Privacy Policy

Your account. Your name and email address, held by our authentication provider. If you sign in with Google, Google shares your name, email address and profile picture with us; we never receive your Google password. A copy of your account identity is also stored in our own database so that your trades and settings can be linked to you.

What you enter. Positions you record in My Trades, and the filter settings you choose on the screeners. This is your own data and it is only ever shown back to you.

Support messages. When you use the contact form we send your message together with your name, email address, account identifier, the page or ticker you were looking at, the time, and your browser's user-agent string. That context is what lets a reply be useful rather than a request for more detail. If you call our support phone line or leave a voicemail there, your phone number and your message pass through Google Voice, which forwards them to us.

Notices to us about your subscription. When you create an account, start a trial, subscribe, make a payment, cancel, or a payment fails, we send ourselves a short email with your email address and, where there is one, the plan and amount, and once a day a summary that includes new accounts. These notices go to our support mailbox and to the owner's email account. Notices of new accounts, trials and subscriptions also go to a member of the SpreadVector team. They are used only to run the business.

Referral codes. If you join with a referral code, we record which partner referred you and use your subscription payments to calculate the commission we pay them. The partner is not given your card details.

Invitations. If we give you free access before you have an account, we store your email address so our sign-in provider can send you the invitation, and delete that record once you sign up or the invitation is cancelled.

Free scan limits. A free account gets a set number of free scans each day. To apply that, we keep a daily count against your account: how many scans you ran that day, when, and whether you used that day's live scan. We use these counts to apply the limit, to decide whether to send the morning reminder described below, and to see in total how the free scans are used. They are deleted with your account.

Newsletter sign-ups. If you sign up for the weekly scan, we pass your email address to beehiiv, which sends the newsletter, together with the page you signed up on and any link tag you arrived with (for example ?ref=youtube). No account is needed and nothing else is sent: not your IP address, and not any numbers you typed into a calculator. beehiiv records whether you confirmed your subscription and, for each issue, whether it was opened and which links were clicked, and from those clicks your approximate location (city and country).

Server logs. Our host records ordinary web-server information, including IP addresses, for a limited period. We do not use it to build any profile of you.

Visit counts. We use Vercel Web Analytics to count visits in total: which pages are viewed, the website that sent the visitor (for example youtube.com, or a tag such as ?ref=youtube on a link we posted), and the visitor's country, browser and device type. It sets no cookies and keeps no profile of anyone. Vercel tells repeat visits apart with a one-way hash of the request, which it discards after 24 hours, and we see only totals. Before anything is sent, the web address is cut down to the page and any link tag, and pages in our own admin area are not counted at all.

Where you came from. When you arrive from a link we posted (for example ?ref=youtube), a partner's referral link, or another website, we keep that tag or the website's name in a small cookie for 90 days, with the first page you saw and the date. If you create an account, it is saved with your account so we can tell which posts and sites bring people to SpreadVector. Nothing else is kept, and it is not shared with anyone.

Stored on your device, not sent to us. Your navy/beige theme choice, your Getting Started progress, your course progress and the day's last standard screener scan are kept in your browser's local storage. They never reach our servers, which is also why they do not follow you to another device.

No advertising or cross-site tracking. No Google Analytics, no advertising pixels, no session recording, and no trackers that follow you to other websites. The visit counts described above are the only measurement on this website. The weekly newsletter counts opens and clicks in the email itself, as described under Emails we send.

We do not sell, rent or share your personal information with anyone for their own purposes. The companies listed below process data only to provide their service to us.

We have no access to your brokerage account. SpreadVector never connects to a broker. It cannot see your positions, your balances or your trades, and it cannot place an order.

Our market-data providers learn nothing about you. When a scan runs we ask them about a stock, never about a person. No name, email, account identifier or IP address of yours is sent to any data vendor.

About your account. Sign-in verification codes, payment receipts, a reminder before a free trial ends, and replies to your support messages. These are part of running your account and are sent whether or not you receive updates.

Occasional updates. If you create a free account, we send a short series of emails over about a week on how to use the screeners, ending with an invitation to the free trial; it stops as soon as you start a trial or subscribe. On weekday mornings we also send a short reminder that your free live scan is ready, with the number of setups in that morning's scan. It has its own link to stop it, and it stops by itself if you haven't run a scan in 10 days. We may also email you about SpreadVector — new features, tips, or offers. Every one of these has an unsubscribe link, and you can also ask us to stop at support@spreadvector.com. Unsubscribing stops these updates only; account emails continue.

Weekly newsletter. The weekly scan is a separate, free newsletter that anyone can join, with or without an account. It is sent for us by beehiiv. We ask you to confirm your address before the first issue, and every issue has an unsubscribe link. beehiiv counts opens and clicks so we can tell which issues are useful; we use those counts for nothing else. Unsubscribing from the newsletter does not affect account emails or the updates above, and unsubscribing from those does not affect the newsletter. If you subscribe on our newsletter page at spreadvector.beehiiv.com rather than on this site, that page is run by beehiiv and its own terms and privacy policy apply there.

Each of these companies handles some part of running the service. They are bound to use it only to provide that service.

Some of these companies are based in the United States and your information may be processed there.

We use the cookies required to keep you signed in, set by our authentication provider. If you play a Training Video, YouTube may set its own cookies from that point. We set one cookie of our own, sv_src, which holds where you came from (a link tag or a website's name), the first page you saw and the date, for 90 days (see “Where you came from” above). There are no advertising cookies; our visit counts work without any. Blocking the sign-in cookies will prevent you from staying signed in.

Your account and the trades you record are kept while your account exists. Support messages are kept in our support mailbox so we have a record of what was asked and answered. Server logs and caches are short-lived by design. Visit counts are kept only as totals, which cannot be traced back to you. If you close your account, tell us and we will delete your account record and your trades. Newsletter subscribers are kept by beehiiv while subscribed. After you unsubscribe, your address is kept marked as unsubscribed so you are not emailed again; ask us and we will delete it entirely.

You can see and change your name and email address from Account → Profile. You can ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to support@spreadvector.com and we will act on it. Depending on where you live you may have further rights under local law; we will honour those too.

SpreadVector is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has created an account, tell us and we will remove it.

This page describes where data actually goes, so it changes when that changes — if we add a service that handles your information, it will be named here. The date at the top always reflects the most recent change.

Questions about anything on this page: support@spreadvector.com, or through the contact form.