Using your practice decisions in research

⚠ Draft. This consent text has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. It is published early so you can see what would be asked of you, and what would not.

Version 2026-08-08. This is the separate, optional consent referred to in the Privacy notice.

The short version

When you make a decision in the practice environment — you call a stage, you pick a stop, you stand aside, you grade your own trade — that decision is data about how a person read a chart at a moment when they could not see what happened next. Very little data like that exists. We would like to use yours.

Saying no changes nothing. Every feature works the same either way, and we will not ask again unless you go looking for the setting.

What we would use

The decisions themselves, and the context needed to make sense of them: which challenge or campaign, which moment on the chart, what you chose, how it was graded, and how long you took. Your journal notes and post-mortems are included, because what you wrote down about your own thinking is the most valuable part.

What we would not use

Your name, your email, or anything else that identifies you. Before the data goes anywhere near a study, your account is replaced by a random research identifier that cannot be turned back into you by anyone reading the dataset.

Nothing you write is ever published against your name. If a phrase from a journal entry were ever quoted in teaching material, it would be quoted anonymously, and only with the research consent in place.

Why we want it

Two honest reasons. The first is that the courses get better when we can see where people actually go wrong rather than where we assume they do. The second is that the research side of this work is short of exactly this kind of labelled judgment, and has been for a long time. You would be helping with a real problem, not filling a database that exists for its own sake.

Where it does not go

Nowhere outside the company. We do not sell it, share it with brokers, hand it to advertisers, or use it to build anything that recommends trades to anyone.

Changing your mind

Turn it off in your account settings whenever you like. From that moment your decisions stop entering any new dataset, and we remove your existing labels from the working datasets we hold.

One limit, stated because it is true rather than because it helps us: a study that has already been completed and written up cannot be un-run. Results already published stay published. What stops is any further use.

The legal bit

This is consent under article 6(1)(a) of the AVG, asked separately from the contract for the service, and freely refusable. Withdrawing it is as easy as giving it, and withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of what we did while it was in place.