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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 1, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to StratiZone ("Site", "Service", "we", "us", "our"). We are committed to protecting the privacy of our users ("User", "you", "your"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website [Your Website URL - e.g., stratizone.com] and use our services, which provide an online directory for trading strategies, indicators, and libraries ("Content").

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms, please do not access the site. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

  • Personal Data You Provide:
    • Account Information: When you register for an account, we collect your username, email address, and a hashed version of your password.
    • Profile Information: You may voluntarily provide additional information for your public profile, such as a biography, a website URL, an optional donation link, and an avatar image. Providing this information is optional.
    • User Content: When you submit Content, we collect the title, description, type, category, tags, asset classes, timeframes, optional performance metrics, repainting status claim, associated images, and captions. When you submit a review, we collect your rating (optional) and comment (optional). This content is linked to your user account.
    • Communications: If you contact us directly (e.g., via email at admin@stratizone.com), we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
  • Data Collected Automatically:
    • Log and Usage Data: Like most websites, we automatically collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, actions taken on the site (like clicks, searches, filters used), referring/exit pages, and other standard statistics.
    • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons or pixels) to track activity on our Service, personalize your experience, provide security features, analyze site usage, and deliver targeted advertising. Cookies are files with a small amount of data stored on your device. See the "Cookies and Tracking Technologies" section below for more details about the types of cookies used (including essential, analytics, and advertising cookies) and your choices regarding them. Information collected may include browsing history on our site, interaction with advertisements, and identifiers assigned by us or our third-party partners (like Google Analytics or Google AdSense).

3. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:

  • Create and manage your account.
  • Operate and maintain the Site and its features.
  • Display your User Content (approved Content, reviews, profile information including optional donation links) on the Site as intended by the Service.
  • Authenticate users and prevent fraud.
  • Send you necessary administrative communications, such as account verification emails, security alerts, or updates to our Terms or Privacy Policy.
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer support.
  • Monitor and analyze usage, trends, and user interactions (using tools like Google Analytics) to understand how our Service is used, diagnose technical issues, improve your experience, personalize content (where applicable), and develop new features.
  • Deliver, measure, and personalize relevant advertisements (e.g., through Google AdSense or similar services) based on your activity on our Site and potentially other sites (subject to your choices and the ad provider's policies).
  • Facilitate affiliate partnerships by tracking clicks on designated affiliate links.
  • Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities and enforce our Terms and Conditions.
  • Protect the security and integrity of our Site and users.
  • Comply with legal obligations.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations:

  • By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
  • Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include:
    • Data storage and hosting providers.
    • Email delivery services.
    • CAPTCHA providers (e.g., Google reCAPTCHA).
    • Analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics) to help us understand website usage.
    • Advertising networks and partners (e.g., Google AdSense) to display advertisements on the Site.

    These third parties are generally expected to use your personal information only to perform the services requested by us or as necessary for their integrated services (e.g., Google Analytics processing usage data, Google AdSense using data for ad delivery and personalization based on their terms and your settings). They are typically required to maintain the confidentiality and security of your information according to their own privacy policies and applicable law. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties.

  • Affiliate Partners: When you click on an affiliate link on our Site, the affiliate partner may receive information indicating that you came from our Site (e.g., via a referral code in the link). They may also place their own cookies to track conversions. Your interaction with the affiliate partner's site is governed by their own privacy policy and terms.
  • User Content: Your username is publicly displayed alongside the Content and reviews you submit. Your optional profile information (bio, website, avatar, donation link) is also publicly visible on your profile page. Approved Content and reviews are publicly accessible.
  • Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
  • Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information (which cannot reasonably be used to identify you) for various purposes, including analysis, reporting, or improving our services.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

  • What are Cookies: Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your web browser when you visit a website. They help the site remember information about your visit, like your login status or preferences. We may also use other tracking technologies like web beacons or pixels for similar purposes.
  • How We Use Cookies: We use cookies for several purposes:
    • Essential/Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are crucial for the website to function properly and securely. They enable core functionalities like user login (session cookies, e.g., `sessionid`) and protection against cross-site request forgery (e.g., `csrftoken`). These cannot be disabled through our systems.
    • Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our Site, such as which pages you visit and if you experience any errors. We use services like Google Analytics to gather this data, which helps us understand user behavior, improve site performance, and identify popular content. This data is often aggregated.
    • Functionality Cookies: These may be used to remember choices you make (like remembering your username for login) or preferences you set to provide a more personalized experience.
    • Advertising Cookies: We partner with third-party advertising networks, such as Google AdSense, to display advertising on our Site. These partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your activity on our Site and other websites to provide you with targeted advertisements based on your interests (also known as personalized or behavioral advertising). This may include tracking your visits across different websites over time. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
    • Third-Party Cookies: In addition to cookies set by us or our ad partners, other third parties may set cookies when you interact with certain features, such as Google reCAPTCHA used for security. Affiliate partners may also set cookies when you click an affiliate link.
  • Your Choices Regarding Cookies and Advertising:
    • Browser Settings: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually modify your browser settings to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Site may become inaccessible or not function properly (especially login).
    • Personalized Advertising Opt-Out: Users may opt out of personalized advertising provided by Google by visiting Google's Ad Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
    • General Advertising Opt-Outs: You can opt out of many third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) opt-out portal at www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI) opt-out portal at optout.networkadvertising.org/.

    Opting out of personalized advertising does not mean you will no longer see ads, but that the ads you see may be less relevant to your interests.

6. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to help protect your personal information. We use HTTPS for secure communication, hash passwords before storage, and implement access controls. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We will retain your account information (username, email, hashed password) for as long as your account is active.

When your account is closed or if you request account deletion by contacting us at admin@stratizone.com, your public profile information will typically be removed or anonymized. Your User Content (such as submitted Content or reviews) may remain on the Site but may be attributed to an anonymized identifier ("Deleted User") to maintain the integrity of discussions and the directory, unless specific deletion is requested, feasible, and does not violate legal requirements or significantly impair Site functionality.

Log data and analytics data (which may be aggregated or anonymized) may be retained for longer periods for internal analysis, security logging, site improvement, and to comply with legal obligations.

8. Your Rights Regarding Your Information

Depending on your location and applicable law (such as India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, when fully effective), you may have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you. These rights may include:

  • The right to access the personal information we hold about you and obtain information about how we process it.
  • The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
  • The right to request erasure (deletion) of your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions.
  • The right to withdraw consent for processing your personal information, where consent is the legal basis for processing. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
  • The right to nominate another person to exercise rights on your behalf in case of death or incapacity (as applicable under local law).
  • The right to grievance redressal.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below (Section 12). We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for or directed to individuals under the age of 18 (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child without verification of parental consent where required, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us.

10. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be processed, transferred to, and maintained on computers and servers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction (including potentially the United States, European Union, or India) where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. By using the Service and providing us with information, you consent to this transfer, processing, and storage of your information in these locations. We will take steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law when transferred internationally.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. For material changes, we may also provide more prominent notice (such as via email or a notice on the Site) prior to the change becoming effective. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:

By email: admin@stratizone.com

Disclaimer: The information provided in this Privacy Policy is for general informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal advice. StratiZone is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. You should consult with a qualified legal professional for advice regarding your individual situation and to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.