Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 2026
Welcome to StockScopeAI. This Privacy Policy explains how information is processed when you visit and use this website.
StockScopeAI is a personal educational project that provides stock analysis, machine learning predictions, charts, AI-generated explanations, and AI chat functionality. This website does not provide financial, investment, legal, or professional advice.
1. Website Owner / Controller
The controller of this website is the owner of StockScopeAI.
Contact: brickmond1@gmail.com
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, you can contact the website owner using the contact information above.
2. Information We Process
When you use this website, we may process the following types of information:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- User agent information
- Requested pages and API paths
- Date and time of requests
- Basic technical session data
- Cookie consent choice
- Stock symbols submitted for analysis or prediction
- AI chat messages submitted through the prediction page
- Error and security logs
3. Why We Process This Information
We process this information for the following purposes:
- To operate the website and provide its core features.
- To display stock charts and stock analysis.
- To provide machine learning prediction features.
- To provide AI-generated explanations and AI chat functionality.
- To secure the website and prevent abuse.
- To apply rate limits and protect the service from excessive requests.
- To detect, investigate, and fix technical errors.
- To improve reliability and user experience.
- To remember your cookie consent choice.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Depending on the specific feature, we process data based on one or more of the following legal bases:
- Legitimate interest: for security logging, abuse prevention, rate limiting, debugging, and maintaining the reliability of the website.
- Performance of a requested service: when you submit a stock symbol, request a prediction, open an AI explanation, or use the AI chat feature.
- Consent: for optional cookies, saved preferences, and saved AI chat history where consent is required.
5. Cookies
This website uses necessary cookies and technical data to make the website work correctly, securely, and reliably.
Necessary cookies may be used without optional consent because they are required for basic website functionality, security, session handling, rate limiting, or remembering your cookie choice.
Optional cookies are only used after you give consent. Optional cookies may be used to remember preferences and save AI chat history on the prediction page.
Cookies and Storage Used
| Cookie / Storage | Purpose | Type | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookie_consent | Remembers whether you accepted or rejected optional cookies. | Necessary | Up to 12 months |
| Server logs | Used for security, abuse prevention, rate limiting, debugging, and reliability. | Necessary technical processing | Usually 7–30 days, depending on the hosting provider plan |
| AI chat session / history | Allows saved AI chat history on the prediction page. | Optional | Limited period, for example up to 30 days |
You can accept or reject optional cookies using the cookie banner. If you reject optional cookies, the website can still be used, but some optional features such as saved AI chat history may be disabled.
6. AI Chat and AI-Generated Content
If you use the AI chat feature, the messages you submit may be processed to generate AI responses and provide conversation history.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information, confidential information, passwords, payment information, or private financial information into the AI chat.
AI-generated responses may be inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated. They should not be treated as financial, investment, legal, or professional advice.
7. Server Logs and Security
Like many websites, StockScopeAI may keep server logs. These logs may include IP address, request path, timestamp, browser information, and error information.
Server logs are used for security, abuse prevention, rate limiting, debugging, and maintaining service reliability.
8. Third-Party Services
This website may use third-party services, including:
- Render for website hosting and infrastructure.
- Yahoo Finance / yfinance for market data.
- Google Gemini for AI-generated explanations and AI chat responses.
- Chart.js / jsDelivr CDN for displaying charts.
- Google Fonts for website fonts, if loaded by the page.
These third-party services may process technical data as necessary to provide their functionality.
9. International Data Transfers
Some third-party services used by this website may process data outside your country or outside the European Economic Area. Where applicable, such processing depends on the safeguards and terms provided by the relevant third-party service.
10. Data Retention
Personal data is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
- Cookie consent choice may be stored for up to 12 months.
- Server logs are retained for a limited period according to the hosting provider’s log retention settings, usually between 7 and 30 days depending on the hosting plan.
- AI chat history may be stored for a limited period if optional cookies are accepted.
- Data may be deleted earlier if it is no longer needed.
11. Your Rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area, you may have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, including:
- The right to access your personal data.
- The right to correct inaccurate personal data.
- The right to request deletion of your personal data.
- The right to restrict processing.
- The right to object to certain processing.
- The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- The right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
To exercise your rights, contact the website owner using the contact information provided above.
12. Financial Disclaimer
StockScopeAI is a personal educational project. Market data, stock analysis, machine learning predictions, charts, AI-generated explanations, and AI chat responses are provided for educational and research purposes only.
Nothing on this website should be considered financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any financial instrument. You should not rely on this website for trading or investment decisions.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. The latest version will be available on this page.