, communications, support, and security information. It does not change the ordinary EEA processing boundary for paid Query Content and paid result payloads described in Section 4. Free Services remain governed by the separate Free Services terms in that section.
Where required, LDH uses recognized safeguards such as adequacy decisions, the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK Addendum, or another lawful transfer mechanism.
9. Retention
LDH keeps personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Notice, including to provide the services, maintain security, comply with law, keep appropriate business records, and resolve disputes.
Query Content submitted under the Free Services may be retained and reused for the disclosed purposes for as long as those purposes continue, subject to applicable law and statutory rights. Genuinely anonymous information may be retained indefinitely.
Retention periods may differ for account, billing, tax, contract, security, support, and legal records. Provider records and backups expire under the applicable provider and operational schedules.
10. Security
LDH uses reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal data. No system or internet transmission is completely secure.
Where LDH acts as a Processor or Subprocessor, verified security measures are described in the applicable DPA Technical and Organizational Measures schedule.
11. Your rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to:
- access personal data about you;
- correct inaccurate or incomplete data;
- request deletion;
- restrict or object to processing;
- receive portable data;
- withdraw consent where processing relies on consent; and
- complain to a data-protection authority.
To exercise a right or request account deletion, email zach@legaldatahunter.com. We may need to verify your identity. Because Query Content used for training is not linked to your account, LDH may be unable to identify it from account information alone. LDH does not collect additional identifying data solely to link you to otherwise unlinked material. You may provide information that enables LDH to locate data relating to you. Some information may be retained where required by law or needed to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
If EU data-protection law applies, you may also complain to the CNIL or another competent supervisory authority.
12. Children and students
The Free Services are intended for legal professionals and law students and are not directed to children. A law student under 18 may use them only through an authorized educational institution and with the consent and supervision required by law.
13. Changes
We may update this Notice prospectively. The updated Notice will show a new effective date. We will provide additional notice where required by law.
14. Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints may be sent to:
zach@legaldatahunter.com
Legal Data Hunter, Inc., 2810 N Church St STE 89040, Wilmington, DE 19802, United States