What this trading journal stores about you, why it stores it, and how to get it back or get rid of it.
Last updated 3 September 2026
This app is operated from Sweden by Susanne Zabst, who is the data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can reach us at privacy@traquil.app about anything in this policy.
Because the app is operated from Sweden and is offered to people in the EU, the GDPR and the Swedish Data Protection Act apply to it.
Almost everything the app holds is something you typed into it yourself. There is no hidden collection, no tracking pixels and no advertising network.
Account details, needed to give you a login:
Trading accounts you create inside the app:
Trade records, which is the bulk of what the app stores:
Psychology and review entries, which are the reason this app exists and are often the most personal thing in it:
Your written plan, checklists and setups:
Screenshots you choose to upload:
Feedback, if you choose to send any:
Preferences, so the app behaves the way you expect:
Technical records created automatically:
We use your data to run the journal for you and for nothing else. We do not sell it, rent it, share it for marketing, or use it to train machine learning models.
Only an email address and a password are required, because without them there is no account to log in to. Everything else is yours to give or withhold: every trade, note, review, screenshot and preference is something you choose to add, and the app works with any of it left out. The two consent-based purposes above are optional too, and declining them takes nothing else away.
Your trading and psychology entries are not special category data under GDPR Article 9. What you record here is your own state of mind in the context of your performance, which is not data concerning health, sex life, religion, politics, trade union membership, race or biometrics, and none of those is asked for anywhere in the app. We are aware it can still feel deeply personal, since it records how you felt and where you went wrong, so it is protected the same way as everything else here.
This app exists to find patterns in your own behaviour, so it is worth being plain about what that means under the GDPR. Two different things happen here, and only one of them is optional.
The journal itself computes things about you automatically, for every account: a Quil Score for whether your edge looks real or looks like luck, a reading of how consistently you followed your own plan, a calibration curve setting your stated confidence against your actual results, and a tally of which mistakes keep recurring. Under Article 4(4) that is profiling, because it evaluates aspects of your performance and your behaviour. We say so rather than leave it unsaid, even though it is the ordinary functioning of a trading journal. It is computed from your own entries, it is shown only to you, it is never shared, and because it is the service you signed up for it runs on our contract with you rather than on consent.
The AI features go further, and they are the optional half. If you turn them on, they read what you have written and characterise it in words: how consistently you followed your plan, which mistakes keep coming back, how your results line up against the emotions you recorded. That is profiling too, and it is the reason these features are consent-based. It happens only when you ask for it, by opening a question or pressing Generate. Nothing is analysed in the background or on a schedule, and nothing is sent for analysis at all if you decline or later withdraw in Settings.
For both of them: no decision is taken about you automatically. The output is a number or a paragraph for you to read and disagree with. It does not change your access to anything, set a price, or produce any other legal or similarly significant effect, so the GDPR's rules on automated decision-making in Article 22 do not apply.
All of it is a description of what you logged, not a judgement of you as a trader, and it is only ever as accurate as what you typed.
We use a small number of service providers, each acting as a processor on our instructions under GDPR Article 28. None of them is permitted to use your data for its own purposes.
On the AI provider specifically, because it is the one people ask about: Anthropic's commercial terms state that it may not train its models on data sent through its API, and its published retention policy is that API inputs and outputs are deleted from its systems within 30 days (longer only where it is investigating a policy violation or where the law requires it). Both statements were checked against Anthropic's own published terms and policy on 21 August 2026, and both should be re-checked before this feature is turned on for anyone.
Where your data sits: the database, authentication and file storage are hosted in the European Union (Supabase, eu-central-1). Error reports are processed in Germany (Sentry), and analytics and transactional email in the European Union (PostHog; Resend, eu-west-1).
Two providers process outside the European Economic Area. Anthropic, which powers the AI features, is a United States company, so anything those features send is transferred to the United States, and only if you turn them on and use them. That transfer relies on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, under the data processing agreement built into Anthropic's commercial terms.
Vercel, which serves the application, is the second one, and we would rather be exact about it than tidy. It receives no trade data at all: what reaches it is the IP address and request metadata in an ordinary server log line. It serves each visitor from the edge location nearest to them, so a request from the EU is normally handled inside the EEA. Vercel publishes the same Standard Contractual Clauses, but they apply to accounts on its paid plans and ours is not yet one, so for those log lines we cannot currently claim that safeguard. We are changing the plan. We would rather tell you this than let a sentence stand that sounds better than the truth.
If you want to see the safeguards rather than take our word for them, email us and we will send you a copy of the clauses each provider relies on.
Your data stays for as long as your account exists. There is no automatic expiry, because a trading journal is only useful if the history stays intact.
Server logs are the exception, and they are not really yours in the same sense: our hosting and database providers keep short operational logs containing IP addresses and request metadata. Those roll off on the providers' own schedules, measured in days rather than years. We keep no logs of our own, we do not export copies, and we use them only to keep the service running and to investigate abuse.
When you delete your account, everything goes with it: your trading accounts and trades, your daily, weekly and monthly reviews, your Session Prep notes, your trading plans and checklists, what you have written about your setups, your settings and custom options, and your uploaded screenshots. The deletion is immediate and there is no recovery period, no holding queue and no soft-delete.
We keep no backups of our own. Where a provider holds an operational copy as part of running its own infrastructure, it ages out on that provider's schedule and we cannot reach into it or restore from it, which also means we cannot bring a deleted account back.
One thing we cannot make immediate, said plainly because the two sentences above and below it are in tension: anything the AI features already sent to Anthropic is deleted on Anthropic's schedule (within 30 days) and not at the moment you press delete. We have no way to pull it back sooner. If you never used those features, nothing was ever sent.
You can download a complete, machine readable copy of everything this app stores about you at any time, from Settings, and you do not need to ask us or wait for a reply.
Under the GDPR you have the right to:
Two of these deserve saying separately rather than as one line in a list.
You have the right to object. Where we rely on legitimate interests, which is the security logging and the error monitoring described above, you can object to that processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. Tell us and we will stop unless we have compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, and we will explain which if we think we do.
Withdrawing consent is not retroactive, and that is not a catch. You can withdraw at any time and everything stops from that moment. What withdrawal cannot do is unmake processing that already lawfully happened while the consent was in place, which is what Article 7(3) means when it says withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing before it. It is also why the record of when you gave consent survives when you take it back.
To exercise a right that the app does not already let you perform yourself, email privacy@traquil.app. We will respond within one month, as the GDPR requires. If a request is unusually complex we may extend that by up to two further months, which Article 12(3) allows, and we will tell you within the first month if that happens and why.
If you think we have handled your data badly, you can complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, IMY) at imy.se, or to the supervisory authority in the EU country where you live.
You need to be at least 16 to hold an account. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you believe a child below that age has an account, contact us and we will remove it.
If this policy changes in a way that affects you, we will update the date at the top and ask you to accept the new version the next time you open the app. You see the change before it applies to you, not after. Corrections that do not change what we do with your data (a typo, a clearer sentence) do not trigger that prompt.
Questions about this policy or about your data go to privacy@traquil.app.