Privacy Policy

1. What This Covers

This Privacy Policy describes how AlgoEdge ("we," "us," "our") collects, uses, and protects information when you use the AlgoEdge mobile app, website, or related services.

2. Information We Collect

Information you provide

• Account information: email address and password (stored hashed) when you sign up
• Display name: an optional handle you choose for the leaderboard (defaults to "Anonymous")
• Simulator preferences: your chosen starting virtual balance, which strategies you enable, which politicians you follow, and risk settings such as stop-loss and position-size limits
• Lesson progress: which lessons you complete and your quiz scores
• AI tutor questions (optional): if you choose to use the in-app AI tutor, the questions you type and the tutor's answers
• Chat messages (optional): messages you post in the Trading Floor chat, shown publicly to other signed-in players with your leaderboard name; plus any reports you submit and players you block

Information collected automatically

• Simulated activity: virtual buys and sells generated in your account, including timestamps, tickers, sides, quantities, and the strategy signal or politician disclosure that triggered each simulated trade. These are simulated records only — no real orders are ever placed.
• Simulated portfolio state: your virtual equity, cash, positions, and performance, all computed by our software
• Push notification token: if you allow notifications, a device token that lets us send them, plus a record of which notifications we sent and whether they were delivered
• Last opened: when you last opened the app, so we can send an occasional reminder if you have been away
• Technical & analytics data: device type, OS version, app version, and crash reports used to fix bugs and improve the app

Information we do NOT collect

• Brokerage credentials or API keys — AlgoEdge is a simulator and does not connect to any broker
• Payment card numbers or banking details
• Advertising identifiers — AlgoEdge does not show ads or track you across other apps
• Social security numbers or government IDs
• Real-time location, contacts, photos, microphone, or camera

3. How We Use Your Information

• Operate the simulator: authenticate your account, run the trading simulation, and display your virtual portfolio, history, and leaderboard rank
• Teach: track your lesson progress and show your learning level, including on the leaderboard
• Answer your questions (AI tutor): if you opt in, generate answers to your questions using your questions and a summary of your practice portfolio — see the AI tutor section below
• Send notifications: if you allow them — alerts about simulated trades, leaderboard changes, a daily recap, and learning reminders. You can turn them off in the app (Settings → Notifications) or in your device settings.
• Improve the app: diagnose crashes, understand which features are used, and plan future development
• Communicate with you: account confirmations, password resets, important service or launch announcements, and security alerts

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

4. Third-Party Services We Use

AlgoEdge relies on these providers to deliver the service. Each has its own privacy policy.

• Supabase — authentication and database hosting for your account and simulated portfolio
• Railway — backend hosting that runs the simulation and fetches public Congressional disclosures
• Market data providers — public stock-price data used to value your simulated positions (no personal data is shared with them)
• Anthropic — provides the Claude AI model behind the optional AI tutor (details below)
• Expo & Apple Push Notification service — mobile app builds, over-the-air updates, and delivery of push notifications
• Apple App Store — app distribution

Because AlgoEdge is a simulator, we never collect or store brokerage credentials and never place real trades or move money on your behalf.

AI tutor

The AI tutor is optional and off until you agree to it in the app. When you ask the tutor a question, we send the following to Anthropic so its Claude model can write an answer:

• your question and your recent conversation with the tutor
• a summary of your simulated practice portfolio: virtual cash and equity, open positions, recent simulated trades and why they closed, the strategies you run, the lessons you have completed, and your leaderboard rank

We do not send your email address, your leaderboard name, or any information from outside AlgoEdge. Anthropic processes this data to provide the answer under its commercial terms, which do not permit it to use this data to train its models. Your conversation is stored in your AlgoEdge account so you can see it later; you can delete it at any time with the trash icon on the Ask tab. Tutor answers are educational, may be inaccurate, and are not investment advice.

5. Where Your Data Is Stored

• Supabase project region: US West (Oregon)
• Backups: managed by Supabase per their retention schedule
• Logs on Railway: retained per Railway's default policy, typically 7 days

6. How Long We Keep Data

• Account data: retained while your account is active. Deleted within 30 days of an account deletion request.
• Simulated trade records: retained for your historical reference unless you reset your portfolio or request deletion.
• AI tutor conversations: kept until you clear them in the app or delete your account.
• Chat messages: kept until you delete them (long-press → Delete) or delete your account. Messages removed for breaking the rules, and related reports, may be kept for moderation and safety.
• Notification records: kept for up to 90 days to prevent duplicate notifications and diagnose delivery problems.
• Backend logs: auto-rotated after approximately 7 days.

7. Your Rights

You may at any time:

• View what we store about you in the app (Settings, Portfolio, Activity)
• Reset your virtual portfolio (Settings → Reset portfolio)
• Clear your AI tutor conversation (Ask tab → trash icon)
• Delete your own chat messages, and block other players (long-press a message)
• Turn notifications off (Settings → Notifications, or your device settings)
• Delete your account and its data in the app (Settings → Delete account), or by emailing info@algoedge.pro
• Request a copy of your data by emailing info@algoedge.pro

If you are a California resident, the CCPA grants you additional rights to know, delete, and opt out of the sale of personal information (we do not sell). EU/UK residents have similar rights under GDPR.

8. Security

We use:

• TLS for all network traffic
• Hashed password storage via our authentication provider
• Row-level security policies in Supabase so users can only access their own data
• Service-role keys used only by backend services, never exposed in the mobile app

No system is perfectly secure. If we become aware of a breach affecting your data, we will notify you within 72 hours where required by law.

9. Children

AlgoEdge is rated for users 17 and older and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

10. Changes

We may update this policy. Material changes will be communicated in-app or by email at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

11. Contact

Questions, data requests, or deletion requests: info@algoedge.pro