Lupe
Back to the start

Last updated

Privacy

What Loupe keeps, who it sends it to, and how to delete it.

The scan

  • You type a job and a city. Loupe sends them to OpenAI to ask the question, and asks OpenAI not to store it.
  • Loupe keeps an answer that cites sources for one day, so the next person who asks the same question sees the same answer. An answer with no sources isn’t kept.
  • For 90 days it keeps a log of which sites and names each answer mentioned, without the answer’s text.
  • It counts how often each job and city is looked up. A count is deleted after a year with no new lookups.
  • To enforce the daily limit, it keeps a one-way code for your internet connection for one day, and sends OpenAI a code made from it. Never your IP address.
  • The scan never asks your name.

The name check

This part applies only if you use the name check, the one place Loupe asks for your name and email.

  • Your name, email, job and city are kept until you delete them, with the name you tapped in “Is one of these you?” and when you confirmed the name is yours.
  • So are the license numbers your name matched and the license record you pick.
  • Your right / wrong / not sure marks are kept until you delete them.
  • Your answers to “Is this the same firm?”, with the two firm names, are kept for 90 days.
  • What AI says about you is kept for 90 days, without contact details. After that, Loupe keeps only counts.
  • The full answer about you, with any contact details AI found, like a phone number, is held for one day, then deleted.
  • Your email is kept with your report. Loupe uses it only to find what to delete, when you type it into the box below.

Who gets what

  • OpenAI gets the job and city you scan and, if you use the name check, your name, in the by-name question and in the step that lists its claims. Loupe asks OpenAI not to store them.
  • In Texas and New York, the state’s open-data portal gets your name, to look up your license record (data.texas.gov, data.ny.gov). If you search by license number or pick a record, it gets that number too.
  • HomeLight gets nothing from Loupe. In Texas, your report links to your HomeLight profile, built from your license number. Loupe never opens HomeLight’s pages itself. If you open the link, your browser visits HomeLight like any other link.
  • Cloudflare hosts Loupe and stores what’s above. Like any web host, it sees your IP address. Loupe’s own logs hold only error codes and, for each AI call, its kind, cost and timing, never what you type, your name or your email.
  • Google Fonts supplies Loupe’s fonts, so Google sees your IP address when your browser fetches them. Loupe tells Google nothing else.
  • Your email goes to no one. Loupe never emails you.
  • Loupe isn’t paid by any site it names or links to.

Deleting it

  • Press Delete everything on your report page. It removes your name, your email and your report straight away.
  • Or type the email you used into the box below. Every report made with that email is deleted straight away, even without its link.
  • The box only finds reports made with that email. If someone entered your name with a different email, it can’t find that report.
  • Its reply is the same whether or not it found anything, so it never tells anyone whose email Loupe has.
  • These cover the name check. The scan’s records aren’t linked to you, so they end on the schedule above.
  • Deleted records stay in the database’s automatic backups for up to 30 days, then they’re gone for good.

Who it’s for

  • Adults 18 and over. The name check is open to U.S. visitors only.
  • License data comes from the Texas Real Estate Commission (data.texas.gov) and the New York Department of State (data.ny.gov). Each record shows the date it was read.

Loupe isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by the Texas Real Estate Commission, the New York Department of State, OpenAI or HomeLight.