Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 13, 2026

1. Who We Are

Bear Market Trader (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website located at https://bearmarkettrader.com.

For purposes of applicable data-protection laws, Bear Market Trader is responsible for the personal information described in this Privacy Policy.

Location: Taiwan
Privacy contact: info@bearmarkettrader.com

2. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through Bear Market Trader, why we collect it, how it may be shared, how long it is retained, and the choices and rights available to you.

This policy applies only to Bear Market Trader. Other websites linked from our site operate under their own privacy policies.

We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not use personal information for third-party behavioral advertising.

3. Information You Provide

Contact Forms and Communications

When you contact us through a form or by email, we may collect your name, email address, message, and any other information you choose to provide.

We use this information to:

• Respond to your questions or requests;
• Provide support;
• Maintain appropriate records of our communications; and
• Detect or prevent spam, abuse, or security threats.

Providing this information is voluntary, but we may be unable to respond if you do not provide an email address or sufficient information about your request.

Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in communicating with visitors and operating the website, or taking steps at your request before entering into an agreement.

Accounts and Member Access

If you register for an account or request access to member-only content, we may collect information such as your username, name, email address, profile information, membership status, and login or session information.

We use this information to:

• Create and administer your account;
• Provide access to member-only content;
• Authenticate users and maintain account security;
• Communicate with you about your account; and
• Prevent misuse of restricted areas.

This processing is necessary to provide the account or membership service you request and for our legitimate interest in securing and administering the website.

Passwords are processed through WordPress authentication systems and are not displayed to website administrators in readable form.

Comments

If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, your IP address, and your browser user-agent string. This information is used to publish and administer comments and help detect spam or abuse.

An anonymized value created from your email address may be supplied to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. If your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile image may appear publicly beside your comment. Gravatar is operated by Automattic, whose privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Comments and any name, website, profile image, or other information submitted with them may be visible publicly.

4. Information Collected Automatically

Server and Security Logs

Our website and hosting systems may automatically process technical information such as:

• IP address;
• Requested page or file;
• Date and time of the request;
• Referring page;
• Browser and device information; and
• Error, security, and diagnostic information.

We use this information to deliver the website, troubleshoot errors, maintain security, prevent abuse, and understand technical performance. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in maintaining a secure and functional website and, where applicable, compliance with legal obligations.

Independent Analytics

We use Independent Analytics as a first-party, cookieless analytics tool to understand how the site is used.

Independent Analytics may process information including pages viewed, referring websites, browser or device type, and approximate geographic information. It processes the visitor’s IP address together with the browser user-agent string and a rotating salt to create a one-way hashed visitor identifier. The resulting identifier, rather than the original IP address, is stored in our WordPress database.

Independent Analytics does not place analytics cookies and does not send the resulting analytics database to the developer of the plugin.

We use this information to understand aggregate website usage and improve our content. Where permitted, we rely on our legitimate interest in privacy-conscious website measurement. Where applicable law requires consent, we rely on your consent.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 through Google Site Kit to measure visits and interactions with the website.

If you consent to statistics cookies, Google Analytics may collect first-party cookie identifiers, browser and device information, approximate location, pages viewed, referring sources, and information about interactions with the site. Google states that IP addresses may be processed while data is transmitted but are not logged or stored by Google Analytics.

Google acts as a data processor for our Analytics account. We have accepted Google’s data-processing terms and disabled Google’s use of our Analytics data for other Google products and services where the relevant setting is available.

We use Google Consent Mode and our consent-management system to communicate your choices to Google. Google Analytics cookies and full analytics storage are not enabled unless you consent. Limited cookieless consent-status signals may be transmitted where supported by the configured Consent Mode.

Our legal basis for optional Google Analytics processing is your consent. You can withdraw that consent at any time through the Manage Consent or Cookie Preferences control on the website.

Google’s privacy information is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

5. Cookies and Consent Preferences

We use:

• Necessary cookies for website operation, security, account login, sessions, and remembering consent choices;
• Preference cookies when you choose to enable functionality that remembers your settings; and
• Statistics cookies only when the applicable consent has been provided.

Our consent system is provided through Complianz and the WordPress Consent API. A necessary cookie may be stored to remember whether you accepted or rejected optional categories.

More information about individual cookies, their purposes, providers, and retention periods is available in our Cookie Policy.

You may change or withdraw your choices at any time using the Manage Consent or Cookie Preferences control. Our consent system is also configured to recognize supported browser privacy signals, such as Global Privacy Control, where applicable.

6. External Links and Embedded Content

Our site may link to third-party websites. Visiting an external website allows that provider to process information under its own privacy policy.

If a page contains embedded third-party content, such as a video, chart, or other externally hosted feature, the provider may receive technical information and may use cookies or similar technologies. Where required, optional embedded content should remain blocked until the relevant consent is given.

7. When Information May Be Shared

We may share or allow access to information only as reasonably necessary with:

• Website hosting, infrastructure, caching, and security providers;
• Email and communication providers used to receive or respond to messages;
• Technical service providers that maintain the website;
• Spam-detection or abuse-prevention services;
• Google, when Google Analytics is enabled with consent;
• Automattic, if Gravatar is used with comments;
• Professional advisers when necessary; and
• Government authorities or other parties when disclosure is required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, or security.

Service providers are permitted to process information only for the services they provide to us or as otherwise allowed by applicable law.

We may also disclose information if the website or its operations are transferred to another owner, subject to appropriate notice and safeguards.

8. International Data Transfers

Bear Market Trader is operated from Taiwan. Some service providers may process information in other countries, including the United States or locations where their infrastructure or personnel operate.

Data-protection laws in those countries may differ from those in your country. Where required by applicable law, transfers are subject to contractual, organizational, or other recognized safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses or equivalent protections supplied by the relevant service provider.

9. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy:

• Contact-form submissions and related correspondence are normally retained for up to 24 months after the last communication, unless a longer period is needed for security, dispute resolution, or legal compliance.
• Account information is retained while the account remains active and for a reasonable period afterward when necessary for security, administration, or legal obligations.
• Published comments and associated metadata may remain while the comment is published. You may request removal, subject to applicable legal exceptions.
• Security and server logs are retained according to operational and hosting requirements and are deleted or rotated when no longer needed.
• Independent Analytics data is periodically reviewed and deleted or aggregated when it is no longer reasonably useful.
• Google Analytics data is retained according to the retention setting configured in our Google Analytics property and is reviewed periodically.
• Consent preferences and cookie durations are described in our Cookie Policy.

Information may be retained longer when required by law or reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

10. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Ask whether we process information about you;
• Request access to or a copy of that information;
• Correct incomplete or inaccurate information;
• Request deletion of information;
• Request restriction or cessation of collection, processing, or use;
• Object to certain processing based on legitimate interests;
• Request data portability where applicable;
• Withdraw consent at any time; and
• Lodge a complaint with an applicable data-protection or supervisory authority.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

To exercise a privacy right, email info@bearmarkettrader.com. We may request reasonable information to verify your identity and protect your information from unauthorized access or deletion.

These rights are not absolute. We may retain or continue processing information where permitted or required by law, including for security, legal compliance, freedom of expression, or the establishment and defense of legal claims.

11. Automated Decision-Making

We do not use personal information to make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

12. Information Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards intended to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, loss, misuse, or disclosure.

However, no internet transmission or electronic storage method is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

13. Children’s Privacy

Bear Market Trader is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information through the website, contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, technologies, or legal obligations change. The revised version will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.

Material changes may also be communicated through an additional notice where appropriate.

15. Contact Us

For questions, requests, or concerns relating to this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information, contact:

Bear Market Trader
Taiwan
Email: info@bearmarkettrader.com