Effective Date: July 3, 2026

Bear Market Trader (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website located at: https://bearmarkettrader.com. This Privacy Policy outlines our data protocols regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when you interface with our site.

Comments When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, alongside the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to facilitate spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify usage. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media If you upload images to the website, you should strictly avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms When you utilize our contact forms, we collect the personal information you submit, such as your name and email address. This data is strictly routed to our administrative inboxes for communication purposes. It is never sold, leased, or distributed to third-party marketing databases.

Cookies and Caching Protocols We utilize cookies to optimize load times, maintain server-side caching equilibrium, and manage user sessions.

• If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies will last for one year.
• If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
• When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies are immediately removed.
• If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser indicating the post ID of the article. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites Articles and daily market logs on this site may include embedded content (e.g., external charts, videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These external nodes may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

Data Retention Architecture If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their structural username). Website administrators also possess the global permissions to see and edit that information.

Your Data Rights If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This strictly excludes any data we are legally obliged to keep for administrative, tax, or security purposes.

Where We Send Your Data Visitor comments and form submissions may be checked and filtered through an automated spam detection service prior to reaching our administrative database.

Data Protection and Security The structural integrity of your data is critical. We deploy standard server-side encryption and caching proxies (such as Varnish) to protect against unauthorized access. However, you must acknowledge that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.