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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2 November 2026

This privacy policy explains which personal data we process when you visit pipmetrix.com, contact us or work with us, why we do it, and which rights you have under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who is responsible

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

TRADE-REX e.K., owner Florian Fendt
Am Röhrig 2
63762 Großostheim
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 6026 9993599
Email: info@pipmetrix.com

For any question about data protection, or to exercise your rights, please contact us directly at the address above.

2. Overview: legal bases we rely on

  • Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, consent: analytics and marketing tools, and any cookies or similar technologies that are not strictly necessary (in connection with § 25(1) of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act, TDDDG). You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
  • Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, contract: answering requests about our services and carrying out a cooperation with you.
  • Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR, legal obligation: for example retention duties under tax and commercial law.
  • Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, legitimate interests: secure and reliable operation of the website, protection against spam and abuse, and business communication. Where we rely on this basis, you have a right to object (see section 13).

3. Hosting and server log files

This website is hosted by Alpha Internet Ltd (Zume), United Kingdom. The European Commission has recognised the United Kingdom as providing an adequate level of data protection (Art. 45 GDPR).

When you open a page, the server automatically records technical data in log files: IP address, date and time of the request, the page requested, the referring page, the browser and operating system used, and the status of the request. We need this data to deliver the website, to keep it secure and to analyse errors and attacks. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a secure and working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Log files are deleted automatically after a short period, unless they are needed to investigate a specific security incident.

We use a page cache (LiteSpeed Cache) to make the website faster. It does not create user profiles.

4. Cookies and consent management

We use cookies and similar technologies. Cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to work are set on the basis of § 25(2) TDDDG and our legitimate interest. All other cookies, in particular for statistics and marketing, are only set after you have given your consent in our cookie banner (§ 25(1) TDDDG, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

The cookie banner is provided by the WordPress plugin Complianz, which runs on our own server. It stores your choice in cookies (for example cmplz_statistics and cmplz_marketing) so that we do not have to ask you again on every page. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via the “Manage consent” button on this website. A complete list of the cookies we use is available in our cookie policy.

5. Contact form, email and phone

If you contact us via the contact form, by email or by phone, we process the data you provide (for example your name, email address, information about your monthly revenue and traffic sources, and your message) to answer your request and, where applicable, to prepare a cooperation. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your request relates to a contract, and otherwise our legitimate interest in answering requests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

The contact form contains a hidden field that protects us against automated spam. It does not involve any third-party service.

Messages from the contact form are sent to us by email. Emails from our website are sent via Zoho Mail (Zoho Corporation B.V., Netherlands, EU data centre), with whom we have concluded a data processing agreement.

We delete your request once it has been dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply or a cooperation follows.

6. Business contacts and outreach

We work with publishers, affiliates and other companies in the trading, crypto and investing industry. If we contact you about a possible collaboration (for example guest articles, link partnerships or our services), we process the business contact data we have obtained from publicly available sources such as your website or imprint (name, business email address, website and the content of our correspondence). The legal basis is our legitimate interest in establishing business relationships (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). You can object at any time, for example by replying to our email; we will then not contact you again and keep only the information needed to respect your objection.

7. Comments

If you leave a comment on our blog, we store your comment, the name and email address you enter, an optional website, and the time and IP address of the comment. We need this information to publish the comment and to be able to respond to abuse or illegal content (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Your email address is not published.

To protect against spam, comments are checked by the WordPress plugin Antispam Bee. The checks run entirely on our own server; no data is sent to third parties. Comments recognised as spam are moved to a spam folder and never published.

Comments are stored for as long as they are published. You can ask us to delete your comment at any time.

8. Article ratings

You can rate our articles with stars (plugin “Rate my Post”). We store the rating, the time and your IP address to prevent repeated ratings and to calculate the average rating (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We do not use this data to identify you.

9. Short links and calculator

Some links on our website are short links that redirect you to partner websites (plugin “Pretty Links”). We only count the number of clicks and do not store personal data about you.

The cost calculator on our compensation page runs in your browser. We do not store the values you enter.

10. Google Analytics 4 (only with your consent)

With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our website. The provider in the EU is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics uses cookies (_ga, _ga_*) and collects information such as the pages you visit, how long you stay, the device and browser you use and your approximate location. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store full IP addresses. We have disabled data sharing with other Google products.

Data may be transferred to Google LLC in the United States. Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, for which the European Commission has adopted an adequacy decision. Data is kept according to the retention settings in our Google Analytics account, at most 14 months.

The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG), which you can withdraw at any time via “Manage consent”. More information: Google privacy policy.

11. Meta Pixel (only with your consent)

With your consent, we use the Meta Pixel of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 X2K5, Ireland (“Meta”). It allows us to measure the effectiveness of our ads on Facebook and Instagram and to show our ads to people who have visited our website. For this purpose, the pixel sets cookies (for example _fbp) and transmits information such as the pages you visit and technical data about your device to Meta. If you are logged in to a Meta service, Meta can link this information to your account.

For the collection and transmission of this data, we and Meta are joint controllers (Art. 26 GDPR) under the Meta Controller Addendum. Meta is responsible for any further processing. Data may be transferred to Meta Platforms, Inc. in the United States, which is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG), which you can withdraw at any time via “Manage consent”. More information: Meta privacy policy.

12. Social media links and share buttons

Our pages contain simple links to our social media profiles and buttons to share articles on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn or by email. These are plain links: no data is transferred to these networks when you load our pages. Only when you click a link does your browser connect to the respective network, which then processes your data under its own privacy policy.

13. Your rights

You have the right to:

  • access the personal data we hold about you (Art. 15 GDPR),
  • have incorrect data corrected (Art. 16 GDPR),
  • have your data deleted (Art. 17 GDPR),
  • restrict the processing of your data (Art. 18 GDPR),
  • receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format (Art. 20 GDPR),
  • withdraw any consent you have given at any time, with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR).

Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): where we process your data on the basis of our legitimate interests, you can object at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. If we process your data for direct marketing, you can object at any time without giving reasons, and we will stop.

To exercise your rights, simply contact us at info@pipmetrix.com.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for us is the Bavarian Data Protection Authority for the private sector: Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA), Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany, www.lda.bayern.de.

14. How long we keep data

We keep personal data only for as long as it is needed for the purposes described above. Where statutory retention periods apply (for example six or ten years for business letters and accounting records under German commercial and tax law), we restrict the data to that purpose and delete it when the period has ended.

15. Encryption

This website uses TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by “https://” in the address bar and the lock symbol in your browser.

16. Changes to this policy

We update this privacy policy when our website, our services or the law change. The current version is always available on this page.