Privacy policy

Scouter Browser Defense is a browser extension that warns you about "ClickFix" paste-and-run command scams and credential-phishing pages. It is built to protect your privacy, not to collect your data. This policy covers the extension only; it is separate from our website privacy policy.

What we collect

Nothing. Best Cyber Solutions LLC operates no servers for this extension, receives no data from it, and uses no analytics, tracking, or advertising.

How the extension processes data, on your device

Page content. To detect a scam, the extension reads the current page's text and structure locally, in your browser. This never leaves the page.

Clipboard. When a web page writes text to your clipboard, the extension checks whether that text looks like a command, so it can warn you before you paste it. It inspects this transiently and in the page only; it is never stored and never transmitted. The extension does not request clipboard-read permission and does not read clipboard contents you copy yourself.

Local settings. A count of threats caught, and—only if you choose to pair with your own Scouter agent—the agent's local URL and pairing token, are saved on your device via the browser's extension storage. They are not synced to us.

Network

In its standalone mode, the extension makes no network requests. If you explicitly pair it with a Scouter agent running on your own computer, it sends a flagged page's domain, IP, or URL to that agent over localhost only (127.0.0.1 / localhost) to get a threat-intel verdict and, at your request, block a malicious site. That communication stays on your own device or network and never reaches us.

Third parties

None. No data is shared with or sold to any third party.

Your choices

You can unpair the agent at any time from the extension's Options, remove the extension to delete its local storage, and decline the optional localhost host permission.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected].