SKOUT by T&K — Privacy Policy
Effective date: September 30, 2026
Applies to: the SKOUT by T&K™ mobile app ("SKOUT by T&K," "the app," "we," "us")
SKOUT by T&K helps you discover, track, and shop what's new from the brands you follow.
This policy explains what we collect, why, who we share it with, and the choices
you have. We keep it plain-English on purpose.
The short version: We collect only what we need to personalize your drops and
run the app. We do not sell your personal data, and we do not put ads in
your personal SKOUTED feed. You can delete your account and data at any time from
the app.
1. Who we are
SKOUT by T&K is operated by Skout by T&K, Inc. (Delaware corporation), c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801.
Questions or requests: privacy@skoutbytk.com.
2. Information we collect
You give us:
- Account: your email address, and a password. Passwords are handled by our
authentication provider and stored only as a secure hash — we never see or
store your actual password.
- Profile & preferences: your first and last name, your sizes (per garment
type and shoe size), and shopping preferences such as department. We use these
to personalize what you see and to only notify you about items in your size.
Your name is also how other members find you (see "People on SKOUT" below).
- People: the members you ask to follow, the follow requests you accept or
decline, the members you block, the reactions you leave on a friend's save,
and any report you make about another member.
- Follows & interests: the brands and people you follow, and your per-brand
notification settings.
Created as you use the app:
- Activity: products you save, view, or dismiss, and items you tap "I Want
It" on. We use this to rank your feed and improve recommendations.
- Notifications: if you enable push notifications, a device push token so we
can send you drop and restock alerts, and a record of notifications sent to you.
- Usage analytics: in-app events (e.g. screens opened, features used),
collected by us directly to understand how the app is used and improve it.
- Diagnostics: basic error/crash information to fix bugs.
We do NOT collect: we do not ask for or store payment card numbers, financial
account details, government IDs, precise location, contacts, or biometric
data. The app has no messaging or free-text posts between members. The only
file you can upload is an optional profile photo, described below.
Profile photo (optional, when available): a future version may let you add a photo to your profile. If you do,
we store it and show it wherever your name already appears to other members
(search, follow requests, your profile, TAKES). We do not analyze it, and we
never use it for anything other than showing it. You can change or remove it
at any time from your You tab; removing it deletes the file. Photos must be of
you or something you have the right to share; members can report a photo, and
we may remove one that breaks our rules.
People on SKOUT
SKOUT lets you follow other members and see what they save. Here is exactly
what is visible to whom:
- Finding you: any signed-in member can search for you by name and see your
first and last name, your profile photo if you added one, and the number of
brands you follow, your followers and the people you follow. Your email,
sizes, department and preferences are never visible to other members.
- Every account is private. Someone who wants to follow you must send a
request, and nothing about your saves is visible until you accept.
- What followers see: once you accept someone, they can open your profile
and see the items you have saved, how many brands you follow and when you
joined, along with the reactions other followers leave. Their TAKES feed shows
the items you saved in the week before they started following you, and
everything you save after. They never see
your restock or price alerts, your sizes, or which items you dismiss.
- Your controls: turn Share my saves on TAKES off in Settings to hide
all of your saves from everyone at any time; decline or remove a follower;
unfollow; block a member (you both disappear from each other's search and any
follow between you ends); report a member. Blocks and reports are private to
you and to us.
- Reactions (🔥 ❤️ ❗ 👏) on a save are visible to the person who saved
the item and to anyone else who can see that save.
3. How we use your information
To provide and personalize the app (your feed, size-matched notifications,
follows); to send drop/restock alerts you've opted into; to operate, secure, and
improve the service and fix bugs; and to communicate with you about the service.
4. How we share your information
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with advertisers to
target you. We share data only with service providers who process it **on our
behalf** to run the app, and only as needed:
| Provider | Purpose | What they process |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Database, accounts/authentication, backend hosting | Account + profile + activity data |
| Expo (EAS) | Push-notification delivery and app updates | Device push token, app version |
| Apple | App Store / TestFlight distribution (and, in future, subscription billing) | App Store account info handled by Apple under Apple's policy |
| OpenAI | Powers the AI stylist, for the accounts that have it | Your stylist messages, first name, sizes, department, and product details (see Section 6) |
Retailer / brand links: when you tap through to buy an item, you leave SKOUT by T&K
and go to the brand's or retailer's own website, which is governed by their
privacy policy, not ours.
We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect our rights or
users' safety, or in connection with a business transfer (e.g. a merger or
acquisition), with notice where required.
5. Advertising and monetization
We do not place advertising in your personal SKOUTED feed.
We plan to earn a commission when you buy something after tapping through from
SKOUT by T&K to a brand's own site. When that starts, you will see a clear label next to
the link saying so, on the same screen, before you tap. We will update this
policy before it goes live.
Two commitments that will not change. **What we show you is never influenced by
what we get paid.** Ranking is driven by the brands you follow and how you use the
app; a brand cannot buy its way up your feed. And we do not use tracking software
that claims credit for purchases SKOUT by T&K did not actually drive.
6. Artificial intelligence
SKOUT by T&K includes an AI stylist ("Ask SKOUT") that builds a personal edit for you
from your request. It is available to every member, and it only runs after you tap "Agree and
continue" on a consent screen that names OpenAI and lists what is sent.
When you use it, we send OpenAI the message you typed, the recent
conversation, your first name, your sizes and department, and details of products
we are considering for you, so it can pick pieces that actually fit and suit you.
It may also save short "get to know you" notes from what you tell it (for
example, the city you live in, or an occasion you mentioned) so it does not have
to ask you again. You can ask us to delete those notes at any time (privacy@skoutbytk.com), and deleting your account deletes them.
We do not use your conversations to train anyone's AI models. We do not send
OpenAI your email address or your password. The rest of SKOUT by T&K, including your
feed and your notifications, is rule-based and does not involve AI.
7. Data retention
We keep your personal data while your account is active. When you delete your
account (Section 8), we delete your personal data promptly; certain usage/error
records may be retained in de-identified (anonymized) form that is no longer
linked to you, and we may retain limited records where the law requires.
8. Your rights and choices
- Delete your account and data: in the app, go to **Profile → Delete
Account**. This permanently deletes your profile, follows, saves, preferences,
and push tokens; anonymizes remaining usage records; and cannot be undone.
- Access, correct, or export your data: email privacy@skoutbytk.com.
- Notifications: in Notification Preferences, choose one setting for every
brand you follow or tune brands one by one, and switch the weekly SKOUT Drop
push on or off; or turn notifications off in your device settings. Follow requests send a push; reactions and accepted
requests only appear inside the app.
- People: accept, decline or cancel follow requests (Profile → People → Follow
requests), remove a follower or unfollow (Following & Followers), block or
unblock (Settings → Blocked People), and stop sharing your saves entirely
(Settings → Share my saves on TAKES).
- Depending on where you live (e.g. EEA/UK under GDPR, California under CCPA/CPRA),
you may have additional rights, including the right to object or complain to a
regulator. We honor these requests; contact us to exercise them. We do not sell
or "share" personal information as those terms are defined under California law.
9. Children
SKOUT by T&K is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect
personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us data,
contact us and we will delete it.
10. Security
We use industry-standard measures — encryption in transit, hashed passwords, and
per-user access controls (row-level security) so your data is isolated from other
users. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.
11. International users
We operate in the United States. If you use SKOUT by T&K from elsewhere, your data is
processed in the U.S. and in other countries where our providers operate.
If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, we do not apply
commission tracking to your outbound taps, and you have the rights described in
Section 8, including the right to complain to your local data protection
authority.
12. Changes to this policy
We'll update this policy as the app evolves and revise the effective date. For
material changes we'll provide notice in the app.
13. Contact
Skout by T&K, Inc. — privacy@skoutbytk.com — c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801.