Privacy Policy
Effective 27 September 2026
Lurker reads public conversations so it can tell you where your voice can be heard. To do that it needs to know who you are, what you work on and how to reach you. This page says exactly what that means. We don’t sell your data, and we don’t use it for advertising.
Who we are
Lurker is operated by Taktek, LLC (“Taktek”, “we”, “us”). Taktek is the controller of the personal data described here. Contact: nizar@taktek.io.
What we collect
| Data | Where it comes from | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Email address and the plan you picked, if you join the early access list | You | Telling you when your room opens. Nothing else |
| How you use this website: pages viewed, which plan’s Start button you pressed, whether you left an email (not the email itself), your approximate location and device | Google Analytics | Knowing which rooms people want and what on the site works |
| Name, email address | You | Your account, receipts, service messages |
| WhatsApp number | You | Sending you the threads and your daily desks |
| Your usernames on Reddit, Hacker News, LinkedIn, Substack and Product Hunt | You | Knowing which rooms you are in, and reading your own public posts and scores |
| What you tell us about your work, and anything you choose to share for onboarding (for example links to your projects) | You | Knowing which conversations are yours |
| Your public posts, comments, karma and follower counts | The platforms’ public pages | Measuring how early you replied and how your profiles grow |
| What we sent you, and what you marked done or skipped | The service | Not repeating ourselves, and learning what you want |
| Billing details | Stripe | Payments. We never see or store your full card number |
Lurker also reads public posts by other people on those platforms, the same posts anyone can read without an account, to decide which ones to send you. It does not log in as you and never posts, likes, follows, votes or messages on your behalf.
Who processes it
We use a small number of service providers, each only for the job listed:
- Anthropic (Claude): reads candidate threads and your profile to choose what to send you.
- Loops: the mailing list that holds the early access list and sends the email when your room opens.
- Stripe: payments, subscriptions and card storage, once Lurker takes payments.
- WhatsApp (Meta): delivers the messages we send you.
- GitHub: hosts this website.
- Google Fonts: serves the typeface on this website, which means Google receives your IP address when a page loads.
- Google Analytics: counts visits and clicks on this website, as described below.
These providers may process data in the United States and other countries. We don’t share your data with anyone else unless the law requires it.
Cookies and analytics
The public pages use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and clicks, including which plan’s Start button is pressed and whether someone joined the early access list. We never send your email address to Google, and we don’t use Google’s advertising features. Google Analytics sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_4RB4E9ZYWB, which last up to two years. You can block them in your browser, or with Google’s opt-out add-on.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while you have an account or are on the early access list. If you cancel, we delete it within 30 days, except records we must keep by law, such as invoices, which Stripe and we keep for as long as tax law requires.
Your choices and rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us to show you the data we hold about you, correct it, export it, or delete it, and you can object to how we use it. Email nizar@taktek.io and we will reply within 30 days. If you are in the EU or UK you can also complain to your data protection authority. Our legal bases are the contract with you (to provide the service), our legitimate interest in running and improving it, and your consent where we ask for it.
Security
Access to our systems is limited to the people who run Lurker. No system is perfectly secure; if something goes wrong that affects your data, we will tell you.
Children
Lurker is not for anyone under 18, and we don’t knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will email you before it takes effect. The date at the top always shows the current version.