What we collect, and what we do with it.

The AK Owned application asks for information about the business: legal entity name, any trade name, Alaska business license number, year founded, industry, city or community, website, number of locations, number of owners, whether ownership is majority Alaska resident, whether the business is headquartered in Alaska, an employee count as a range, an annual revenue range, and whether any owner is over 55.

It also asks for contact details: a name, a role, an email address, a phone number, how you prefer to be reached, and anything you choose to write in the open field.

We record the two consent answers and the acknowledgment, with the date and time you gave them. We record the country your request came from, taken from our host. We do not store your full IP address.

A public profile shows the business name, any trade name, community, industry, year founded, employee count as a range, number of locations, website, a one-line description, and the profile written from your interview.

Revenue never appears on a public profile. Not as a range, not rounded, not described in words. Neither do contact details, your business license number, ownership structure, or anything you told us in conversation that is not in the written profile you saw before it went live.

We do not sell, rent, or license data about your business to anyone. There is no version of this where a marketing list company gets a copy.

If you gave benchmark consent, your figures may be combined with others into aggregate statistics about Alaska businesses. Aggregate means totals and ranges across many companies, published in a form that cannot be traced back to any one of them. If you did not give that consent, your figures are not in the aggregate at all.

Both consent boxes on the application start unchecked. Nothing is assumed. We store your answer to each one with a timestamp, so there is a record of exactly what you agreed to and when.

You can withdraw either consent at any time by replying to any email from us or writing to the address below. Withdrawing contact consent means we stop reaching out about succession and transition topics. Withdrawing benchmark consent means your figures come out of the next published aggregate. Neither affects your listing.

Application and profile data is kept while your listing is active and for two years after it lapses or you ask us to remove it, so we can answer questions about what was published and when. After that it is deleted.

Notes from an interview are kept for as long as the relationship is active. If you never become a client and your listing lapses, they are deleted with the rest.

We use a small number of service providers, and they process data on our instructions rather than for their own purposes.

Vercel hosts the website. Neon hosts the database. Resend sends the confirmation and notification emails. Microsoft 365 holds our working copy of member records. Each is a US-based provider under a standard processing agreement.

We do not run advertising pixels, session recording, or cross-site tracking of any kind on this site.

Write to us and ask. We will remove your listing, delete your application record and any interview notes, and confirm in writing when it is done. We do not require a reason and we will not try to talk you out of it.

Two things we cannot undo: an aggregate statistic already published cannot be recalculated, though it contains nothing identifying, and emails already sent to you remain in your inbox and ours.

Alaska Operator, Anchorage, Alaska. Use the contact link or reply to any email from us. A person reads it.