Privacy Policy

First published 30 October 2026. Updated 9 November 2026 to describe free accounts.

Who we are

Automated Trade Bots (automatedtradebots.com) is a free education site about trading bots. It is written and run from Australia by Charles. You can reach us through the contact page.

What we collect

• Calculator inputs. The calculators run in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to us or to anyone else.
• Account details. If you create a free account on login.automatedtradebots.com we store your name, your email address, a protected form of your password (never the password itself), a record that you ticked the box to agree and when, the time you signed up, the page of this site you came from if you used a button on it, and whether your account has been approved yet. New accounts start as pending approval. We check your chosen password against a public list of passwords from data breaches by sending only the first five characters of a one-way code of it, never the password. If it appears on the list we ask you to choose another.
• Contact messages. If you use the contact form we store your name, email address, the topic you chose, your message, a record that you ticked the box to agree, and the date and time.
• What is stored with every contact message. The system that receives the form also stores, on the same record, the address of the page you were on (including anything after a question mark in it), the address of the page you came from if your browser sent one, your browser type (the user agent text your browser sends) and your IP address. It also writes a short event record for the submission with the page, the time, your IP address and your browser type. The forms on this site do not send a visitor or session identifier, so none is stored.
• Matching a message to earlier visits. When you send a message, the system looks for page views recorded from the same IP address in the previous 24 hours, or from the same browser type on the same page in the previous 3 hours. It notes on the event record how it matched, the page you came from if that was another website, the first page you landed on, the time of that visit and how many page views it found.
• Page views. We count visits with a simple counter. For each page view the counter sends the page (including any query text), the page you came from, your browser type and whether your browser has cookies switched on. The page view is stored with the time and your IP address. The counter sets no cookies and sends nothing if your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal.
• Google Analytics. We also use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages are read, how people reach the site and how long they stay. It sets cookies on your device (names starting with _ga) and sends Google the page, the page you came from, your browser and device type and your approximate location. Google says Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. It does not load if your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, and you can also block it with a browser extension such as Google's Analytics opt-out add-on. Google's own policy applies to what it does with the data.
• Emails. Each account sign-up or contact message sends a confirmation email to the address you gave. It also sends the person who runs the site a notice with the details you entered and a copy of your confirmation email. We keep a log of each email sent: the recipient address, the subject, and whether it was delivered or failed.
• Hosting logs. Our hosting provider records the IP address and the pages requested, as any web host does, under its own policy.
• Fonts from Google. Each page loads its typeface from Google's font servers, so your browser sends your IP address and browser details to Google when a page opens. Google's own policy applies to what it does with them.
• Signing in. The calculators and guides need no account. The login page keeps your signed-in session in your browser tab only, and it is cleared when you sign out or close the tab. We hold no payment details, and we will never ask for an API key or a trading account number. Sign-up and sign-in attempts are rate limited by IP address to stop automated abuse.

Why we collect it

Your name and email address are used to create and confirm your account, to sign you in, and to tell you about your account. The page you came from helps us see which pages bring accounts. Contact details are used to reply to you and to check a reported error. The page, referrer, browser type and IP address stored with a sign-up, and the page views the system matches to it, are used to see which page or website brought a sign-up here. We do not sell your details, and we do not give them to anyone to advertise to you. Google Analytics data is used to see which pages are useful and where visitors come from.

Who handles it

Sign-up and contact details, event records, page views and the email log are stored in a database run for us by a cloud database provider, and emails are sent through an email delivery service. Those providers handle your details only to store them and to send what you asked for. Some of these providers store data on servers outside Australia. Your hosting provider and Google (for fonts and Google Analytics) also see the technical details above.

How long we keep it

We have not set a fixed period for how long account details, contact messages, event records, page views or the email log are kept. They are kept until we delete them or you ask us to delete them. Hosting logs are kept by the host for the period it sets.

Your rights

You can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. You can ask us to close your account and delete your details at any time by using the contact page and choosing "Change or remove my details". If you are not happy with how we handle your information, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au).

Changes

If this policy changes we will update this page and its date. This policy is written in plain words for a small Australian site and is not legal advice.