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Privacy

This page explains what this website stores, why, and for how long. Only two things store anything: asking for the free book, and using the live demo of Scout. The rest of the site stores nothing about you.

If you ask for the free book

• Your first name, surname and email address, and whether you said yes to occasional emails about new chapters and books.
• When you asked, and how many times you downloaded the book.

These are used to give you the download links and to let the author know who is reading. You'll only get emails if you ticked the box, and you can ask to stop at any time. Your details are kept until you ask for them to be deleted. They are only seen by the author, and are never shared or sold.

What the live demo stores

Watching a saved question stores nothing about you and sets no cookie. When the demo lets you ask your own question, it stores:

• Your question and Scout's report, so you can read the report and see it in your history.
• A one-way code made from your internet address, today's date and a secret key. It is used only to count how many questions each visitor asks per day. Only someone with the secret key could work out which address made it, and it is wiped once the day is over. Your internet address itself is never stored.
• One cookie holding a random ID, so the demo can show you your own questions and nobody else's. There are no other cookies, no analytics and no tracking.

Who can see your questions

Only you can see your questions and reports on the demo. The author, who runs the demo, can see the stored questions and reports.

Who else is involved

To answer your question, Scout sends it to Anthropic's Claude API, and Scout's researchers search the web. The demo is hosted on Railway, which keeps standard access logs, including internet addresses, as almost all web hosts do.

How long the demo keeps things

Questions and reports are deleted automatically after 30 days. The daily codes are wiped the day after they are made. The cookie expires 30 days after your last visit.

Please don't include personal details

The demo is for trying Scout out. Don't type anything into it that you wouldn't want stored.

Questions

This website and the demo are run by Chris Haworth. To ask about your data, to stop emails, or to have your details deleted, message Chris on LinkedIn.