Privacy

Privacy Policy

Effective date: March 16, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how North Star Forecast (“North Star Forecast,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you use this website, create an account, subscribe to the newsletter, submit a contact message, or otherwise interact with our services.

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to this website, related pages, account features, newsletter subscription features, contact forms, and other digital services that link to or display this Privacy Policy. It does not govern third-party websites, applications, services, or platforms that may be linked from this site.

2. Information we collect

We may collect the following categories of information:

Account information, including email address, password-related authentication data, and profile information you choose to provide.
Newsletter information, including your email address and subscription status.
Contact form submissions, including your name, email address, message contents, and related submission metadata.
Technical and usage information, including IP address, browser type, device information, timestamps, referring pages, and basic interaction logs.
Authentication and session data, including cookies, local storage values, tokens, and similar identifiers used for login and session continuity.

3. Sources of information

We collect information directly from you, automatically through your use of the site, and from service providers that support hosting, authentication, database storage, analytics, form handling, and related technical operations.

4. How we use information

We may use information for the following purposes:

To operate, maintain, and secure the website and related services.
To create and manage user accounts and profile records.
To authenticate users and maintain sessions.
To send newsletter communications and subscription-related messages.
To receive, store, review, and respond to contact submissions.
To monitor performance, diagnose errors, prevent abuse, and maintain security.
To enforce our Terms of Use and protect the rights, property, or safety of users, service providers, and the public.
To comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests.
To improve site content, structure, features, and reliability.

5. Legal bases and permitted use

Where applicable, we process information because it is necessary to provide the services you request, because it supports our legitimate interests in operating and protecting the site, because you have provided consent where required, or because processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations.

6. Newsletter communications

If you subscribe to the newsletter, we store your email address and related subscription data to deliver forecast updates, report releases, and related site communications. You may unsubscribe using any unsubscribe method we provide or by contacting us.

7. Contact submissions

If you submit a contact form, we store your name, email address, message, and related submission metadata so we can review, route, and respond to the inquiry. We may also use contact submission data to detect spam, abuse, or repeated misuse of the site.

8. Cookies, local storage, and similar technologies

We may use cookies, browser storage, and similar technologies to enable login, maintain authenticated sessions, remember site preferences, improve reliability, and support basic security and performance functions. Disabling such technologies may cause parts of the site to function improperly.

9. Sharing and disclosure

We may disclose information:

To vendors and service providers that help us host, secure, authenticate, store, or operate the site.
To professional advisors, auditors, insurers, or legal representatives where reasonably necessary.
To comply with law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or other lawful process.
To protect our rights, property, systems, users, or the public.
In connection with a merger, sale, financing, reorganization, or transfer of all or part of our business or assets.

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money.

10. Third-party services

This site may rely on third-party providers for hosting, authentication, database operations, email delivery, content distribution, form processing, and related infrastructure. Those providers may process information on our behalf as needed to provide their services.

11. Data storage and cross-border processing

Information may be stored and processed in jurisdictions other than your own. By using the site, you understand that information may be transferred to and processed in locations where privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

12. Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for site operation, account management, recordkeeping, legal compliance, security monitoring, dispute resolution, and enforcement purposes. We may retain logs, backups, and archival copies for a longer period where reasonably required.

13. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. However, no system, transmission, or storage method is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

14. Your rights and choices

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection with respect to certain personal information. You may also request account-related changes or unsubscribe from newsletter communications. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

15. California and similar privacy disclosures

If applicable law grants you additional privacy rights, we will process qualifying requests in accordance with those laws. We may need to verify your identity and may retain certain information as required by law, contract, or legitimate operational needs.

16. Children’s privacy

This site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can review and address the matter.

17. Data integrity and account responsibility

You are responsible for ensuring that information you provide is accurate and current. We are not responsible for issues arising from inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated information submitted by users.

18. Monitoring and abuse prevention

We may monitor site activity, submission patterns, login behavior, and other technical signals to prevent abuse, protect system integrity, investigate misuse, and support enforcement of our policies.

19. Do Not Track and similar signals

The site may not respond to all browser-based Do Not Track signals or similar mechanisms unless required by applicable law.

20. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. Updated versions will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of the site after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised policy to the extent permitted by law.

21. Contact

For privacy-related questions, requests, or notices, use the contact page on this site.