1. About DC Trades
DC Trades is a digital trading journal and record-keeping service. It allows users to manually record, organize, review, and analyze their own trading activity.
DC Trades does not act as a broker, exchange, investment manager, financial institution, or custodian of customer funds. DC Trades does not execute trades or make investment decisions on behalf of users.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information that is reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and improve the Service.
2.1 Account Information
When you create or maintain an account, we may collect:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Authentication and account information
- Account preferences and settings
2.2 Journal Information
You may voluntarily enter information into your trading journal, including:
- Trading instruments
- Entry and exit information
- Trade dates and times
- Position sizes
- Profit and loss information
- Risk and reward information
- Trading strategies
- Trade notes and observations
- Images and screenshots
This information is entered by you. DC Trades does not connect to your brokerage account to execute trades or move funds on your behalf unless a future feature explicitly states otherwise.
2.3 Technical and Security Information
We may process limited technical information necessary to operate and secure the Service, such as information relating to your browser, device, session, network connection, and security events.
3. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
- Create and maintain your account
- Authenticate and secure your account
- Provide trading journal functionality
- Store and display your journal entries
- Provide calculations, statistics, and analytics
- Allow you to upload and manage journal images
- Provide customer support
- Process subscriptions and payments
- Detect fraud, abuse, and security threats
- Maintain and improve the Service
- Communicate important service information
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
4. Trading and Financial Information
DC Trades is a journaling and analytical tool. Information displayed by the Service is intended to help users record and review their own trading activity.
DC Trades does not provide personalized investment, financial, tax, legal, or trading advice.
DC Trades does not guarantee profits, returns, trading performance, investment outcomes, or financial results.
You are solely responsible for your trading decisions and for independently evaluating any information generated or displayed by the Service.
5. User Content
You retain responsibility for the information and content you submit to your journal.
You should only submit information that you are legally entitled to provide.
For your own security, do not enter passwords, private cryptocurrency keys, recovery phrases, authentication secrets, payment credentials, or other credentials into journal entries, notes, screenshots, or other user-generated content.
6. How We Protect Information
We maintain reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, misuse, or destruction.
Security measures may include access controls, authentication protections, encryption where appropriate, secure development practices, monitoring, and other safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information and the Service.
No internet service can guarantee absolute security. You are also responsible for protecting your account credentials and maintaining the security of devices you use to access the Service.
7. Information Sharing
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share or permit access to information only where reasonably necessary to operate the Service, provide requested functionality, process transactions, protect the Service, comply with legal obligations, or protect the rights, safety, and security of DC Trades, our users, or others.
Service providers that process information on our behalf may be subject to contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to their role.
8. Payments
Certain DC Trades features or subscriptions may require payment. Payments may be processed through third-party payment providers, including cryptocurrency payment services.
Payment providers may collect and process information necessary to authorize, verify, process, and record transactions.
DC Trades does not request or require users to provide private cryptocurrency keys, recovery phrases, or wallet passwords to us.
Payment transactions may also be subject to the terms and privacy policies of the applicable payment provider.
10. Legal Basis for Processing
Where applicable data protection laws require a legal basis for processing, we may rely on one or more appropriate legal bases, including:
- Performance of a contract with you
- Compliance with legal obligations
- Our legitimate interests
- Your consent, where required
11. International Data Processing
DC Trades may use service providers and infrastructure located in different countries. As a result, your information may be processed or stored outside the country where you live.
Where required, we take appropriate measures for international transfers and processing in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
12. European Economic Area and UK Privacy Rights
If applicable data protection laws such as the GDPR apply to you, you may have rights including:
- Access to your personal information
- Correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion of personal information
- Restriction of certain processing
- Objection to certain processing
- Data portability where applicable
- Withdrawal of consent where applicable
- The right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority
13. India Privacy Rights
Where applicable, DC Trades will process personal data in accordance with India's applicable data protection and privacy requirements.
Depending on applicable law, individuals may have rights relating to access, correction, deletion, consent, and grievance redressal.
14. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the Service, maintaining security, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and complying with legal obligations.
When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.
15. Account and Data Deletion
You may request deletion of your DC Trades account and associated personal information by contacting us at the address provided below.
We may retain limited information where required by law, necessary to prevent fraud or abuse, resolve disputes, protect security, or establish or defend legal claims.
16. Security Incidents
If we identify a security incident involving personal information, we will investigate and take reasonable steps to contain, remediate, and prevent further unauthorized access.
Where notification is required by applicable law, we will notify affected individuals and/or relevant authorities as required.
17. Children's Privacy
The Service is not intended for individuals who are not legally permitted to use the Service under applicable law.
If we become aware that personal information has been collected in violation of applicable requirements, we will take reasonable steps to address and delete it where appropriate.
18. Third-Party Services
The Service may rely on carefully selected third-party providers for infrastructure, authentication, payment processing, email, security, analytics, hosting, and other operational requirements.
These providers may process information necessary to perform their services and may have their own privacy policies and legal obligations.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the Service, our practices, technology, or applicable legal requirements.
The latest version will always be published on this page with the applicable "Last updated" date.
20. Contact Us
For privacy questions, data requests, account deletion requests, or other privacy-related matters, contact: