Privacy

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There is no account to create and no newsletter to join. The short version: this site does not collect personal data about you, and the one thing that can — Google Ads — is off until you say otherwise.

Pageviews are counted by a cookieless analytics script that cannot identify you, and sets no cookie. Separately, this site runs Google Ads, which does use cookies and does track across sites — but it is off by default for every visitor, and stays off unless you accept it from the banner shown on your first visit.

What is stored on your device

Your preferences are kept in your browser's local storage, on your own device. They are never sent to the server and never leave the machine:

Clearing site data in your browser removes all of it. Local storage is not a cookie and is not transmitted with requests.

The site also installs a service worker so it can load offline. It caches the page, its stylesheets and its script. It never caches market data.

What the server records

The server keeps ordinary operational logs of requests it handles — the path requested, a timestamp, and the response status — for debugging and to apply rate limits. Logs are short-lived and are not used to build a profile of anyone, not combined with any other source, and not shared or sold.

No account, name, email address, postal address, payment detail or portfolio information is ever requested, and none is stored.

Third parties

Market data is fetched by the server, not by your browser, so loading the board does not put you in contact with any data provider. The server calls Finnhub for the earnings calendar, Yahoo Finance and Alpaca for quotes, charts and option chains, the public Reddit API for social chatter, and the Anthropic API to classify that chatter. Those requests carry no information about you — they are the server asking about a ticker.

Three places where a third party can see you:

How affiliate links are used and labelled is set out on the Disclosures page.

Legal basis and your rights

Where the UK GDPR or EU GDPR applies, the limited processing described above (serving the page, keeping it available, preventing abuse, and the cookieless Umami pageview count) rests on the operator's legitimate interests in running a working, secure website. None of it needs your consent, and no consent banner is shown for any of it: nothing involved is stored on your device beyond what is strictly necessary to provide the site you asked for.

Google Ads is the one exception, and is handled accordingly rather than folded into that reasoning: it is off by default for every visitor and does not set its advertising cookie until you consent, via the banner shown on first visit — which is what GDPR and the ePrivacy rules require before a non-essential, ad-related cookie is set. Declining, or leaving the banner unanswered, both leave it off: consent defaults to denied until you actively grant it.

You have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, and to have it corrected or erased. In practice this site holds none, so there is normally nothing to return or delete. Requests, and any complaint, can be sent to [email protected]. You may also complain to your national data-protection authority.

Children

This site is not directed at children and knowingly collects no data from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date below changes with it.

Last updated: 7 August 2026