Privacy policy

What we collect

If you create an account: your email address and a password (stored only as a salted hash — we cannot read it). A session cookie keeps you signed in; it is essential to the service and is the only cookie dealz itself sets. A third-party script sets one more on this domain, but only if you allow it — see below, where it is described in full and where you can change your answer.

The one other thing we keep in your browser is your answer to the question below: the single word accepted or declined, under dealz.tracking-consentin local storage. It is deliberately not a cookie — a cookie would be sent back to our server on every request you make, and your answer, especially a refusal, is nobody's business but yours. It never leaves this browser, and we never see it.

Content you choose to create is stored with your account: deal submissions, votes, comments, watchlist entries, price alerts, category preferences, and reports of expired or incorrect deals.

Comments display the part of your email address before the @ sign as your name. Your full email address is never shown to other users.

We count clicks on deal links: which deal, when, and which page of this site the link was on. That count carries no identifier — no account, no IP address, no browser details — so it cannot be tied to you, and it is the only measurement dealz makes of its own. It decides which deals rank as popular, nothing else.

Third-party code on this site

One script that is not ours can run on the pages here, and only if you say so: Drive, made by Travelpayouts, the affiliate network named on our affiliate disclosure. It loads from tpembars.com and it is here to make this site money: it reads the outbound links on a page and replaces the ones Travelpayouts can monetise with network links, so that a purchase you make afterwards is credited here.

Doing that means your browser tells Travelpayouts things it would not otherwise, which is why you are asked first. Everything in the rest of this section describes what happens after you accept. Until then, and forever if you decline, the script is not downloaded, does not run, and sends nothing. Reading the script, once it is running, it sends:

• the address of each page you open on this site, and the address you arrived from
• the outbound links on that page, so Travelpayouts can say which of them it is able to monetise
• what you do with the page: links clicked and hovered, how far you scroll, taps and gestures on a phone — including the text and the address of the thing you clicked
• errors the script itself hits, to Travelpayouts's own logging service

To hold those together as one visit it stores an identifier: a short-lived cookie on dealzfeed.com — named am_user_sessionas of the date at the top of this page — plus an entry in your browser's local storage. That cookie is on our domain but it is set by Travelpayouts's code, not by ours, which is why the paragraph above says the login cookie is the only one dealz itself sets.

What it does not do, because the difference matters and people reasonably assume the worst: the version running when this page was last updated carries no session recording — it does not capture your screen, your keystrokes, or the contents of forms. We do not send it your email address, your account, or anything you have submitted to this site.

Your choice about that script

The first time you open dealzfeed.com, a bar at the bottom of the page asks whether that script may run, with an accept and a decline that are the same size and the same distance from your cursor. Nothing loads while the question is open, and nothing loads if you decline. We ask once and then leave it alone: whichever you pick, the bar does not come back.

You are not stuck with the answer. This is the control, and it works in both directions — off if you accepted, back on if you declined and changed your mind:

Two things this does not depend on. Blocking scripts from tpembars.comin your browser or an extension still works and always did, and it is the version that does not rely on us. And clearing this site's data in your browser settings removes everything either of us has stored here, including the record of your answer — after which you will be asked again, because we will no longer know that you were.

What we still don't do

Apart from that one script, and only if you allowed it, nothing. We run no analytics of our own beyond the anonymous count of deal clicks described above — no page-view counter, no heatmap, no A/B testing tool — and there is no advertising network on this site, no ad, and no profile of you that we build, buy, or sell. We do not sell personal data, and the only parties we share anything with are the two named on this page — the script's vendor above and the email provider below — each receiving what is listed there and nothing else.

Email we send

Three kinds, and only the first without your say-so. A password reset, when you ask for one from the log-in page. A price-drop email when a deal on your watchlist gets cheaper. And a weekly digest of the best deals. The last two are off until you turn them on in your preferences, and every one of them carries a link that turns it off again in one click, no login needed. None contains a tracking pixel or remote images, and we send no other email — no newsletter, nothing you did not ask for.

Those messages are delivered by Resend, Inc., which receives your address and the content of the message in order to deliver it, and is the only party other than the one above that receives anything about you from this site.

Outbound links

Deal links take you to merchant sites, sometimes via an affiliate network that credits this site for the referral (see our affiliate disclosure). Once you leave dealzfeed.com, the merchant's own privacy policy applies.

To be precise about what that means: when a link is an affiliate link, clicking it sends you through the network's own redirect domain, and that network may set a cookie on its own domain so the sale is credited here. We do not set it and we cannot read it, and it is not set unless you click. If you accepted the script described above, browsing without clicking is not silent either — it is talking to the network the whole time you are on the page. If you declined, or have not been asked yet, nothing about you is sent to a network while you are simply browsing this site.

The networks involved, and the domains their links pass through, are named on the affiliate disclosure page. You can refuse these cookies in your browser settings without affecting anything on dealzfeed.com — though refusing every cookie from dealzfeed.com will also sign you out, because the login cookie is one of them.

Retention and deletion

Account data is kept while your account exists. Email contact@dealzfeed.com from your account address and we will delete your account and the personal data associated with it. That reaches what we hold. It does not reach Travelpayouts, which is a separate company with its own policy and its own deletion process.

Children

The service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it. Material changes will be noted on the site.