Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Snowball Journal (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the trading journal at snowballjournal.com. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect information when you use our website and application.

For privacy questions or requests, contact us at hello@snowballjournal.com.

2. What Snowball Journal does

Snowball Journal is a free trading journal. You can create an account, log trades, and view analytics such as win rate, P&L, and drawdown. We do not execute trades, hold funds, or provide investment advice.

3. Information we collect

4. What we do not collect

• Payment or billing information (the service is currently free)
• Broker login credentials or direct access to your brokerage accounts
• Precise geolocation
• Contacts, microphone, or camera data
• Advertising or cross-site tracking profiles

5. How we use information

We do not sell your personal information. We do not use your trade data to train AI models.

• Provide, maintain, and secure your account and journal
• Calculate analytics and display your trade history
• Respond to support requests and service notices
• Detect abuse, fraud, and technical issues
• Comply with legal obligations

6. Cookies and local storage

We use cookies and browser storage only as needed to run the service. We do not use advertising cookies.

• Supabase auth cookies — keep you signed in — session or up to 1 year — sign out or clear site data
• Theme preference (localStorage) — remember light/dark mode — until cleared — change theme or clear browser storage
• Current account preference (localStorage) — remember selected trading account — until cleared — sign out or clear browser storage

7. Third-party services

We use trusted providers to operate Snowball Journal. They process data on our behalf under their own privacy terms:

• Supabase — authentication and database hosting — https://supabase.com/privacy
• Google — optional OAuth sign-in — https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Vercel — website hosting and infrastructure — https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy

8. Data retention

• Account and journal data — kept while your account is active; deleted when you delete your account or ask us to delete it
• Authentication logs — typically up to 90 days for security
• Support correspondence — up to 2 years after the request is resolved

9. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing.

To exercise these rights, email hello@snowballjournal.com. We will respond within 30 days where required by law.

10. International transfers

Your data may be processed in countries other than your own, including the United States, where our infrastructure providers operate. We rely on appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses where required.

11. Children

Snowball Journal is not intended for users under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.

12. Security

We use industry-standard measures including encrypted connections (HTTPS), authenticated access, and row-level security in our database so users can access only their own data. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

13. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the revised version on this page and update the “Last updated” date. Continued use after changes means you accept the updated policy.

14. Contact

Email: hello@snowballjournal.com

We aim to respond to privacy requests within 30 days.

15. EEA & UK supplement

If you are in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, we process personal data under these legal bases: contract (to provide the service), legitimate interests (security and improvement), and consent where required.

You may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For GDPR-related requests, contact hello@snowballjournal.com.

16. California supplement

California residents may request to know, delete, or correct personal information we hold. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Submit requests to hello@snowballjournal.com with “California Privacy Request” in the subject line.