Privacy Policy

About this policy

This explains what HoodPad collects when you use pad.hoodscan.ai, why, and what happens to it. HoodPad has no accounts and no sign-up, so there is far less of this than you might expect. Where the answer is "we don't", it says so.

What we collect

Three things, none of which identify you by name:

• Content you submit when launching. A coin's name, ticker, description, links and images. You type these in deliberately and they are meant to be public.
• Public blockchain data. Wallet addresses, transactions, balances and trades, which we read from the chain and index so pages load quickly. This is already public and we don't create it.
• Basic traffic analytics. Page views and performance timings via Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights, so we know which pages are slow or broken.

What we don't collect

No accounts, no passwords, no email, no name, no phone number, no KYC. We never ask for or receive your private key or seed phrase — your wallet signs transactions in its own software and hands us only the result. We don't sell data, and we don't run advertising or cross-site tracking.

Your wallet address

Connecting a wallet shows us its public address so the interface can display your balances and let you sign. An address is pseudonymous, not anonymous: if it is publicly linked to you elsewhere, activity here can be linked to you too. That is a property of public blockchains, not something we do.

The blockchain is permanent

Anything written on-chain — your transactions, and the coin metadata you submit at launch — is public, permanent, and outside our control. We cannot edit or delete it, and neither can you. Please don't put anything in a coin's name, description or image that you wouldn't want attached to your address forever.

Browser storage

We set no cookies. The only thing we keep in your browser is your light/dark theme choice in localStorage, so the site doesn't flash the wrong colours on load. Clearing your browser data removes it. Your wallet extension keeps its own state, which we can't see.

Who processes data for us

We use a small number of services to run the site:

• Vercel — hosting, and the analytics above
• Neon — the Postgres database holding indexed chain data and submitted coin metadata
• Railway — the indexer that reads the chain
• Blockscout and the public Robinhood Chain RPC — reading public chain data

Your IP address is necessarily visible to these providers to serve you a page, as it is to any website. Each has its own privacy policy.

Retention

Indexed chain data and coin metadata are kept for as long as the site runs — they mirror public data that is permanent anyway. Analytics are retained by Vercel under their policy. We delete nothing from the blockchain because we cannot.

Security

Traffic is served over HTTPS and the database is not publicly reachable. That said, no system is perfectly secure. The strongest protection here is structural: we hold no funds and no keys, so there is nothing on our side worth stealing from you.

Your choices

You can use the site without connecting a wallet, and disconnect at any time. You can clear your browser storage to reset the theme. Because we hold no account for you, there is no profile to export or delete — and on-chain data is beyond our reach regardless of what anyone requests. If you have a question about data we hold on our own servers, email us.

Children

HoodPad isn't for anyone under 18 and isn't directed at children. We don't knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

We may update this policy. The effective date above shows when it last changed. Material changes will be reflected here rather than announced individually, since we have no email address to announce them to.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@hoodscan.ai.