What The Dividend Desk collects, and what it does not

This page states plainly what the desk stores in a reader's browser, what its hosting provider logs, what an outbound link to the broker means, and how to write about data questions.

What a hosting provider logs

The Dividend Desk runs no accounts, no login, no newsletter and no comment form. A reader cannot create a profile because none exists. The site sets no cookie of its own, runs no analytics of its own and stores nothing in the reader's browser. A visit to a page is a request for a document, and the document is returned. The desk does not use the request to build a record of the person who asked for it.

The pages are served by a hosting provider which, like any web host, keeps its own technical request logs. Those logs contain what every web server records: an IP address, a time, a requested path, a browser string. The site's publisher does not read a reader's personal data out of them and does not combine them with anything else.

What a hosting provider logs

A hosting provider must record enough to deliver a page and to keep its servers working. The logs are technical, not editorial. The Dividend Desk does not use them to identify a reader, to follow a reader across visits or to sell a reader's attention. The logs are retained by the provider under its own policy, and the desk does not ask the provider to hand them over except to diagnose a fault in serving the site itself.

If a reader wants to see fewer such logs anywhere on the internet, the practical steps are the usual ones: browse from a different network, use a browser that resists fingerprinting, or read through a private window. The desk cannot promise that any of those steps changes what its hosting provider records, because the provider's logging is outside the desk's control.

Following the broker link

The site links to one broker, FxPro, through an affiliate link. If a reader opens an account there, the desk is paid a commission. The reader pays nothing to this site and nothing extra at the broker. The link is a commercial arrangement, stated plainly on the page about the publisher and on the page about terms.

The broker's own site is operated by someone else, under its own terms and its own privacy policy. Following the link leaves this site. From that point, the broker is the one collecting what it collects, and its policy is the one that applies. The desk does not see the reader's broker account, does not know whether the reader funded it and does not receive the reader's details.

Corrections and data questions

Writing to the address on the contact page reaches the desk. Corrections are the reason the address exists. A figure that is wrong is corrected and the correction is dated. The desk reads the messages, checks the figure against the named public source, and changes the page where the figure was wrong. The desk does not publish the reader's message and does not add the reader to a list.

A data question is best written with the page, the table and the date of the reading in hand. The desk can then compare the published figure with the source it was read from and answer precisely. Questions about what a figure means for a reader's own position are not data questions; the desk does not answer those, because the desk does not give investment advice.