Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 22, 2026
📋Overview
This Privacy Policy explains how GORAE LABS (“Becoming Crypto Whale”, “we”, “us”, “our”) processes information when you use our services (collectively, the “Services”).
The Services include the website https://www.becomingcryptowhale.com (the "Website") and the Whale Platform mobile applications on iOS/Android, including Whale Journal, Whale Tools, and Whale Academy (collectively, the "Apps"), as well as related tools and features we provide.
This policy does not cover third-party services you may access through links (such as exchanges). Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.
📝Information We Process
Information collected automatically
- Server logs (IP address, request time, pages viewed, user agent)
- Device and browser information (device model, OS/browser version)
- Analytics/performance measurement (e.g., Vercel Analytics, Speed Insights; optional tags via Google Tag Manager where enabled)
- Error monitoring, crash reports, and diagnostics (e.g., Sentry)
- Cookies and similar tracking technologies (Website); advertising identifiers (IDFA/Advertising ID) and similar technologies (App, where ads are enabled)
- Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics, and Performance diagnostics (Whale Academy, where enabled)
Information you provide
- Contact information (e.g., email), account profile metadata, and authentication identifiers if you contact us or sign in
- Support requests, feedback, and attachments you send to us
- User content you create or upload (journal entries, notes, rules) - Whale Journal
- Profit/loss and performance data you input - Whale Journal
- Uploaded images/screenshots (where available) - Whale Journal
- Calculation inputs, saved presets, recent results, and notes you choose to keep - Whale Tools
- Learning progress, review history, reminder settings, deck/card identifiers, and training state - Whale Academy
- Notification preferences, reminder schedules, and device push tokens (where enabled)
- Subscription, billing, restore-purchase, and entitlement status needed to provide paid access
- Device registration, sync metadata, and conflict-resolution metadata for optional account/cloud features
- App settings/preferences (e.g., language, currency, timezone, theme)
📱Mobile App Permissions
Our mobile apps request the following permissions or device capabilities based on actual and optional functionality you choose to enable:
Whale Journal
- Photo Library (image_picker): To select and attach trade screenshots from your gallery to journal entries
- Notifications (local / remote): To deliver review reminders, billing or account notices, and operational alerts when enabled
- Local Storage (Drift/SQLite): To store your trading data, settings, and related app state securely on your device
- Network Access: To check for app updates from journal.becomingcryptowhale.com, load ads (where enabled), sync data when enabled, validate account/subscription access, and register devices for notification and secure app services
Whale Tools
- Notifications (local / remote): To deliver billing, restore, or product notices when enabled
- Local Storage: To store presets, recent calculations, and app preferences on your device
- Network Access: To check for app updates from tools.becomingcryptowhale.com, load ads (where enabled), and validate subscription/access state
Whale Academy
- Notifications (local / remote): To deliver study/review reminders and operational notices when enabled
- Local Storage (Drift/SQLite): To store learning progress, review history, and related app state securely on your device
- Tracking / advertising identifiers (IDFA / Advertising ID, where available): To show and measure ads, including personalized ads only where you consent or where allowed by law/platform policy
- Network Access: To check for app updates from academy.becomingcryptowhale.com, load and measure ads (where enabled), send crash/performance diagnostics, validate account/subscription access, and register devices for notification services
You can manage these permissions in your device settings at any time. Apps function offline where possible. Network access is used for update checks, advertising (including loading and measuring ads, where enabled), subscription/account validation, push delivery, and optional cloud sync (Whale Journal only). If you enable them, limited summaries may appear on widgets, Live Activities, lock screen surfaces, Apple Watch, or Wear OS. Where required by law or platform policy, we request your permission/consent before using advertising identifiers for personalized ads (e.g., App Tracking Transparency on iOS).
💾Local Data Storage
Whale Journal
Whale Journal is local-first by default. The app stores your trading journal data locally on your device using secure database technology. This data remains on your device unless you explicitly enable cloud synchronization, account features, or external exports/backups.
Local data includes trade entries, notes/rules, attached images (stored in the app's private storage), notification preferences, widget/live activity/watch summaries, and app settings. Limited summaries may also be copied to OS-provided system surfaces under your control.
Depending on your device settings, app data may be included in OS-level device backups (e.g., iCloud or Google device backup).
Whale Tools
Whale Tools stores app settings, calculator presets, recent calculations, and similar workflow state locally on your device.
Calculations run locally. If you choose to save presets, recent results, or restore paid access, related metadata may be stored locally and may be checked against our services or the app store provider.
Depending on your device settings, app data may be included in OS-level device backups (e.g., iCloud or Google device backup).
Whale Academy
Whale Academy stores learning progress, review history, deck/card identifiers, reminder preferences, and app settings locally on your device using Drift/SQLite and platform storage.
Review sessions and learning progress are processed locally by default. If you sign in, restore paid access, enable notifications, or use features that require network services, limited account, entitlement, device, diagnostics, advertising-consent, and push metadata may be processed by our service providers.
Depending on your device settings, app data may be included in OS-level device backups (e.g., iCloud or Google device backup).
🎯How We Use Your Information
- •Provide and operate the Services (core functionality, support, paid access, and advertising where enabled)
- •Deliver reminders, notifications, widgets, and companion-device experiences you enable
- •Improve the Services (performance, reliability, usability)
- •Maintain security and prevent abuse
- •Process optional features you enable (accounts, cloud sync, subscriptions, exports)
- •Comply with legal obligations
- •Provide Whale Academy learning flows, review reminders, progress tracking, in-app advertising where enabled, and diagnostics needed to keep the app reliable
⏰Data Retention
Retention depends on the feature and data type. We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
- App local data: Remains on your device until you delete it (e.g., by deleting the app or using in-app deletion/export controls where available)
- Push tokens, device registrations, and notification preference records: Retained until you disable notifications, sign out, or stale registrations are removed
- Website logs/monitoring/analytics: Retained for the period configured by the provider or needed for security and troubleshooting
- Account, cloud, entitlement, and billing-support data (if enabled): Retained until you delete it or delete your account, subject to legal, fraud-prevention, and billing obligations
- Support inquiries: Retained for as long as needed to respond, troubleshoot, and comply with record-keeping obligations
- Whale Academy local learning data: Remains on your device until you delete it, delete the app, or delete your account from within the app; notification/device records are removed when no longer needed or when you delete your account, subject to legal obligations
🔐Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information. However, no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.
🤝Third-party Sharing
Policy: We do not sell personal information. We may share information with service providers strictly to operate the Services (including authentication, synchronization, notifications, subscription access, diagnostics, and advertising where enabled), subject to confidentiality obligations. We do not share your journal content, Academy learning progress, or saved calculator data for third-party advertising purposes; however, we may share device identifiers, consent status, and ad interaction data with advertising partners to serve and measure ads, including personalized ads where you consent.
Service Providers
- Supabase: Cloud database and authentication (when cloud sync is enabled)
- Vercel: Website hosting and content delivery
- Vercel Analytics / Speed Insights: Website performance measurement
- Google Tag Manager: Optional website tags (where enabled and where you consent); Google AdMob (Google Mobile Ads SDK): In-app advertising, measurement, and fraud prevention (where ads are enabled and where consent is required)
- Firebase Analytics / Crashlytics / Performance / Cloud Messaging and Apple Push Notification service: App analytics, crash reporting, performance diagnostics, and notification delivery to registered devices
- Sentry: Error monitoring and performance diagnostics
- App Store / Google Play: App distribution, billing, subscription management, and crash reporting
We may also disclose information when required by law, court order, or to protect our legal rights.
🍪Cookies and Tracking
Our Website uses cookies and similar technologies (and localStorage/sessionStorage) to support core functionality and improve your experience. Our App may use advertising identifiers (IDFA/Advertising ID) and similar technologies via advertising SDKs to show and measure ads (including personalized ads where you consent).
Some analytics/marketing or advertising features may run only if you consent (where enabled and where required). Performance measurement and error monitoring may still be collected to operate and improve the Services.
We use these technologies to:
- Remember your preferences (language, theme, currency)
- Store your cookie consent choice
- Store referral/affiliate click information (where enabled)
- Keep you signed in to your account (where sign-in is available)
- Measure performance and traffic (e.g., Vercel Analytics / Speed Insights)
- Run optional tags via Google Tag Manager (Website; where enabled and where you consent) and serve/measure ads via Google AdMob (App; where enabled and where you consent, when required)
- Improve service performance and reliability (e.g., error monitoring)
👤Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export your information, or to object to certain processing.
- •Access your personal data
- •Correct inaccurate information
- •Delete your personal data
- •Export your data (portability)
- •Object to or restrict certain processing (where applicable)
- •Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- •Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (EU/UK, where applicable)
🗑️Account & Data Deletion
You can delete your account directly within the app.
In-App Deletion
- Open the app and navigate to the Profile tab
- Select Account Management
- Tap Delete Account
- Complete email verification and type DELETE to confirm
Data Deleted
- Account and profile information
- Account-linked cloud/sync records, device registrations, notification settings, and entitlement records
- Whale Journal trade history and related account-linked data, where cloud/account features are enabled
- Whale Tools saved calculator data and related account-linked data, where account features are enabled
- Whale Academy learning progress and related account-linked data, where account features are enabled
- Local data stored by the app where account deletion is initiated, including Drift data, reminders, surface state, and app preferences
Some data may be retained for the period required by applicable law, billing support, security, or fraud prevention. If you request deletion by email instead of using the in-app flow, local data on devices you still possess may remain until you delete the app or use in-app deletion.
You may also request deletion by email: contact@becomingcryptowhale.com
🇪🇺For EEA/UK Users (GDPR)
If you are in the EEA/UK, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:
- •Contract: to provide the Services you request
- •Legitimate interests: to secure, maintain, and improve the Services (e.g., preventing abuse, diagnosing errors)
- •Consent: for certain cookies/tracking technologies and personalized advertising where required
- •Legal obligations: where we must comply with laws and regulations
You also have rights under GDPR including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
🇺🇸For California Users (CCPA)
California residents have additional rights under CCPA:
- •Right to know what personal information is collected
- •Right to know if personal information is sold or disclosed
- •Right to opt-out of the sale of personal information
- •Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
We do not sell your personal information. If we enable personalized ads, we may share certain identifiers with advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising, which may be considered “sharing” under California law. You may have the right to opt out of such sharing. Contact us at contact@becomingcryptowhale.com and you may also control ad personalization via your device privacy settings.
🇰🇷For Korean Users (PIPA)
Korean residents have rights under the Personal Information Protection Act:
- •Right to access and request copies of your personal data
- •Right to request correction or deletion of your data
- •Right to request suspension of processing
- •Right to withdraw consent at any time
Personal data is destroyed without delay when the purpose of collection is achieved. You may exercise your rights by contacting us at contact@becomingcryptowhale.com.
👶Children's Privacy
The Services are not intended for individuals under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have collected data from a child, please contact us immediately.
🌍International Data Transfers
If you use the Services from outside the country where our infrastructure or service providers are located, your information may be processed internationally. Where required, we take steps to apply appropriate safeguards.
📧Contact Us
Questions or requests regarding privacy:
Email: contact@becomingcryptowhale.com
Operator: GORAE LABS / JUN / 14 Seongjeonggongwon 2-gil, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, 31110, Republic of Korea
🔄Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will update the “Last updated” date when changes are published.