Privacy and what happens to your numbers

The calculators stay in your browser

Anything you type into a calculator on this site, such as a lot size, a price or a margin figure, is processed in your browser and is never transmitted to a server. There is no account to create, no form that posts your numbers and no stored calculation history on our side. If you close the tab, the numbers are gone.

This matters for a reader working out margin on a gold position, because the figures you enter are your own business. The worked example on the site, where a 0.10-lot position needs about $85.50 margin at 1:200 via the offshore entity, is fixed text, not something you have to submit to see.

Your rights over anything held, and the exact steps to exercise them

Your rights are straightforward because the site holds almost nothing: you can ask what is stored, ask for it to be deleted, object to measurement, and withdraw any consent you gave, and in practice most of this is done by you directly in the browser. Clearing cookies and site data for this domain removes every preference value the site placed. Blocking third-party cookies stops the broker's cookie from being set until you visit the broker deliberately.

Where a request needs a human, it goes to the site operator rather than to the broker, and it should name the domain and the browser used so the right record can be identified. Because no account exists, there is usually no record to find, and that answer is itself a valid response. For anything concerning an FxPro account, including identity documents and transaction history, the request must go to FxPro, since this site never receives that material and cannot delete what it never held.

Nigerian readers also have recourse beyond the site. The SEC Nigeria register of capital market operators is the place to confirm whether an entity is authorised locally, and a complaint about how a regulated firm handled personal data belongs with that firm and the relevant authority rather than with a calculator page. Keeping screenshots of what you sent, and when, makes any later complaint easier to pursue.

Cookie types you may encounter and the job each one does

Cookies on this site fall into a small number of functional groups, and each group exists for a stated purpose rather than for general collection. The first group is strictly necessary: it remembers that a notice was acknowledged or that a display preference was chosen, so the same message does not reappear on every page. Without these the site still works, but it becomes repetitive and harder to read on a phone.

The second group relates to measurement, and it is described in its own section below because the limits matter more than the label. The third group is set by the broker once you follow a link out, and that cookie belongs to the broker's domain, not to this one. A reader who wants to see exactly what is present can open the browser's developer tools, read the cookie list for the domain, and delete individual entries or all of them at any time.

No cookie here is used to build an advertising profile of you, and none is sold onward. Where a cookie is placed by a third party, the control sits with that third party and with your browser settings, which is why blocking third-party cookies entirely is a reasonable default for anyone who wants the minimum. The site continues to function with those blocked, because the calculators run locally and do not depend on any cookie to produce a result.

How a revision to this policy reaches you before it takes effect

A change to this policy is announced by updating this page and stating at the top what changed and when, so a returning reader can see the difference without comparing versions from memory. The revised text governs from the date shown on it. Because there is no mailing list and no account, there is no individual notification, and the page itself is the announcement. A reader who wants certainty should re-read it after any period away rather than assume it is unchanged.

Material changes, meaning anything that alters what is stored, who receives it or how long it is kept, are described in plain terms rather than folded silently into the body text. If a new third party were ever introduced, it would be named on this page before it went live, together with what it receives. That is a commitment about how this page is maintained, and it is the reason the sections above name the hosting layer and the broker explicitly.

Nothing in a revision can retroactively change what already happened to data you supplied. If a future version were to introduce something the current version does not do, it would apply going forward only. Your protection against being surprised is the same as before: keep site data cleared, read the broker's policy before funding an account, and confirm any firm on the SEC Nigeria register of capital market operators before sending identity documents anywhere.

Analytics: what is counted and what is deliberately left out

Analytics here is limited to aggregate page-level counting, such as how many times a page was opened, and it is deliberately not built around individuals. The site does not measure your calculator inputs, your lot sizes, your naira conversions or the sequence of pages you read in a way that identifies you. The reason is simple: position sizing and account balances are sensitive financial information, and a page that teaches risk should not be quietly collecting the evidence of how you apply it.

What is also not measured is anything that would let a third party reconstruct your trading profile, including cross-site behaviour, device fingerprinting for advertising, and audience segments sold onward. No advertising network is embedded, no social pixel is loaded, and no data broker receives a feed. Where a measurement service is used, it sees the ordinary request data described earlier and nothing typed into a field, because no field on this site submits anywhere.

That leaves a gap in the site's own knowledge, and it is accepted on purpose. The site cannot tell you which calculator you found useful, and it cannot personalise anything for you. In exchange, a reader in Nigeria can test a gold position at 1:200 through the offshore entity, or check what a 0.10-lot margin of about $85.50 implies, without that experiment becoming a data point about them.

Retention, deletion and what actually removes a stored value

Preference values persist until something removes them, and the things that remove them are specific: clearing site data or cookies in the browser, using a private window that discards everything on close, or a browser setting that wipes data at exit. There is no fixed expiry date published here because the lifetime is set by your browser and your choices, not by a retention schedule on a server. A value you never clear can sit there for a long time, which is why clearing it periodically is worth the ten seconds.

Anything held by the broker after you follow a link is retained under the broker's own policy and its own regulatory obligations, which typically run longer than a reader expects because financial firms keep records for supervisory reasons. This site has no ability to shorten or extend that period. If retention matters to you, read the broker's policy before opening an account, not after, and note that the entity serving Nigeria is FxPro Markets Direct Costa Rica Latam SRL.

Deletion on this side is immediate in effect: once the browser data is gone, the site has no copy to restore it from. That is the direct consequence of keeping preferences locally rather than in an account. The one thing deletion cannot undo is a record held elsewhere, such as an email you chose to send or an account you chose to open, and those follow the retention rules of whoever received them.

Traffic counts and local storage

The site keeps only aggregate traffic counts, which tell the desk how many visits a page received without identifying who visited. Local storage in your own browser holds your preferences, such as a setting you chose on a page, so the site behaves the same way when you return. That storage sits on your device and you can clear it from your browser at any time.

There is no profile of you built from the pages you read, and the desk does not sell reader data. If a future change ever alters this, it will be stated on this page with a date rather than folded into a paragraph somewhere else.

What this site stores on your device and what it never asks for

This site stores a small set of preference values in your browser's local storage and nothing else on your device. Those values cover display choices such as whether you have dismissed a notice, and they exist so the pages behave consistently the next time you open them. There is no account, no login and no profile built around you. Nothing is written to a server-side record tied to your name because the site never collects a name in the first place.

The site does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, bank account details, card number, BVN or any naira amount you might type into a calculator. It has no form that submits personal data to a back end, so there is nothing for it to store remotely. If a page ever appears to request such details, treat it as suspect and close it, because this site has no reason to hold them and no mechanism to receive them.

What the site does keep is limited to what a browser hands over automatically when any page loads, such as the request itself reaching a hosting provider. That is a property of how the web works rather than a choice made here, and it is why the hosting layer is described separately from anything you type. The practical result for a reader in Nigeria is that clearing site data in your browser removes everything this site placed, with no follow-up request needed.

What the gold calculators do with the figures you type in

The gold calculators process your figures inside the browser tab and send nothing anywhere. When you enter a lot size, an entry price or a stop distance, the arithmetic that converts it into margin, pip value or profit and loss runs on your own device using the standard contract terms: one standard lot is 100 oz and one pip is 0.01. The reference price near 4275.0 is a starting figure for illustration, and the worked margin example of about $85.50 for a 0.10-lot position at 1:200 through the offshore entity is the same arithmetic applied to a stated case.

Nothing you type is logged, transmitted, stored in local storage or attached to a cookie. A naira amount you convert, a stop level you test, a leverage cap you experiment with, all of it stays in memory and disappears when the tab closes or the page reloads. That design is deliberate: a calculator that phones home with a reader's position sizing would be a privacy problem dressed up as a tool, and this one is built the other way round.

The practical consequence is that the calculators cannot remember your last inputs between visits, and they cannot produce a history of what you tested. That is the trade being made, and it favours the reader. It also means no output from a calculator is a record you can later request or have deleted, because no record was ever created. Screenshot anything you want to keep, since the page will not keep it for you.

The third parties that see anything at all, and what each one receives

Three kinds of third party can see something when you use this site: the hosting and infrastructure provider that serves the pages, any measurement service described below, and the broker once you follow a link to its own domain. The hosting provider sees the ordinary request data any web server receives. The broker sees whatever you do after the click, under its own privacy terms, on its own systems, with its own cookies.

FxPro is the broker referenced throughout, and the entity that serves Nigeria is FxPro Markets Direct Costa Rica Latam SRL. Its regulatory position is worth repeating in a privacy context because it affects where your data goes: FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK), CySEC and FSCA, and a Nigerian reader should confirm any broker on the SEC Nigeria register of capital market operators before submitting identity documents to anyone. That verification step is a data-protection step as much as a licensing one.

No other company is handed your typed calculator figures, because those never travel. No data broker, advertising network or list seller receives anything from this site. Where a link points to a platform such as MT4, MT5, cTrader or FxPro Edge, the destination is the broker's own property and its own policy governs from the moment the page loads. Reading that policy before funding an account is the sensible order of events.

Affiliate links, what they mean for you and what they never change

Some outbound links to FxPro are affiliate links, which means this site may receive a payment if a reader opens an account after following one. That arrangement is stated here plainly rather than buried, and it does not alter any figure, formula or risk warning published on the site. The margin example for gold, where a 0.10-lot position at 1:200 through the offshore entity needs about $85.50, is presented because it is the arithmetic, not because a link sits nearby.

What an affiliate link does not do is give this site access to your trading account, your deposits, your losses or your identity. The payment, where it arises, is a referral arrangement between the site and the broker, and it is settled between them. A reader's decision to open an account, fund it by local NGN bank transfer, Visa or Mastercard debit card, e-payment or crypto, and trade gold remains entirely the reader's own, taken with the broker directly.

The honest framing is that affiliate revenue is one reason the calculators and explanations can stay free to use. It is also a reason to read every page here with the same scepticism you would apply to any commercial site, including this one. Nothing about a referral changes the fact that trading gold on leverage is high risk, that a cap such as 1:200 is a ceiling rather than a target, and that losses can exceed what you intended to commit.

The broker sets its own cookies

When you follow an affiliate link to a broker, the broker sets its own cookies under its own privacy policy, and that policy is the one that governs what happens on the broker's site. The desk does not control those cookies and cannot read what the broker stores. Read the broker's policy before you open an account.

The affiliate relationship is the reason a link carries a referral tag, and that tag is what tells the broker a visit came from here. It does not give the desk access to your account, your identity documents or your trading activity. For the local regulator check, remember the caveat: FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK), CySEC and FSCA; confirm any broker on the SEC Nigeria register of capital market operators.

Why this site is not built for children and what happens if a minor arrives

This site is written for adults who are considering leveraged trading in gold, and it is not directed at children or intended for anyone under eighteen. The content assumes an understanding of margin, leverage and loss that a minor is not expected to have, and the broker it discusses will not open an account for a minor. There is no child-oriented feature, no game, no reward mechanic and no reason for a young person to be here.

Because no account or profile exists, the site cannot detect a visitor's age and does not attempt to. That is a limitation, not a safeguard, and it places the responsibility with the parent or guardian: use device-level controls, keep broker links out of reach, and treat a shared family device as shared. The calculators are harmless arithmetic, but the surrounding material describes financial risk and should be read by an adult.

If a minor does reach a broker through any link, the broker's own onboarding and identity checks are the barrier, and those checks exist precisely to stop it. Nothing this site publishes should be read as encouragement for a young person to trade, and no result from a calculator is an invitation to open an account. Where a parent wants a page removed from a child's browsing history, the browser's own controls are the tool that works.

What leaves your browser the moment a broker link is followed

Following a broker link hands the destination a set of request details that any web server receives: an IP address, browser and device information, the page you came from, and the affiliate identifier where one is present. From that point the broker's own cookies are set on the broker's domain and its own privacy policy applies. This site does not receive a copy of what you do next, does not see your application, your deposit or your trading activity, and cannot read the broker's cookie.

If you then submit identity documents to open an account, those documents go to the broker and, depending on the entity, may be processed outside Nigeria. That is a decision to take deliberately rather than as a side effect of a click. Before sending anything, confirm the firm on the SEC Nigeria register of capital market operators, and read how the entity serving Nigeria, FxPro Markets Direct Costa Rica Latam SRL, handles verification data and how long it keeps it.

The clean way to control this is to treat the click as the boundary. Everything before it is local to your browser and covered by this page; everything after it is the broker's. Opening broker links in a private window, or clearing cookies afterwards, limits what persists. No figure you typed into a calculator travels with the click, so the broker learns nothing about the position sizes you were testing here.