1. Who we are
OpesAdvisors is an editorial publication that reviews retail forex brokers, crypto exchanges and proprietary trading firms. The site is operated by an independent editorial team — Laura West, Mike Volkov and Tom Nakamura — whose profiles you can read at /authors/. We are the data controller for any reader data described below.
Editorial enquiries, data requests and correction notices all reach the same address: [email protected].
2. What we collect
We do not run a newsletter, do not require account registration, do not display social-login buttons, and do not embed third-party widgets that fingerprint visitors. The site collects two categories of data:
2.1 Anonymous page analytics
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-friendly analytics platform that does not set persistent identifiers, does not use cookies for visitor tracking, and does not retain IP addresses beyond aggregate country resolution. We see country, device class, referrer and the URL viewed — never reader identity. Cloudflare documents the technical detail at cloudflare.com/web-analytics.
2.2 Affiliate referral attribution
When you click an outbound link to a broker, exchange or prop firm we cover, the destination platform may set its own cookies to attribute the referral. The cookie is set by the destination, on the destination's domain — not by us. We pass a tracking parameter (e.g. a partner ID) in the URL; we do not see what you subsequently do on the broker's site. Detail on the commercial relationship lives at how we make money.
3. Cookies on our domain
The OpesAdvisors site itself sets no first-party tracking cookies. A small functional cookie may be used to remember your country preference if you change it manually through the country selector — this is local-only and is not transmitted to us. The full cookie inventory and management options are documented at our cookie policy.
4. Third parties
The only third parties that may receive data about your visit are:
- Cloudflare — content delivery, security, anonymous analytics (data processor under our instruction).
- Brokers and exchanges you click through to — only if you follow an outbound link. We mark every affiliate link with
rel="sponsored nofollow noopener"so the destination cannot read our cookies or referrer header beyond the bare URL. - Search engines — Google, Bing and similar crawlers index our content; they do not receive your visit data from us.
We do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, TikTok Pixel, or any retargeting platform. We do not sell, share or rent any data.
5. Your rights under GDPR and the UK DPA
If you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or a jurisdiction with comparable data protection legislation, you have the right to:
- Request a copy of any personal data we hold on you (in practice, we hold none — but the right exists).
- Request correction of any inaccurate personal data.
- Request deletion ("right to be forgotten").
- Object to processing for legitimate-interest purposes.
- Lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority — in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
Send rights requests to [email protected]. We respond within 30 days as required under Article 12 GDPR.
6. Data retention
Cloudflare Web Analytics aggregates are retained for 6 months by Cloudflare. We retain no reader-level data ourselves. Email correspondence sent to [email protected] is retained for as long as needed to resolve the enquiry and then archived for up to 24 months for audit purposes.
7. Changes to this policy
Material changes to this policy are dated at the top of this page and announced in the editorial notes section of the homepage for 30 days. We do not email subscribers about policy changes because we do not have a subscriber list.
8. Contact
Data requests, complaints, corrections, takedowns: [email protected]. The full contact page lists topic-routing guidance for non-privacy enquiries.
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