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Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 23, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how the Scout project (“Scout”, “we”, “us”, or “the project” — the maintainers who publish the Raven Scout repositories) handles information. It covers the Scout Claude Code plugin and the companion apps for macOS, iOS, and Android, as well as this project's website.
The short version
Scout is local-first, and we collect nothing. There is no Scout account, no Scout server, no
analytics, and no telemetry. The plugin runs as scheduled
Claude Code sessions on your own computer, and everything
it produces — your knowledge base, action items, logs, and configuration — is written to files on
your machine (by default, the ~/Scout/ folder) and to your own git history. Your data
never reaches us, because there is nowhere for it to go.
Because we never receive your data, there is nothing for us to sell, share, mine, or lose. The honest privacy story for Scout is one of architecture, not promises: the data stays where you are.
Who is responsible
Scout is an independent, unincorporated open-source project maintained by the Raven Scout contributors. We are not a registered company and we do not operate any hosted service. For data-protection purposes, you are the controller of your own data — Scout is a tool you run on your own infrastructure, under your own accounts. We are neither a controller nor a processor of that data, because it is never transmitted to us.
What each part of Scout does with data
The Scout plugin (the engine)
The plugin runs inside Claude Code on your machine. It reads from the tools you connect — for
example Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, Linear, GitHub, and meeting transcripts — using your own
credentials and connector authorizations, and it writes the results to local files in your Scout vault
(~/Scout/ by default).
To do its work, the plugin sends relevant content to Claude (Anthropic) for processing — this is inherent to how Claude Code works, and it happens under your own Claude Code / API configuration, governed by Anthropic's terms and privacy policy, not ours. It also reads from, and may write back to, the third-party tools you connect, each governed by that provider's own terms. We do not see, intercept, or receive any of this data. See “The data Scout reads from your tools” below.
Scout for macOS
The macOS app is a native interface over the files the plugin produces. It reads and writes the
~/Scout/ folder on your Mac and runs local commands (scoutctl, launchctl,
git) to manage your schedule and action items. It does not contain analytics or crash reporting,
does not create any account, and does not send your data to us or to any third party.
Scout for iOS
The iOS app reads a Scout vault folder that you select on your device — in practice, the vault inside your own iCloud Drive / Obsidian folder — using a security-scoped bookmark that stays on your device. Edits you make (marking items done, comments) are written back to the markdown files and sync between your devices via your iCloud, which is governed by Apple's terms. Notifications are generated locally on the device. The app has no Scout account and sends no data to us.
Scout for Android
The Android app reads your Scout action items and can capture device notifications to feed your phone's activity back into Scout. Specifically:
- Notification capture uses Android's
NotificationListenerService. When you enable it, the app stores captured notifications in a local database on your phone and forwards them over your local network to a bridge running on your own Mac, authenticated with a pairing secret. From there they are written into your Scout vault. This data goes only to your own paired computer — never to us or to any third-party server. Because notification content can be sensitive, this capture is something you turn on deliberately, and you can turn it off at any time in your system settings. - The app does not read SMS messages or health data. Those capabilities are not part of the current version.
- Push notifications (FCM) are dormant and disabled unless you supply your own Firebase configuration. In the default build, no push token is registered with Google.
- The app requests network access solely to reach the bridge on your local network.
The data Scout reads from your tools
This is the most important thing to understand: Scout's entire purpose is to read your work data and reason over it. When it runs, it sends relevant content from the tools you connect to Claude (Anthropic) so the model can cross-check and summarize it, and it reads from (and may update) those connected tools. All of this happens:
- on your machine,
- under your own accounts, API keys, and connector authorizations, and
- subject to the privacy policies of Anthropic and of each tool you connect (e.g. Slack, Google, GitHub, Linear).
We are not a party to any of it. To understand how your data is handled there, see Anthropic's Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of each service you connect.
This website
Our website (raven-scout.github.io) is a static informational site hosted on GitHub Pages.
It does not use cookies, analytics, tracking pixels, advertising, or third-party fonts, and it makes no
third-party network requests — fonts and styles are served from the site itself.
As with any website, the host (GitHub) may automatically log technical request data such as IP addresses to operate and secure the service. That processing is performed by GitHub under GitHub's Privacy Statement, not by us, and we do not access or retain it.
Your rights (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and similar laws)
Privacy laws such as the EU/UK GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights over your personal data — including the rights to access, correct, delete, port, and object to the processing of it.
Because we do not collect or hold any of your personal data, there is nothing in our possession to access, correct, export, or delete, and:
- We do not sell or share your personal information, and we never have.
- We do not use your data for advertising or profiling.
- We do not transfer your data internationally, because we do not receive it.
The data Scout works with lives in your files, your accounts, and your connected services. You exercise your rights there directly — by editing or deleting your local files and git history, and by using the privacy controls of Anthropic and of each tool you connect. If you have a question about this policy, you can contact us.
Children's privacy
Scout is a productivity tool intended for adults in a work context. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, including children under 16 (or under 13 where that is the applicable threshold).
Changes to this policy
If Scout's architecture ever changes in a way that affects privacy — for example, if a future hosted or sync service is introduced — we will update this policy and revise the “Last updated” date above before that change takes effect. Because every change is tracked in git, you can see the full history of this document in the repository.
Contact
Scout has no hosted support desk. For privacy questions or requests, open an issue at github.com/Raven-Scout/scout-plugin/issues, or, for sensitive or security-related matters, use GitHub Security Advisories as described in our Security Policy.