Privacy

tradmap measures how the site is used so we can improve it — with first-party, cookieless analytics that store no personal data: no cross-site tracking, no selling data, no third-party analytics provider. Browsing the site sets no cookies; the only cookies we use are the strictly necessary ones that keep you signed in if you create an account (see Cookies).

What we collect

When you view a page we record the page path, a coarse referrer source (e.g. “search”, the referring site’s host, or a campaign tag), your device class (mobile / tablet / desktop), and a timestamp. For product features we record content-free usage events — which screener filters or chart tools were used — as fixed labels, never the values you type or search for.

To tell real readers apart from automated bot traffic we also derive two coarse labels from your IP address at request time: your country and whether the network is a datacenter or a regular internet provider. The lookup happens locally against an offline database and the IP address itself is discarded immediately — it is never stored. (IP geolocation by DB-IP, used under CC BY 4.0.)

What we do not collect

• No analytics or advertising cookies — measuring usage and browsing the site anonymously store nothing on your device. (Accounts use strictly necessary session cookies — see Cookies.)
• No raw IP address is ever stored. To count visits we truncate your IP, combine it with your browser’s user-agent and a rotating server secret, and store only a one-way hash. The hash rotates on a rolling window (roughly every 90 days), so you can’t be tracked over the long term and it can’t be reversed to identify you.
• No names, emails, or other personal identifiers, no precise location, no cross-site or cross-device tracking, no advertising profiles.
• No free text — nothing you type is ever stored, with one narrow exception: if your search input exactly matches a public stock ticker symbol (like NVDA), we record that ticker was searched — anonymously, with no link to you. Anything else you type is discarded and only counted as "a search happened". Filter settings are recorded as fixed category labels, never your typed values.

Cookies

Browsing tradmap anonymously sets no cookies. If you create an account and log in, we set two strictly necessary cookies so the site can keep you signed in:

• tm_session — your session token. It is HttpOnly (not readable by page scripts), sent only to tradmap, marked Secure over HTTPS, and expires after 30 days.
• tm_auth — a small flag telling the page you are signed in so it can show your account menu. It holds no personal data and grants no access on its own.

These are essential to the account feature and are not used for analytics, advertising, or tracking — so they need no consent banner, though you agree to them when you create an account. Logging out deletes them, and if you never create an account neither cookie is ever set.

How long we keep it

Detailed measurement events (page-speed samples, error signals, which page modules were visible, clicks on labeled controls, and the anonymous search counters) are deleted after about 90 days; only aggregate statistics survive. Basic anonymous page-visit counts are kept longer for long-term trends. Account data lives until you delete your account.

Your controls

We honor the Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control browser signals — if either is set, we record nothing. The analytics data lives in a separate system from the product, isolated from any account data.

Last updated 2026-07-23. Informational only — not financial advice.