Privacy Policy

This policy explains what we collect, why, and your choices. We keep it simple because Tradeskill is a free learning tool, and we don't sell your data.

The Tradeskill (thetradeskill.com) is the data controller responsible for your personal data under the GDPR and the UK GDPR. For any privacy question or request, write to [email protected].

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1. What we collect

Account info you give us: your name and email (and your basic Google profile if you sign in with Google). Content you create : your simulated trades and journal entries, including any notes or images you upload. Device and usage data such as your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view and your approximate location (country or city). Our servers collect this to run and secure the Service and, depending on your consent choices, Google collects it for analytics and advertising.

Our Android app does not show ads and does not use analytics. It only uses what is needed to sign you in and run your account.

You need to give your email address to create an account, because we can't run or secure the account without it. You can read our public pages without one. We don't make decisions about you based solely on automated processing that have legal or similarly significant effects.

2. How we use it

To provide the Service, sign you in, send verification/login (OTP) and account emails, keep the platform secure, show ads that help keep Tradeskill free, and improve the product. We do not sell your personal data.

If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, our legal bases are: performing our contract with you (running your account and the Service), our legitimate interests (security, fixing problems and improving the product) and your consent (analytics and advertising cookies, and personalised ads). You can withdraw consent at any time; this does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.

3. Cookies and similar technologies

We use three separate kinds of cookies and similar technologies:

Essential: HttpOnly cookies that keep you signed in and protect your session, a security cookie that Cloudflare may set to protect the site from abuse, plus items in your browser's local storage that remember your preferences (theme, language, time zone, chart and tool settings, notices you have dismissed) and when you were last active (so we can sign you out after a long period of inactivity). These are needed for the site to work or to provide what you asked for, so they do not need consent, and they are never used for advertising.

Analytics (Google Analytics): helps us see which pages are visited and how the site performs, using cookies and identifiers set by Google. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, analytics cookies are only set after you consent; without consent Google receives only limited, cookieless signals. You can also use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Advertising (Google AdSense): Google and its advertising partners use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses and device identifiers to serve and measure ads, limit how often you see the same ad and, where you allow it, personalise ads. See sections 4 and 5.

4. Advertising

Tradeskill is free to use, and we cover part of our costs with ads served through Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie), web beacons, your IP address and other identifiers, together with information about your visits to Tradeskill and other websites, to serve, measure and personalise ads, subject to your consent choices and your Google settings. Google uses this data under its own privacy policy. We do not give advertisers your name, your email address, your simulated trades or your journal entries, and we do not collect payment details at all.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized ads at www.aboutads.info/choices. See how Google uses data from advertising partners for details.

5. Your consent choices

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, a consent message from Google (a Google-certified consent management platform that uses the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework) asks for your choice before advertising or analytics cookies are used. You can accept, reject, or choose specific purposes and partners. Until you choose, those cookies stay off.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with this button, with "Privacy & cookie settings" in the site footer, or from your account menu when you are signed in. Your choice is stored in a cookie by Google's consent platform, so it applies on your next visits too.

Privacy & cookie settings

Outside these regions, you can turn off personalised ads with the Google Ads Settings and aboutads.info links in section 4, and you can delete or block cookies in your browser settings at any time.

6. Service providers

We share the minimum data needed with providers that help us run the Service: Amazon Web Services (hosting, database and email delivery), Cloudflare (delivering the site, protecting it from attacks, and cookieless, aggregated performance statistics), Google (sign-in if you choose it, plus analytics and advertising as described above) and market-data providers (which receive no personal data). Apart from Google's own use for analytics and advertising, these providers process data on our behalf and not for their own purposes.

AI trade reviews are written by Anthropic's Claude AI. For a review we send only the figures of the closed trade (symbol, direction, entry and exit price, profit or loss, whether a stop or target was set, holding time) and the surrounding price candles. We never send your name, your email address, your journal notes or your images.

Our servers are in the United States (Amazon Web Services, Virginia), so if you use Tradeskill from Europe your data is transferred there. Login and account emails are sent through Amazon's email service in India (Mumbai), and Cloudflare handles traffic at data centres around the world, usually close to you. Google and Anthropic may also process data in the United States. These transfers rely on the safeguards the providers offer, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum, or on an adequacy decision where one applies.

7. Data retention

We keep your account data (profile, simulated trades and journal) while your account is active. If you delete your account, we delete that data within 30 days, except records the law requires us to keep. Server logs used for security are kept only for a limited period and then deleted. Advertising and analytics cookies expire according to Google's settings, and you can delete them in your browser at any time.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, the UK GDPR or US state privacy laws), you can ask to access, correct, delete or export your data, object to or restrict certain processing, and withdraw your consent at any time. To make a request, email [email protected]. We reply within one month. If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. You can also delete your account yourself at any time in Settings → Delete account.

9. Security

Data is sent over encrypted connections (HTTPS), passwords are stored only as salted hashes, and sessions use HttpOnly cookies. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.

10. Children

Tradeskill is not intended for anyone under 18, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

11. Changes

We may update this policy; the "last updated" date above shows the latest version.

12. Google user data (Sign in with Google)

If you choose "Continue with Google", The Tradeskill requests only the basic "email" and "profile" permissions. This section explains exactly what we receive from Google and how we treat it.

Data we access: Your Google account ID, your email address, your name, and your profile picture URL. We do not access your contacts, Gmail, Google Drive, calendar, or any other Google data, and we never receive your Google password.

How we use it: Only to create your Tradeskill account, sign you in, show your name and profile picture inside the app, and send account emails (such as security notices) to your address. We do not use Google user data for advertising, do not sell it, and do not use it to train AI or machine-learning models.

Sharing: We do not share, transfer, or disclose Google user data to third parties, except to our hosting and database providers who store it on our behalf, or when required by law.

Storage & protection: Google user data is stored in our database on our own server, sent only over encrypted HTTPS connections, and accessible only to the systems that run your account.

Retention & deletion: We keep this data while your account exists. You can delete your account and all associated data at any time on our Delete account page or by emailing us. You can also revoke The Tradeskill's access to your Google account at any time from myaccount.google.com/permissions.

The Tradeskill's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. (developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy)