Alaska Sector Watch — terms of service and privacy notice
1. What you are buying
Alaska Sector Watch is a subscription to market intelligence on Alaska industry sectors: a weekly issue per sector, the daily scan that feeds it, a funding and RFP register, company directories, executive moves, sector models, and email alerts you choose. It is published by Intro Market Research Group LLC ("we", "us"). By starting a trial or a subscription you agree to these terms.
2. Trial, billing and cancellation
- A first subscription starts with a free trial of the length shown at checkout (7 days at launch). Your card is taken at checkout and nothing is charged until the trial ends. Cancel during the trial and you pay nothing.
- One free trial per person. If your email address has already started a subscription with us, a new subscription has no free trial and is billed from the day of checkout; checkout says so before you pay. Capital letters, a “+tag” or the dots in a Gmail address do not make it a different address.
- After the trial, the plan renews automatically, monthly or annually as chosen, at the price shown at checkout, until you cancel. Prices can change for future periods; you will be told by email at least 14 days before a change applies to you.
- Cancel any time through the billing link in your emails (Stripe's customer portal) or by writing to us. Access continues to the end of the period already paid for. We do not refund partial periods, and we do not charge cancellation fees.
- If a payment fails, we keep access for a short grace period while Stripe retries the card; if it still fails, the subscription ends.
- Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number.
3. Seats and sharing
- An individual plan is for one named reader. A team plan is for up to five named readers in one organization.
- You may quote short passages internally and in your own analysis with attribution. You may not resell, republish, scrape, or systematically redistribute the issues, the registers, the directories or the emails, or make them available outside your organization.
4. What the content is, and is not
- Every figure and statement is read on a public page and linked to it, with its date. We work from public sources and do our best to be accurate and current, but we make no warranty that the content is complete, error-free or up to date, and public sources themselves change or disappear.
- The content is information and analysis, not legal, financial, investment, tax or procurement advice, and it is not a substitute for reading the underlying notice, filing or solicitation before you act. Decisions you make on it are yours.
- Sector models (SWOT, Porter's Five Forces) are our editorial judgement of the sourced items, moved on a stated method; they are opinions.
- Names of companies, agencies and people appear as they appear in public sources. If something about you or your organization is wrong, write to us and we correct it.
5. Liability
To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything arising from the service in any twelve-month period is limited to the amount you paid us in that period, and we are not liable for indirect, consequential or lost-profit damages. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
6. Availability and changes
We aim to publish every week and to scan every day, and we may change the sectors covered, the features, or the method; we will not reduce what your plan covers during a period you have paid for without offering a refund of the remainder. We may suspend access that breaches section 3.
7. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Alaska. Any dispute is heard in the state or federal courts sitting in Anchorage, Alaska, unless the law where you live gives you a right to something else.
Privacy notice
- What we collect. Your email address, your plan, sectors and alert choices, the Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, and the dates of your trial and billing periods. Stripe collects and holds your payment details under its own privacy policy. If you use the custom-solutions or contact forms, Formspree passes us what you typed.
- Why. To provide the subscription, send the issues and the alerts you chose, bill you, answer you, and keep the service running. We do not sell or rent your data, and we do not use it for advertising.
- Who processes it for us. Stripe (payments), Resend (sending and receiving email), Supabase (our database), Netlify (hosting), Formspree (web forms). Each acts under a contract and its own security measures.
- Emails. The weekly issue and the alerts you chose are part of the subscription; you switch alerts off on your settings page and stop the issue by cancelling. We do not use open or click tracking in our emails.
- Cookies. The pages use no advertising or analytics cookies. Stripe's checkout and portal set their own cookies on their pages.
- Keeping and deleting. We keep your record while you subscribe and for the time tax and accounting law requires afterwards; write to us to see what we hold or to have it deleted sooner where the law allows.
- Security. Access to our systems is limited to the people who run the service; secrets are held in the hosting platform, never in email or code.
- Contact. Intro Market Research Group LLC, Anchorage, Alaska — anna@intromarketresearch.group.