How This Site Handles Your Data
A plain account of what we collect when you read our independent review of the broker Plus500, why we collect it, and what you can do about it.
Partner mobile appsUnderstand What We Collect Before You Read
You have come to this site to read an independent editorial review of the broker Plus500, written for readers in Australia. This site is not the broker, is not affiliated with the broker, and does not provide financial services, accounts, deposits or advice. Because reading a page still involves some data, this policy explains what happens when you do so, in the order that most readers care about.
We keep collection to what a publishing site actually needs. That means technical data your browser sends automatically, such as the page you requested, the time of the request, your approximate region derived from your network address, your browser type and the referring page. If you use the contact form on this site, we receive whatever you choose to write there, including any details you put in it. We do not ask for and do not want your identity documents, your account credentials with any broker, your bank details or your trading history, and we do not collect them. We do not open accounts, take deposits or place anything on your behalf.
We also do not collect data from you through tracking that follows you across unrelated websites for advertising purposes, and we do not sell reader data. What arrives is what a normal web request produces, plus anything you deliberately send us.
See Where Your Data Goes
Our servers and the services that keep this site running are located in the European Union and the United States. Some recipients therefore sit outside Australia, and your data may be transferred to and stored in those countries. Where a transfer leaves Australia or the European Economic Area, we rely on the safeguards available under applicable data protection law for such transfers.
Recipients are limited to parties that help us publish and measure the site: our hosting and infrastructure provider, our analytics provider, and any provider we use to receive messages sent through the contact form on this site. Each of them processes data on our instructions and for the purposes described here. We do not pass your data to the broker, to any other broker, platform or partner, and we do not hand it to advertisers. We may disclose data if the law requires it or if a competent authority makes a valid request.
Access inside our own operation is restricted to those who need it to run and maintain the site.
Know the Legal Basis We Rely On
Where data protection law applies, we process the technical data described above on the basis of our legitimate interest in publishing and securing a working website and in understanding, in aggregate, whether our pages are read. That interest is balanced against your rights, and we keep the processing narrow so that it does not override them.
Where you send us a message through the contact form on this site, we process what you write on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering you, or on the basis of your consent where the law requires consent for that step. Analytics that rely on consent, where consent is required, are only set after you give it, and you can withdraw it at any time using the controls on this site.
We do not use your data to make automated decisions about you, and we do not profile you for marketing.
Measure Readers Only in Aggregate
We use analytics to count visits, see which pages are opened and understand how readers move through the site. The output we look at is aggregated measurement: totals, proportions and trends. We do not use it to identify individual readers, and we do not combine it with other data to build a profile of you.
Where the law or the settings on this site require consent for analytics, measurement starts only after you agree, and you can change your choice later through the controls provided on this site. Declining analytics does not stop you from reading the review.
The contact form on this site is the route for any message to us, including questions about this policy.
Exercise Your Rights and Control Retention
You may ask for access to the data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, ask us to restrict how we use it, object to processing based on our legitimate interest, and ask for a copy of data you provided in a portable format. Where processing rests on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. To use any of these rights, send a message through the contact form on this site and describe what you want; we will respond within the period the applicable law allows.
We keep server and analytics records only as long as needed for the purposes above, then delete or aggregate them. Messages sent through the contact form are kept for as long as needed to handle your query and any follow-up, and are then removed. Retention periods are reviewed periodically so that data does not sit with us without a reason.
If you believe we have handled your data unlawfully, you may complain to the data protection authority in your country, including the Australian authority responsible for privacy matters. We would prefer you contact us first through the contact form on this site so that we can address the issue.
