How we handle your data
Trading Vigilante is operated by VDM Ltd (the data controller). This page explains, plainly, what data this site handles and why. A fuller legal privacy policy is in preparation; this page is kept deliberately honest and current in the meantime. Questions or requests: privacy@tradingvigilante.com.
Analytics — only if you say yes
We use privacy-respecting product analytics to understand how this site is used — only after you click “Allow analytics” in our cookie banner. Until then, no analytics script loads and no analytics request leaves your browser: the default state for every consent signal is “denied”, and we verify that mechanically before every release. Declining is one click and just as effective. Your choice is stored in your browser; reopen the banner any time via the link in the banner text on your next visit, or clear your site data.
If you opt in, we collect standard analytics data: pages viewed, referrer, approximate location (derived from IP), device and browser type, and interaction events such as “sign-up started” or “purchase completed”. We use Google Analytics 4 (via Google Tag Manager) and PostHog, hosted on PostHog Cloud EU (Frankfurt, Germany) — your PostHog data stays in the EU. Google Analytics data is processed by Google, which may involve transfers outside the UK/EEA under Google’s standard contractual safeguards. We never use advertising cookies — the advertising consent signals are permanently denied.
Our own records
When you become a customer, subscriber, or enquirer, your contact and transaction records (name, email, phone, marketing-consent status, orders, enquiry messages) are held in our customer platform, and a one-way copy is mirrored to our own private database (Supabase) so our business records don’t depend on any single third-party provider. That database is locked down: no public read or write access exists, and the privileged credential is held server-side only — it never runs in your browser. A copy of conversion events (opt-in / purchase / enquiry) is written to the same private database, server-side, when you have consented to analytics.
Contact form
The contact form on this site is delivered by our customer platform (GoHighLevel, also branded “LeadConnector”) inside an embedded frame, and is protected against abuse by Google reCAPTCHA — both load only on the page where the form appears and may set functional (not advertising) cookies of their own. What you submit — your name, email address, and message — goes straight into our customer platform so we can reply, and a one-way copy is mirrored to our own private database (see “Our own records”). Form submissions are not used for marketing unless you separately opt in, and they are never sold or shared beyond the processors named here.
Support email
Email sent to support@tradingvigilante.com is handled in our self-hosted helpdesk so we can answer you; it is not used for marketing.
Your rights
You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data at any time: privacy@tradingvigilante.com. You can withdraw analytics consent whenever you like — it is never a condition of using the site.