Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 1, 2026 Last Updated: July 1, 2026

ScoutIQ LLC d/b/a ScoutIQ ("ScoutIQ," "we," "us," "our") built a product that runs on location data. That means we owe you a straight answer about what we collect, why, and what we will never do with it. This Policy is that answer.

This Policy covers huntingscoutiq.com, scoutiq.app, app.huntingscoutiq.com, the ScoutIQ mobile and web applications, and all related services (the "Service").

The short version

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Information you give us

1.2 Location information

This is the sensitive category. Here is exactly how it works.

We collect location only after you grant the corresponding permission on your device and in the app. We use a layered consent model, and each layer is a separate choice you can change at any time in Settings:

Specifically, we may collect: latitude and longitude, accuracy radius, altitude, heading, speed, timestamp, and the device permission state; the map areas you view, pan to, and zoom into (which is separate from where you physically are); derived stop and dwell information; and derived context such as elevation, slope, aspect, hunting unit, and land ownership for a given point.

We do not collect device GPS location before you create an account. We do not collect background location unless you explicitly enable it. We do not collect location while the app is closed and no recording is active.

Retention: "raw location pings" means the background telemetry stream, not the waypoints, tracks, logs, or photos you deliberately saved. Raw pings are automatically deleted after 90 days, and the things you saved are not touched. Aggregated, coarse-cell summaries (roughly a 150 meter grid) and your own saved waypoints and tracks persist until you delete them or delete your account.

1.3 Photos and trail camera images

If you upload a photo, we store the image file and any metadata embedded in it, which commonly includes GPS coordinates, date and time, and camera or phone model (EXIF data). We treat photo GPS coordinates as location data under this Policy. Photo location is never made public by us. If you share a photo into a public or shared area of the Service, we strip embedded GPS coordinates from the copy shown to others unless you explicitly choose to include them.

1.4 Information about other people in your uploads

Trail cameras and field photos sometimes capture other people, including other hunters, landowners, and passers-by. If you upload an image containing another person:

• We do not run facial recognition on your photos. We do not generate, store, or compare face templates, faceprints, or any other biometric identifier, and we do not permit our vendors to. If we ever add species or animal detection, it will be built to exclude human faces.
• We store the image as your User Content and do not analyze it to identify people.
• If you are pictured in an image someone else uploaded and you want it removed, email privacy@huntingscoutiq.com with enough detail for us to locate it. We will review and, where appropriate, remove it.
• Do not upload images of identifiable people to a public or shared area of the Service without their consent. That obligation is yours under our Terms.

1.5 Information collected automatically

1.6 Information from third parties

• Sign-in providers (Apple, Google): the identifiers and email you authorize them to share.
• Payment processor: subscription status, transaction results, and fraud signals.
• Advertising and analytics platforms (for example Meta, Google): aggregated campaign performance and, where you have not opted out, conversion signals tied to your interaction with our ads.
• Public and government data sources: land, terrain, weather, and wildlife data. This is about places, not about you.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information above to:

1. Provide the Service. Create and secure your account, authenticate you, sync your waypoints and tracks across devices, render maps, and compute the forecast for the place you are actually standing.
2. Generate forecasts and scores. Combine terrain, habitat, weather, pressure, and historical inputs into movement probabilities and confidence values.
3. Improve our models. Validate and refine forecasting, terrain classification, habitat scoring, and human-pressure modeling. Field observations and location contributions used for model improvement are aggregated across users at the map-cell level, not analyzed as individual movement histories for this purpose.
4. Improve the product. Understand which features get used, find bugs, measure performance, and prioritize work.
5. Communicate with you. Send account, security, billing, and service messages, respond to support requests, and send marketing as described in Section 7.
6. Market and grow. Measure campaign performance, run referral and community programs, and reach potential users. See Section 7 and Section 9.
7. Keep the Service safe. Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, scraping, credential sharing, account takeover, and violations of our Terms.
8. Comply with law. Meet legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations, and respond to valid legal process.

Automated decision-making. Our forecasts are automated model outputs, but they are informational. We do not use automated processing to make any decision that produces a legal effect or similarly significant effect on you.

3. What We Will Never Do

These are commitments, not descriptions of current practice we reserve the right to change quietly.

• We will never sell your personal information for money. We have not received and will not receive monetary consideration in exchange for your personal information.
• We will never sell, license, or transfer your precise location data to a data broker, advertiser, insurer, or location-data marketplace.
• We will never publish or expose your individual waypoints, tracks, harvest locations, or trail camera locations to other users, to the public, or in any product, map, or dataset, unless you deliberately share them.
• We will never use your location to enable another user to find you or your spots.
• We will never use your data to train a third party's commercial model.

The one thing we do that some laws call "sharing." We send hashed email addresses and conversion events (for example, "this person created an account") to Meta and Google so we can measure whether our ads work and reach similar audiences. Under the CCPA and the Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and Maryland privacy laws, that counts as sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising, even though we are paid nothing for it. Precise location, waypoints, tracks, photos, and harvest data are never included. You can opt out at any time using the Your Privacy Choices link in our footer, in Account Settings, or by sending a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser. We honor those opt-outs across web and app.

If we ever want to do something materially different with data we already hold, we will ask for your affirmative opt-in first. Not a policy update you never read.

4. Legal Bases (EEA, UK, and Switzerland)

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process personal data on these bases:

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

5. How We Share Information

We share personal information only in the situations below.

5.1 Service providers

We use vendors to run the Service. They may process your information only on our instructions and only to perform their function.

The named providers reflect our stack as of the Last Updated date and may change.

5.2 Aggregated and de-identified data

We may create and use aggregated or de-identified data, including regional usage statistics, model performance metrics, and coarse pressure and activity layers, and may share it publicly or with partners. No aggregated cell is published or shared unless it contains contributions from at least five distinct users, so a single person's spot never becomes a visible cell. This data cannot reasonably be used to identify you or to locate any individual waypoint. We commit to maintaining it in de-identified form and not attempting to re-identify it.

5.3 At your direction

If you share User Content publicly, with a group, or with another user, we share it as you directed.

5.4 Legal and safety

We may disclose information if we believe in good faith it is necessary to: comply with law, regulation, subpoena, warrant, court order, or other valid legal process; enforce our Terms; detect or prevent fraud, security, or technical issues; or protect the rights, property, or safety of ScoutIQ, our users, or the public, including in a life-threatening emergency.

Our stance on demands for your location. We will require valid legal process before disclosing individual location or waypoint data. Where we are legally permitted to notify you of a demand for your data, we will do so before responding, unless we are prohibited or there is an emergency involving risk of death or serious injury.

5.5 Corporate transactions

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction. Any acquirer remains bound by this Policy with respect to information collected before the change, unless you agree otherwise after notice.

6. Sensitive Personal Information

Precise geolocation is "sensitive personal information" under the California Consumer Privacy Act and comparable state laws.

We collect and use precise geolocation only to perform the Service you asked for (rendering your position, computing location-specific forecasts, and recording tracks and waypoints you create), for security and fraud prevention, and, where you have enabled the location_research scope, to improve our models in aggregated form.

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you, and we do not use it beyond the purposes permitted under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.121. You may nonetheless limit its use through Settings or by contacting us at privacy@huntingscoutiq.com.

7. Marketing Communications

7.1 Service messages. While you hold an account, we send messages required to operate it: verification, password reset, security alerts, billing, changes to our terms, and material service announcements. These are not marketing and are not opt-out.

7.2 Marketing consent at signup. When you create a ScoutIQ account, you consent to receive marketing and promotional email from us, including product updates, feature launches, season and forecast content, beta and research invitations, surveys, referral and community program messages, and offers. This consent is presented to you at signup and described in Section 5 of our Terms of Service.

7.3 Opting out. Every marketing email contains a working one-click unsubscribe link in the footer. You can also change your preferences in Account Settings, or email privacy@huntingscoutiq.com with "Unsubscribe" in the subject. We process opt-outs promptly and in every case within 10 business days, as required by the CAN-SPAM Act. Opting out of marketing does not close your account and does not stop Section 7.1 messages.

7.4 Text messages. We send marketing text messages only if you separately opt in by checking the SMS consent box and providing your mobile number. That checkbox is unchecked by default, is never bundled with account creation, and is never a condition of purchase. Reply STOP to any message to cancel. Message and data rates may apply.

7.5 Push notifications. Controlled by you in your device settings and in Account Settings.

7.6 EEA, UK, and Switzerland. If you are in one of these regions, we collect a separate, unbundled, affirmative opt-in for marketing at signup and do not rely on account creation as consent.

8. Data Retention

When you delete your account, we delete or de-identify your personal information within 30 days, except for records we must keep for legal, tax, fraud-prevention, or dispute-resolution purposes, and except for aggregated data that no longer identifies you. Residual copies may persist in encrypted backups for up to 90 days before rotation.

9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We and our providers use cookies, local storage, SDKs, pixels, and similar technologies to keep you logged in, remember preferences, measure usage, and evaluate advertising.

Your Privacy Choices. Use the Your Privacy Choices link in our website footer, or the privacy controls in Account Settings, to turn off analytics and advertising technologies. Your choice is stored per browser and, once you are signed in, applied to your account across devices.

Global Privacy Control. We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. If your browser sends GPC, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of sale and sharing for targeted advertising for that browser. Because we do not sell personal information, this primarily affects advertising cookies.

Do Not Track. There is no industry-accepted standard for responding to browser DNT signals, so we do not respond to DNT. We do honor GPC.

10. Your Privacy Rights

10.1 Everyone

Regardless of where you live, you can:

• Access and export your account data and User Content
• Correct inaccurate information in Account Settings
• Delete your location history with the "Delete my location history" control in Settings
• Withdraw location consent for any scope, at any time
• Unsubscribe from marketing
• Delete your account entirely

Use Account Settings, or email privacy@huntingscoutiq.com.

10.2 U.S. state privacy rights

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Maryland, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Minnesota, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Rhode Island, or another state with a comprehensive privacy law, you have the right to:

• Know and access the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected, the sources, the purposes, and the categories of recipients
• Delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to exceptions
• Correct inaccurate personal information
• Data portability, in a readily usable format
• Opt out of sale (we do not sell), opt out of sharing for targeted advertising (we do share limited hashed identifiers and conversion events for ad measurement, see Section 3, and you can turn this off), and opt out of profiling with legal or similarly significant effects (we do not engage in such profiling)
• Limit the use of sensitive personal information (see Section 6)
• Non-discrimination for exercising any of these rights

How to exercise. Submit a request through Account Settings, or email privacy@huntingscoutiq.com with "Privacy Request" in the subject line. We will verify your identity by confirming control of the email address on your account, and may ask for additional information for high-risk requests. We acknowledge your request within 10 business days and respond substantively within 45 days, and may extend once by another 45 days with notice.

Authorized agents. You may use an authorized agent. We will require written authorization and may require you to verify your own identity directly.

Appeals. If we deny your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision or emailing privacy@huntingscoutiq.com with "Privacy Appeal" in the subject. We will respond within 45 days with our decision and reasoning. If we deny the appeal, you may contact your state Attorney General. Colorado residents: the Colorado Attorney General's office is at coag.gov/file-complaint. California residents: you may also contact the California Privacy Protection Agency.

California "Shine the Light." We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

10.3 EEA, UK, and Swiss rights

You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, objection to processing based on legitimate interests, and withdrawal of consent. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority. Contact privacy@huntingscoutiq.com.

10.4 Nevada residents

Nevada residents may direct us not to sell certain personal information. We do not sell personal information, but you may submit a request to privacy@huntingscoutiq.com.

11. Security

We protect your information with measures including: encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest; hashed and salted password storage; row-level security policies enforced at the database layer, so one user's data is not reachable from another user's session; least-privilege access controls for our team; audit logging; and vendor security review.

No system is perfectly secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and you share information with us at your own risk. If we become aware of a breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you and the relevant authorities as required by law.

What you should do: use a unique password, enable multi-factor authentication where offered, keep your device locked, and tell us immediately at support@huntingscoutiq.com if you suspect unauthorized access.

12. Children's Privacy

The Service is for adults 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn we have collected it, we will delete it. If you believe a minor has given us information, contact privacy@huntingscoutiq.com.

We do not sell or share personal information of consumers under 16.

13. International Users and Transfers

The Service is operated from the United States and our providers are primarily located in the United States. If you access the Service from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, where privacy laws differ from those in your country.

Where required for transfers from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum, together with supplementary technical and organizational measures.

14. Third-Party Services and Links

The Service links to and integrates third-party sites and services. This Policy does not cover their practices. Review their privacy policies. We are not responsible for what they do with information you give them.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy. We will post the updated version with a new Effective Date. For material changes, including any change to how we use location data or to our commitments in Section 3, we will notify you by email or in-app notice before the change takes effect and, where the change would apply to data we already hold, we will ask for your affirmative consent.

16. Appendix: Statutory Categories of Personal Information

For readers who need this mapped to the categories used in California and other state privacy statutes. Every category below has been collected in the preceding 12 months.

We do not use or disclose personal information for purposes other than those listed above without giving you notice.

17. Contact Us

ScoutIQ LLC d/b/a ScoutIQ 2262 Deer Trail Creek Dr, Brighton, CO 80601

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