Privacy Policy

Version 1.3
Effective date: October 28, 2026
Last updated: October 28, 2026

Crescent Clipper, Inc. (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) explains in this Privacy Policy how we collect, use, and disclose personal information through https://www.crescentclipper.com/ (the “Site”) and related communications, including email you send us.

The Site offers forms you can use to sign up for our research updates, apply to our Partner Program, or request access to our platform (the “Forms”). You can also contact us by email. The Site uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use it (see Section 3). It does not use advertising technology, and it does not offer user accounts. We may later add features such as user accounts. This Privacy Policy applies to those features as they become available, and we will update it before adding any feature that collects personal information in a way not described here.

Our Website Terms of Use separately govern your use of the Site. The current version of this Privacy Policy is always available at https://crescentclipper.com/privacy/. Section 12 of this Privacy Policy contains additional information for California residents.

1. Information we collect

Information you provide

We collect personal information you provide when you:

• Contact us. When you email us, we receive your email address, your name and any other contact details you choose to include, and the contents of your message and any attachments.
• Submit a Form. When you sign up for research updates, apply to our Partner Program, or request access to our platform, we collect your first and last name, work email address, and, depending on the Form, your company, role, company website, the industries you work in or are interested in, and your message (such as how you would like to partner or your biggest operational pain points). We also record that you agreed to be contacted, which Form you used, and the date and time of your submission.
• Create or use an account (when available). This may include your name, email address, login credentials or authentication information, account settings, and information you choose to include in your profile.
• Submit content or feedback (when available). This includes “User Content” and “Feedback” as defined in our Terms of Use, support requests, and other communications.

Please do not send us sensitive personal information (for example, government ID numbers, financial account information, health information, or precise geolocation) unless we specifically request it through an appropriate process.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the Site, our hosting and network provider automatically processes standard technical information needed to deliver the page and protect it from abuse. This includes:

• Your IP address, and browser and device information sent with your request (such as browser type and operating system).
• The page or file requested, and the date and time of the request.
• Technical information about errors and security events.

The Site also uses Google Analytics, which collects information about your visit through your browser. Section 3 describes what it collects and how to opt out. The Site does not use advertising cookies, pixels, or similar technologies.

Information from authentication providers

If we later offer sign-in through a third-party provider and you choose to use it, we may receive information that the provider makes available based on your settings and authorization, such as your name, email address, and an account identifier.

2. How we use information

We use personal information to:

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Site and its features.
• Respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your requests.
• Create and administer accounts, authenticate users, and provide account support (when available).
• Review Partner Program applications and platform access requests, and follow up with you about them.
• Send research updates and other communications you request, or that we otherwise send as permitted by law.
• Understand which industries and operational challenges interest our visitors, so we can shape our research, services, and partnerships.
• Measure how visitors find and use the Site, such as which pages they view and which websites or searches referred them, so we can improve it.
• Detect and prevent fraud, unauthorized access, misuse, and other security issues.
• Enforce our Terms of Use, comply with legal obligations, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, including under the dispute resolution process in our Terms of Use.

We do not use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you.

3. Cookies and analytics

Analytics. The Site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. When you visit a page, a script from Google sends Google information about your visit: the pages you view, how you arrived (for example the referring website or search), the date and time, your browser, device type, operating system, and screen size, and your IP address, which Google uses to estimate your approximate location (such as city and country) and does not store. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (named _ga and _ga_GNZBM0PJZH) that hold a random identifier, so it can recognize return visits to the Site. These cookies last up to two years unless you delete them. We receive only aggregated reports and do not use Google Analytics to identify you. Google Analytics data is kept for up to 14 months.

We have turned off Google Analytics advertising features, including Google signals and ad personalization, so this information is not used for advertising or linked to your Google account. If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, or if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, Google Analytics does not set cookies; it sends Google only cookieless measurements, without a persistent identifier.

Google processes this information under its own policies. Learn more at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. You can opt out of Google Analytics on all websites with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, by enabling Global Privacy Control in your browser, or by blocking cookies or scripts from Google.

Security cookies. Our hosting and network provider may use strictly necessary security measures, which can include a short-lived security cookie, to protect the Site from malicious traffic.

If we later add features such as accounts, we may use cookies needed for those features, for example to keep you signed in. Before adding any other analytics or tracking technology, we will update this Privacy Policy.

Most browsers let you block or delete cookies in their settings. Blocking cookies does not affect your use of the Site today, but it may affect account access or other features once they are available.

Do Not Track. Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” signal. Because there is no common standard for it, the Site does not change how it operates when it receives this signal. We honor Global Privacy Control as described above.

Global Privacy Control. We do not sell or share personal information (see Section 4). If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal or another legally recognized opt-out preference signal, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information associated with that browser. This applies if our practices ever change.

Third-party tracking. Apart from Google Analytics as described above, we do not allow third parties to collect personal information about your online activities when you use the Site, and we have configured Google Analytics not to link your activity on the Site to your activity on other websites. Links from the Site to third-party websites (such as LinkedIn) are configured not to send the Site’s address to those websites.

4. How we disclose information

We may disclose personal information in the following circumstances:

• Service providers. To providers that process information on our behalf under contracts that limit their use of it, such as website hosting and network security, Form processing, email delivery and hosting, data storage, and, when those features are offered, authentication and customer support. When you submit a Form, Cloudflare hosts the Site and receives your submission; Resend delivers it to our team by email and keeps logs of the emails it sends for 30 days; and Google Workspace hosts our email, where we receive and keep your submission. Google provides Google Analytics, which receives the information described in Section 3.
• At your direction. When you ask us to disclose information or use a feature designed to share it.
• User content. If we offer public or shared features, content you choose to submit to those features may be visible to the audience identified for that feature. Email you send us is not a public posting.
• Legal and security purposes. To comply with applicable law or legal process, protect rights and safety, investigate misuse, or enforce our agreements, including our Terms of Use.
• Business transactions. In connection with a proposed or completed merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction, including related due diligence, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.
• With your consent. For other purposes that we explain when seeking your consent.

No sale, sharing, or targeted advertising. We do not sell personal information. We do not “share” it for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined under California law, and we do not process it for targeted advertising. We have not done so in the past 12 months. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

5. Your choices and requests

Account information

When accounts are available, you may review and update your information through account settings. As described in our Terms of Use, you may delete your account at any time by following the instructions on the Site. If you need help, contact privacy@crescentclipper.com.

Deleting an account does not necessarily remove all related information immediately. We may keep information for the purposes described in Section 6 or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

Marketing communications

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails, including research updates you signed up for through a Form, by using the unsubscribe link in those emails or by contacting us at privacy@crescentclipper.com. We may continue to send non-marketing messages, such as account, security, and service communications, and notices about changes to our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy.

Privacy requests

You may email privacy@crescentclipper.com to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information. Please put “Privacy Request” in the subject line.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights. These may include obtaining a portable copy of your information, opting out of certain processing, or appealing a decision about a privacy request. California residents should see Section 12 for their rights and how to exercise them. We will handle requests as required by applicable law.

We may need to verify your identity or authority before acting on a request. Some information may be exempt from a request under applicable law. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

6. Retention

We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Those purposes include responding to inquiries and Form submissions, sending research updates until you unsubscribe, evaluating partnership and access requests, maintaining accounts, meeting legal obligations, resolving disputes, and protecting security. Section 12 lists the retention criteria for each category of personal information.

Copies of Form submissions in the logs of our email delivery provider, Resend, are kept for 30 days. Retention periods depend on the type of information, why we collected it, whether an account remains active, and legal requirements. Information in backups may remain until those backups are overwritten or deleted through our normal processes.

7. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information. For example, the Site and its Forms are served only over encrypted HTTPS connections. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

When accounts are available, you are responsible for keeping your login information confidential, as described in our Terms of Use. Please notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorized use of your account.

8. Adults only

Consistent with our Terms of Use, the Site is intended only for people who are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can delete it.

9. Third-party websites and services

The Site may link to third-party websites or services, such as LinkedIn. Their own privacy policies govern their practices. This Privacy Policy does not cover information you provide directly to those third parties.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as our practices, features, or legal obligations change. We will post the updated policy at https://crescentclipper.com/privacy/ and revise the “Last updated” date. We review this policy at least once every 12 months. If we make material changes, we may also notify you by email at the last address you provided, consistent with our Terms of Use. When required by law, we will obtain your consent before applying changes.

11. Contact us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy request, contact:

12. Additional information for California residents

This section supplements the rest of this Privacy Policy for California residents. Based on our current size and practices, we do not believe we are currently subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (“CCPA”). We nonetheless provide the information below and honor the requests described in this section voluntarily. If the CCPA comes to apply to us, we will update this Privacy Policy to meet its requirements.

Personal information we collect

In the past 12 months, we have collected the categories below. Categories marked “when available” apply only once the related feature launches. We collect each category from you directly, from your browser or device, or (for authentication information) from a sign-in provider you choose to use. We disclose each category for business purposes only to the service providers described in Section 4, and as otherwise described in that section. We do not sell or share any category.

We use sensitive personal information only to provide the services you request and to secure your account. We do not use it to infer characteristics about you. We do not collect precise geolocation.

Your requests

Subject to exceptions allowed by law, you may ask us to:

• Know and access. Tell you the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, where it came from, why we collected it, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed it.
• Delete. Delete personal information we collected from you.
• Correct. Correct inaccurate personal information.
• Opt out of sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information. If our practices ever change, we will honor opt-out requests, including Global Privacy Control signals.

We use sensitive personal information only for the limited purposes described above. We will not deny you services, charge you a different price, or provide a different quality of service because you made a request. We do not offer financial incentives tied to personal information.

How to submit a request

To submit a request, email privacy@crescentclipper.com with “California Privacy Request” in the subject line. You may also write to us at the mailing address in Section 11. You do not need an account to submit a request.

We aim to confirm receipt within 10 business days and respond within 45 calendar days. If we need more time, we will tell you why and when to expect a response. If we deny a request in whole or in part, we will explain why.

Verification. To protect your information, we verify requests to know, delete, or correct. We will ask you to confirm control of the email address associated with your request, and we may ask for limited additional information to match you with our records. We use that information only for verification.

Authorized agents. You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We may require the agent to provide proof of your signed permission. We may also ask you to verify your identity directly or confirm that you gave the agent permission.

Shine the Light

California Civil Code § 1798.83 lets California residents ask whether a business has disclosed their personal information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. We do not make such disclosures. You may send questions to the email address in Section 11.

Complaints

If you have a concern about our privacy practices, please contact us first. You may also contact the California Attorney General or the California Privacy Protection Agency. As stated in our Terms of Use, California residents may also report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, 400 R Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, (800) 952-5210.