Privacy Policy

What stays on your device

The following is written to your device's local storage, is readable only by MarketThesis, is never uploaded, and is deleted when you delete the app:

• Your watchlist
• Investment theses you write, including their titles, tagged tickers and kill-switch notes
• Recently viewed tickers and recent searches
• Whether you have completed onboarding, and whether you have an active subscription

We cannot see any of this. It is not backed up to our servers, and we have no way to retrieve it. Nothing you type into a thesis ever leaves your device.

What is sent to our servers

Market data requests. MarketThesis fetches market data on demand, so when you look up a company, the ticker symbol you requested is sent to our server in order to return prices, financial statements, news and analysis. These requests carry no account, no user identifier and no device identifier. Nothing on our side connects a lookup to a person, and we do not build profiles of what any individual researches.

Our servers cache market data by ticker symbol — for example, one analysis per company per day — so the same information can be served to everyone without repeatedly querying our data providers. That cache is about companies, not about people.

Anonymous usage events. To understand where people get stuck — most of all, where they abandon the introduction or the subscription screen — the app records events such as opening the app, reaching a particular onboarding screen, viewing the subscription screen, and starting or completing a purchase. Each event carries:

• a random identifier generated on your device on first launch
• a random identifier for the current session
• the event name and a few details about it, such as which screen was reached, which subscription option was chosen, and which options you selected on the introduction's multiple-choice questions
• the app version, your iOS version, and the time

These identifiers are generated by the app, are not derived from your device's hardware, are not Apple's Advertising Identifier or Vendor Identifier, and are not shared with anyone. They are not connected to your name, your email, your Apple Account, or any advertising profile, because we hold none of those. Reinstalling the app generates new ones.

The free-text you write in the app — thesis titles and kill-switch notes — is never included in these events. Only the fixed multiple-choice options from the introduction are recorded, as short codes.

Notifications, if you turn them on. If you enable market alerts, your device is registered with us so we can send them. That registration contains the notification token Apple issues for this app on this device, a second random identifier the app generates, whether the build is a test or release build, and whether alerts are switched on. It contains nothing else. If you never enable notifications, nothing is sent and no registration exists.

Subscriptions and payments

Subscriptions are sold through Apple's In-App Purchase system. We never see your payment details. Apple processes the transaction and shares only what is needed to confirm that a subscription is active.

We use RevenueCat to manage subscription status. RevenueCat receives an anonymous, randomly generated identifier and the associated purchase records. It does not receive your name, your email address, or anything you have written in the app. RevenueCat's privacy policy is available at revenuecat.com/privacy.

Advertising and tracking

There is none. MarketThesis contains no advertising SDK and no third-party tracker. We do not use the Advertising Identifier, we do not ask for permission under Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework because we have no use for it, and we do not track you across apps or websites owned by other companies. No data is sold, and none is shared with advertisers or data brokers.

The usage events described above are first-party: they are written by our own code and sent only to our own servers. There is no Google Analytics, Firebase, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment or similar service in this app.

Crash reports

MarketThesis includes no crash-reporting service. If you have opted in to sharing analytics with app developers in your iOS settings, Apple may share aggregated crash and performance reports with us. That collection is Apple's, governed by Apple's privacy policy, and controlled entirely from Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements on your device.

Links to other websites

News headlines in the app link to the publishers who wrote them. Opening one leaves MarketThesis and hands you to that publisher's website in your browser, where their own privacy policy applies. We have no control over, and no visibility into, what those sites do.

Where the information comes from

Financial figures are read from companies' public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Congressional trading disclosures are read from the public filings published by the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate. Presidential actions are read from official White House publications. Prices and news come from third-party market data providers. Written analysis is generated by an AI model from those public sources.

None of these providers receive any information about you. Our servers request company and public-record data, never user data.

How long we keep it

Usage events are stored in our database and are not currently deleted on a fixed schedule. They contain no name, email address or account, and are not linked to an identity, so they cannot be assembled into a profile of a person. If we introduce a set retention period, this policy will say what it is.

Notification registrations are kept until the device stops being reachable or alerts are switched off.

Children

MarketThesis is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. We do not ask any user for personal information, so we hold no such data about children or anyone else.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data held about you. We hold no name, email address or account, so there is nothing of that kind to export or correct.

The usage events described above are deliberately not linked to any identity, which means we cannot look up an individual's records on request — we have no way to tell which rows belong to whom. To stop collection entirely, delete the app: the identifiers are local to that installation and are permanently severed when it is removed. To stop notification registration, turn off market alerts in the app or disable notifications for MarketThesis in iOS Settings.

If you have a question about this, write to us at the address below and we will help as far as the design of the system allows.

Changes to this policy

If MarketThesis begins collecting anything beyond what is described here — for example, if accounts are added so that theses can sync between devices — this policy will be updated before that change ships, and the app's App Store privacy disclosures will be updated to match.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to christyptlam459@gmail.com.