We make money from merchants, not from you.

Most coupon extensions sell your browsing data. That's their real product. We have a different business model. Here's exactly how it works, with nothing hidden.

Two business models. One is built on your data.

Track every page you visit, even when you're not shopping

Build behavioral profiles linking your browsing to your identity

Sell browsing data to advertisers and data brokers

Inject affiliate links into your browsing without consent

Show codes they haven't verified, hoping something sticks

Only activates on checkout pages when you're ready to save

No behavioral profiling. No ad targeting. No data sold to third parties.

Makes money from merchant commissions when verified codes save you money

Transparent about which merchants are affiliate partners

Every code verified through three independent layers before display

How we actually make money.

When you use a verified code and complete a purchase at a partner merchant, that merchant pays us a commission. We earn money when you save money. Our incentives are aligned with yours.

You

Save money with verified codes

Merchant

Gets a sale they might not have

SimplyCodes

Earns commission from merchant

What this means

We make more money when our codes work better. If we show you garbage codes, you leave. If we show you verified codes that save real money, you keep using us and we earn commissions. Accuracy is our revenue engine.

What this doesn't mean

We don't only show codes from partner merchants. We verify codes for every store whether we earn from them or not. The vast majority of our verified stores are non-monetized. Verification comes first. Revenue follows.

Six things we will never do.

Never track your browsing history

We do not record which pages you visit, which products you view, or how you navigate the web. Our extension only activates on checkout pages.

Never build personal profiles

We do not create behavioral profiles, demographic profiles, or interest profiles about you. We do not link your activity to your identity.

Never sell data to advertisers

We do not sell, share, or license any user data to advertisers, data brokers, or third parties. Period.

Never inject unauthorized links

We never modify links on pages you visit or silently redirect your navigation. Affiliate links are only activated when a user takes actions like copying codes or clicking product recommendations so we only earn commission when the user gets value.

Never rank by commission rate

Codes are ranked by savings amount and Health Score, never by how much commission we earn. Affiliate status does not influence code display order.

Never hide our economics

On merchant pages where we earn commissions, we disclose it. You can see our economics. You don't have to trust our promises — you can observe our behavior.

Exactly one type of data.

Code verification outcomes. That's it. This data feeds our verification engine so every code we show gets more accurate over time.

Code success or failure

When our extension tests a code at checkout, we record whether the code changed the cart total. Binary result: success or failure.

Merchant domain

We record which merchant the code was tested on. This is how we know "SAVE20 works at nike.com."

Discount amount

When a code succeeds, we record the discount amount or percentage applied. This powers the savings ranking in our extension.

Timestamp

When the code was tested. This drives the freshness component of our Health Score. Recent tests carry more weight than stale ones.

Cart context

We analyze cart contents to detect item-specific promotion conditions (e.g., "applies to shoes only"). We do not store cart data beyond the verification window or share it with third parties.

{
  "merchant": "nike.com",
  "code": "SAVE20",
  "result": "SUCCESS",
  "discount": "20%",
  "timestamp": "2026-02-12T14:23:00Z"
}
// No browsing history. No credit card data.
// No PII shared with third parties.

Only what we need. Nothing more.

Our extension requests the minimum browser permissions required to detect checkout pages and test coupon codes. We do not request permissions to read your browsing history, access your bookmarks, or monitor your tabs.

You can verify this yourself. Every browser extension lists its permissions in the store. Ours are minimal by design.

Active tab access

Only reads the current page when activated by you

Storage

Caches verified codes locally so checkout is faster

Browsing history

Not requested. Never will be.

All site data

Not requested. We don't need access to every page.

Developer data handling.

SimplyCodes offers API and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations for developers and AI agents. Here's how data works in those contexts.

What API/MCP calls collect

Tool calls (getCodes, searchDeals, etc.) are logged for rate limiting, abuse prevention, and aggregate analytics. We record the query parameters, not the identity of the end user behind the agent. API keys identify the developer, not the shopper.

reportOutcome data

When agents or developers send reportOutcome calls (telling us whether a code worked), that data feeds our verification engine. It contains the code, merchant, outcome, and cart context for item-specific detection. API keys identify the developer account, not end-user PII.

No user tracking through agents

When an AI assistant queries SimplyCodes on a user's behalf, we do not receive or store any information about that user. The same privacy architecture that governs our extension and website applies to our programmatic interfaces.

The formal stuff.

This page explains our privacy philosophy in plain language. The formal legal documents are below. If there's ever a conflict between this page and the legal text, the legal text governs.

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