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Your information isn’t for sale.

This is the part where I assure you that signing up for North Star doesn’t mean your information is going onto another list, being sold, or being handed to advertisers.

The whole reason I built North Star was to put some reasonable boundaries around who can get into the Industry Directory. It would be pretty backwards to solve that by creating a new privacy problem.

So here’s what North Star collects, what it does with it, and what it doesn’t.

What you give North Star

When you request access, North Star asks for enough to confirm who you are and that you work in the industry:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your company and title
  • Your role in the industry
  • Any verification links or other information you choose to include

Once you’re a member, North Star also keeps the corrections and additions you suggest to the Directory. If you use the Contact page, it keeps what you send.

North Star is for working entertainment professionals and isn’t intended for children.

What it’s used for

  • Deciding whether you qualify for access
  • Managing your account
  • Keeping North Star secure
  • Reviewing the corrections and additions you suggest, and keeping track of how accurate each member’s contributions are over time
  • Responding to your messages, and contacting you when there’s a reason to

The Directory is separate

Your North Star account and the Industry Directory are two different things.

The Directory is a professional resource compiled from industry and publicly available information. It lists names, companies and titles, and can include work contact details. Someone appearing in the Directory doesn’t mean they have a North Star account.

The Directory relies on its members to help keep it current. When something changes, members suggest corrections and additions, and every suggestion is reviewed before it’s published.

The information you give when requesting access isn’t used to add you to the Directory or to change your Directory listing.

If you think something in the Directory is inaccurate, or you have a privacy concern about it, let North Star know and it will be reviewed.

Who gets your information

North Star does not sell your personal information.

What you submit when you request access isn’t shared with other North Star members, and it isn’t used for third-party advertising.

The same goes for your contributions. Only North Star sees who suggested a correction or addition; other members never do.

Like any website, North Star uses outside services for things like hosting, sign-in, email, databases, and analytics. Those providers may process information only as needed to provide those services.

North Star may also disclose information when the law requires it.

Your account information

North Star keeps access-request and account records as needed to operate and protect the service. That includes keeping a history of access requests and decisions, including declined requests.

For the information you gave when you requested access, you can contact North Star to:

  • ask what account or application information North Star has about you
  • correct it
  • ask for it to be deleted

This covers your account and application information. It doesn’t automatically extend to professional information that appears in the Industry Directory. Concerns about the Directory are reviewed as described above.

Cookies and analytics

North Star uses essential cookies to keep you signed in and protect access to the site.

North Star may also use basic analytics to understand how the site and Directory are being used, identify problems, and make the experience better. Analytics aren’t used to sell your personal information or serve third-party advertising.

Changes to this page

If anything about how North Star handles information changes, this page will be updated, along with the date below.

Effective October 15, 2026

Contact

Questions, corrections, or privacy concerns? Use the Contact page.

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