Privacy Policy

1. Operating Entity & Scope

This Privacy Policy documents how Atmostellar ("Company", "we", "us", "our"), registered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, collects, uses, stores, and safeguards personal information when you access beforeregret.com or use Before Regret services.

2. Information We Collect

The type of data we collect depends on how you interact with our platform:

4. How We Use Collected Data

We utilize collected information solely for operational and service delivery purposes:

• Generating and rendering free property research reports.
• Managing vendor placement billing, account modifications, and the contact details a vendor submits for their own listing.
• Auditing dataset accuracy, resolving user data error flags, and improving pSEO page rendering.
• Maintaining cybersecurity, detecting abuse, and fulfilling legal tax and accounting requirements.

5. Third-Party Data Sharing & Disclosure

We adhere to strict data minimization standards:

• Vendor Business Information: For vendors with an active placement, business contact details (company name, trade category, phone number, and logo) appear publicly within sponsored placements ("Need help verifying this?" sections) on free property reports in the vendor's selected zip codes. Vendor internal billing records are never disclosed publicly.
• Consumer Data Privacy: Consumer search queries, IP addresses, and personal inquiry emails are NEVER sold, rented, monetized, or shared with third-party advertisers, market brokers, or commercial vendors.
• Statutory Disclosures: We disclose information only when required by valid judicial order, law enforcement subpoena, or statutory legal obligation.

Service providers who process data for us. Running this site means other companies handle some of your data on our behalf. They may only use it to provide their service to us, never for their own purposes:

• LocationIQ — suggests matching addresses as you type in the search box. What you type is sent to LocationIQ; your name, email, account identifier and IP address are not.
• US Census Bureau — confirms the address you entered is a real, locatable US address before any report is produced, and looks up the neighborhood figures for its census tract. The address is sent to this US government service; nothing identifying you is.
• US Geological Survey — returns the earthquake design values for the property. The property's map coordinates are sent; nothing identifying you is.
• Clerk — provides sign-in. Holds your email address, name and any profile photo from the sign-in method you chose, under its own privacy policy.
• PayPal — processes vendor placement payments, as described in section 3.
• Neon (database hosting) and Vercel (application hosting) — store and serve the data described in this policy. Both hold it as infrastructure providers and neither uses it for any purpose of their own.

6. Cookie & Analytics Disclosure

We run no analytics or tracking scripts. There is no Google Analytics on this site, no advertising pixel, no third-party tracker, and no cross-site profiling of any kind. We do not set advertising cookies, and there is no cookie consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.

Two things do happen, and both are worth naming rather than leaving to the word "standard":

• A sign-in cookie, only if you sign in. Our authentication provider (Clerk) sets a session cookie so you stay signed in between pages. Browse without signing in and it is never set.
• Ordinary server logs. Our hosting provider records requests to the site, including IP address and browser user-agent, as essentially every web server does. We separately keep a short-lived record of IP addresses to enforce the daily free-report limit — see section 7 for how long.

We also keep a log of visits by AI crawlers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and similar), recording only the bot's own user-agent and the page it fetched, so we can see whether AI systems are reading our guides. No human visitor is recorded in it.

7. Data Retention & User Rights

We retain vendor registration and receipt records for the duration of the active placement plus required legal tax retention periods.

Report request records. When you generate a property report, we keep a record of that request: the address you researched, the property type, year built, and unit number you entered, your account identifier where you were signed in, and the IP address and browser user-agent at that moment. We also store the finished report itself, so that your link still opens when you return to it or send it to someone else. This is a record about you, not an anonymous statistic, and we keep it deliberately for two reasons: it is the evidence of what was actually submitted if a report is later disputed as inaccurate (see sections 3.5 and 3.6 of our Terms of Service), and it is what lets us investigate abuse of the free-report allowance. We retain it for three years from the date of the request, then delete it.

Free-report limit records. To stop one person from consuming the free-report allowance endlessly, we count report requests against the IP address they came from. That record is just the IP address, the date, and a count — no address you searched, no account, no name. We keep it for 30 days, then delete it.

Terms acceptance records. When you accept our Terms of Service, we record that acceptance: your account identifier and email address, which revision of the Terms you accepted, the date and time, and the IP address and browser user-agent at that moment. This is kept as evidence of the agreement between us, for as long as that agreement could give rise to a claim.

Arbitration opt-out records. If you email us to opt out of the arbitration agreement in section 7.9 of the Terms, we record that too: your email address, the revision of the Terms you are rejecting, the date you sent it, and a copy of your message. We keep this so that your opt-out can be proved later by either of us -- a right nobody can evidence is not much of a right. It is retained on the same basis, and for the same reason, as the acceptance record above.

Your Data Rights: You have the right to request access to, correction of, or permanent deletion of your personal information stored by Atmostellar. To submit a data privacy request, email hello@beforeregret.com. Privacy requests are fulfilled within 14 business days.

One limit on deletion, stated plainly. We may retain the Terms acceptance record and the report request record described above, and records of payments, after other data is deleted, where retention is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim, or to meet a tax or accounting obligation. Deleting the record of an agreement, or of what was submitted to produce a report, would remove the evidence of what each side actually did, which does not serve either of us. Everything not needed for those purposes is deleted on request, and the report request record is deleted outright once the three-year period above has run.

8. Disputes About Privacy

Contact us first -- most concerns are resolved directly, and section 7.1 of our Terms of Service requires both sides to attempt informal resolution for 60 days before any formal proceeding. Beyond that, a claim relating to this policy is subject to the binding individual arbitration agreement and class action waiver in section 7 of the Terms, which control over this summary, with the same small claims carve-out and the same 30-day opt-out. None of this limits any right you have to complain to a data protection authority in your jurisdiction.