Moonshot Mates is a small, free site run by one person. This page says what the site collects about you, what it does with it, and who else handles it. Nothing here is sold, no advertising is shown, and nobody is tracked across other sites.
Last updated 22 October 2026.
Your account. A handle and a password. The password is stored only as a salted hash, so nobody, including the person who runs the site, can read it.
Optional profile details. A display name, a bio, an “intelligence type” label, and a location. A location is kept as a town or city (or a US ZIP code and the middle of its area), never a street address. If you press “use my location”, your browser's coordinates are used once to find the nearest city and are not stored.
An email address, if you add one. It is never shown to other members. It is used for password resets and for the notification emails you leave switched on, and only after you confirm it from a link sent to it.
What you write and do. Ideas, replies, crew-channel messages, private replies, direct messages, likes, saved ideas, the crews you join or ask to join, the Base Camps you start, join or ask to join, the people you block, and the reports you file.
Conversations with your companion. The questions you ask Scout, its answers, and any reply it drafts for you. An unsent draft is kept for about a week.
One cookie. Signing in sets a single cookie, mm_session, which keeps you signed in for up to 60 days and is removed when you sign out. There are no advertising or analytics cookies, so there is no cookie banner.
Page views. The site counts which pages are opened, where visitors came from and which campaign link brought them, without cookies: the company that hosts the site keeps a one-way hash of your connection and browser that changes every day and cannot be turned back into you, so it can tell two views apart but not follow you from one day to the next. Nothing you write is included. If a link you followed carried campaign tags (utm_source, utm_campaign), they are kept with your account when you sign up, and a note that an account was made and that an idea was posted, with those tags and the date, is kept for a year.
When you were last here. The site notes that you visited, at most once an hour, so your companion knows when you have been away.
Server logs. The company that hosts the site keeps technical logs of requests, which include IP addresses and browser details, and a copy is kept with a log service for 30 days. They are used to keep the site running, to find faults and to stop abuse.
Sign-in attempts. When you sign in, sign up or ask for a password reset, the site keeps a record of the attempt for two days: the handle it was for, whether it worked, and a scrambled form of your IP address that cannot be turned back into the address. That is how it stops someone guessing passwords or making accounts by the hundred. Those forms may also ask Cloudflare to confirm you are a person; Cloudflare sees your IP address and browser details when it does.
Posting limits. Each time you post, message, invite someone or ask to join something, the site notes what kind of thing you sent and when, and keeps that note for two days. It holds no content. It is how the limits on how much anyone can send in a day still hold if what was sent is deleted or withdrawn, and how the site avoids emailing the same person about the same thing again and again.
Public, to anyone on the internet: your handle, display name, bio, intelligence type, town or city (on your profile and the map), the ideas you post, your public replies, your likes, which ideas you command or crew on, and which listed Base Camps you are on.
Ties between ideas. The lines the Idea Constellation draws between two ideas are made from public facts only: each idea's public text, hashtags and “looking for” line, who is publicly on it and who replied in public, the city its commanders chose and the listed Base Camps they are on, and the links commanders confirmed. Nothing else shapes them: not private or hidden replies, saved ideas, personal tags or private ideas.
Base Camps. A listed Base Camp's name, city (shown as the city centre on the map), description, topics and member list are public. An unlisted Base Camp is seen only by the people on it: its members, and anyone an organizer has invited. A Base Camp's chat is read only by its members; an organizer can delete any message in it, and a moderator sees one only when it is reported. A meetup's title, time and city are shown to whoever can see the Base Camp; where it is, the details and who said they're coming are shown to the Base Camp's members only. Whether other members may invite you to Base Camps is a switch on your own profile; nobody else sees how it is set.
Only the people involved: a crew channel is read by that idea's commanders and crew; a private reply by you and the idea's commanders; a direct message by you and the other person; an idea's tasks by its commanders and crew. An idea's evidence board (its claims, and the links, files and notes on them) is read by whoever can open the idea, so on a public idea it is public. A private idea, and everything written on it, is read only by the people on it: its commanders and crew, and anyone they have invited. A private idea is never sent to a model, not for matching and not by your companion: your companion can neither search nor read a private idea, even one you are on.
Only you: your email address, saved ideas and the tags you put on them, blocks, notifications, and everything between you and your companion. A personal tag is never counted, searched, suggested or sent to a model; it is deleted with the bookmark it sits on, and with your account.
Moderators see a private, crew or direct message only when someone in the conversation reports it. A report keeps a copy of the message as it was reported. The person who runs the site can also reach the database when that is needed to fix a fault, investigate abuse, or meet a legal obligation.
To run the site: showing your ideas and messages to the people they are meant for, keeping you signed in, sending the emails you asked for, suggesting ideas and people that fit, enforcing the community guidelines, and limiting spam. It is not sold, rented, or used for advertising.
Some features send text to AI models run by other companies, through the Vercel AI Gateway. Today those are models from Anthropic, Google and Voyage AI.
Matching. The public text of ideas (title, pitch, description, hashtags and the “looking for” line) and members' public bios are sent so that related ideas and people can be suggested. Replies and messages of any kind are never sent for this.
Scout. When you talk to your companion, your questions and the recent conversation are sent to the model, along with what it looks up to answer: public ideas and profiles, and your own roles, likes, saves and waiting counts. It cannot read anyone's replies or messages, or another member's saves. You can clear the conversation or switch your companion off at any time.
Tasks and claims from chat. A member of an idea's crew can pick messages in its chat and ask for a task or a claim to be drafted from them. Those messages, and only those, are then sent to the model. This happens only when a member asks, only with messages they can already read, and nothing is saved until they submit the draft themselves.
These companies are based in, or store data in, the United States and other countries. Information may also be disclosed when the law requires it, or to protect someone from serious harm.
Password-reset and address-confirmation emails are sent whenever you ask for them. All other email (notifications, digests and your companion's summary) can be switched off from your profile, or from the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every such email, without signing in.
You can edit your profile, remove your location or email address, delete your own ideas, replies and direct messages, and clear your conversation with Scout, from the site itself. Otherwise, what you post is kept until you delete it or your account is deleted.
You can delete your account at the bottom of your own profile. That removes your profile, replies, likes, saves and companion history, your direct conversations (for both people), and any idea you were the only commander of. An idea with another commander stays and passes to them. A Base Camp you were the only organizer of is closed and its members are told; one with another organizer stays. Backups and logs held by the companies above expire on their own schedules, and a copy of someone else's message that you reported may be kept as a record of the report. A report about you keeps your handle and display name after your account is gone. A closed account also leaves a record for 90 days of its handle, a hash of its email address (never the address itself) and whether it was suspended, so that a suspended member can't come straight back under the same name. A suspended account can't be deleted from the profile; write to hello@moonshotmates.aiinstead.
To ask for a copy of what the site holds about you, or if you can't sign in to delete your account, write to hello@moonshotmates.ai and say which account is yours.
Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights to see, correct, delete or object to the use of your information. Write to the same address to use them.
Moonshot Mates is for people aged 18 and over. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone younger. If you believe a child has made an account, write to hello@moonshotmates.ai and it will be removed.
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change. Questions about privacy go to hello@moonshotmates.ai. See also the terms of use.