What we store, what we don't.

Your quiz answers

The ten answers you give in Discover live in your browser's local storage. They are used to score the catalog on your device and to prefill the quiz if you come back later.

When you visit /results, your core answer tokens: things like climate, projection, budget and what to avoid: are placed in the URL as short codes so the page can rank the catalog and so a link is shareable. Because they are in the URL, those tokens travel in a normal HTTP request and can appear in whatever request logs the hosting and database providers keep under their own policies. Assume the URL you see is what those providers see.

Your optional free-text note is deliberately not placed in the URL, sent to any ScentScout table or added to any request ScentScout makes. It is written to your browser's local storage only, and is shown on /results only when the local answers still match the ones in the URL. Copying a results link to a friend never surfaces your note.

Feedback

Feedback is anonymous and user-initiated. You choose to send it using the buttons on the results page or on a fragrance profile.

The site_feedback table contains only the following fields for each submission:

• the kind of feedback (results or catalog),
• for results feedback: whether it was helpful (yes / no) and, if not, a bounded reason from a short fixed list,
• for catalog feedback: the catalog fragrance ID being reported, a bounded reason from a short fixed list and an optional correction note (500 character cap),
• a server timestamp.

The feedback table does not contain your quiz answers, your free-text note, the result URL, search queries, IP address, user agent, referrer or any persistent cross-site identifier alongside feedback. Please don't include personal information in the optional correction note.

Public feedback access is insert-only. Submissions cannot be read back through the public API.

Analytics and tracking

ScentScout V1 adds no custom behavioral event tracking, no advertising pixels and no marketing analytics. It does not embed third-party trackers.

The hosting and database providers that run this site may keep operational and security logs: for example, ordinary HTTP access logs including request URLs, IP addresses and user agents: under their own policies. ScentScout does not read, join or profile users against those logs.

External search buttons open a neutral search on the target site (Amazon, FragranceX for availability; Fragrantica for reference research). What happens after you leave is up to that site.

Clearing your data

To wipe your saved quiz and any locally remembered feedback flags, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.