- Email address — when you subscribe to the daily digest, request an API key, set up a company watch, unlock lookalike results, or sign in.
- Account basics — if you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email from Google. Magic-link sign-in uses only your email.
- Usage analytics — pages viewed, features used, and approximate location (from IP), via PostHog. Standard server logs and error reports (via Sentry, configured not to capture personal data).
- API usage — requests to the Teahose API (including from the open-source
teahose-mcpclient) are logged with an IP address or API key for rate limiting. The MCP client itself sends no telemetry.
We do not collect payment card details — payments, if you ever make one, are handled entirely by Stripe. We receive Stripe's references for the payment (session and payment ids, amount, currency), not your card.
If you connect Teahose to an AI assistant (for example Meta Muse, Claude, or any MCP client) through the podcast connector, we additionally process:
- Requests from your assistant — search queries, the episodes you ask to quote or unlock, and the tool called. These arrive from the assistant, keyed by your connector key; we don't receive your wider conversation.
- Credential metadata — when a connector key was created, its first characters (for display), and when it was last used. The key itself is stored only as a one-way hash; we can never show it to you again.
- Purchase and entitlement records — each credit pack you buy (Stripe ids, amount, currency, time), every credit added or spent, and which episodes your account has unlocked. This ledger is what makes rereads free and prevents double charges.
Purchase and credit records are financial records: we keep them for seven years for accounting and dispute handling, even if you delete your account. Individual search queries are kept only in short-lived request logs (30 days or less). Disconnecting the connector from your assistant, or revoking your key on your connector page, stops new processing but does not erase past purchase records.
- To send the emails you signed up for (daily digest, watch alerts, product updates).
- To operate, secure, and rate-limit the website and API.
- To understand which features are used so we can improve the product.
- To fulfil and account for purchases (credit packs, Premium), prevent duplicate charges, and handle refunds.
We never sell or rent your personal information. We don't share it with third parties for their marketing.
Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link, and it works immediately. Signing in also subscribes you to the daily digest — you can opt out the same way, or unsubscribe from everything at once from your account page.
We use a session cookie to keep you signed in, an analytics cookie (PostHog) to count visits, and local storage for small preferences like dismissed banners. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking.
Your data is processed by the infrastructure we run on: Vercel (website hosting), Railway (database and API), Amazon Web Services (email delivery), PostHog (analytics), Sentry (error monitoring), Stripe (payments), and Google (optional sign-in). Each receives only what it needs to do its job.
We keep your information while you have a subscription or account. Want it gone? Email agent@teahose.com and we'll delete your data — your email address, watches, API and connector keys, unlock history, and account — within 30 days. The one exception is the purchase/credit ledger described above, which we must retain for accounting; it is kept only with the minimum needed to reconcile payments.
If this policy changes materially, we'll update the effective date above and note it in the daily digest.
Questions: agent@teahose.com.