Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Best Price Value Finder (“we”, “us”), operated by the service operator, processes personal data when you use our website, APIs, and Chrome extension.

Contact for privacy requests: privacy@example.com.

1. Who we are and scope

Best Price Value Finder is a shopping assistant that turns a need or selected product links into ranked marketplace offers and may redirect you to merchants via affiliate links. This policy covers the web app at https://pprd.pickval.com, related APIs, and the browser extension that talks to those APIs.

2. Data we process

• Search and compare inputs: need text, answers to clarification questions, optional budget, country, currency, ranking preference, and product URLs/IDs you submit.
• Session and ranking outputs: product briefs, offer snapshots, scores, rationales, feature matrices, timestamps, and public benchmark pages you generate.
• Click / redirect data: which offer was opened, session identifiers, and timing needed for affiliate attribution and abuse prevention.
• Technical data: IP address (for rate limiting), user agent, basic request logs, and error diagnostics.
• Extension preferences: non-secret settings such as API base URL, locale, and shortlist items stored in browser storage on your device.
• Local browser storage: locale preferences and cookie-notice acknowledgment on your device.

We do not intentionally collect government IDs, payment card numbers, or precise geolocation beyond country/currency you provide or that we infer for shipping context.

3. Purposes and legal bases

Depending on applicable law (including GDPR where it applies), we process data to:

• Provide the service (contract / legitimate interests): run searches, comparisons, rankings, and affiliate redirects.
• Security and abuse prevention (legitimate interests): rate limits, fraud and misuse detection.
• Improve reliability (legitimate interests): debugging, operational metrics, and quality of rankings.
• Comply with law (legal obligation) when we must respond to lawful requests.
• Communicate about your requests when you email us (legitimate interests / contract).

4. AI processing

When AI mode is enabled, limited need text and product metadata (for example titles, prices, ratings, and short descriptions) may be sent to a configured AI provider to plan categories, filter relevance, and explain rankings. Do not submit sensitive personal data in the need field. AI providers process data under their own terms as our processors/subprocessors.

5. Merchants and affiliates

Product data is retrieved from merchant/partner APIs (currently AliExpress affiliate APIs) on our servers. When you click a shop link, you leave our service and are subject to the merchant’s privacy policy and terms. Affiliate networks may receive click identifiers needed for commission tracking.

6. Sharing

We share data only with:

• Infrastructure hosts (hosting, database, logging) under contract;
• AI providers when AI features are enabled;
• Merchant/affiliate partners for product lookup and click attribution;
• Professional advisers or authorities when legally required.

We do not sell personal data. Affiliate credentials and API secrets never ship to the browser or extension.

7. International transfers

Our processors and merchant APIs may be located outside your country. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards (such as standard contractual clauses or equivalent mechanisms offered by the provider).

8. Retention

• Active search sessions and click records: retained for operation, support, and abuse prevention, then deleted or anonymized when no longer needed.
• Public benchmark pages: retained while published; may be refreshed or removed.
• Server logs: short operational windows unless needed for security investigations.
• Extension/local storage: until you clear site/extension data.

9. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection to certain processing, and you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Email privacy@example.com with enough detail to locate your data (for example a session id or approximate time). We may need to verify the request.

10. Children

The service is not directed to children under 16 (or the higher age required in your jurisdiction). Do not use it if you are under that age.

11. Security

We use access controls, server-side secrets, and rate limiting. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure; use the service accordingly.

12. Related policies

See also our Terms of Use, Cookie Policy, Affiliate Disclosure, and Disclaimer.

13. Changes

We may update this policy. The “Last updated” date will change when we do. Continued use after updates means you accept the revised policy where permitted by law.