Last Updated: December 20, 2025
Smart Buys ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how our Chrome Extension handles your data, including technical logs and affiliate links.
Smart Buys does not require an account, and we do not collect your name, email address, or phone number. We process data solely to provide price comparisons.
Browsing Activity: When you visit a supported product page (e.g., on Amazon), the extension sends the product URL to our secure server to identify the item.
Location Data: We may process your ZIP code (detected from your delivery settings) to calculate accurate shipping costs. This is transmitted securely to our proxy and then to eBay for calculation purposes only.
We use trusted third-party cloud infrastructure to operate the extension securely.
Cloudflare (Infrastructure Provider): We use Cloudflare to host our API and protect against security threats (such as DDoS attacks). For security and operational stability, Cloudflare automatically collects and stores server logs for every request. These logs include:
Your IP Address
Request URL (which indicates the product you are viewing)
Timestamp and User Agent
Note: These logs are used for security monitoring and debugging. We do not use this data to build personal profiles of your activity.
eBay APIs: Data (product queries) is sent to eBay to retrieve real-time pricing and availability.
Smart Buys is free to use because we are supported by affiliate commissions.
Affiliate Links: If you click a "View Deal" or "Buy Now" button in our extension, you may be redirected through an affiliate network .
Cookies: These networks may place a cookie on your device to track the referral so we can receive a commission if you make a purchase.
Responsibility: This tracking is handled entirely by the third-party merchant/network, not by Smart Buys directly.
We do not maintain a dedicated user database or create shopping profiles. However, data is retained in the following ways:
Temporary Logs: As mentioned in Section 2, the infrastructure logs (which contain your IP address and the specific product URLs you accessed) are retained temporarily by Cloudflare.
Retention Period: These logs are typically retained for a limited period (e.g., up to 7 days or as defined by Cloudflare's retention policy) for security analysis, after which they are deleted.
If you have questions about this policy or our data practices, please contact us at: smartbuys.dev@gmail.com