Privacy Policy
Metric Finance ("we", "us") is a free daily stock briefing at metricfinance.app, built by Yashna Pandugala and Vansh Pandita. This policy explains what we collect when you use the site or subscribe to the briefing, how we use it, and the choices you have. We wrote it to be read, so it is short and specific.
1. What we collect
What you give us
- Email address so we can send your confirmation link and your daily briefing.
- Your watchlist: the stock tickers (up to five) you choose to follow.
- Your name, only if you choose to provide it.
What we generate
- Private confirmation and account-link tokens tied to your subscription.
- When you signed up, when you confirmed your email, and when we last sent you a briefing.
- A copy of each briefing we send you, so you can look back at it in your account.
What we collect automatically
- Usage data such as pages viewed, stock searches, and button clicks, collected through analytics tools (see section 4).
- Approximate location (country, region, city, time zone) derived from your IP address. We store a one-way hash of your IP address rather than the address itself.
- Device and browser information such as browser type, screen size, and referring page.
Browser storage
Links to your dashboard and briefs are sent by email and expire after 30 days. When you open one, we set a secure cookie on that device that keeps you signed in for up to 90 days, so visiting metricfinance.app takes you straight to your dashboard. You can sign out from your dashboard at any time, which removes the cookie. Our analytics providers may also set cookies or similar identifiers.
2. How we use it
- To send your confirmation email and your daily briefing on the stocks you chose.
- To let you view and change your watchlist and see past briefings.
- To understand how the site is used and to improve it.
- To prevent abuse, fraud, and spam signups, and to keep the service secure.
- To comply with the law when required.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with third parties for advertising.
3. Who processes your data
We use these service providers to run Metric Finance. They handle data only to provide their service to us.
- Vercel hosts the website and provides basic traffic analytics.
- Neon hosts the database that stores subscriber records and briefing history.
- Amazon Web Services (SES) delivers our emails.
- Financial Modeling Prep and public news headlines supply market data and news. We send them stock tickers, not personal information.
- Anthropic provides the AI model that helps write the plain-English briefing text. We send it ticker symbols, prices, and public headlines. We do not send your email address, name, or any other personal information.
4. Analytics
To understand what works on the site, we use:
- Google Analytics for page views and traffic sources.
- Vercel Analytics for page views and performance.
- PostHog for product events such as stock searches, and session replays that may record how visitors click, scroll, and move through pages. For subscribers it also records account events, such as confirming your email, opening a brief, or changing your watchlist, tied to a random subscriber ID and never to your email address.
These providers may use cookies or similar technologies and have their own privacy policies. You can block analytics cookies in your browser settings or with a content blocker.
5. Your choices
- Change your watchlist anytime from your account page, linked from every briefing and from the footer of this site.
- Unsubscribe anytime using the link at the bottom of every briefing, or from your account page. This stops all emails.
- Ask us to delete your data. Unsubscribing stops emails but does not by itself erase your record. We keep your email, watchlist, and briefing history until you ask us to delete them (see section 9).
- Access or correct your data. You can see your watchlist and past briefings in your account. For anything else, contact us.
Depending on where you live, including California, you may have additional rights to know, access, correct, or delete personal information. We honor those requests. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context advertising.
6. Keeping your account link private
The emails we send you contain personal links to your briefs and your account page. Anyone who has a link can view your watchlist, change it, or unsubscribe you. Please do not forward those emails publicly.
7. Security and retention
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information, including encrypted connections and access controls on our systems. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. We keep your subscriber record and briefing history until you ask us to delete them, and we keep analytics data for as long as our analytics providers retain it.
8. Children
Metric Finance is intended for adults and is not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has subscribed, contact us and we will delete the record.
9. Contact
For privacy questions or to make a request, reply to any Metric Finance briefing email and put "Privacy" in your message.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we will also tell subscribers by email. Our Terms of Service also apply to your use of Metric Finance.