Privacy and participation

You can use Google or a passwordless email link. Google provides a verified email and basic profile information; the service never receives your Google or email password. Working Lists, contributions, and connection requests are private to you and the authorized administrator.

North Signal subscription stores your email, the exact consent language and version, signup placement, landing page, and delivery status. The weekly briefing is delivered through MailerLite using an authenticated True North Map sender and includes an unsubscribe link. Contact messages store only the details you enter and a one-way request fingerprint used for rate limiting.

Vercel provides aggregate traffic and performance measures. Private product telemetry records meaningful discovery actions and the North Signal funnel, including a qualified impression, prompt open, form start, submit attempt, success, error, or dismissal. These events use bounded placement and device context only. Email addresses and search questions are never attached to newsletter behaviour events. Raw IP addresses are not stored in the product database, and analytics are not used to build advertising profiles.

When you use Ask True North, your question and a compact copy of the published catalogue are sent to OpenAI to produce a structured assessment. Responses are not stored by OpenAI through this integration. True North Map keeps the question privately for up to 90 days to understand search gaps and records limited operational measures such as latency, token use, result count, and outcome. Do not enter classified, confidential, proprietary, or personal information.

Raw search text expires after 90 days and detailed workflow events after 30 days. Feedback, contact, consent, submissions, and connection requests remain private for review, follow-up, governance, and audit until no longer needed. Published records use approved public evidence only.