Privacy and What Happens to Your Data

Calculators run in the browser

The calculators on this site run in your browser, and the numbers you enter are never sent to a server. Position size, margin and pip value are worked out on your own device, so the figures you type stay with you.

That includes the worked example at 1:200 where a 0.10-lot gold position needs about $85.50 margin. Nothing about your inputs is logged, stored remotely or used to build a profile.

How affiliate tracking works when a link to a broker is followed

Affiliate tracking means that some links from Pilbara Calls to a broker carry an identifier so the broker can tell the visit came from this site, and a referral may produce a payment to us if you go on to open and fund an account. That is stated plainly because it is the honest description: the site earns from referrals, and no calculator result, comparison or piece of guidance is altered to favour a broker that pays more. The tools produce the same numbers whoever you eventually choose.

The identifier is attached to the link itself and, depending on the destination, may then be held in a cookie set by the broker rather than by us. We do not receive your account details, your deposit amount, your trading history or your identity from that arrangement; what comes back is confirmation that a referral occurred, in a form that does not let us reconstruct your activity. Your relationship, your money and your personal information sit with the broker you chose, under its terms and its regulator.

Two consequences follow. First, you should assume that following a broker link tells that broker you came from here, exactly as any referral link would. Second, the arrangement creates an incentive we are telling you about rather than hiding: we benefit if you sign up, which is precisely why the risk warnings on this site are not softened and why no spread, fee or leverage figure is presented as a reason to trade. Leverage of up to 1:200 is a cap, not a target, and the site says so regardless of any referral.

If you would rather not be tracked, open the broker's site directly in a fresh browser session instead of clicking through, and the referral identifier never travels. Nothing on Pilbara Calls is gated behind an affiliate link; every explanation and calculator is available without following one. The choice of whether to be attributed is yours, and the site is built so that declining costs you no content.

The rights you have over your information and the exact way to use them

You can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, and object to a use you are not comfortable with. Under the Australian Privacy Principles those rights attach to personal information an organisation holds, and in practice the only such information this site is likely to hold is a message you sent and the server log line that recorded the visit. A request costs you nothing and we will tell you plainly if the answer is that we hold nothing.

To use a right, send a message through the contact route on this site and describe what you want: access, correction, deletion or an objection. Include enough detail for us to locate the record, such as the email address you wrote from and roughly when you wrote. We will respond within a reasonable period and will not require you to create an account or justify the request. If we cannot act because the information sits with a broker rather than with us, we will say so and point you to the party that holds it.

Some requests have a boundary worth knowing in advance. Server logs kept for security may be retained for a limited period even after a deletion request, because removing them immediately would defeat the purpose they exist for, and records we are legally required to keep cannot be erased on request. Where a limit applies we will explain it rather than simply refusing, and where the information is genuinely ours to delete, deletion is the default answer.

Rights over broker-held data are exercised with the broker. If your concern is an account, a deposit sent by PayID or bank transfer, or a record created on a trading platform, the request goes to that entity under its policy and its regulator's rules. Because FxPro does not hold an ASIC licence and Australian residents deal with an offshore entity, the avenue for a complaint about that data runs through the offshore framework, which is one more reason to check the position before funding.

Which third parties can see something, and what each of them sees

The third parties that can see anything about your visit are limited to the hosting provider that serves the pages, any analytics service used to count visits, and the broker or affiliate network you reach by following a link. Each sees a different slice. The host sees the request itself, analytics sees aggregate behaviour, and the broker sees only what happens after you arrive on its own site. None of them is given information by us that you did not already generate by visiting or clicking.

The hosting provider processes the technical request and may keep standard server logs, which is ordinary infrastructure work rather than profiling. An analytics service receives page-level events and coarse location, not your name or any calculator input. A broker receives the referral identifier plus whatever you choose to submit on its own forms, and from that point your data is handled under its policy and by the entity you contracted with, which for Australian readers is an offshore entity rather than an ASIC-licensed one.

That last point matters more than the cookie mechanics. FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK) and CySEC. It does not hold an ASIC licence, so Australian residents deal with an offshore entity — check this before funding. The privacy consequence is that your personal information would be handled under an overseas regulatory and legal framework, and any rights you exercise over it are exercised with that entity, not with Pilbara Calls. We cannot retrieve, correct or delete records we never held.

We do not sell personal information, and there is no data broker, advertising network or list vendor in the chain described above. If that ever changed, this page would say so before the change took effect, in the manner described in the final section. For now the practical summary is short: the host serves pages, analytics counts them, and a broker you choose to visit handles your account under its own rules and its own regulator.

Brokers set their own cookies

A broker you reach through a link sets its own cookies under its own privacy policy. Those cookies are outside this desk's control, and what they collect is described by the broker, not here.

Read the broker's policy before you open or fund an account, particularly where an offshore entity is involved. FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK) and CySEC. It does not hold an ASIC licence, so Australian residents deal with an offshore entity — check this before funding.

How long records are kept, what removes them, and what the calculators retain

Correspondence you send is kept only while it is needed to answer you and to keep a record of what was said, and is then removed; server logs kept by the host roll off on the host's own retention schedule rather than being archived by us. Nothing is kept indefinitely for its own sake, and nothing is retained to build a marketing profile, because no such profile exists. Where a period is set by a legal or security requirement, that requirement sets the clock.

What deletes a record is either the passage of the retention period, a deletion request you make, or the ordinary operation of the host's log rotation. There is no manual archive of reader information to purge, which makes the practical answer simple: the small amount that exists disappears on a schedule or on request. If you want a specific message removed, say so and it will be removed once it is no longer needed to complete the exchange it belongs to.

The calculators retain nothing at all. Numbers you type into a gold position size, pip value or margin field are processed in the browser and are not sent to a server, so there is no stored copy to keep, expire or delete. That includes the worked figure at 1:200, where a 0.10-lot position needs about $85.50 margin: the arithmetic happens on your device and the result is displayed, not recorded. Closing the tab ends it.

Because the calculators keep nothing, the retention question only ever concerns messages and logs. That asymmetry is deliberate: the tools are where a reader is most likely to enter something commercially sensitive, such as a position size in ounces or a margin figure in Australian dollars, and the safest retention policy for that material is to never receive it. The site is designed so that the most sensitive typing you do here leaves no trace to manage.

The kinds of cookies this site and its partners set, and what each one is doing

Cookies on Pilbara Calls fall into three practical groups: those needed to serve and secure the page, those set by analytics, and those set by brokers or affiliate networks once you follow a link to a trading platform. The first group is functional, the second is measurement, and the third belongs to the destination rather than to us. Knowing which is which tells you what a given cookie is actually for before you decide whether to keep it.

Functional cookies cover the mechanics of loading a page and protecting it from abuse; without them the site may not render correctly or may not remember a basic preference between visits. Analytics cookies record things such as which pages are read and roughly where readers are, in aggregate, so we can tell whether a gold margin example is being found at all. Neither group is used to identify you by name, and neither is required for the calculators to work, because those run entirely in your browser.

Broker and affiliate cookies are set after you click through to a platform such as MT4, MT5, cTrader or the FxPro app, and they belong to that destination, not to Pilbara Calls. Their purpose is to record that a visit originated from this site, which is how referral arrangements are measured. They are governed by the destination's own cookie notice and privacy policy, not by this page, and clearing them is a matter of using your browser controls or the opt-out that the destination provides.

You control all three groups from your browser, and blocking the functional set may degrade how pages load while blocking the analytics set has no effect on the tools. Because the calculators do not depend on cookies, a reader who clears everything after each visit still gets the full function of the site. The only thing lost is the ability of a broker to attribute a sign-up to a referral from here, which affects measurement rather than your access to any content.

What Pilbara Calls stores on its own servers and what it never receives

Pilbara Calls stores almost nothing about you on its own servers: the pages are static, and the only records that reach us are messages you choose to send and the aggregate traffic counts described elsewhere on this page. Nothing you type into a calculator is transmitted, so a gold position size or a margin figure at 1:200 never arrives in a form we could read, log or lose.

What we never receive is the more useful list. We do not hold your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, tax file number, bank account details, PayID identifier, card number, broker login, MT4 or MT5 account number, or the balance of any trading account. Because none of that is collected, none of it can be exposed in a breach, sold, or handed to a third party, which is the practical reason the site is built to keep the calculators local.

What we do hold is small and predictable: correspondence you send us, and server logs that a hosting provider records automatically, which typically include an IP address, a timestamp and the page requested. Those logs exist for security and for keeping the site online, not for building a profile of you. If you would rather not create even that trace, read the pages without sending a message and the record stays at the level of an anonymous page view.

The test we apply is simple: if a piece of information is not needed to render a page or to answer a message you started, it is not collected. That is why there is no account system, no newsletter capture behind a calculator result, and no field asking for a deposit size in Australian dollars. A reader can use every tool on the site, including the gold pip and margin calculators, without identifying themselves at any point.

Traffic counts and local storage

Only aggregate traffic counts are kept, such as how many times a page was opened. These counts do not identify you and are not used to track you across other sites.

Local storage in your browser holds your own preferences, such as settings you have chosen on the site. That storage sits on your device, is readable by your browser, and can be cleared by you at any time.