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Hints Terms of Service


These Terms govern your organization’s use of Hints, the AI sales assistant that updates your CRM from your messaging app. Effective date: October 1, 2026.

1. Agreement

These Terms are an agreement between Hintsflow Inc. (“Hints”, “we”) and the organization that uses Hints (“you”). Hints is a tool for businesses.

  • By creating an organization, the owner accepts these Terms for that organization and confirms they are authorised to do so.

  • By accepting an invitation, a member agrees to use Hints under these Terms on their organization’s behalf.

  • You must be at least 18 and use Hints for your work, not as a consumer.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data. If your organization signs a separate agreement or Data Processing Addendum with us, that document wins where it conflicts with these Terms.

2. The service

Hints is an AI sales assistant. Your team messages it in Telegram or WhatsApp, by text or voice, and it reads and updates your organization’s CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive or Salesforce) for you. You manage your organization, connections and plan in the Hints web app at https://i.hints.so.

  • Hints answers in English. It understands other languages and voice notes up to 5 minutes long.

  • Hints may look up public web pages to answer a request.

  • Features differ by CRM, and we may change, add or remove features. We will tell owners in advance about changes that materially reduce what Hints does for them.

3. Accounts, organizations and roles

You sign in to Hints with your email address and a one-time code or link. Each account belongs to one organization.

  • Owner. The person who creates the organization is its owner. The owner chooses the organization’s CRM, invites and removes members, manages the plan and billing, and can transfer ownership or delete the organization.

  • Members. Members join by invitation (an invitation link is valid for 7 days) and connect the organization’s CRM and a messenger with their own accounts.

  • One CRM per organization. All members use the CRM the owner connected; the owner can change it, which disconnects every member from the previous one.

You must give accurate information, keep your sign-in and messenger links to yourself, and tell us at ask@hints.so if you think your account was used without permission. The owner is responsible for who they invite and for members’ use of Hints under these Terms.

4. Connected services

Each member connects the organization’s CRM, and optionally their own Stripe account, by signing in to that service. Hints then acts only as that member, with that member’s own permissions in the connected service; it never uses another member’s or the owner’s access.

  • CRM. Hints reads and, after confirmation, changes records through the CRM’s official connection. What Hints can change also depends on that CRM: for example, it cannot delete records in Pipedrive other than activities, or in HubSpot other than a single task.

  • Stripe (optional). Hints reads your Stripe data to answer questions about payments, invoices and subscriptions. It cannot change anything in Stripe.

  • Your accounts, your terms. Your use of each connected service stays subject to that service’s own terms. You confirm you are allowed to connect it and to let Hints process its data.

  • Disconnecting. A member can disconnect at any time in the web app; the owner can change the organization’s CRM. Hints then deletes the stored access to that service.

5. Changes to your data

Hints reads your CRM to answer you, and changes it only through a plan you confirm.

  • Confirmation (MANUAL, the default). Before any change, Hints shows the plan: what it will create, update or delete, and in which records. Nothing changes until you confirm it in your messenger. A plan expires if you do not answer, and you can cancel it or stop a running request with /stop.

  • AUTO. You can let Hints make simple changes without asking, such as one new or updated record. Deletions, bulk changes, changes to an existing record’s owner or links, and other changes Hints treats as sensitive always ask, even in AUTO. You can switch AUTO off at any time.

  • One attempt. Hints sends each confirmed change once. If it cannot tell whether a change went through (for example after a network failure), it tells you and does not repeat it, so you can check the record yourself.

You are responsible for the changes you confirm or allow through AUTO. Check plans carefully, especially deletions.

6. AI output

Hints uses AI models to understand your messages, voice notes and CRM records, and to write answers and planned changes. AI output can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, even when it sounds certain.

  • Check answers before you rely on them, and check every planned change before you confirm it.

  • Hints shows what it will change in plain words and the records it will touch; it does not act on a plan you have not confirmed, except within AUTO (section 5).

  • Hints does not send messages to your contacts, take payments, or make changes your CRM connection does not allow. Some kinds of change are not available for some CRMs; Hints tells you when it cannot do something.

You are responsible for how you use Hints’ output, including any decision you make with it.

7. Acceptable use

You and your organization’s users must not use Hints to:

  • break the law, or infringe anyone’s rights, including privacy and data protection rights;

  • send spam, bulk or unsolicited messages, or messages to people who have not agreed to receive them;

  • process data you are not allowed to process, or access CRM records or accounts you are not authorised to use;

  • probe, overload, reverse engineer or work around Hints’ security, usage limits or confirmation steps;

  • share your sign-in, invitation links or messenger links with people outside your organization;

  • make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on people (for example credit, employment or insurance decisions) based only on Hints’ output;

  • use Hints from, or for anyone in, a country or territory under comprehensive sanctions, or for anyone on a sanctions list.

We may suspend access that breaks these rules (section 11).

8. Plans, trial and billing

Item

Terms

Trial

50 requests per organization, once. Leaving, rejoining or deleting the organization does not reset it.

Paid plan

USD 10 per active member per month, or USD 84 per active member per year. Billed in advance through Stripe and renewing automatically.

Requests

Each paid member adds 300 requests a month to a pool the organization shares; on the yearly plan, 3,600 requests for the year, all available from its start. There are no automatic overage charges.

Team size

No limit on the number of members. Invited people are not billed until they sign in.

What counts as a request. A request is used only when Hints’ full reply reaches your messenger. Requests that end in a technical failure, are cancelled or stopped, or whose change you decline or let expire are not counted. /start, /help, /balance and confirmation replies are free.

Payment. The owner pays by card through Stripe’s checkout; Hints never sees card details. If a payment fails, new requests pause until it succeeds. Prices exclude taxes, which are added where required. We will email the owner at least 30 days before a price change.

Cancelling and refunds. The owner can cancel at any time in the web app. Cancelling stops the next renewal, and Hints keeps working until the end of the paid period. Fees are not refunded for partial periods, except where the law requires; contact ask@hints.so if you think you were charged in error.

9. Your content and data

“Your content” is what your team sends Hints (messages, voice notes, forwarded messages) and the data Hints reads from or writes to your connected services.

  • You own it. You give us permission to use your content only to provide, secure and support Hints for you, including sending it to the service providers listed in the Privacy Policy.

  • No training. We do not use your content to train AI models. Our AI model provider processes it only to answer your requests (see the Privacy Policy).

  • Your responsibility. You confirm you have the rights and any notices or consents needed for the content you give Hints, including personal data of your contacts and of people whose messages you forward.

  • Personal data. For personal data in your content, we act as your processor: we process it only to provide Hints as these Terms describe and on your organization’s instructions. The Privacy Policy explains the rest.

  • Usage data. We may use pseudonymous usage data that does not identify you or your content to run and improve Hints.

10. Third-party services and availability

Hints depends on services we do not control: your messenger, your CRM, Stripe, and the AI and hosting providers listed in the Privacy Policy. If one of them changes, limits or stops its service, Hints may stop working for the affected part, and we are not responsible for that.

We work to keep Hints available but do not guarantee uptime. We may pause Hints for maintenance, preferably with notice. Mentions of other companies’ products are for compatibility only; Hints is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

11. Suspension, termination and your data afterwards

  • By you. The owner can cancel the plan, remove members, or delete the organization once they are its only member. A member can leave at any time; leaving disconnects their CRM and messengers.

  • By us. We may suspend or end access that breaks these Terms or the law, puts Hints or others at risk, or goes unpaid. Where we reasonably can, we will warn the owner first and give them time to fix it. We may also end Hints for everyone with at least 60 days’ notice.

  • Your data afterwards. When paid access ends, we keep your organization’s workspace for 30 days so you can resume. After that, we delete chat history, assistant memory and the assistant’s files. Connections to your CRM and Stripe stay until you disconnect them, so you can resume; the rest is kept as the Privacy Policy describes. Records in your CRM are yours and are not deleted by Hints.

Sections 6, 9, 12 and 13 continue after these Terms end.

12. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

Hints is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not promise that Hints will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that AI output will be accurate.

To the extent the law allows:

  • neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data;

  • each party’s total liability under these Terms is limited to the fees your organization paid Hints in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim;

  • these limits do not apply to your payment obligations, a party’s fraud or wilful misconduct, or liability that cannot be limited by law.

You are responsible for reviewing changes before you confirm them (section 5). We are not liable for changes made to your CRM as you confirmed or allowed them, or for actions of the CRM or messaging providers.

13. Changes, governing law and contact

  • Changes. We may update these Terms. For material changes we will email the organization’s owner at least 30 days before they take effect. Using Hints after that date means your organization accepts them.

  • Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, and the state and federal courts in San Francisco, California have exclusive jurisdiction, except where consumer or other mandatory law gives you other rights.

  • Other terms. These Terms, any order form and any Data Processing Addendum we sign with your organization are the whole agreement about Hints. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent; we may transfer them with our business.

  • Contact. Hintsflow Inc., 2261 Market Street, Apt 4640, San Francisco, CA, United States. Email ask@hints.so or use https://hints.so/contact.