Privacy

What Pulsar collects

Three things, and only because the product does not work without them. Your email address, which Apple provides when you sign in — often as a private relay address, which is Apple’s to resolve and not ours. An identifier Apple issues for your account, which is what makes a returning user the same user. And the theses you write: your own words about a company, stored so you can revise and re-read them.

Pulsar never receives your name. Sign in with Apple is requested with the email scope alone.

What Pulsar does not collect

There is no analytics, crash reporting, attribution or advertising code in the app, and no advertising identifier is read. Pulsar does not track you across other apps or websites, and has nothing to share with anyone who would. It does not ask for your location, contacts, photos or health data, and does not use the microphone or camera.

Research is shared, and is not yours alone

A dossier is an analysis of a public company, not a record about you. Dossiers are shared: when you research a company, the result may be shown to someone else who asks about the same company, and a dossier you read may have been commissioned by someone else. Nothing identifying travels with it — a dossier never names who requested it.

Payment

If you subscribe to Pulsar Plus, Apple processes the payment. Pulsar never sees your card, and receives only a transaction Apple has signed, which tells us that a subscription is active and which Pulsar account it belongs to.

Where your data is held

On servers Pulsar operates in the United States. The evidence Pulsar analyses comes from public company filings — chiefly the SEC’s EDGAR system, which is public record. Drafting the written analysis involves sending that public evidence to an AI provider; your email, your identifier and your theses are not part of that.

Deleting your account

Settings offers deletion, and it is immediate and irreversible. Your identities, sessions and theses are erased, and Pulsar asks Apple to revoke the sign-in token it holds. Dossiers commissioned by your account remain, because they are analyses of public companies rather than records about you — but they stop naming your account entirely.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected, the app will say so rather than quietly replacing the text. Questions about your data can be sent to the address on the support page.