Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to HypeDope. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses, as well as biometrics or voice inputs explicitly provided for strain curation.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
3. Affiliate Networks & Cookie Tracking Disclosures
HypeDope participates in affiliate marketing programs (including but not limited to **CJ Affiliate**, **Awin**, and **Impact**) to monetize outbound links to partner dispensaries and vaporizing hardware manufacturers. These networks utilize browser tracking cookies to verify transactions and attribute referral commissions. These tracking elements do not identify you personally but trace link routing to verify sales.
4. Voice Transcription & Biometric Data Handling
To power our speech-to-text AI Sommelier recommendation features, our application captures micro-recordings via your browser's microphone API. The audio stream is processed through serverless transcription endpoints (targeting Groq's whisper-large-v3 model). **No raw audio files, voice biometric prints, or voice signature data are stored permanently** on HypeDope host infrastructure. Audio payloads are held in volatile memory only during transmission and are immediately purged once transcription completes.
5. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., providing personalized strain recommendations).
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
- With your explicit consent, especially regarding location data for our dispensary locator, and promotional mailing lists (like our PRO waitlist).
6. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
7. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@hypedope.app.