Privacy Policy

1. What this notice covers

I am Arnold Holm, trading as StratCoreAlpha. This notice explains how I handle information when you visit this website, send a strategy or contact me. Reading this notice is not consent to marketing.

2. Who is responsible

Arnold Holm / StratCoreAlpha, Lindenstraße 6, 49586 Neuenkirchen, Germany. Contact: contact@stratcorealpha.com. You can use this address for any privacy request.

3. What I collect

The Challenge Pre-Check form sends your email, strategy text or uploaded file and optional prop firm. It also records the anonymous headline variant. Pilot feedback agreement and optional publication permission are separate. Giveaway entries include your stated platform, symbol, rules, prop firm, email, adult confirmation, one-person confirmation and terms version. An optional offer choice is recorded separately with its time.

A form submission also records its time, request identifier, language, page and referral or intent information. Advertising identifiers and persisted campaign attribution depend on your choice about marketing cookies. Hosting and security services receive technical request data such as IP address, browser information and requested URL.

Your unsent form text stays in the page. Downloading a rule-sheet template does not require an email address. Please leave out broker passwords, API secrets and payment details.

4. What I use it for

I use a request to answer you, check missing strategy rules, assess whether the requested work fits, and deliver work you agree to. I use giveaway data to administer the entry, rule check, draw and winner contact. An entry does not subscribe you to marketing.

Only a separate optional choice permits the one T99-DRAW-BONUS offer described on the giveaway form: T99 at its normal price with a second named prop-firm overlay at no extra charge. You can withdraw that choice by emailing me. It does not change your chance in the draw. I do not sell your contact details.

5. Legal basis

I process service requests, agreed work and prize administration under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, where needed to take steps you requested or fulfil the agreement. I process optional marketing and optional publication permission under Article 6(1)(a). You can withdraw consent at any time; withdrawal does not undo earlier lawful processing.

Security, abuse prevention and the handling of ordinary correspondence rely on Article 6(1)(f): my interest in running a reliable service and responding to people who contact me. Records that I must keep by law rely on Article 6(1)(c). Required form information is needed to process the request; without it I cannot accept the entry or reply.

6. Services that process information

Vercel hosts and serves this website. Turso (ChiselStrike Inc.) stores submitted enquiries and entries in Ireland; the website server runs the intake and notification workflow. Google Workspace handles business email and internal request notifications. These services process the information needed for those tasks.

Google tags support website measurement and advertising attribution under the cookie choices described below. If you choose a marketplace or payment link, that provider also handles the information you give it under its own privacy notice.

• Vercel data-processing terms
• Turso terms and account data-processing agreement
• Google Workspace data-processing terms

7. Payment information

The Challenge Pre-Check and giveaway forms do not ask for card or bank details. New paid strategy work normally closes on Upwork; a lead originating on another marketplace stays there. The selected marketplace handles its payment information.

If an agreed transaction uses an existing Stripe payment link, Stripe processes the payment details you provide there. I retain the order and payment references needed to deliver and account for the work.

• Upwork privacy notice
• Stripe privacy notice

8. Processing outside the EEA

Vercel, Turso and Google operate internationally, including in the United States. I do not promise EU-only storage. Their data-processing terms describe the safeguards used for international transfers, including the European Commission standard contractual clauses where applicable.

You can contact me for information about the safeguards relevant to your data. Provider backup and deletion cycles can differ from deletion in the active application. The linked provider terms describe those processes.

9. How long information is kept

For the giveaway, I delete identifiable entry content from the active application and my working email/export copies 30 days after the draw. If a redraw is needed, the published final draw and its deletion deadline govern. Optional permission for one offer does not create indefinite storage. Public evidence contains opaque entry numbers, not email addresses or strategy text.

I keep an ordinary enquiry while it is active and for up to two years after the last contact when needed for follow-up or resolving questions. A separate order keeps only the records needed for delivery, support, claims and legal record-keeping. Under German tax rules, the period depends on the document: generally six, eight or ten years, counted under the applicable statutory rules.

I keep consent or withdrawal evidence only as needed to honour the choice and establish lawful processing. You can request earlier erasure where no agreement, claim or legal duty requires continued retention.

• German record-retention rules, AO §147

10. Your rights

You can request access, correction, erasure, restriction and, where applicable, a portable copy of your data. You can object to processing based on legitimate interests and withdraw consent. Contact contact@stratcorealpha.com; I may need enough information to verify that the request concerns your data.

You may complain to a data-protection supervisory authority, including the authority where you live or work. These rights apply subject to their legal conditions.

11. Cookies and measurement

Cookie settings let you choose analytics and marketing separately. Essential settings and the private administrator session support the website itself. The site starts Google consent signals as denied. Google tags may still load and send limited cookieless measurements in that state; denied storage is not a promise of no network request.

Marketing consent permits campaign values and Google click identifiers (gclid, gbraid and wbraid) to be stored with a request for attribution. Declining marketing clears stored attribution; page referral and intent information can still accompany the enquiry you submit. I do not send strategy text or your email as an analytics event. You can change cookie settings through the footer.

• Cookie policy
• Google privacy information

12. Access and security

Submitted requests are available through authenticated administration and the business notification route. I keep credentials out of public evidence and use secure connections. Public giveaway evidence excludes personal contact details. No internet service can promise absolute security.

13. Changes

I update this page when the service or its data handling changes and show the update date above. I ask separately when a new use requires consent.

14. Contact and next step

For a privacy question, correction or withdrawal, email contact@stratcorealpha.com. For a strategy enquiry, the Free Challenge Pre-Check collects only the information needed to review your rules.