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Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 28, 2026

What Dipper is

Dipper is an AI-powered price-tracking service. You give Dipper the web addresses (URLs) of products you want to watch. On a schedule, Dipper retrieves those publicly available product pages, uses an AI model to read the current price, availability, and title, stores a price history, and notifies you when the conditions you set are met.

How Dipper works (data flow)

For transparency and for compliance reviewers, here is exactly what happens:

  1. You add a product URL to your account.
  2. On a tier-based schedule, Dipper retrieves the public page content — directly via a server request, or, for sites that block automated access, through a third-party scraping API that returns the rendered public HTML. Dipper does not log in, bypass paywalls, or access non-public content.
  3. The retrieved page content is sent to our AI provider (Anthropic) to extract structured fields (title, price, currency, availability). Your data is not used to train AI models.
  4. We store the extracted values and a timestamped price history.
  5. When your alert rules are met, we notify you by email and in the app.

Information we collect

  • Account: your email address, a hashed password, and an optional name.
  • Tracked content: the product URLs you add and the product data and price history retrieved from them.
  • Usage: counters (e.g. checks performed, Smart Track evaluations) used to enforce plan limits.
  • Billing (if you subscribe): a Stripe customer and subscription identifier and status. Card details are handled entirely by Stripe — Dipper never sees or stores your card number.
  • Technical: a single authentication cookie (a signed session token) and standard server logs.

Cookies

Dipper uses one essential cookie to keep you signed in. We do not use third-party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

Service providers (subprocessors)

Dipper relies on these providers to run the service:

  • Anthropic — AI extraction of product details.
  • Vercel — application hosting.
  • Neon / PostgreSQL — database hosting.
  • ScrapingBee — retrieving pages from sites that block automated access.
  • Stripe — payment processing.
  • Email/SMTP provider — delivering your alert emails.

Third-party retailer sites

When Dipper retrieves a product page, it accesses content the retailer makes publicly available to any visitor. Dipper is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the retailers it tracks.

Data retention & deletion

We keep your data while your account is active. You can request a copy of your data, or its deletion, at any time by emailing dipperAIPriceTracking@gmail.com. We will action verified requests within a reasonable period.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (e.g. under GDPR or CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your personal data, and to object to certain processing. Contact us to exercise any of these rights.

Security

Passwords are hashed (bcrypt), data is encrypted in transit (TLS), and access is scoped to your account. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your data.

Children

Dipper is not directed to children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy; material changes will be reflected here with a new “last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email dipperAIPriceTracking@gmail.com.