Privacy Policy

What Crypto Jargon collects, why, where it is kept and who else can see it: our own analytics, Google's and Cloudflare's, and what Decline turns off.

The short version

You can use most of this site without an account and without telling us anything. If you make an account, we hold your email address. If you ask for the newsletter, we hold your email address and the fact that you asked. Page views are counted three ways — by our own analytics, by Google Analytics and by Cloudflare — and Decline on the consent bar turns off ours and Google's cookies. We run no advertising, and we do not sell or rent anything about you to anybody.

Browsing, without an account

Nothing is required of you. To understand which parts of the site are worth building, we record page views and interactions through our own analytics, running on our own server.

Google Analytics and Cloudflare

Every page also loads Google Analytics. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland its cookies stay off until you press Allow; everywhere else they are on until you press Decline. With them on, Google sets its own cookies to recognise a returning browser and receives the same page views and clicks our analytics do, with your browser, device and a rough location it works out from your IP address. With them off, it sets no cookies and receives only a ping without any identifier, which it uses to estimate totals. Its advertising features are off everywhere — this site runs no Google ads. See Google's privacy policy.

What Decline does

Decline turns Google Analytics' cookies off, or keeps them off, and stops our own analytics completely: nothing more is sent from your browser, and the visitor id is deleted. One thing is counted at the moment you decline — that a decline happened, with no id and no page — so we know how many readers our numbers no longer see. Cloudflare's count is not affected, because nothing in it recognises you.

If you make an account

The newsletter

If you tick the newsletter box, we store your email address, the date, which page you signed up on, and the fact that you consented. That list lives on our own hardware, not in a marketing platform. Your address is taken from your verified sign-in rather than from anything typed into a form, so the list only ever contains addresses somebody proved they control.

Push alerts

If you turn on alerts, your browser gives us a push address — a long web address at your browser's push service (Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft, depending on the browser), with two keys we use to encrypt what we send. We store that address with your time zone, the alerts you chose, any price levels you set, and the alerts sent to that device in the last three days, so the Alerts page can list them. It belongs to the device, not to a name or an email — no sign-in is involved.

YouTube API Services

Crypto Jargon uses YouTube API Services to upload, schedule and manage videos on its own YouTube channels. That tool is used only by the channel owner. It does not access or store any website visitor's YouTube data.

Where it is kept

Our analytics, watchlists, alert settings, bound UIDs and the newsletter list are stored on our own server in India. Accounts are stored by Supabase. Google Analytics data is held by Google. Traffic to the site passes through Cloudflare, which sees requests in transit and keeps its own short-lived logs for security and performance — see their policy.

Who else can see anything

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information, and we do not share the newsletter list with anyone.

What you can ask for

Write to and we will tell you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it. Deleting your account removes your address from the accounts store and from the newsletter list. Analytics rows carry only a random id, so there is generally nothing in them that can be traced back to you to delete — if you know your visitor id, tell us and we will remove the rows that carry it. The steps, and what is kept afterwards and for how long, are on the delete your account page.

Children

This site is not intended for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly hold their data.

Changes

When what the software does changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves. If a change materially affects people already on the newsletter, we will say so in the newsletter rather than quietly editing this page.

Contact

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