Introduction
Effective Date: 15 July 2026
2. Owner and data controller
The Website is operated by Safegate Advisors SRL, a company incorporated in Romania. For data protection purposes, Safegate Advisors SRL is the controller of personal data collected through the Website unless a specific notice says otherwise.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Company / Data Controller | Safegate Advisors SRL |
| Registered office | Stefan cel Mare F.N. street, Ciofliceni, 077166, Ilfov, Romania |
| Registration number | J23/6841/2022 |
| Tax identification number | 46959989 |
| Website | https://www.safegateadvisors.com/ |
| General contact email | office@safegateadvisors.com |
| Website and business inquiries | info@safegateadvisors.com |
| Privacy and Cookie Settings requests | privacy@safegateadvisors.com |
| Data Protection Officer | Nona Paramanov |
4. How Safegate Advisors uses Trackers
Safegate Advisors may use Trackers to operate and secure the Website, remember your choices, provide broker comparison and matching tools, measure Website performance, understand how users interact with broker reviews and safety tools, deliver newsletters and safety alerts, display embedded content, measure advertising campaigns, and attribute affiliate referrals.
Safegate Advisors is not a broker, does not accept deposits, does not execute trades, and does not provide individualized investment advice. Cookies and Trackers used on our Website support website functionality, analytics, safety-alert communications, personalization, advertising measurement, and affiliate attribution. They do not make trading decisions for you.
5. Your choices at a glance
You can manage optional Trackers through the Cookie Settings panel available on the Website. Strictly necessary Trackers are always active because the Website cannot function properly without them.
| Category | Main purpose | Can you turn it off in Cookie Settings? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Operate the Website, maintain security, remember privacy choices, support core forms, prevent fraud, and enable account or session functions. | No. These are required for the service. |
| Functional / preferences | Remember language, region, display preferences, saved settings, questionnaire progress, and similar choices. | Yes, where not strictly necessary. |
| Analytics / performance | Measure traffic, diagnose errors, understand tool usage, and improve broker reviews, safety tools, methodology, and content. | Yes. |
| Experience / external content | Display embedded videos, charts, widgets, forms, surveys, support tools, and other external content. | Yes, where the content uses non-essential Trackers. |
| Marketing / advertising | Measure campaigns, personalize or limit ads, create audiences, and track advertising conversions. | Yes. |
| Affiliate / conversion tracking | Attribute clicks, referrals, account-opening actions, subscriptions, or other qualifying actions to partners. | Yes, where cookies or similar non-essential Trackers are used. |
6. Strictly necessary Trackers
Strictly necessary Trackers are used to provide the Website and its essential features. They may be used without opt-in consent where permitted by applicable law, but they are still explained in this Cookie Settings page.
These Trackers may support page loading, security, bot protection, fraud prevention, rate limiting, cookie-consent storage, account login, session management, form submission, privacy-preference records, load balancing, and similar technical functions.
Examples may include Safegate first-party session cookies, consent-preference cookies, security cookies, hosting or CDN cookies, and anti-abuse tools such as a CAPTCHA or bot-management solution if implemented.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Typical data processed | IP address, browser information, device information, session identifiers, consent identifiers, security events, error logs, and usage signals necessary to operate the Website. |
| Typical duration | Session duration or a limited period required for security, consent records, or technical operation. Consent-preference cookies may be kept for up to 12 months unless configured differently. |
| Consent status | Always active. You can block them in your browser, but the Website may not work correctly. |
7. Functional and preference Trackers
Functional and preference Trackers help the Website remember choices and provide a smoother experience. These may include language, region, display mode, saved filters, saved broker lists, questionnaire progress, watchlist settings, and alert preferences.
Where these Trackers are not strictly necessary, we will use them only where permitted by law and, where required, after your consent.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Typical data processed | Preference identifiers, language, region, display settings, saved selections, broker interests, questionnaire progress, watchlist settings, and account preferences. |
| Effect of disabling | Some settings may not be remembered, broker matching forms may reset, saved views may not persist, and the Website may feel less personalized. |
8. Analytics and performance Trackers
Analytics and performance Trackers help us understand how users use the Website, which pages and tools are useful, where errors occur, and how we can improve broker reviews, broker comparison tools, safety checks, alerts, and educational content.
These Trackers may measure page views, clicks, scrolls, searches, questionnaire interactions, broker profiles viewed, comparison-tool usage, referral sources, campaign sources, session duration, approximate location, device type, and technical diagnostics.
Where required by law, analytics Trackers are used only after you consent. We may use aggregated or anonymized analytics where possible.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Possible providers / tools | Google Analytics 4, privacy-friendly analytics tools, product analytics tools, diagnostics tools, or equivalent providers. The live Website should list the exact providers currently active. |
| Typical duration | Depends on the provider and configuration. Analytics cookies commonly last from a session to up to 24 months. |
| Consent status | Optional, unless a specific analytics implementation is configured as strictly necessary and privacy-preserving under applicable law. |
9. Experience and external content Trackers
The Website may display or interact with third-party content such as videos, charts, data visualizations, forms, surveys, customer-support widgets, newsletter widgets, map tools, or social media embeds.
Such providers may set or read their own Trackers when the external content loads or when you interact with it. Where possible and required, Safegate Advisors will delay loading non-essential embedded content until you choose to activate the relevant category or interact with the content.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Possible providers / tools | YouTube or other video providers, TradingView or charting widgets, Datawrapper or visualization tools, Google Fonts or other font services, survey widgets, support widgets, or equivalent providers. |
| Typical data processed | Usage data, device information, IP address, interaction events, page context, and provider-specific identifiers. |
| Consent status | Optional where the external content involves non-essential Trackers. |
10. Marketing, advertising and remarketing Trackers
Marketing and advertising Trackers help measure advertising campaigns, understand whether an ad led to a visit or conversion, limit repeated ads, create advertising audiences, and show relevant marketing content on third-party platforms.
Safegate Advisors may use advertising Trackers only where permitted by law and, where required, after you provide consent. These Trackers may be provided by advertising platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Reddit, AdRoll, or similar providers if implemented.
Advertising Trackers may process identifiers, click IDs, page views, referral URLs, campaign source, device information, approximate location, conversion events, and other usage data.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Typical duration | Depends on the provider and campaign configuration. Marketing cookies commonly last from several days to up to 24 months. |
| Consent status | Optional. You can refuse or withdraw consent through Cookie Settings. |
11. Affiliate and conversion tracking
Safegate Advisors may receive compensation from brokers, advertisers, affiliate partners, affiliate networks, or service providers when users click links, visit third-party websites, open accounts, subscribe, or complete qualifying actions.
Affiliate and conversion Trackers help attribute these actions to Safegate Advisors and measure the performance of disclosed commercial relationships. This may include referral URLs, affiliate identifiers, click IDs, campaign IDs, timestamp, device information, conversion status, and limited usage data.
Affiliate tracking does not mean that Safegate Advisors sells your private questionnaire answers to brokers. We do not provide brokers with private broker-matching answers unless you ask us to do so, consent to such sharing, or a specific feature clearly states that sharing will occur.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Typical providers | Broker partners, affiliate networks, advertising platforms, or internal first-party attribution tools. The live Website should list exact providers when configured. |
| Consent status | Optional where cookies or similar non-essential Trackers are used. Some server-side or contractual attribution may rely on other lawful bases as explained in the Privacy Policy. |
12. Broker matching, personalization and safety alerts
Safegate Advisors may use first-party cookies or similar technologies to remember broker-matching questionnaire progress, saved broker comparisons, watchlists, broker interests, alert settings, and previous interactions with safety tools.
These technologies help provide more relevant broker matches, safety reports, regulatory updates, complaint tracking, safety-score updates, and educational content. Any such output is informational only and does not constitute investment advice or a guarantee that a broker is safe or suitable for you.
If you subscribe to safety alerts or newsletters, we may use Trackers in emails or on the Website to understand whether messages are delivered, opened, clicked, or unsubscribed, where permitted by law and your communication preferences.
14. Third-party Trackers
Third-party Trackers are provided by external companies. Safegate Advisors does not fully control how third-party providers operate their own technologies once they are loaded, and their processing may be governed by their own privacy policies and cookie notices.
The provider list in the live Cookie Settings panel should be considered the current operational list of Trackers. Because tracking technologies and provider configurations can change, users should also consult the privacy policies of the relevant third-party services for the most up-to-date details about their cookies, retention periods, opt-out options, and processing locations.
15. International transfers
Safegate Advisors is established in Romania. Some third-party providers used for hosting, analytics, security, advertising, affiliate tracking, communication, or embedded content may process data in the European Economic Area or in other countries.
Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area or another jurisdiction requiring transfer safeguards, Safegate Advisors seeks to use appropriate mechanisms where required, such as adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, supplementary safeguards, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
16. How to manage or withdraw consent on the Website
You can manage optional cookies and Trackers through the Cookie Settings panel. The panel should be available from the cookie banner and from a permanent footer link called "Cookie Settings".
In Cookie Settings, you can review categories, enable or disable optional categories, save your choices, reject non-essential Trackers, or accept all optional Trackers. You can change your choices later at any time.
- Accept all: enables all optional categories where consent is required.
- Reject non-essential: disables optional categories and keeps only strictly necessary Trackers active.
- Customize: lets you choose categories one by one.
- Save settings: stores your current choices.
17. Browser and device controls
You can also control cookies through your browser or device settings. Browser controls may allow you to view, block, delete, or restrict cookies. However, browser settings usually do not provide the same category-by-category consent choices as the Website Cookie Settings panel.
Common browsers provide cookie controls in their privacy or security settings, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera. Mobile devices may also provide advertising identifier and tracking controls in device settings.
18. Opting out of interest-based advertising
In addition to Cookie Settings, you may be able to opt out of certain interest-based advertising through industry tools and platform settings, such as YourOnlineChoices in Europe, the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, platform ad settings, or device advertising settings.
These tools are operated by third parties. They may not cover every advertising provider and may work differently depending on your browser, device, location, and whether cookies are enabled.
19. Consequences of rejecting or blocking Trackers
You are free to reject optional Trackers. If you reject or block Trackers, you will still be able to use the basic Website, but some features may not work as intended.
For example, the Website may not remember preferences, broker matching progress may not persist, embedded content may not load, analytics may be less accurate, personalized safety alerts may be less relevant, and affiliate attribution may not work correctly.
If you block strictly necessary cookies through your browser, core Website functions, security, account login, forms, or consent records may fail.
20. Retention and expiration of Trackers
Cookies may be session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain for a defined period unless deleted earlier. Tracker duration depends on the provider, purpose, configuration, and your choices.
Safegate Advisors aims to configure Trackers with reasonable retention periods. Consent records are usually retained for as long as needed to demonstrate and respect your choices. Analytics, advertising, and affiliate cookies follow the durations configured by the relevant provider and should be listed in the live Cookie Settings panel where possible.
You can delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. If you delete consent cookies, the Website may ask for your preferences again.
22. Contact us
For questions, requests, complaints, or concerns about cookies, Trackers, or your privacy choices, please contact Safegate Advisors SRL.
| Contact point | Details |
|---|---|
| Privacy and Cookie Settings email | privacy@safegateadvisors.com |
| General company email | office@safegateadvisors.com |
| Website and business inquiries | info@safegateadvisors.com |
| Company | Safegate Advisors SRL |
| Registered office | Stefan cel Mare F.N. street, Ciofliceni, 077166, Ilfov, Romania |
| Website | https://www.safegateadvisors.com/ |
23. Definitions
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Cookie | A small file stored in the browser or device that can remember information or enable a website feature. |
| Tracker | Any technology such as cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, SDKs, web beacons, e-tags, or fingerprinting that stores or accesses information on a device or helps track interactions. |
| First-party Tracker | A Tracker set directly by Safegate Advisors or the Website domain. |
| Third-party Tracker | A Tracker provided by an external service, platform, partner, or provider. |
| User | A person visiting or using the Website or services. |
| Personal data | Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. |
| Consent | A freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of your wishes, expressed through a clear affirmative action where required by law. |