Comments

When visitors leave comments, we collect the data from the comment form, as well as the visitor's IP address and browser user agent to assist with spam detection.

An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be shared with the Gravatar service to verify usage. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from uploaded images.

Cookies

When leaving a comment, you may opt to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last one year.

Visiting the login page sets a temporary cookie to check your browser's cookie acceptance. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Logging in sets cookies to save login information and screen preferences:

  • Login cookies: 2 days (extendable to 2 weeks with "Remember Me").
  • Screen options cookies: 1 year.
  • Logging out removes login cookies.

Publishing or editing an article saves an additional cookie (post ID only, expires in 1 day).

Embedded Content

Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images). Interacting with embedded content behaves as if you visited the originating website, which may collect data, use cookies, or track your interactions.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Retention

  • Comments and metadata are retained indefinitely to streamline follow-up approvals.
  • Registered users' personal information is stored in their profiles. Users can view, edit, or delete their data anytime (excluding usernames). Website admins can also manage this data.

Your Rights

You can request an exported file of the personal data we hold or request data deletion, excluding information retained for legal or security reasons.

Data Processing

Visitor comments may be analyzed via automated spam detection services.

Telegram Bot

When you visit goldsignals.io we set a cookie, kept for 30 days, and record the visit: which advert you came from, the page you landed on and came from, your device type, browser and country. We do not store your IP address.

We use this to give you the membership you paid for and let you into the VIP channels, to answer your messages, to tell you about your membership and payments, to send occasional updates about our service, and to measure which of our adverts lead to sign-ups and purchases. For that last purpose, if you came from a Google advert we send Google the advert's click ID with the time and value of your purchase.

Website visits are deleted after 180 days. The text of support messages is deleted after 365 days. Membership and payment records are kept as long as the law requires.

You can stop our updates at any time by sending /stop to the bot or by blocking it. To delete your data, send /delete_me to the bot: we remove your name, username, support conversation and the link to your website visits (payment records are kept because the law requires it). For anything else, contact us at support@goldsignals.io.