Privacy & Terms

How Scout handles data — and what using Scout means.

What Scout collects

Scout stores the minimum data required to enforce rate limits. For each scan:

✓ Domain name — the hostname you submitted (e.g. example.com). Never the full URL or any path.
✓ IP address — used to enforce the 1-scan-per-domain-per-day limit. Not linked to any identity.
✓ Timestamp — when the scan was performed.

Scan records are automatically deleted after 90 days.

What Scout does not collect

✓Full URLs or page paths of scanned sites
✓HTML content retrieved during scans
✓User accounts, cookies, or session data
✓Analytics, tracking, or third-party scripts
✓Scan results — reports are only shown in your browser and never stored

How scanning works

Scout fetches the homepage of the domain you submit using a standard HTTP request. It reads only what any browser would see: the HTTP response headers and the HTML of the homepage. No login bypass, no crawling, no port scanning. The scanned site sees a single request from Scout's server with the user agent Scout/1.0.

Terms of use

Scout is provided free of charge as a diagnostic tool. By using Scout you agree to:

·Only scan domains you own or have permission to audit.
·Not attempt to circumvent rate limits through automated means.
·Not use Scout results as the sole basis for security decisions — results are informational only.

Scout is provided "as is" without warranty. SS Data is not liable for decisions made based on Scout reports.

Contact

Scout is a free-time project by SS Data. Questions or concerns about privacy can be directed to SS Data via the main website.