Privacy
Last updated 13 August 2026
The short version. There are no accounts, no cookies and no third-party trackers. The only personal information Scout holds is an email address, and only if you asked for a price alert. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers. Email scoutfindr@gmail.com and it's deleted.
What Scout stores
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address | Only if you set a price alert, so it can tell you when the price drops | Until you ask for it to be removed |
| The product you're watching and your target price | To know when to email you | Same as above |
| Search terms, with no identifier attached | To see which searches return nothing, so the tool can be improved | Kept, but not linked to any person |
| Which shop a click went to | To know which retailers are useful, and for commission tracking | Kept, but not linked to any person |
| Prices seen for products | To build the price history everyone sees | Kept — it's about products, not people |
What Scout does not do
- No cookies. The site sets none at all.
- No accounts or passwords. There's nothing to log in to.
- No third-party analytics. No Google Analytics, no Facebook pixel, no session recording, no advertising networks.
- No selling or renting data. Not to advertisers, not to anyone. There is no data set worth selling and it wouldn't be sold if there were.
- No profile building. Searches aren't tied to a person, so there's no history of "what you looked at" to build a profile from.
About your IP address
Your IP address is used briefly, in memory, to stop one person running thousands of searches and exhausting the service. It may also appear in temporary server logs, which is normal for any website. It isn't stored alongside your searches and isn't used to identify you.
Others involved
Two outside services are unavoidably part of how this works:
- The shopping data provider receives the words you searched for — not who you are — in order to return matching products.
- Product images are loaded from the shops' own image servers. Scout sends no referrer information with those requests.
When you click through to a shop, you're on their website under their privacy policy, not this one.
Price alert emails
If you set an alert, you'll get one email when the price hits your target. You won't get a newsletter, marketing, or anything you didn't ask for. Reply to any alert, or email the address below, and the alert and your address are removed.
Your rights
Depending on where you live — California's CCPA, Europe's GDPR, and similar laws elsewhere — you have the right to know what's held about you, to get a copy, and to have it deleted. Since the only personal thing Scout holds is an email address you gave it, all three requests are handled the same way: email scoutfindr@gmail.com and it's done.
Children
Scout isn't directed at children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has set an alert, email me and I'll remove it.
Security
Alert emails are stored on the server that runs Scout and aren't shared. That said, no small project can promise perfect security, so please don't send anything sensitive — Scout never needs more than an email address, and never asks for payment details, because it doesn't sell anything.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted on the page rather than made quietly.
Contact
scoutfindr@gmail.com — Scout is operated from the United States.