Tell us what matters.
Choose the practices you care about, from personal data sales to AI training. Your concerns set the rules.
YOUR PRIVACY. YOUR CALL.
Their policies.
Your boundaries.
Know what a website’s privacy policy means for you—before you give it your trust.
PolicyScout checks the fine print against your privacy concerns, so you can browse with your eyes open.
A browser extension for more informed browsing.
PolicyScout.INTERACTIVE EXAMPLE
Worth a closer look.
2 policies conflict with your preferences
example.comPolicy overview
AI & model trainingContent may be used to train models
ConflictThird-party sharingData shared with advertising partners
ConflictBiometric dataNo collection stated in this example
No conflictRead the policy evidence
“We may use submitted content to improve and train our models.”
“We share identifiers with advertising partners.”
Illustrative excerpts from a fictional policy. These are not findings about a real website. Your rules. A clearer decision.
A policy signal, not a guess at what you care about.
Set your boundariesSee the evidenceStay in control
A HEADS-UP, RIGHT WHEN IT MATTERS
Browse normally.
Know a little more.
A site opens. PolicyScout checks your rules.
You see what deserves your attention.
Navigate to a website
Product concept · Fictional website and policy · No browsing activity is recorded
LESS FINE PRINT. MORE CLARITY.
A little context.
A better choice.
You shouldn’t need to read every privacy policy to understand where you stand.
We check the policy.
PolicyScout looks for relevant language and compares the website’s stated practices with your preferences.
You make the call.
See a warning and review the evidence. Or enable blocking when a policy crosses your boundaries.
PERSONAL BY DESIGN
Privacy isn’t
one-size-fits-all.
Pick the signals you want to watch. Leave the rest. PolicyScout is built around your priorities.
Try the example.
Toggle a concern to update the report above.
Your privacy concerns
EXAMPLE SETTINGS3 concerns selected · Demo only; no settings are saved.
BUILT FOR EVERYDAY BROWSING
Useful signals.
Without the noise.
A head start on popular sites
Pre-crawled policies and cached results mean familiar websites don’t need to be analyzed from scratch.
Evidence you can inspect
Relevant policy passages give each signal context, so you can understand the reason behind a warning.
A warning—or a boundary
Choose a heads-up while browsing, or opt into blocking access when a policy conflicts with your preferences.
THOUGHTFUL UNDER THE HOOD
Privacy deserves
a considered design.
Local processing where it helps.
Shared policy knowledge where it counts.
For an unfamiliar site, the extension finds the privacy policy and uses lightweight local inference to identify relevant passages. The backend makes the final determination and caches the result for future checks.
A closer look at the architectureIn your browserFind the policy. Identify relevant passages.
LOCALOn the backendDetermine policy signals. Cache the result.
SERVERBack in your handsCompare with your rules. Warn or block.
YOUWhat the architecture does—and what a policy can tell you
Popular sites are pre-crawled, with results cached for reuse. Unknown sites use local passage selection followed by backend analysis; this is not an entirely on-device service. PolicyScout evaluates what a policy says, not what a company actually does. Missing or ambiguous language should be shown as uncertain, not treated as a guarantee of privacy.
A MORE INTENTIONAL INTERNET
Know the policy.
Keep the choice.
PolicyScout is coming to your browser.
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