Privacy
What Scout collects, what it shares, and what it never touches.
Draft. This describes what the software actually does, in plain language. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer and is not a finished legal document.
The short version
Scout records what retailers are selling and for how much — prices, stock and seller identity on product pages you visit at Target, Walmart and Amazon. Those readings are shared with everyone using Scout, because that is what makes it work: you get told about restocks your own browser never looked at.
Scout does not record your browsing beyond those product pages, and never touches your retailer login or your payment method.
What the extension reads
The extension only runs on product pages at the retailers it covers — Target/p/, Walmart /ip/, Amazon /dp/ — plus TCGplayer, eBay and Cardmarket product pages for price tracking. It does not run on search pages, category pages, your cart, your account, or any other site. Nothing is read from a page outside that list because the extension is never loaded there.
What is sent to PackFresh
For each product page: the retailer, the listing id, the product title, the price, whether it is in stock, who is selling it, and the time. Also which node sent it, so contributions can be credited to the person running it.
Your watches — the products you are chasing, your price limit, your quantity — are stored against your account so alerts can reach you.
What is shared with other people
Observations are shared. Your watches are not. A reading that a product is back in stock at $49.99 is available to everyone; the fact that you are watching it, and the price you are willing to pay, is not shown to anyone else.
The contributor leaderboard shows a username — or the part of an email before the @ — beside a count of readings contributed. It never shows what somebody watches or buys.
What Scout never has
Your retailer login. Fetch runs in your own browser, in your own signed-in session. PackFresh never receives those credentials and could not use them if it did.
Your payment method. Scout adds items to your cart and stops. It cannot check out, and no card details pass through PackFresh.
Who you are, to us
Sign-in is handled by Auth0. Scout stores the resulting account id, your email address and your display name. Passwords are never seen by PackFresh — Auth0 handles authentication and Scout only ever receives a token.
Notifications
Push alerts are delivered through ntfy on a topic derived from your account id. The topic name is the only secret protecting it, which is why it is long and random — anyone who has it can subscribe to your alerts, so treat it as a password. Email alerts go through our email provider.
Turning it off
Remove a watch and it stops being tracked for you. Sign out in the extension and it stops contributing readings. Uninstall it and nothing further is collected. To have your account and its watches deleted, email us and we will do it.
Observations already contributed are anonymous measurements of what a shop was selling and remain part of the shared record.