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Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 16, 2026

This policy describes how TreasureScout (the “Site”, “we”, “us”) collects, uses, retains, discloses and licenses information. It applies as of the date above and may be updated; continued use of the Site reflects acceptance of the current version.

Read the sections on AI training and on disclosure and sale before using the Site. They describe broad rights over the information you submit. If you are not comfortable with them, do not submit information to the Site.

What we collect

• Chat content. Everything you type into the Scout chat, and everything the Scout replies, including any personal, financial or business information you choose to include.
• Contact and alert details. Your email address, the interests and markets you select, the criteria of any watch you create, and any message you write.
• Usage and device data. Pages viewed, listings opened, filters and sorts applied, referring pages, approximate location derived from IP address, IP address, user agent, device and browser characteristics, and timestamps.
• Analytics events collected through Google Analytics 4, which sets cookies and similar identifiers.
• Server logs generated in the course of delivering the Site.

Chat is transmitted, stored and reviewed

The Scout chat is not private and is not local to your browser. Your messages are transmitted to third-party model providers to generate a response, stored by us indefinitely, mirrored into internal team channels, and read by people who work on the Site.

Do not enter passwords, payment details, government identifiers, health information, or anything else you would not want retained, reviewed, disclosed or licensed.

How we use information

We use the information we collect for any lawful purpose, including:

• Operating, securing, debugging and improving the Site;
• Responding to you and sending the alerts you asked for;
• Measuring and analysing usage;
• Developing new products, features, datasets and services, including ones unrelated to the Site;
• Training, fine-tuning, evaluating, benchmarking and otherwise developing artificial-intelligence and machine-learning models, as described below.

AI training

We use the information described above — including the full text of chat conversations, submitted messages, watch criteria and usage data — to train, fine-tune, evaluate and improve artificial-intelligence and machine-learning models. This includes models built by us and models built by third parties with whom we share or license data.

Content used for these purposes may be retained indefinitely and may remain embedded in the parameters or outputs of a trained model after the underlying record is deleted. Deleting your data does not and cannot remove its influence from a model that has already been trained.

Disclosure, licensing and sale

We may disclose, share, license, rent, sell or otherwise transfer the information we collect — including chat content, submitted content and usage data, in identifiable, pseudonymised, de-identified or aggregated form — to third parties for any lawful purpose, including their own product development and AI-model training, and including for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Recipients may include:

• Service providers and processorsthat operate the Site — currently including Vercel (hosting), Supabase (database), OpenRouter and the model providers it routes to (including DeepSeek) for generating chat responses, Slack (internal review of conversations), and Google Analytics (measurement);
• Data licensees and purchasers, including AI developers, research organisations and commercial data buyers;
• Acquirers in connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganisation or sale of assets, in which case information is among the assets transferred;
• Law enforcement and others where we believe disclosure is required by law or appropriate to protect rights, safety or property.

Model providers that generate chat responses operate under their own terms and may process your messages outside your country of residence, including in jurisdictions with different data-protection standards.

De-identified and aggregated data

We may de-identify, pseudonymise or aggregate information so that it no longer reasonably identifies you. We treat that data as non-personal and may use, retain, license and sell it without restriction and without further notice to you, including after you delete your account data.

Your licence to us

By submitting content to the Site — including chat messages, watch criteria, listing submissions and any other text — you grant TreasureScout a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, publish, distribute, license, sell and otherwise exploit that content for any purpose, including AI training and the creation and sale of datasets. You represent that you have the rights necessary to grant this licence and that your content does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

Retention

We retain information indefinitely unless we choose to delete it or are required to delete it by law. Backups, archives and derived datasets may persist after deletion from active systems, and as noted above, model parameters derived from your content are not reversible.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, delete or restrict processing of information about you, to withdraw consent, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information or of certain profiling. We will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising a privacy right.

To make a request, or to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, contact us through the Scout with the subject “privacy request”. We will ask for information sufficient to locate your records — for chat, that is the conversation you want removed.

California residents: we sell and share personal information as those terms are defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act, and we may do so for cross-context behavioural advertising. You have the right to opt out. We honour Global Privacy Control signals where we detect them.

EEA and UK residents: where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time; where we rely on legitimate interests, you may object. Transfers outside your region are made under appropriate safeguards where required.

Analytics and tracking

The Site uses Google Analytics 4 to measure traffic and engagement, which sets cookies and may collect your IP address, device and browser information and pageview events. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or by blocking cookies for this site. Opting out of analytics does not opt you out of the collection, retention or use of chat content described above.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect information, but no system is completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to or stored by the Site.

Children

The Site is not directed to children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect information from them or sell their personal information. If a child has submitted information, contact us and we will remove it.

Changes to this policy

Updates are reflected in the “last updated” date above. For material changes we will take reasonable steps to make the change visible before it takes effect. Changes apply prospectively; content already used for training or already licensed to a third party is not withdrawn by a later change.

Disclaimers and terms

Your use of the Site is also governed by the Terms of Use and Disclaimer.

Questions

Privacy questions and requests can be sent through the Scout.