Privacy Policy

Overview

Stockade ("we", "us", or "our") operates the website stockademarketsim.com (the "Service"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service. We are committed to protecting your privacy. In short: we collect no personally identifiable information and have no user accounts.

Data We Collect

No Account Required

Stockade requires no registration, login, or email address. You can use every feature of the platform without providing any personal information to us.

Local Storage (Client-Side Only)

Your trading simulation state — including your virtual portfolio balance, trade history, preferences such as dark/light mode, and other settings — is stored exclusively in your browser's localStorage. This data never leaves your device and is never transmitted to our servers. You can clear it at any time by clearing your browser's site data.

Usage Data

We may collect anonymised, aggregated usage data (such as page views and session counts) through standard web analytics tools. This data cannot be used to identify you and is used solely to understand how the Service is used and to improve it.

Third-Party Services

Google Fonts

Stockade uses fonts (Inter and JetBrains Mono) served by Google Fonts. When your browser requests these fonts, your IP address is sent to Google's servers. Please refer to Google's Privacy Policy for details on how they handle that data.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how the Service is used in aggregate, reporting anonymised metrics such as page views and session counts. It stores analytics cookies only if you consent to them. See Google's Privacy Policy.

Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display advertising. Advertising cookies are stored, and personalised ads shown, only if you consent to them. See Advertising and Cookies below for how advertising cookies work and how to opt out of personalised ads.

Google Consent Mode

We signal your cookie choice to Google using Google Consent Mode. Your decision is applied to analytics storage, advertising storage, advertising personalisation, and the sharing of ad user data. Until you accept, all four are set to denied.

Hosting

The site is hosted on a third-party web hosting provider. Standard web server logs (IP address, browser type, referring URL, timestamp) may be retained by the hosting provider in accordance with their own privacy policy.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device to remember information about you between visits. Similar technologies — such as localStorage and web beacons — work in much the same way.

Essential Use

Stockade uses local browser storage for the functionality of the Service itself: your virtual portfolio, trade history, theme preference, and your cookie consent choice. These are strictly necessary for the site to work as intended and are never used to track you across other websites.

Advertising and Analytics

Stockade also uses cookies for analytics and for advertising. These are not essential to the operation of the site, so they are not set unless you consent to them. On your first visit you will see a consent banner. Until you accept, our advertising and analytics providers run in a restricted mode in which they store no cookies on your device, do not build an advertising profile from your activity, and serve only non-personalised ads.

Your Choice

If you decline, that restricted mode stays in effect permanently: no analytics or advertising cookies are stored and no personalised advertising is shown. You may still see non-personalised ads, which are chosen from the content of the page rather than from your browsing history.

You can change your mind at any time by clearing your browser's site data for stockademarketsim.com, which will bring the consent banner back on your next visit. You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings, though doing so may affect how parts of the Service behave.

Advertising and Cookies

This site uses third-party vendors, including Google, to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

These cookies allow ad networks to recognise your browser or device across visits, and to build a profile of your interests based on your browsing activity, in order to show you ads that are more relevant to you.

Opting Out

Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. Alternatively, users can opt out of some third-party vendor use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Scope

This Privacy Policy covers our own use of cookies. It does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any advertisers or third-party ad networks.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to third-party websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. You are advised to review this page periodically.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@stockademarketsim.com.