Data and Privacy
Privacy Policy
Effective date: June 2, 2026
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how TradeIQ Capital collects, uses, stores, and protects user information.
TradeIQ Capital is a trader evaluation and proprietary trading assessment platform. We collect only the information needed to operate user accounts, manage evaluation challenges, process payments, support users, improve the platform, and maintain security.
By using TradeIQ Capital, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect the following information:
Account Information
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number, if provided
- Password hash
- OTP verification status
- Account status
- User role
Profile Information
- City, state, and country, if provided
- Account preferences
- Platform acceptance records, such as terms and policy acceptance
Trading and Evaluation Information
- Selected challenge plans
- User challenge status
- Manual trade entries
- Trade notes
- Symbols traded
- Entry and exit prices
- Quantity
- Profit and loss calculations
- Rule progress
- Rule violations
- Evaluation status
- Account review status
- Reward request status, where applicable
KYC and Reward Review Information
Where required for reward review, fraud prevention, or compliance, we may collect or review:
- Identity details and KYC status
- PAN or tax-related details where required
- Bank account, UPI, or payment-account metadata for name matching
- Reward request status and review notes
- Fraud, integrity, and suspicious-activity review signals
Payment Information
We may collect payment-related information such as:
- Payment amount
- Payment status
- Payment provider
- Payment reference ID
- Challenge purchased
- Invoice or transaction reference
We do not store sensitive card, UPI, or banking credentials directly. Payment processing may be handled by third-party payment providers such as Razorpay or other supported providers.
Technical and Usage Information
We may collect:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device information
- Login activity
- Session information
- Pages visited
- Error logs
- Security logs
- Platform interaction data
Support Information
If you contact support, we may collect:
- Support messages
- Issue details
- Attachments, if any
- Communication history
3. Information We Do Not Collect
TradeIQ does not collect money from users for live market trading and does not treat platform fees as deposits, investments, margin, or client funds.
Sensitive card, UPI, or banking credentials are handled by payment providers and are not stored directly by TradeIQ.
4. How We Use Information
TradeIQ Capital may use collected information to:
- Create and manage user accounts
- Send OTP or account verification emails
- Authenticate users
- Process challenge purchases
- Activate evaluation challenges
- Track challenge progress
- Calculate performance metrics
- Track rule violations
- Review funded-stage or reward eligibility
- Review reward requests
- Provide customer support
- Prevent fraud, abuse, and platform manipulation
- Improve platform features
- Maintain platform security
- Comply with legal obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce platform terms and policies
5. Legal Basis and Consent
We process user information for lawful purposes connected to platform operation, user account management, payment processing, challenge evaluation, support, security, and compliance.
Where consent is required, users may provide consent through account registration, OTP verification, checkbox acceptance, challenge purchase, or continued platform use.
6. Sharing of Information
TradeIQ Capital may share limited information with trusted third parties where necessary, such as:
- Payment processors
- KYC or identity-verification providers, where used
- Email service providers
- Hosting providers
- Database providers
- Analytics providers
- Market data providers
- Security and monitoring tools
- Legal or regulatory authorities where required
We do not sell user personal data to advertisers.
7. Payment Providers
Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers.
Users may be subject to the payment provider's own terms, privacy policy, and security practices.
TradeIQ Capital may receive payment confirmation, order ID, transaction status, and related payment metadata from the payment provider.
8. Email and Communication
We may send users transactional emails, including:
- OTP verification
- Account-related messages
- Payment confirmations
- Challenge updates
- Support replies
- Policy updates
- Security notifications
Marketing emails, if introduced later, should include an unsubscribe option.
9. Cookies and Sessions
TradeIQ Capital may use cookies, session tokens, and similar technologies to:
- Keep users logged in
- Protect accounts
- Remember user preferences
- Improve platform performance
- Detect suspicious activity
Users may disable cookies in their browser, but some platform features may not work properly.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect user information.
These may include:
- Password hashing
- Secure session cookies
- Access controls
- Environment variable protection
- Server-side validation
- Audit logs
- Database access restrictions
- Secure payment provider integration
No system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users are responsible for protecting their login credentials.
11. Data Retention
TradeIQ Capital may retain user information for as long as necessary to:
- Operate the platform
- Maintain account history
- Track evaluation records
- Process payment, KYC, or reward review records
- Resolve disputes
- Prevent fraud or abuse
- Comply with legal obligations
- Enforce terms and policies
When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely archive it.
12. User Rights
Subject to applicable law, users may request:
- Access to their personal information
- Correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion of certain information
- Withdrawal of consent where applicable
- Account closure
- Grievance redressal
Some information may be retained where required for legal, security, payment, dispute, or platform integrity reasons.
13. Children's Privacy
TradeIQ Capital is not intended for users under 18 years of age.
Users must be at least 18 years old to create an account or use the platform.
14. International Processing
If TradeIQ Capital uses cloud, email, analytics, or infrastructure providers located outside India, user information may be processed outside India where permitted by applicable law and provider infrastructure.
15. Changes to this Privacy Policy
TradeIQ Capital may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
Updated versions may be posted on the website or notified through the platform.
Continued use of the platform after updates means the user accepts the updated policy.
16. Contact
For privacy questions or requests, users may contact:
- Email: tradeiqcapital@gmail.com
- Contact number: +91 9361970382
- Website: tradeiqcapital.in
- Platform name: TradeIQ Capital
- Office address: Nirmaan, IIT Madras
- Grievance/contact email: tradeiqcapital@gmail.com