Privacy Policy
Effective date: September 30, 2026
TCG Stock Watch provides market-availability alerts and related social content for sought-after English Pokemon TCG sealed products in the United States.
Contact: social@tcgstockwatch.com
Information We Collect
We may collect:
- Contact information you provide, such as email address, phone number, social handle, or support messages.
- Communications you send to us, including emails, direct messages, SMS/MMS messages, and support requests.
- Public social interactions with TCG Stock Watch accounts, such as follows, likes, replies, mentions, reposts, comments, and public profile information made available by the platform.
- Website and server information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, timestamps, and basic security logs.
- Alert workflow information, such as seller names, product names, listing URLs, prices, availability observations, review decisions, and source attribution.
- Subscription and messaging-preference information, including consent metadata, alert preferences, and delivery settings.
We do not intentionally collect payment card information in the current version.
How We Use Information
We use information to:
- operate TCG Stock Watch accounts, websites, and alert workflows
- manage subscriptions and secure the service
- receive and respond to messages
- process inbound SMS/MMS alert-program replies, HELP requests, opt-out requests, and support messages
- publish and audit social alerts
- detect spam, abuse, fraud, duplicate alerts, stale listings, or suspicious sellers
- maintain logs needed for security, debugging, compliance, and operational review
- measure content quality, website traffic, and channel performance
SMS And Mobile Information
Your mobile information will not be sold or shared with third parties for promotional or marketing purposes.
We may share mobile information with service providers that help us operate messaging, alert delivery, support, security, and compliance workflows. Those providers may only use the information to provide services to us.
Third-Party Services
We may use third-party services to operate the product, including:
- hosting and DNS providers
- email providers
- Telnyx for phone number, SMS, MMS, voice, and alert-delivery services
- social platforms such as X, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
- Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) for website analytics, and logging tools
- source-data providers and seller websites linked from alerts
When you interact with third-party platforms or seller websites, their own terms and privacy policies apply.
Social Platform And API Data
If we use social platform APIs, we will use platform data only for the purposes disclosed in this policy and needed to operate TCG Stock Watch.
If we use Google or YouTube APIs, our use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including Limited Use requirements where applicable. We will request only permissions needed for implemented features.
If we use X, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, or other platform APIs, we will respect applicable API limits, deletion/update requirements, and user-data restrictions.
Seller And Product Data
TCG Stock Watch may collect and store information about product listings, sellers, source URLs, prices, availability, and review decisions. This information is used to generate reproducible alerts and audit why a post was or was not published.
We do not treat raw scraped URLs as publishable facts without review, normalization, and source attribution.
Cookies And Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to understand how visitors find and use the site. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (such as _ga) and collects information such as pages viewed, approximate location derived from IP address, browser and device type, referring website, and interactions like scrolling and outbound link clicks. Google Analytics does not log full IP addresses for storage in reports, and we do not send your email address, phone number, poll answers, or alert preferences to Google Analytics. Page addresses are sent without their query strings, so personal manage-preference links are never transmitted.
We keep Google Analytics event-level data for up to 14 months. We use this information in aggregate to improve the site and do not use it to identify individual visitors. Google may process this data under its own Privacy Policy. You can opt out by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, by blocking cookies in your browser settings, or by enabling a browser or extension setting that blocks trackers.
We do not currently use advertising cookies, advertising pixels, or affiliate tracking on this site. If we add such tools, we will update this policy before enabling them.
Data Sharing
We may share information:
- with service providers that help operate the site, email, SMS, hosting, security, logging, and publishing workflows
- with social platforms when publishing content or using their APIs
- with legal, safety, or compliance recipients when required by law or needed to protect TCG Stock Watch, users, or the public
- as part of a business transfer, merger, acquisition, or asset sale, subject to appropriate protections
We do not sell personal information.
Retention
We keep information only as long as needed for operational, security, legal, audit, and product-quality purposes.
Typical retention examples:
- security and server logs: retained as needed for security and debugging
- website analytics data: retained in Google Analytics for up to 14 months
- alert audit records: retained to reproduce outbound posts and explain review decisions
- support messages: retained as needed to resolve requests and maintain account history
- SMS/MMS messages: retained as needed for alert-program operations, support, compliance, and abuse prevention
We may retain aggregated or de-identified information that no longer identifies a person.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, including access controls, SSH keys, secret separation, and private credential storage. No system is perfectly secure.
Children
TCG Stock Watch is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Your Choices
You may contact us to request:
- access to information associated with your contact details
- correction of inaccurate information
- deletion of information where legally and operationally possible
- unsubscribe or opt-out from optional communications
Contact: social@tcgstockwatch.com
Changes
We may update this policy as the product changes. We will post updates on this page and change the effective date.