🔐 Privacy Policy
Last updated: 11 July 2026 · How Meridian Trading Nexus collects, uses and protects information. Short version: we collect what the site needs to run and stay secure, we don't sell it, and you can delete yours at any time.
1. What we collect
Account data (members): email address, display name, and any
optional profile content you add (intro, bio, avatar photo, service intros).
Content you publish: Trade Share posts, comments, reactions, chart snapshots, follows, collaboration
requests, and messages you send to the site admin.
Visit & security logs (all visitors): IP address, browser user-agent, pages requested, referrer and
time. We derive an approximate location (country and town) from the IP address. These logs power the site's
security monitoring and internal statistics.
Preferences: chart settings, templates, drawings and language choice are stored locally in your own browser
(localStorage) and never leave your device.
2. Cookies
We use a small number of first-party cookies only: a membership session cookie (keeps you signed in, 30 days) and an administrative cookie on staff browsers. No third-party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies are set.
3. How we use information
To operate the features you use (membership, community, charts); to keep the site secure (detecting scrapers, intrusion attempts and abuse — aggressive crawlers are blocked outright); to understand aggregate usage (visitor statistics); and to respond when you message us. We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.
4. Third-party processing
Three narrow exceptions to "everything stays here": market data is fetched server-side from public financial data sources (your identity is never part of that request); visitor IP addresses may be sent to a geolocation service (ip-api.com) solely to resolve country/town for our security log; and fonts/chart libraries load from public CDNs (Google Fonts, unpkg), which see standard web request metadata. News headlines link out to their original publishers.
5. Retention
Visit logs are kept ~30 days, problem pings ~60 days, and security/intrusion logs ~90 days, then deleted automatically. Account and content data stay until you remove them.
6. Your controls & rights
From your profile you can edit your details, control who sees your page and bio, selectively erase your activity (posts, reactions & comments, messages, connections, snapshots), or permanently delete your entire account — self-service, no request needed. Depending on your jurisdiction you may also have statutory rights of access, rectification and erasure; contact us via the profile message form to exercise them.
7. Security
The site runs active security monitoring: known scrapers and scanners are blocked, probing requests are logged, repeat offenders are banned by IP, and request rates are limited. No system is perfectly secure — use a unique email and be mindful of what you publish in community areas, which are public by design (you control your page's visibility in privacy settings).
8. Children
The site is not directed at children and trading content is inherently adult-oriented. Do not use the site if you are under 18.
9. Changes & contact
We may update this policy; the date above changes when we do. Privacy questions: members can use the Message the admin form on their profile. A public contact address will be published when the site's domain goes live.
See also the Terms & Conditions and the Risk Disclaimer.