LEGALCHROME EXTENSIONPRIVACY

LODGEY SCOUT
PRIVACY

Last updated: April 18, 2026 · Applies to: Lodgey Scout Chrome extension

Lodgey Scout is a browser extension that shows after-tax cash-flow projections on Australian property listings. It runs locally in your browser. This page explains — in plain English — exactly what it reads, stores, sends, and what it never touches. It is separate from the main Lodgey privacy policy, which governs lodgey.io and the tax assistant.

01 — Where Scout runs

Scout only activates on four Australian property sites:

  • realestate.com.au
  • domain.com.au
  • homely.com.au
  • view.com.au

On every other site in the world, Scout does nothing. The Chrome manifest's host_permissions explicitly limits the extension to those four hosts — it is technically unable to read any other page.

02 — What Scout reads on those sites

When you open a supported listing page, Scout reads the structured listing data the site already publishes to the public DOM, and only those fields:

Property fields read

  • Address, suburb, state, postcode
  • Listing price (or price range) and listing type (sale/rent)
  • Property type, bedrooms, bathrooms, car spaces, land size
  • Year built, if present in the listing data
  • Site-provided rental estimate or suburb median rent, where present

What Scout never reads

  • Form inputs of any kind — no search boxes, no login fields, no contact-agent forms, no payment screens
  • Your browsing history, bookmarks, cookies, or any other tab
  • Saved-property lists, personal dashboards, logged-in account data
  • Any page outside realestate.com.au, domain.com.au, homely.com.au, view.com.au
03 — What Scout stores locally

Three things live on your device, in chrome.storage.sync— which Chrome encrypts and syncs across browsers signed into the same Google account. Nothing here leaves your device unless you explicitly sign in to lodgey.io.

Profile you set in the popup

  • Annual income (used to compute your marginal tax rate)
  • Home state (for land-tax estimation)
  • Loan assumptions: deposit %, interest rate, term, P&I vs interest-only
  • Optional weekly rent override

Anonymous client ID

  • A random UUID generated on first install (chrome.storage.local), used to deduplicate analytics events. Not linked to your name, email, or any Lodgey account unless you later sign up.
04 — What Scout sends to lodgey.io

Scout posts anonymous analytics events to https://lodgey.io/api/scout/event to understand feature use and surface schema-drift bugs. Each event contains:

  • The anonymous client UUID (above)
  • Event type: listing_detected, panel_opened, panel_closed, share_clicked, cta_clicked, settings_saved
  • Non-identifying listing metadata: source site, listing ID, property type, price, bed/bath/car counts, suburb, state, postcode

What is stripped before send

  • The full street address — only suburb, state and postcode are sent, never the line-1 address
  • Listing photos and image URLs
  • Your income, marginal rate, or any loan assumption
  • The free-text listing description, agent name, or any contact information
05 — What Scout does not do
  • No behavioural tracking beyond the five events above
  • No page-content scraping outside the documented fields
  • No third-party ad, retargeting, or affiliate SDKs
  • No reading of other tabs, windows, or logged-in accounts
  • No cross-site identifier — the UUID is generated in the extension, never synced to cookies or ad IDs
  • No sale of data. Ever. Anonymous usage counts may inform aggregated product decisions; individual events never leave Lodgey's own infrastructure
06 — Permissions, justified

storage

Required to persist your profile (income, state, loan assumptions) across browser sessions and sync it to other browsers where you're signed into Chrome.

activeTab

Granted only on the currently focused tab, and only after you interact with Scout. Used to read the listing DOM on the page you opened.

host_permissions (4 domains)

*://*.realestate.com.au/*, *://*.domain.com.au/*, *://*.homely.com.au/*, *://*.view.com.au/*. These scope the content script to only those property sites — Scout cannot inject on any other URL.

07 — Your controls
  • Uninstall: removes every byte — the content script stops, local storage is deleted, synced profile is cleared on all other browsers within minutes.
  • Clear profile: click the Scout icon → reset fields → Save.
  • Opt out of analytics: email hello@lodgey.io and we'll suppress your UUID server-side within 72 hours.
08 — Data retention

Anonymous event logs are retained for 13 months for product-quality analysis, then permanently deleted. Your local profile lives on your device for as long as the extension is installed.

09 — Children

Scout is intended for adult Australian property investors and is not directed at anyone under 16.

10 — Changes & contact

We'll update this page whenever Scout changes what it reads, stores, or sends. Material changes will be announced in the extension's release notes. For questions, data requests, or to delete your UUID: hello@lodgey.io.