Privacy Policy

The short version

Tickstock is built to collect as little personal data as possible.

• Our analytics are cookieless and do not identify you.
• We only hold personal data you actively give us — for example, an email address when you join our waitlist or contact us.
• We do not sell your data, and we do not use advertising or cross-site tracking.

Who we are

Tickstock is published by The Creamery Media Company ("we", "us", "our"), which is the data controller for personal data processed through this site. Ownership and funding are described on our ownership page. You can reach us about anything in this policy at editorial@tickstock.io.

Information we collect

Analytics

We use a privacy-focused analytics service that does not use cookies, does not collect or store personal data, and does not track you across other websites. What we see is anonymous and aggregate — page views, referrers, broad location (such as country), and device type. We cannot identify individual readers from it.

Information you give us

• Waitlist and updates. If you join our waitlist or ask to receive updates, we collect the email address you provide so we can contact you about Tickstock.
• Contact, feedback, and corrections. If you email us or use a form on the site, we receive your email address and the content of your message, and any other details you choose to include.

Technical data

As with any website, our infrastructure providers processes standard technical request data — including IP addresses — in order to deliver the site, serve it quickly, and protect it from abuse. We do not use this data to build profiles of individual readers.

Cookies

Tickstock does not use advertising, profiling, or cross-site tracking cookies. Our analytics provider is cookieless. If we ever introduce cookies that are not strictly necessary for the site to function, we will update this page and seek your consent where the law requires it.

How and why we use information

• To operate, secure, and improve the site — using aggregate analytics and technical logs.
• To respond to you when you contact us.
• To send you the updates you have asked for, where you have joined our waitlist.

Legal bases (UK and EU GDPR). We rely on our legitimate interests to operate, secure, and analyse the site in a privacy-protective way; on your consent to send you waitlist updates; and on taking steps at your request when you contact us. Our use of artificial intelligence relates to content production, not to processing your personal data — see our AI disclosure.

Who we share information with

We do not sell personal data. We share it only with the service providers that make the site work, each acting on our instructions:

• Hosting, content delivery, and security.
• Analytics are cookieless, privacy-focused analytics.
• Our content and automation management systems.
• Our email provider, handling mail sent to and from our editorial inboxes and any waitlist updates.

Our pages also load web fonts from Google Fonts; to retrieve them, your browser contacts Google, which involves your IP address. Beyond the above, we may disclose information only where we are required to by law.

Data retention

We keep personal data only as long as we need it. Correspondence is kept for as long as needed to handle your query and to keep a reasonable record. Waitlist email addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove you. Aggregate analytics, which is not personal data, may be kept indefinitely. Technical logs are short-lived and managed by our infrastructure providers.

Your rights

Under UK and EU data protection law you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to object to or restrict its processing, and to data portability. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. To exercise any of these rights, email editorial@tickstock.io.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with a data protection authority — in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie); in the United Kingdom, the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

International transfers

Some of our service providers operate outside your country. Where personal data is transferred internationally, it is protected by appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses or a relevant adequacy decision.

Children

Tickstock is intended for an adult audience interested in financial markets. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The current version is always the one published here, with the "last updated" date shown above.

Contact

Questions, requests, or concerns about privacy: editorial@tickstock.io.