Northshore Gen policy

Privacy and Google Data Use

This policy explains the limited information Northshore Gen handles for this public-information site and its consultation intake workflow. Last updated August 21, 2026.

What this site collects

Public pages are available without an account. If you submit a correction or source, Northshore Gen receives the page reference, public source URL, explanation, and any optional contact email you provide. Submissions are reviewed before anything is published.

The project-watch form collects an email address and selected update topics only after email delivery is enabled and you confirm through a double opt-in link. Optional Northshore Gen news and research communications are separate from project alerts and can be unsubscribed independently.

Research Pass accounts retain the email address used to sign in, submitted research questions, completed briefs, credit history, and the minimum account activity needed to reopen that work. You can delete individual briefs from your private history.

Analytics and technical data

Northshore Gen does not load Google Analytics, advertising pixels, or cross-site tracking scripts. The Studio uses first-party anonymous analytics for page and section views, coarse acquisition and device categories, project interactions, performance, and Rivet reliability. A browser-tab session identifier is hashed on the server with a dedicated secret; the raw value is never stored. Do Not Track is honored, and internal and automated-browser traffic is excluded.

A one-way derived daily rate-limit key may be used to protect public forms, analytics ingestion, and Rivet chat from abuse; raw IP addresses are not stored for this purpose. Full referrer URLs, raw user agents, search text, and Rivet transcripts are not stored in Studio analytics. Detailed anonymous sessions and events are retained for 90 days and daily aggregates for 24 months. Operational session data may be used for signed-in Research Pass access. This site does not sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising.

Google Workspace helper

Consultation intake helper

Northshore Gen uses a Google Workspace helper to read responses to the Northshore Gen consultation form. It creates internal lead notes and pipeline records only for Northshore Gen's own workflow.

The helper uses the Google permissions displayed during consent only to provide Northshore Gen's approved workspace workflows. For the consultation intake, that means retrieving form responses and maintaining internal local records. It does not send client emails, texts, or messages, sell Google user data, use Google user data for advertising, or make that data available to other users.

Google user data is kept only as long as needed for the internal intake record and is accessible only to authorized Northshore Gen workflows. The helper is not offered as a public signup or third-party client integration.

Choices, retention, and contact

If a Rivet visitor opens the prepared email handoff, Northshore Gen stores only the current 3–6 bullet project summary and an anonymous reference so the Northshore Gen team can understand the request. The record is labeled “Draft opened”; opening Gmail does not prove that an email was sent. Lead summaries remain until Northshore Gen archives or permanently deletes them.

You can ask Northshore Gen to correct or delete a correction submission, project-watch subscription, Research Pass account record, or consultation-intake record that identifies you, subject to legal and operational obligations. Project-alert and optional marketing emails include their own unsubscribe controls.

Questions or requests about this policy or Google data use can be sent to northshoregenai@gmail.com. Please identify the relevant form, account, or request so Northshore Gen can locate it without collecting unnecessary information.

This policy applies to Northshore Gen's own services and does not control the privacy practices of public source websites linked from the evidence library. See the Research Pass and correction desk for the related service details.

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