Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 21, 2026
Last Updated: September 21, 2026

SteelGate (“SteelGate,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of our readers, subscribers, contributors, and other visitors.

This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, disclosed, retained, and protected when you visit or interact with SteelGateUS.com and any webpages, articles, newsletters, research materials, interactive tools, visualizations, simulations, comment features, or related services made available through the website (collectively, the “Services”).

SteelGate is an independent media, research, educational, and technology platform covering subjects including finance, financial markets, artificial intelligence, technology, digital assets, market infrastructure, monetary systems, energy, and related fields.

This Privacy Policy is intended to provide transparency regarding our data practices. It does not replace any rights you may have under applicable privacy or data-protection law.

1. Scope of This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information processed through SteelGateUS.com and SteelGate-controlled features accessible through the website.

It does not govern the privacy practices of third-party websites, financial platforms, data providers, social networks, advertisers, market-data providers, embedded services, or other external services that may be linked to or displayed through SteelGate.

Third-party services maintain their own privacy policies and data-processing practices.

2. Information We May Collect

The information SteelGate receives depends on how you interact with the Services.

Information You Provide Directly

We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

Newsletter information. If you subscribe to the SteelGate newsletter or another publication, we may collect your email address and subscription preferences.

Account or profile information. If account, membership, commenting, saved-content, or similar functionality is available, we may receive information such as your name, display name, email address, profile image, login information, and preferences.

Comments and user submissions. If you post a comment, response, feedback, or other material, we may collect the content you submit together with information associated with the submission.

Comments or other material that you intentionally publish through a public feature may be visible to other users and should be treated as public information.

Communications. If you contact SteelGate, we may retain your email address, message, correspondence, attachments, and other information you choose to provide.

Interactive tool information. Certain SteelGate tools, simulations, calculators, visualizations, educational interfaces, or demonstrations may allow you to enter parameters, preferences, hypothetical transaction information, asset selections, or other inputs.

Depending on how a particular feature is designed, those inputs may be processed locally within your browser, transmitted to SteelGate, transmitted to a service provider, temporarily processed, or stored.

Users should not enter passwords, wallet seed phrases, private cryptographic keys, financial-account credentials, Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive information into a SteelGate interactive tool unless the feature expressly states that such information is required and explains how it will be handled.

Information Collected Automatically

When you use SteelGate, certain technical information may be collected automatically by SteelGate, Wix, or service providers supporting the website.

This information may include:

Internet Protocol address;
approximate location derived from an IP address;
browser type and version;
device type;
operating system;
language settings;
referring or exiting webpage;
pages or articles viewed;
links clicked;
timestamps;
session information;
interactions with site features;
cookie identifiers;
performance information;
error logs;
security and fraud-prevention information; and
similar usage and diagnostic information.

We may use this information to operate the website, understand readership, measure performance, identify technical problems, improve content and functionality, and protect the Services.

3. How Information Is Collected

Information may be collected:

directly from you;
automatically through the website;
through cookies, local storage, pixels, scripts, and similar technologies;
through Wix infrastructure and applications;
through analytics services;
through newsletter or communication systems;
through embedded content or interactive tools;
from security and fraud-prevention systems;
through publicly available information where appropriate; and
from third-party services when you intentionally interact with those services through SteelGate.

4. How We Use Information

SteelGate may use information for purposes including:

operating and maintaining SteelGateUS.com;
publishing and delivering articles, research, visualizations, and educational material;
providing interactive tools and simulations;
administering newsletter subscriptions;
responding to inquiries;
operating user accounts or commenting features;
displaying user-submitted comments;
personalizing site functionality or remembering preferences;
understanding how readers use the Services;
measuring readership and engagement;
diagnosing errors and technical issues;
protecting against spam, fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and cyberattacks;
improving site design, performance, research, and functionality;
developing new SteelGate features and products;
administering legal rights and obligations;
enforcing our Terms of Service;
complying with applicable laws, legal process, or regulatory obligations; and
establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.

We may also create aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual and use that information for analytics, research, site improvement, or other lawful purposes.

5. Wix Hosting and Infrastructure

SteelGateUS.com is hosted using the Wix platform.

Wix provides hosting, website infrastructure, databases, security features, content-management functionality, performance monitoring, and other services used to operate SteelGate.

As a result, information generated through your use of SteelGate may be processed by Wix or its affiliated service providers.

Wix may process information such as device information, IP addresses, cookies, account information, security information, site interactions, and other technical information in connection with providing its services.

Information processed through Wix infrastructure may be stored or processed in multiple jurisdictions.

Wix maintains its own privacy, security, and data-processing practices. SteelGate does not control all technical processing performed independently by Wix.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

SteelGate and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files or identifiers stored on or associated with your browser or device.

They may be used for several purposes.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies help provide basic site functionality, security, fraud prevention, network management, session management, and other functions necessary for SteelGate to operate.

Disabling essential technologies may prevent portions of the site from functioning correctly.

Functional Cookies

Functional technologies may remember settings, preferences, interface configurations, or other selections.

Analytics and Performance Technologies

Analytics technologies may help us understand matters such as:

how many people visit SteelGate;
which articles or pages are read;
how visitors navigate the website;
how long visitors interact with particular content;
which devices or browsers are used; and
whether technical problems occur.

Advertising, Affiliate, or Third-Party Technologies

If SteelGate uses advertising, sponsorship measurement, affiliate links, social-media integrations, or similar third-party services, those providers may use their own cookies or tracking technologies subject to applicable law and the provider's policies.

SteelGate may provide a cookie-consent interface or other privacy controls where appropriate or legally required.

Browser settings may also allow you to block or delete cookies. Doing so may affect some website functionality.

7. Embedded Content and Third-Party Technology

SteelGate may include or embed content and technology supplied by third parties.

Examples may include:

financial or market data;
price information;
charts;
APIs;
videos;
social-media content;
interactive widgets;
blockchain information;
trading-market information;
analytics;
research sources;
external databases; and
educational demonstrations.

When your browser loads third-party content, the third party may receive information such as your IP address, device information, referring webpage, browser information, or interactions with the embedded service.

Third-party services may also use cookies or similar technologies.

Those activities are governed by the third party's own terms and privacy policies.

8. Newsletter and Email Communications

If you subscribe to a SteelGate newsletter or request communications, we may use your email address and related subscription information to send those communications.

Newsletter messages may contain technologies that allow us or our service provider to determine whether a message was delivered, opened, or interacted with.

You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter communications at any time by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the communication or by contacting us.

We may still send non-promotional communications when reasonably necessary to administer an account, respond to a request, address security issues, or comply with law.

9. Comments and Public User Content

SteelGate articles may allow readers to submit comments or similar public content.

Information you intentionally publish in a public comment should be considered public.

Other visitors may view, copy, quote, link to, index, or otherwise interact with information you publish publicly.

Please do not post confidential information or personal information about yourself or another person that you do not want publicly available.

SteelGate may process account identifiers, moderation information, timestamps, security data, and other information associated with comments for purposes of operating and protecting the commenting system.

10. Interactive Tools, Visualizations, and Simulations

SteelGate provides educational and interactive experiences concerning financial markets, blockchain systems, tokenized assets, perpetual markets, infrastructure, and related technologies.

These tools may use live, delayed, simulated, estimated, cached, or third-party information.

Information you enter into these tools may be processed differently depending on the particular implementation.

Some functionality may occur entirely within your browser. Other functionality may communicate with SteelGate servers or external services.

Where a feature has data-handling practices materially different from this Privacy Policy, SteelGate may provide a feature-specific notice.

11. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Systems

SteelGate may use artificial intelligence, machine-learning systems, software automation, or other automated technologies to assist with activities such as:

research;
content discovery;
summarization;
drafting;
editing;
categorization;
tagging;
search;
data analysis;
site administration;
moderation;
security; or
development of interactive features.

Where a SteelGate feature directly sends user-submitted information to an external artificial-intelligence provider, additional information or feature-specific disclosures may be provided when appropriate.

Users should not submit confidential, privileged, proprietary, or highly sensitive information to an AI-enabled feature unless the feature expressly indicates that such use is supported.

12. How We Disclose Information

SteelGate may disclose information in the following circumstances.

Service Providers

We may provide information to companies that assist us with website hosting, analytics, security, communications, email delivery, databases, software infrastructure, content delivery, technical support, and related operations.

These providers may process information on SteelGate's behalf or, in some circumstances, under their own privacy terms.

At Your Direction

Information may be disclosed when you direct us to interact with a third-party service or intentionally publish information through a public feature.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information if reasonably necessary to:

comply with law;
comply with valid legal process;
respond to governmental or regulatory requests;
investigate suspected fraud or illegal activity;
enforce our agreements;
protect SteelGate, our users, or others;
address cybersecurity threats; or
establish or defend legal claims.

Business Transactions

If SteelGate or substantially all relevant assets are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction subject to applicable law.

Aggregated or De-Identified Information

We may disclose information that has been aggregated or de-identified so that it does not reasonably identify you.

13. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

SteelGate does not operate as a data broker and does not sell lists of reader personal information for monetary consideration.

Certain privacy laws define terms such as “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” more broadly than an ordinary monetary sale.

For example, use of some advertising, analytics, affiliate, or cross-site tracking technologies can fall within these definitions even when no money is exchanged for personal information.

If SteelGate engages in activities that constitute a sale, sharing, or processing for targeted advertising under an applicable privacy law, we will provide any required notices and opt-out mechanisms.

SteelGate does not knowingly sell or share personal information of children where prohibited by law.

14. Data Retention

SteelGate retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or for another lawful business purpose.

Retention periods may depend on factors including:

the type of information;
the purpose for which it was collected;
whether you maintain an account or subscription;
security requirements;
fraud-prevention requirements;
legal or regulatory obligations;
dispute-resolution needs; and
applicable limitation periods.

Information may also remain temporarily in backups, security logs, archived systems, or records maintained by service providers after deletion from active systems.

15. Security

SteelGate uses reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, destruction, alteration, or misuse.

Our website also relies substantially on security infrastructure supplied by Wix and other technology providers.

No website, network, database, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for protecting any credentials associated with your account and for using appropriate security practices when interacting with online services.

If you believe you have identified a security issue involving SteelGate, please contact us promptly.

16. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and whether the relevant privacy law applies to SteelGate, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

confirm whether we process your personal information;
access certain personal information;
obtain a copy of certain personal information;
correct inaccurate personal information;
request deletion;
request portability;
opt out of certain sales of personal information;
opt out of certain sharing or targeted advertising;
opt out of certain forms of profiling;
limit certain uses of sensitive personal information;
withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and
appeal a decision concerning a privacy request where applicable.

SteelGate will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right protected by applicable law.

We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.

Where permitted by law, an authorized agent may submit certain requests on your behalf. We may require evidence that the agent is authorized to act for you.

Different laws apply to different organizations and contain different eligibility thresholds, exceptions, and definitions. A right described in this section therefore may not apply in every situation.

17. California Privacy Information

If the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, applies to SteelGate and to your information, California residents may have rights including access, correction, deletion, portability, and the right to opt out of covered sales or sharing.

California residents may also have the right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information and to receive information concerning categories of personal information collected, sources, purposes, and categories of recipients.

SteelGate does not discriminate against California consumers for properly exercising applicable privacy rights.

If SteelGate becomes subject to requirements concerning recognized opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control, SteelGate will process those signals as required by applicable law.

18. European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Similar Jurisdictions

Where European or similar data-protection laws apply, SteelGate may process personal information under one or more lawful bases, including:

Consent. For example, where consent is obtained for certain cookies or marketing communications.

Contractual necessity. Where processing is necessary to provide a service you requested or administer an agreement with you.

Legitimate interests. Where processing is reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, and understand the Services and those interests are not overridden by your rights.

Legal obligation. Where information must be processed to comply with applicable law.

Depending on applicable law, individuals may have rights including access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and withdrawal of consent.

You may also have the right to complain to an applicable data-protection authority.

19. International Data Transfers

SteelGate operates through internet infrastructure and service providers that may process data in jurisdictions different from the jurisdiction in which you live.

Accordingly, information may be transferred to or processed in the United States and other countries where SteelGate's service providers maintain facilities.

Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, SteelGate or its service providers may rely on legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

20. Children's Privacy

SteelGate is a general-audience media and educational platform and is not designed for the collection of personal information from young children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 in circumstances prohibited by applicable law.

Certain interactive, account-based, or financial-market-related features may be restricted to users who are at least 18 years old.

If you believe a child has submitted personal information to SteelGate in violation of applicable law, contact us so that the matter can be reviewed.

21. Third-Party Links

SteelGate publishes links to primary sources, regulators, financial institutions, companies, academic materials, research organizations, news sources, technology providers, and other third-party websites.

Following an external link may cause you to leave SteelGate.

SteelGate does not control and is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of third-party websites.

We encourage users to review the privacy practices of external services before submitting personal information.

22. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track

Some browsers and extensions provide privacy preference mechanisms such as Global Privacy Control or “Do Not Track” signals.

There is not a single uniform legal standard governing all such signals.

Where applicable law requires SteelGate to recognize a particular opt-out preference signal, SteelGate will seek to process that signal in accordance with applicable requirements.

Cookie controls, browser settings, or SteelGate-provided privacy controls may also be available.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

SteelGate may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our Services, technologies, vendors, or legal obligations change.

The “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Policy identifies the most recent revision.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another reasonable method when appropriate.

Your continued use of the Services following an update is subject to the version of the Privacy Policy then in effect, but SteelGate will obtain consent to materially different processing when applicable law requires consent.

24. Contact and Privacy Requests

Questions, concerns, or requests concerning this Privacy Policy or SteelGate's handling of personal information may be submitted through the following contact information:

SteelGate
Website: SteelGateUS.com
Email: [SteelGateUS@gmail.com]

When submitting a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to understand and reasonably verify the request.

Do not send passwords, wallet seed phrases, private keys, Social Security numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive information with a privacy request.