Privacy
What Persimmon stores about the posts it reads, and for how long.
What we store for leads
For each post we surface as a lead we keep the start of the text (at most 1,200 characters), a link back to the original, the author's public handle, the time it was posted, and the score and short reason our model gave it.
Your own account data is your email address, your workspace settings and the ideal customer profiles you write.
People we suggest as leads
On LinkedIn we also note who publicly commented on or reacted to posts that our customers follow or that match their topics. For each such person we keep their name, their one-line headline, their current job title, employer and location, a link to their public profile, the post they engaged with and the text of their comment, and a score with a short reason from our AI model for how well they match the customer's audience.
To collect and judge this we use a data provider that reads public LinkedIn pages and an AI model provider; both receive the person's name and headline. When a customer asks for it, we look up that person's work email address with a verification service, which receives their LinkedIn handle or their name and employer; we store the address only when it was verified.
We delete this about 180 days after the person's last public activity that we saw (a clean-up runs every week), unless a customer has saved the person or one of their comments, marked them as contacted or dismissed them; those records stay until the customer deletes their workspace or the person asks to be removed. To be removed and kept out from then on, email msalehi1991@gmail.com with a link to your profile; we do it within 30 days, and it covers your LinkedIn posts and comments in our product as well.
Website visitors. A customer can add our script to their own site. For each page view we receive the page path and, as with any web request, the visitor's IP address, browser type and the site the request came from. We use the address once, to look up whether it belongs to a company's own network; the lookup is done by ipapi.is. We keep only a salted hash of the address, or of its network, for about five weeks after a lookup, so the same network is not looked up twice.
We store the company, the pages it viewed, how many and when, for about five weeks, never who the visitor was; parts of a page address that look like an email address, a number or a code are removed before it is stored. A short summary, such as the company's name and how many pages it viewed, stays with a lead for as long as the lead is kept.
When a visiting company matches what our customer is looking for, people who work there may be suggested to the customer as leads, from public professional profiles. We set no cookie and build no visitor profile.
The Hacker News archive
For research features we keep a copy of public Hacker News stories and comments, including their text. Our archive does not store Hacker News usernames: each author is replaced by a one-way pseudonym that lets us count distinct people without storing who they are, and we never show who wrote a quote. Every quote links back to Hacker News.
For research features we also store short AI summaries of public comments (whether a mention is positive or negative, a complaint phrase, or a product switch); they are removed together with the comment.
Items deleted or removed on Hacker News are removed from our copy, most within 3 days and the rest at our quarterly check. To have everything you wrote removed from our archive, and kept out of it from then on, email msalehi1991@gmail.com with your username; we remove it within 30 days.
How long we keep it
Reddit content is shown as snippets only. When a post is deleted on Reddit, our copy is deleted within a week: a weekly job checks stored posts against Reddit and removes the ones that are gone. On every network, a post removed at its source is removed from our copy when a later fetch no longer returns it, or on written request.
Your workspace data stays until you ask us to delete it, also after you cancel, so you can come back. It is removed within 30 days of a written request to msalehi1991@gmail.com.
What we never do
- On networks where people post under a username (Reddit, Hacker News, Quora and others) we never match the username to a real identity.
- We never post, comment or message anyone on your behalf.
- We only read public content: posts on the networks listed on our site and, on LinkedIn, public comments, reactions and profiles.
You can hide author handles from reports and alerts in your workspace settings.
Public reports
The reports on this site are scans we ran ourselves on public example profiles. Customer workspaces are private and never appear on the public site.
Contact
Questions, or want something removed? Email msalehi1991@gmail.com.