Privacy

What we collect

We keep four kinds of counts so we can see which pages and dealer comparisons are useful.

• Page views. Aggregate counts of which pages are visited, where visitors came from (for example a search engine) and from which country. This is measured by Vercel Web Analytics, which does not use cookies and does not follow you from one site to another.
• Page speed. Aggregate performance metrics (how quickly pages load and respond, with the page address, browser type and country) are measured by Vercel Speed Insights. It does not use cookies and does not follow you from one site to another.
• Anonymous interactions. When you switch between bank and card prices, or open a dealer's shipping and payment terms, we record that it happened, for which dealer and product, on what kind of page, and whether the screen was a phone-sized or larger one.
• Clicks to dealers. A dealer's name on MapleScout links to that dealer through our own address (/go). We record the dealer, the product, the position the offer held in the list, which price view (bank or card) you were on, the kind of page, and the screen size. Then we send you on to the dealer.

What we do not collect

• No cookies and no local-storage identifiers, so there is no cookie banner to accept.
• No IP addresses, browser or device identifiers, names, email addresses or accounts in our visit and click records, which hold none of these. The page-view tool reports only totals, such as how many visits came from a phone.
• Nothing that links one visit, or one click, to the next. Each event is a separate, anonymous row.

Anonymous interaction and click records are kept for 13 months and then deleted automatically. Your theme choice (light or dark) is remembered in your own browser and never sent to us.

Forms: request a dealer and list your store

These are the only places we ask for personal data, and both are optional. We use it for nothing but what is described here.

• Request a dealer. The dealer name is required. A website, a product and an email address are optional. The email address is used only to reply about your request, for example to tell you when the dealer is added. The dealer name, website and product fields are free text, so they may hold whatever you choose to type, including personal data, and we treat them as personal data too. We keep the request for 12 months; after that the email address and all of that text are deleted (the dealer name is replaced by the website's domain, if you gave one). What stays is the date, the status and that domain, as a count of what shoppers ask for. The same text is deleted on request at any time, like everything else on this page.
• List your store. We keep the business name, website, contact name, business email, province, payment methods, the optional feed contact, and your tick of the permission box with the date and time and the exact wording you agreed to. That record is evidence of your permission, so we keep it for as long as we rely on it, and delete it on request.
• MapleScout updates. A separate box, never ticked for you. If you tick it you consent to receive occasional messages from us about new dealers and features; we store the date and time you ticked it. You can withdraw at any time by writing to us, and we then stop.

We do not store your IP address, browser details or any cookie with a form. To slow down automated abuse, the server briefly counts submissions in memory (a few minutes, never written to disk or the database) and the forms carry a hidden field that people never see. Form data is stored in our database (Neon) and is not sold or shared.

To see, correct or delete what you sent us, or to withdraw consent, write to hello@maplescout.ca. Say which email address you used and we will delete it. If you sent a dealer request without an email address, tell us the dealer name you typed and roughly when, and we will delete that request.

Hosting logs

MapleScout is hosted on Vercel, which keeps its own request and function logs for running the service: the time, address requested, status, browser name and the region that served it. They are outside our database and we do not use them for analytics. On Vercel's Hobby plan, which MapleScout uses, runtime logs are kept for 1 hour (1 day on Pro, 3 days on Enterprise, 30 days with Observability Plus), as documented in Vercel's runtime logs documentation.

Dealers

Once you click through to a dealer you are on their site, under their own privacy policy. We do not pass them anything about you.

Questions

If this changes, this page changes first. Questions can go to hello@maplescout.ca.