YOUR DATA, EXPLAINED
Privacy Policy
How Advance Digital Services (ADS) handles CryptoTrades newsletter subscriptions, local portfolio data, sponsorship inquiries and privacy rights.
Who is responsible and how to contact us
Advance Digital Services (ADS), based in Wisconsin, United States, operates CryptoTrades.com and is the controller responsible for the personal information described in this notice. Contact us at info@CryptoTrades.com for privacy questions or to exercise your rights.
Updated October 29, 2026. This notice covers CryptoTrades.com, its browser-based tools, newsletter and retained sponsorship services. Privacy requests and corrections can be sent to info@CryptoTrades.com.
Information you provide and data generated by use
Newsletter information includes your email address, consent timestamp, policy version, signup source, confirmation status, provider contact identifier and subscription preferences. Confirmation and unsubscribe capabilities are protected with hashes or keyed signatures; we do not store confirmation links as plaintext tokens.
Sponsorship inquiries can include your name, email, organization, website, placement preference and message. When inquiry storage is enabled, staff notes, reply drafts and version history, status, follow-up dates and authorized-staff change history are retained in a separate access-controlled database. An inquiry does not subscribe you to marketing.
Cloudflare and other delivery infrastructure process network and browser information, including IP addresses and request metadata, for delivery, security and abuse prevention. Our newsletter limiter stores short-lived keyed identifiers rather than raw IP addresses. The application does not log newsletter addresses or link tokens.
What stays in your browser
Calculator inputs are processed in your browser rather than submitted to CryptoTrades. The manual portfolio tracker stores entered holdings, prices and average costs under cryptotrades.portfolio.v1 in this browser. It does not connect to a wallet or exchange, hold keys, or provide a cloud backup.
Your portfolio remains until you change or remove it, or your browser clears it. The Cookies & Local Storage page explains how to remove the saved record. Downloaded JSON backups are separate files under your control. Neither browser storage nor those files are encrypted by the tracker.
Purposes and lawful bases where GDPR applies
Newsletter delivery and management of your voluntary subscription rely on consent. We send a confirmation request and activate eligible subscriptions only after you explicitly confirm. You can withdraw newsletter consent using an unsubscribe link without creating an account; withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing.
We use request metadata and limited abuse-prevention records for our legitimate interests in keeping the site secure, preventing spam and maintaining service availability. We retain a limited record of consent and suppression to document choices, handle disputes and avoid sending unwanted messages.
We handle editorial, privacy and business correspondence for our legitimate interests in responding to requests and administering the service. Where an individual asks us to take steps toward a contract or enters one with us, necessary processing may instead support those steps or that contract. Any processing required by an applicable legal obligation is limited to that obligation.
We do not use the educational calculators to make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you. Providing an email for a voluntary newsletter is optional; without it we cannot deliver the briefing. Sponsorship form fields marked required are needed to assess and respond to the inquiry.
Newsletter consent, tracking and unsubscribe
Submitting the form does not itself activate a subscription. Confirmation links expire after 24 hours and require a confirmation action on the page; merely opening a link does not subscribe you. Existing unsubscribed contacts are not automatically reactivated by repeat signup.
Resend delivers emails and manages confirmed newsletter contacts, delivery events and subscription preferences. Where message tracking is enabled, email services may process opens and link clicks as well as delivery information. Contact us for information about tracking associated with a particular message. Links to external sites are governed by those sites' policies.
Unsubscribe stops future newsletter marketing, but is not a request to erase every record. We may retain the minimum suppression information needed to respect your choice. Contact us separately for access, correction or erasure requests.
Service providers and international processing
Cloudflare supplies hosting, network security, the consent database and retained sponsorship infrastructure. Cloudflare Turnstile processes browser and network signals for sponsorship spam prevention. Resend supplies email delivery and contact/subscription management; the receiving email service also processes correspondence sent to our public address.
These providers and their subprocessors can process information outside your country, including in the United States. Their service-specific data-processing terms describe transfer mechanisms and safeguards, including contractual clauses where applicable. Provider documentation is linked below; a provider's general compliance statement does not establish that every transfer is covered in every circumstance.
Contact info@CryptoTrades.com for information about the safeguards applicable to your data and how to obtain a copy where available. We may also disclose information when required by applicable law or when necessary to address security incidents or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Retention and deletion
Portfolio storage has no automatic expiry. Remove it through browser controls or the Cookies & Local Storage page; delete exported files separately if no longer needed.
Newsletter confirmation tokens expire after 24 hours, but token expiry does not automatically delete the underlying pending record. Rate-limit records become eligible for cleanup after at most twenty minutes and are removed on subsequent signup requests, so physical deletion can occur later.
Confirmed contact records are needed while you remain subscribed. Consent history, pending requests and suppression records currently have no automated deletion schedule. We assess retention against subscription administration, proof of consent, prevention of unwanted resubscription, disputes and applicable legal requirements.
Sponsorship and correspondence records also have no fixed automated deletion schedule in this application. Relevant criteria include whether an inquiry or agreement is active, whether follow-up is still necessary, and whether records are needed for legal claims or legal obligations. Provider logs, backups and mailbox retention are governed by their service settings and applicable obligations. Ask us for a retention assessment or deletion request concerning your information.
Your rights and requests
Depending on the law applicable to you, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability, or object to processing based on legitimate interests. You may withdraw consent and complain to a competent supervisory authority. These rights have conditions and exceptions; withdrawing consent is as simple as using the newsletter unsubscribe link.
Email info@CryptoTrades.com with the request and the email address or service it concerns. We may request proportionate information to verify identity before disclosing personal records. Do not send passwords, recovery phrases, private keys or unsolicited identity documents.
Where GDPR applies, requests are generally addressed without undue delay and within one month, subject to lawful extensions and identity-verification requirements. If an extension or refusal applies, we will explain it as required by law. A complaint may be made to your competent EEA data-protection authority or the UK Information Commissioner's Office as applicable; you do not have to contact us first.
Cookies, children and changes
Our Cookies & Local Storage page describes device storage, Cloudflare security technologies and management options. No optional advertising or analytics scripts are installed by the current Next.js frontend. Retained Pages screens may use Cloudflare analytics and daily aggregate tool/link counters described in their disclosures. Those counters exclude calculator inputs and results, IP addresses, email addresses, visitor identifiers and browsing histories, and respect Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. The current frontend does not send those counter events. Consult the storage notice for device-storage details.
The service is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly solicit their personal information. Contact us if you believe a child has provided personal data so we can assess the request.
We update this notice when practices change and show the revision date above. A privacy notice explains processing; reading it or continuing to browse does not constitute consent to marketing or optional tracking.