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What Instinct does with your messages

Source: its published policy, read 2026-09-23. Its words are quoted, never paraphrased.

Whose hands it passes through

Somebody carries the message, somebody runs the model that reads it, and where the agent uses a website on your behalf somebody operates that browser. A blank below is not an absence of a company, it is a company nobody has named.

  1. You, oniMessage, Voice
  2. The productSpear Street Technology, Inc.
  3. Carries the messagesNot named27 of the 79 agents with a policy do
  4. Runs the modelNot named40 of the 79 agents with a policy do
  5. Drives the browserNot named12 of the 79 agents with a policy do
  6. Holds it, under whose lawNot stated52 of the 79 agents with a policy do

Every link read off the product’s own published pages. Across the 79 policies in this directory, 3 name all four, and 13 name none of them.

In its own words

“we use certain information collected through your use of the Services ... to develop and improve our products and technologies, including to evaluate, fine-tune, and train the AI models that power our products and technology. If you do not want us to use your information to train AI models, you can opt out by visiting app.instinct.com/settings”
On training, Yes, with opt-out

Quotes are verbatim. We report what the document says and link it; we do not interpret its legal effect, and policies change.

What it does not answer

Each of these is a question some policies in this directory answer. The count is how many of the 79 we have read close it.

Silence is not a denial and it is not a promise. A document that does not address the people in your group thread has not agreed to anything about them.

How old this document is

Instinct last revised it on 2026-08-26, which was 28 days before we read it. 71 of the 79 policies here carry a revision date at all; the rest do not say when they were last changed, so there is no way to tell whether they describe the product as it ships today.

We have read it 2 times and it has changed once since we started watching, most recently on 2026-09-25. What changed, sentence by sentence.

Who else answers this the same way

The products that gave the same answer, each on a page like this one.

Yes, with opt-out

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