Privacy policy

Last updated 14 October 2026

This policy explains what information stockle.com collects when you visit, and how it is used.

Reading the site

You do not need an account to read Stockle. Our hosting and security provider, Cloudflare, processes your IP address and approximate location to deliver the site, protect it from abuse and apply regional access rules; standard web server logs (IP address, time, page requested, browser type) are kept for security and troubleshooting.

Visit statistics

To see how the site is used, Stockle counts page views itself: the page, the site you came from, and your country. It does not use a cookie for this and does not store your IP address - each visit is counted with a one-way code made from your connection and browser that changes every day, so it cannot be used to follow you from one day to the next. We also use Google Analytics, which uses cookies to measure visits; you can opt out with Google's browser add-on.

Advertising and cookies

Stockle shows advertising served by Google. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to Stockle and other sites. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, and learn how Google uses data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom), you will be asked for consent before advertising cookies are used.

Accounts

If you have a Stockle account, we store your email address, a hashed password and the scenarios and holdings you choose to save, and use a session cookie to keep you signed in. This information is not sold or shared for advertising.

Some things you do with an account are public by design: chat posts show your first name and last initial, and any image you attach; a scenario you share can be seen by anyone with its link. Images are re-encoded when you upload them, which removes hidden data such as camera details and location. You can delete your own posts at any time.

Your choices

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Account holders can ask for their data to be exported or deleted.

Changes

We will update this page if what we collect or how we use it changes.