Privacy Policy

Published November 13, 2026

The short version

FragranceSeek has no passwords and runs no outside analytics. It shows ads from Google AdSense, and Google uses cookies and similar identifiers to serve them, as described under Ads. You can use the whole site without giving us anything but the name of a fragrance, unless you set a price alert or sign in. This page lists everything the site stores and logs, and what the ads collect.

In your browser

• One cookie of our own, only if you sign in. Signing in sets a single cookie that keeps you signed in for 90 days; it holds a random code and nothing else. Google’s ad script can set and read cookies, described under Ads.
• Three local-storage items. Your browser keeps these on your device, and they go when you clear this site’s data: your shop country (ff.shopCountry), your light or dark choice (ff-theme), and the items you add in Build my cart (ff-carts). None of them is sent to us.
• One third party: Google’s ads. Your browser loads Google’s ad script from pagead2.googlesyndication.com, and that script contacts Google’s ad servers to choose and show the ads. Apart from YouTube’s video thumbnails, below, every other request goes to this site. The typefaces are served from here, and so are the product pictures: our server fetches a picture from the shop and serves its own copy, so your browser never contacts the shop.
• YouTube thumbnails. Where a fragrance page shows review videos, their preview pictures load from YouTube (i.ytimg.com), the way any embedded image does, so YouTube sees your browser’s request for them. Nothing else from YouTube loads until you press play; the video then plays in YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com).

Ads

The site shows ads served by Google AdSense, in one place: above the footer of a page. The site’s publisher id is listed in its ads.txt file. To show them, Google receives your IP address, your browser’s user agent and the address of the page you are on. We do not send Google anything else, and we receive no personal data about you from Google.

• Cookies and identifiers. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other sites. Google’s advertising cookies let it and its partners serve ads based on those visits. Cookies and similar identifiers are also used to limit how often you see an ad, to measure ads and to prevent fraud. Google explains how it uses information from sites that show its ads at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• Personalised and non-personalised ads. Personalised ads are chosen using what Google has learned of your interests from your activity. Non-personalised ads are chosen from the page you are reading and your general location, such as your city; they still use cookies to limit repeats, measure ads and prevent fraud. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Google shows you personalised ads only if you agree in Google’s consent message.
• Opting out. You can turn off personalised ads from Google in Google’s Ad Settings, and from other vendors that take part in the industry opt-out at aboutads.info/choices. Blocking or clearing cookies in your browser also works.
• The Telegram mini app shows no ads. Inside Telegram, no ad is shown and Google’s ad script is never loaded. To remember that during your visit, the page keeps one session-storage item (ff-tg), which goes when the window closes.

What Google collects is held by Google under its own privacy policy.

Searching

The text you type into the search box is sent to our server to look up suggestions and prices. To find prices, our server reads retailers’ own websites, queries eBay’s API and reads the product data shops publish through affiliate networks. Those requests come from our server, not your browser, so the retailers, eBay and the networks see our server’s address, not yours. The server keeps the results it finds, filed under the fragrance, so the next person searching for it gets them faster; they contain product data only.

Comparing a cart

If you use the cart comparison, the link, text or screenshot you give it is sent to our server to read the items and price them. A screenshot is read on our own server, in memory, and then dropped; it is never stored or sent to anyone else. While limits apply, your IP address is held in memory only, for a short time, to limit how many one visitor can make.

Server logs

• Lookup log. Each price lookup records the fragrance name, the time, and whether the result was already held. It records nothing about who searched. Entries are deleted after 30 days.
• Visit counts. The server counts each day’s visitors, the pages they open, the fragrances they look up and the site that linked to a page (its name only). To count a person once, it makes a code from your IP address and browser with a secret that changes every day; when the day ends, the codes and that secret are deleted and only the totals stay. No cookie is set for this and nothing runs in your browser.
• Operational log. The application logs the fragrances searched for and the results it found, with no IP address or other detail about the visitor.
• Web server. The web server keeps no access log of ordinary visits. When a request fails at the server — for example while the site restarts — it records that one request: your IP address, the address requested (which can include the fragrance searched), your browser’s user agent, the page you came from, and the time.

The operational and web-server entries are kept in the server’s system log, which deletes its oldest entries as it reaches its size limit. Logs are used only to run and secure the site. The site is hosted on Oracle Cloud.

Price alerts

If you set a price alert, we store the email address you gave, the fragrance, your price and the shops you chose. We use it for that alert and nothing else, we never show it on the site, and it is deleted when the alert fires, when you tap unsubscribe, or after 48 hours if you never confirm it. The emails go out through our email sending service, which receives your address to deliver them.

Signing in and saved fragrances

There are no passwords. To save fragrances you give an email address and we send it a sign-in link, which works once, for 30 minutes, sent the same way as alert emails. Once you are signed in we store your email address, the fragrances you save and the lowest price we last saw for each, and we email you when one of them drops in price. We use the address for that and nothing else and never show it on the site. Remove a fragrance and its row is deleted; to have your address and saved list removed altogether, write to us (below).

Contact form

If you write to us through the contact form, we store the time, the topic you chose and your message, and your name and email address only if you gave them. We do not store your IP address: we store a one-way code made from it, used only to stop repeated abuse of the form. The message may be forwarded to our own inbox through our email provider, Resend, so we can read and answer it. Nothing from it is used for marketing. Messages are kept for 12 months and then deleted automatically.

Clicking through to a retailer

Every result links out to a retailer, and a link opens only when you click it. Once you are on the retailer’s site, their privacy policy and their cookies apply, not ours. Links to some retailers carry an affiliate identifier, through the eBay Partner Network, CJ, Rakuten Advertising or a shop’s own referral programme; a CJ or Rakuten link passes through that network on the way to the shop. When you click one, the network and the shop can set their own cookies to credit the sale to this site. We set no such cookie, and they tell us about sales, not who you are. The Affiliate Disclosure names today’s retailers and says what that identifier does and does not do.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13. The only personal data it records is the failed-request web-server entry, the price-alert email address, the email address and saved list of anyone who signs in, and what you send through the contact form, all described above.

Your rights

We don’t sell your data, or share it beyond what this page describes. A price alert is removed with the unsubscribe link in any email it sends. To have a signed-in email address and saved list removed, write to us. To ask about the web-server log entries described above, or to have any removed, write to info@fragranceseek.com with the IP address and approximate time of your visit. We aim to answer within 14 days.

Changes

If the site starts doing something this page does not describe, this page is updated before that change goes live, and the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

FragranceSeek is operated independently. Contact: info@fragranceseek.com.