Scoutary Privacy Policy
Effective September 21, 2026
This policy applies specifically to the Scoutary browser extension (“the extension”) and its dashboard at scoutary.ai (together, “Scoutary”). “We” and “us” refer to the Scoutary team that publishes them. It describes every category of data we handle, why we handle it, how long we keep it, and every party it is shared with.
Contact for any privacy question or request: [email protected].
1. Summary
- Scoutary monitors only the pages and page blocks you explicitly add. It never crawls, indexes, or reads pages you did not add, and it collects no browsing history.
- Scoutary reads only. It never posts, replies, submits, purchases, or changes anything on any site on your behalf.
- The reading happens in your own browser, using the sessions you are already signed into. You never give Scoutary a password, cookie or API key for any site you monitor.
- What Scoutary reads — your watch list, the snapshots, the extracted values and their history — is stored in your Scoutary account on our servers, so that it is available on every browser you sign into and to the teammates you share a team with. Section 2 lists it in full.
- We do not sell or rent your data, do not use it for advertising, do not use it to determine creditworthiness, do not use it to train AI models, and do not use it for any purpose unrelated to Scoutary’s single purpose.
2. Data stored in your Scoutary account
Scoutary requires an account, and the following is stored on our servers under that account. Where your account belongs to a team, other members of that team can see it.
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Your account identifier and the email address of your Scoutary account | To authenticate you and to determine which features your plan includes |
| Your watch list: the address and title of each page you added, and which block of it you selected | To re-check the right block on the right page |
| Content snapshots of the selected blocks and the values extracted from them, with history | To show you what changed — deltas, new items, and text diffs |
| Topics you follow, the items discovered for them, their scores, labels and your read / dismissed state | To surface new content matching what you follow, once each |
| Screenshots of discovered items, and copies of the images inside them, when you turn screenshots on for a topic | Because the originals expire or block off-site loading within days |
| Your settings: check frequency, notification channels and the credentials you entered for them, rules and thresholds | To run Scoutary the way you configured it, including when you are away |
You can delete any of it at any time by removing the watches and topics in the dashboard. Deleting a watch or topic deletes its snapshots, history and screenshots with it. To delete the account itself, email [email protected].
3. Data that stays on your device
The extension keeps the following in your browser’s local storage. It is not synced by us and is not transmitted to us:
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Run state: the task currently in progress, the tab pool, per-site pacing counters | To carry out a check without disturbing your browsing |
| An outbound queue of observations not yet accepted by the server | So nothing is lost if you close the browser mid-check |
| Sign-in state | To keep you signed in |
| Your interface language and your diagnostics preference | To run Scoutary the way you configured it |
| A random installation identifier generated on your device | To rate-limit and de-duplicate diagnostic reports (Section 4.5) |
Uninstalling the extension permanently deletes all of it. It does not delete the account data of Section 2, which you remove from the dashboard.
4. Data that leaves your device
4.1 Account sign-in
Scoutary authenticates you against our servers and receives an access token. Your account identifier and the email address of your Scoutary account are transmitted to and stored on Scoutary’s servers, to authenticate you, to determine which features your plan includes, and to enforce per-account usage limits. Scoutary never asks for or handles your password.
Recipient: Scoutary.
4.2 What the extension observes
When a check runs, the extension reads the block you selected and submits the result — the extracted values, the text of the block, the item’s title, author, link and timestamp, and, for topics with screenshots turned on, the image of the item — to Scoutary’s servers, where it is stored as described in Section 2 and compared against the previous check.
It submits only what the watch or topic you created covers. It does not submit the rest of the page, other tabs, or pages you did not add.
Recipient: Scoutary.
4.3 AI assistance
Scoutary uses AI only to help you set up and rank what you already asked it to watch: to identify which value in the block you selected is worth tracking and to name it, to turn a rule you typed into a condition, to score how relevant a discovered item is to a topic you follow, to label it, and to summarize it. AI never posts, replies, or acts on any site for you.
These requests go to Scoutary’s servers, which pass them to a third-party AI model provider acting as our processor — currently Google (Gemini models) and OpenAI. Each request contains only what that task needs, truncated in length: the title of the page you are watching and the text of the block you selected; the candidate values found in that block; the topic you typed together with the titles and short snippets of the items being scored; and, for the setup assistant, the visible text and link structure of the page you are adding.
It does not contain your credentials, your browsing history, or content from pages you did not add. Neither we nor our model providers use this content to train models, and we retain it only as long as needed to return a response.
Recipients: Scoutary, and our third-party AI model providers, Google and OpenAI (see Section 5).
4.4 Page layout metadata
Websites change their markup, so Scoutary can record how a given kind of page on a given site is laid out and reuse that for future checks, including for other users watching the same kind of page. When it does, it sends Scoutary’s servers structural metadata only: the site’s domain, the URL path pattern (never the query string or fragment), the identifiers of the page elements involved, one sample address of the page it was derived from, and your installation identifier.
This describes a public site’s layout. It does not include your snapshots, your extracted values, your history, your topics, or the content of what you are monitoring.
Recipient: Scoutary.
4.5 Diagnostic reports
To find and fix failures — a check that could not read a page, a site that refused the request, a storage or notification failure, an uncaught error — Scoutary sends error and health events to our diagnostic logging service. An event may contain the event type and severity, an error code and stack trace, the address of the page involved with its query string and fragment stripped, the page title, the extension version, your interface language, your browser’s user-agent string, your installation identifier, and your account identifier.
These reports do not contain the content of the pages you monitor, your snapshots, your topics, or your notification credentials. Text taken from a page is included only if you separately enable the “include page text in diagnostics” setting, which is off by default.
You can turn diagnostics off entirely in Scoutary’s settings.
Recipients: Scoutary, the cloud infrastructure providers that host our servers and logs on our behalf, and Cloudflare, which handles network delivery.
5. Data that leaves our servers
5.1 Notifications you configure
Browser (system) notifications are generated locally by the extension and are not transmitted anywhere.
If you add a notification channel — email, Feishu, Telegram, or a custom webhook — then when something you watch changes, our servers send that channel a message containing the card title, a label for the page type, the link to the watched page, and the values or text that changed, using the token, webhook address or email address you stored in your settings.
Recipients: the messaging service you chose — for example Feishu or Telegram — or the operator of your custom webhook, and for email our transactional email provider. Apart from email these are third parties selected by you and governed by their own privacy policies. Scoutary sends nothing to any channel you did not add.
5.2 Programs you authorize
You can create an API key, or connect an AI assistant over our hosted MCP endpoint, to read your own Scoutary data from outside the dashboard. Anything you can see in the dashboard is then readable by the program holding that key, and by nobody else. Keys are shown once, can be revoked at any time, and are scoped to the team they were created in. You can also export any card to an Excel file from the dashboard.
Recipients: whatever program you gave the key to — chosen by you, not by us.
6. Parties your data may be shared with
The complete list:
- Scoutary — our own servers, for the purposes described above.
- Google (Gemini models) and OpenAI — our AI model providers, acting as our processors for AI features (Section 4.3), each under its own API terms, which bar the use of API content to train their models. They may process requests on servers outside your own country or region; by using Scoutary’s AI features you consent to that transfer.
- Cloudflare, for network delivery in front of our endpoints.
- Our cloud infrastructure providers — the hosting, object storage, database and logging services that run our servers on our behalf, under contract and solely on our instructions. They hold the account data of Section 2 and the diagnostic reports of Section 4.5.
- The notification services you configure yourself — Feishu, Telegram, or your custom webhook (Section 5.1) — chosen by you, not by us.
- Any program you issue an API or MCP key to (Section 5.2) — chosen by you, not by us.
- Others, where required by law — we may disclose information where compelled by applicable law or legal process, or where necessary to protect the rights, safety, or property of Scoutary, our users, or the public.
We may also transfer data as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets; if that happens we will notify you, and the data will remain subject to this policy or a successor policy no less protective.
We never share your data with data brokers, advertising networks, or analytics resellers, and we never sell or rent it.
7. Retention and deletion
- Monitoring data — watches, topics, snapshots, history, screenshots — is retained while you keep the watch or topic. Removing one deletes it and everything it collected. Deleting your account deletes all of it.
- Account data — your email address, account identifier, plan entitlements and usage counters — is retained while your account exists. Email [email protected] to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your account data, and we will act on it within the period required by applicable law.
- Local run state stays on your device until you uninstall the extension.
- Page layout metadata describes public sites and is retained for reuse; on request we will delete the entries derived from your installation.
- Diagnostic reports are kept only as long as needed to investigate the underlying problem, then deleted.
8. Security
All transmission uses HTTPS. Notification credentials are stored on our servers so that notifications can be delivered while your browser is closed; they are never exposed through the dashboard or the API once saved. On our servers we apply access controls and encryption at rest. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your personal information we will notify you and the relevant regulators as required by law.
9. Children
Scoutary is not directed to children under 13, or under the minimum age in your jurisdiction, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. Material changes will be reflected in the effective date above and, where significant, announced in the extension or by email. Continuing to use Scoutary after an update means you accept the updated policy.
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