Privacy Policy

This policy explains how MarketCompass handles information in its Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions and on its product website. It covers MarketCompass Free and Pro features. MarketCompass is a financial information and portfolio-management tool, not a brokerage service. For privacy questions, contact marketcompassapp@gmail.com.

MarketCompass stores your settings, selected assets and watchlists, alert rules, portfolio names, holdings, transactions, saved comparisons, and cached market information in the extension’s local browser storage. It also stores refresh/error diagnostics, provider API keys that you enter, and license activation information when you activate Pro. Local storage is associated with the browser profile; MarketCompass does not provide automatic cloud synchronization of your portfolio or watchlists between devices. Views in the same profile share this local data.

Market-data requests are sent directly from your browser to the relevant providers. These requests can include asset symbols, dates, currency pairs, selected company names, and news or article queries. A provider may therefore learn which assets or topics you request, even though the extension does not send your holding quantities, cost basis or transaction ledger as part of those requests. If a provider requires an API key, the key you enter is sent to that provider to authenticate requests. As with ordinary internet requests, recipients receive connection information such as your IP address and request headers.

The release uses services including Yahoo Finance, Tiingo, Finnhub, Frankfurter, CoinGecko, Gold API, Google News, the Federal Reserve’s FRED, the U.S. Treasury, BLS and BEA. Optional private-company research can request public pages from company and publisher websites after you grant the relevant site permission. Opening external charts, articles, checkout pages or other links also connects you to those sites. Their privacy policies govern their handling of information.

Pro activation, validation and deactivation use Dodo Payments, our independent billing platform. The extension sends your license key and, for validation or deactivation, the license-instance identifier. Activation also sends a generated browser-installation identifier as part of the activation name. The extension retains the license key, identifiers, activation state and verification diagnostics locally to manage access and recover from interrupted operations.

Purchases and subscription management occur on hosted billing pages. Those pages may collect your name, email address, billing information and payment details. The extension itself does not collect your full payment-card number or card security code. The billing provider processes payment and licensing information under its own terms and privacy policy. Contact us about records associated with your license or purchase; records required for billing, fraud prevention or legal obligations may need to be retained.

MarketCompass does not collect or save your general browsing history and does not include product-usage analytics or advertising trackers. The tabs permission is used to identify, open, focus and restore MarketCompass’s own views. The extension does not sell your personal information or use it for advertising, creditworthiness or lending decisions. Data is used to provide the user-facing features described in this policy, including market requests, licensing, support and user-requested exports.

CSV exports and ordinary data backups can contain full financial information even when values are hidden on screen. Ordinary backups exclude provider API keys. The optional private encrypted backup includes your financial data and saved provider API keys, encrypted locally using the password you supply. License identity is not exported. The backup password is not saved by the backup feature.

Downloaded files remain wherever you save them and are not removed when you uninstall the extension. Protect those files and keep encrypted-backup passwords separately. Diagnostic information is stored locally; copying or exporting it does not automatically send it to support. Review any diagnostics, screenshots or attachments before sharing them. Do not send full license keys, provider API keys or private financial backups in a support request.

If you contact MarketCompass, we receive the email address, message and any information or attachments you choose to provide. We use that information to respond, investigate problems and maintain relevant support records. Email and billing services process information according to their own policies. We do not need your complete portfolio or credentials to receive a general support request.

Local records remain until you remove them, replace them with a restore, clear extension data, or uninstall the extension. The extension also replaces cached data as it refreshes. A change from Pro to Free does not automatically delete saved financial records. You can remove records through the relevant interface, remove provider keys, change refresh/alert settings, or revoke optional permissions in the browser.

Before clearing all extension data or uninstalling, deactivate the browser’s Pro license instance where possible so the installation slot is released. Clearing data is blocked while certain activation records require deactivation or recovery. Uninstalling or deleting local files does not cancel a subscription or erase billing-provider records. Use the billing management options to cancel a subscription. Contact support to request access, correction or deletion of information you have provided to us; any applicable legal retention requirements still apply.

MarketCompass uses HTTPS for its configured external services. Local extension storage is not a password vault and is not encrypted by the display-privacy feature. Protect your browser profile and device. The optional encrypted backup protects its contents with password-based encryption, but no security method eliminates all risks. External providers may process requests in countries other than your own, under their respective policies.

The product website is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub may process technical visitor information under GitHub’s Privacy Statement. That policy covers GitHub’s service; this page describes MarketCompass’s practices. The product site does not currently operate its own user account registration or payment form.

We may update this policy as the product or its services change. The revised date will be shown on this page. For privacy questions or requests, email marketcompassapp@gmail.com.