Privacy

What this site knows about you

Almost nothing, and that is a design decision rather than a promise. CryptoTIDE is a pile of static files: HTML, one stylesheet, two scripts and a folder of public JSON that a background job rewrites every few hours. There is no database behind it, no account system, no login, no form that posts anywhere, and no newsletter. There is nowhere for your personal data to go, because nothing was built to receive it.

The one exception is website analytics, and it now waits for your permission.

Last updated 5 August 2026. This page describes what the site actually does. Where something is a limit rather than a guarantee, it says so.

The short version

Six sentences

• No accounts, no logins, no passwords, no email list, no contact form — nothing to sign up for.
• Google Analytics does not load at all unless you click Allow analytics; declining means the script is never requested.
• The DCA model accepts no budget, holdings, account or order inputs.
• Donations happen on Bitcoin and Tron. The site never sees a payment, a name, or an address belonging to you.
• The site is not for sale to advertisers: no ad network, no tracking pixel, no data broker, no affiliate tracking.
• The operator is pseudonymous, which has consequences for you — see the honest part at the bottom.

Analytics

Google Analytics 4, only if you say yes

The site uses Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-PW7KWDY45R) for one purpose: to see roughly how many people read which page, so that time goes into the pages people actually use. It is aggregate curiosity, not surveillance of individuals, and it is not linked to anything else on this site because there is nothing else to link it to.

What that means in practice:

• It is off by default. On your first visit the site asks. Until you answer, the Google script is never fetched, so no analytics cookie can exist.
• Declining is real. "No thanks" is stored, the script is never inserted, and any _ga cookie left over from an earlier visit is expired immediately.
• Your browser's own signal counts. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, that is treated as a "no" and you are not asked again.
• Advertising features are switched off in the tag configuration: no remarketing audiences, no ad personalisation signals, no Google Signals.

If you do allow it, Google receives what a standard GA4 page view carries: the page you opened, the referring link, your approximate location derived by Google from your IP address, your device, browser, language and screen size, and a random identifier kept in cookies named _ga and _ga_PW7KWDY45R. That data is processed by Google under its own terms and infrastructure, which can mean processing outside the EU. Google's own description is at policies.google.com/privacy, and its browser opt-out add-on lives at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Legal basis: your consent, and nothing else. Analytics cookies here are not "strictly necessary" — the site works identically without them — so they are only set after you agree, and you can withdraw at any time with no loss of function. Withdrawing is one click, right here:

Change your analytics choice

Analytics is off unless you have allowed it in this browser.

Your browser

What actually gets stored on your device

What	Where	Why	How long
cryptotide.consent.v1	localStorage	Remembers whether you allowed or declined analytics, so you are asked once	Until you clear your browser storage or change the choice
_ga, _ga_PW7KWDY45R	Cookies set by Google	Google Analytics 4 — only created if you allowed analytics	Google's default is up to 2 years; deleted by this site when you decline

That is the complete list. No other cookie, no localStorage key, no fingerprinting script, no session recording, no heatmap, no A/B testing tool. The consent choice itself is stored in localStorage precisely so that saying "no" does not require setting a cookie.

The tools

The DCA model has no personal inputs

The DCA model displays one normalized 100-unit rule. It does not ask for a budget, holdings, account, exchange or order price. The page loads the same public cycle files as every other visitor and performs the model arithmetic locally in JavaScript.

You do not have to take this on faith. The whole calculation is in assets/dca.js — one readable page of code, no bundler, no minification. Any browser's network panel shows the same public-data requests.

The same is true of every other reading on the site: the charts and gauges render from public JSON files that are identical for every visitor. Nothing is personalised, because the site has no idea who you are.

Third parties

The two other companies your browser touches

• Google, for analytics — and only after you allow it, as described above.
• Binance and Coinbase public price endpoints. The homepage shows a live BTC price. To do that your browser connects directly to Binance's public market-data endpoint (and falls back to Coinbase's public feed). Those requests come from your device, so those exchanges see your IP address and user agent, exactly as if you had opened their website. No account, no cookie of ours, and no data of yours is involved — but it is a third-party connection and you should know it happens. It is only on the pages showing a live price.

There is nothing else: no CDN, no web font service, no embedded video, no comment widget, no social media SDK, no ad network, no error-reporting service. Everything else the pages need is served from this domain.

The server

Ordinary web-server logs

The site is served by nginx behind a reverse proxy on a rented virtual server. Like every web server in existence, it writes standard access logs: IP address, timestamp, the file requested, the HTTP status, the user agent. They exist to keep the thing running and to diagnose it when it breaks. They are not analysed, not profiled, not joined to analytics data, not shared, and not sold.

This is server-side and independent of your analytics choice — refusing analytics does not, and cannot, stop a web server from logging that a request arrived.

Donations

On-chain, and outside this site entirely

The donate page is a static page showing two addresses and two QR images. There is no payment processor, no checkout, no redirect, no widget, and no callback. If you send something, you do it from your own wallet to an address on the Bitcoin or Tron network. This site is not involved in the transaction, does not observe it, and receives no name, email, billing address or card detail — because it has nowhere to put them.

Two honest caveats. First, public blockchains are public: a transaction is visible to anyone who looks, and its privacy properties are yours to manage, not something this site can give you. Second, a donation is anonymous to the operator unless you announce it yourself; there is no donor list, no receipt, and no way to tie a payment back to a visit.

Your rights

What you can ask for, and what would actually happen

If you are in the EU or the UK, the GDPR gives you rights over personal data about you: access, correction, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, and the right to complain to a supervisory authority. Those rights apply here — the unusual part is how little there is to exercise them on.

• Access or erasure of a profile: there is no profile. No account, no email, no identifier this site can look you up by. A request for "my data" has no record to return, because none is created.
• Analytics data: if you allowed analytics, the data sits inside Google's systems keyed to a random cookie identifier that this site cannot map to a person. The practical remedy is faster than any request: withdraw consent above and clear your browser cookies, which deletes the identifier. You can also raise a request with Google directly.
• Objecting to analytics: that is the "No thanks" button. It takes effect immediately and permanently in that browser.
• Complaining: if you think something here is wrong, write first — see below — and if that fails you can complain to your national data protection authority.

What this site cannot honestly offer is an identity-verified rights process, because it has no identities to verify. That is a consequence of collecting nothing, not a loophole.

The honest part

The operator is pseudonymous

CryptoTIDE is run by one person, in the European Union, who publishes under the project name rather than a personal one. There is no company here: no legal entity, no VAT number, no registered office, no data protection officer, no staff. Inventing any of those to make this page look more official would be the exact opposite of the point.

Be clear-eyed about what that costs you. You cannot check a company register, you cannot serve a formal notice on a name, and you are relying on a description of behaviour rather than on a countersigned contract. If that is not acceptable to you for a free educational website, the correct response is to use it with analytics declined, or not to use it at all — and to know that the pages work perfectly with JavaScript storage cleared after every visit.

What is offered in exchange is verifiability instead of identity. The site is static and unminified: view source shows you every script that runs, and the network panel shows every request that leaves your machine. The claims on this page are the kind that can be checked in thirty seconds by anyone who cares to. See about for the rest of what is published in place of a name.

Contact

Privacy questions

Write to privacy@cryptotide.tech for anything on this page: a question, a correction, a rights request, or a claim that something here is inaccurate. Corrections are welcome and get made — one person reads that address, so expect a human reply rather than a ticket number, and expect it to take a few days.

For anything that is not about privacy, the public channels are on the about page.

Housekeeping

Changes, children, and the lawyer disclaimer

Changes. If what the site does changes, this page changes first and the date at the top moves. A material change — a new third-party service, a mailing list, anything that collects something — will be announced on the public channels, not slipped in. If a mailing list is ever added, it will be opt-in, with an unsubscribe link in every message, and it will be described here before the first email goes out.

Children. This site is educational market context for adults. It is not directed at children and asks no one for their age, because it asks no one for anything.

Who wrote this. The operator did, not a lawyer. It is a plain description of how the site is built, written to be accurate rather than to be legally armoured, and it is not legal advice. If you spot something wrong or missing, the email above is the fastest way to get it fixed.

CryptoTIDE publishes educational market context from public data. It is not financial advice, and nothing on the site is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.