Privacy Policy

Calculators and local storage

All calculators on Gulf Bullion Desk run entirely in the reader's browser. The numbers you type into a calculator are never sent to a server, and the desk cannot see them. No calculation data is stored or transmitted.

The desk may use local storage in your browser to remember your preferences, such as your preferred unit or display settings. This data stays on your device and is not accessible to the desk or third parties.

What the desk collects

Gulf Bullion Desk collects only aggregate traffic counts, such as the number of visitors to a page. No personal information is collected unless you write to the editorial mailbox. The desk does not use tracking cookies.

If you click an affiliate link to a broker, the broker may set its own cookies under its own privacy policy. The desk does not control those cookies and does not receive any personal data from them beyond a possible confirmation of a referral.

Broker cookies and policies

When you leave Gulf Bullion Desk and go to a broker's website, that broker's privacy policy applies. The broker may use cookies for advertising, analytics, or account security. Gulf Bullion Desk is not responsible for the broker's data practices.

Readers should read the broker's privacy policy before providing any personal information. The desk does not share any data with brokers except the fact that a click came from this site, if the affiliate link is used.

What Gulf Bullion Desk stores on its servers and what stays on your device

Gulf Bullion Desk stores only the anonymous settings you choose for its calculators and site preferences, such as your selected lot size or display language, on its servers. These settings are not linked to your name, email address, or any personally identifiable information. The desk does not store your gold trading entries, margin results, or any figures you type into a calculator. Those numbers are processed entirely in your browser and are never transmitted to Gulf Bullion Desk or any third party. The only exception is if you voluntarily contact the desk through a form, in which case the details you provide are kept solely to respond to your inquiry.

The site does not store your IP address, device fingerprint, or browsing history on its own servers. When you visit a page, your browser may send a request to the web host, which logs standard technical data for security and performance monitoring, but this data is not used to identify you personally. Gulf Bullion Desk does not maintain a user account system, so there is no profile database. Any temporary session data, such as the page you last viewed, is held only for the duration of your visit and is automatically deleted when you close your browser.

Your calculator inputs and results are never written to disk on Gulf Bullion Desk's infrastructure. If you use the site's local storage feature to save a calculation for later, that data remains on your device and is controlled by your browser's storage settings. You can clear it at any time by deleting site data for Gulf Bullion Desk in your browser. The desk cannot retrieve or restore locally stored calculations because they are not part of its server-side records.

The cookie types on this site and the job each one does

Gulf Bullion Desk uses only functional cookies that are necessary for the site to work correctly. These cookies remember your preferences, such as the lot size you enter in a calculator or your chosen display settings, so you do not have to re-enter them on every visit. They are small text files stored in your browser and are not used for advertising or cross-site tracking. The desk does not set any marketing or profiling cookies on its own domain.

Analytics cookies are not placed by Gulf Bullion Desk itself. If the site ever uses a privacy-respecting analytics tool, that tool would set a cookie only to distinguish unique visitors in aggregate, without collecting personal data. Currently, no such cookies are active. The desk deliberately avoids third-party analytics cookies to keep your browsing as private as possible.

Broker cookies are not controlled by Gulf Bullion Desk. When you click a link to FxPro or any other broker, that broker's website may set its own cookies according to its privacy policy. These cookies are governed by the broker, not by this site. Gulf Bullion Desk does not receive or read cookies set by brokers, and it cannot delete them from your browser.

Affiliate links and what the desk records when you click one

Some links to brokers on Gulf Bullion Desk are affiliate links. When you click one, a small text file called a cookie may be placed on your device by the broker's tracking system. This cookie lets the broker know that you arrived from Gulf Bullion Desk, but it does not reveal your name, email, or any personal details to the desk. The desk receives only an aggregate report of how many clicks led to account openings, without any individual identifiers.

Gulf Bullion Desk does not collect or store your personal data through affiliate links. The affiliate tracking is handled entirely by the broker or a third-party affiliate network, which matches the click to a later account registration using its own systems. The desk cannot see which specific visitor clicked a link, opened an account, or traded. Only the broker's own records, subject to its privacy policy, contain that information.

Affiliate relationships do not change how the desk treats your data. No additional information is collected beyond what a normal link click would generate. The desk does not combine affiliate click data with any other data about you because it holds no personal data to combine. If you prefer not to be tracked by affiliate cookies, you can clear your browser cookies after clicking or visit the broker's site directly by typing its URL.

The third parties that touch your data when you use this site

The only third parties involved are the web hosting provider and the broker you choose to visit. The hosting provider processes server logs for security and performance, but those logs are not shared with Gulf Bullion Desk in a form that identifies you personally. The desk's hosting is located in a data center that complies with standard data protection practices, though specific jurisdiction details are not published here.

When you click a link to FxPro, your browser sends a request to FxPro's servers, and FxPro's privacy policy then applies. FxPro is licensed by the FCA (UK), CySEC and FSCA, but Gulf Bullion Desk does not control how FxPro handles your data after you leave this site. FxPro may collect personal information if you open an account, and you should review its policy before providing any details.

No advertising networks, social media platforms, or data brokers receive information from Gulf Bullion Desk. The site does not embed social media buttons or third-party login systems. Email communications, if you contact the desk, are handled by a standard email service provider, but your message content is only used to reply to you and is not sold or shared with marketers.

Your data rights as a reader in the UAE and how to exercise them

Because Gulf Bullion Desk holds almost no personal data, most data rights requests will result in confirmation that no such data exists. If you have contacted the desk by email, you have the right to request a copy of that correspondence, ask for corrections to any inaccurate personal details, or request deletion of your email and associated messages. To make a request, send an email to the desk's contact address with the subject line 'Data Request' and describe what you want.

The UAE does not currently have a comprehensive federal data protection law equivalent to the GDPR, but sector-specific rules and general principles of privacy apply. Gulf Bullion Desk voluntarily extends basic data rights to all readers, including access, correction, and deletion. If you believe your data has been mishandled, you can contact the desk first; if unsatisfied, you may lodge a complaint with the relevant UAE authority, though the desk does not name a specific regulator for this site.

To exercise your rights regarding cookies, you can manage them directly in your browser. Clearing cookies and site data for Gulf Bullion Desk removes any stored preferences and affiliate tracking cookies from your device. For data held by brokers like FxPro, you must contact the broker directly using the contact details in its privacy policy. Gulf Bullion Desk cannot act on your behalf with brokers.

What the site stores and what it does not

Gulf Bullion Desk stores no trading account credentials, no passport scans, and no payment card details on any server it controls. When you use the calculators or read the guides, the numbers you type stay in your browser unless you choose to send an inquiry. The only data the desk holds is what you explicitly submit through a form, such as a name and email address for a reply, and even that is limited to the purpose you selected. No gold position sizes, margin results, or XAU/USD price checks are saved to a database by this site. If a feature works offline or reloads without asking you to log in, that is because the data never left your device in the first place.

The site does not keep a history of the pages you view, the trades you compare, or the leverage levels you test. A 0.10-lot gold margin calculation at 1:500 may show about $85.50 on your screen, but the site does not record that figure after you close the tab. Server logs, if any, contain only the technical minimum needed to keep the site online, such as an IP address for a few hours or days, and they are not used to build a profile of your trading interest. No cookies are set to remember that you looked at XAU/USD, and no script writes your pip value or lot size to local storage unless the calculator itself needs it to refresh the page.

What the site does store is deliberate and narrow: the text of a message you send, the email address you provide for a response, and any consent flag tied to that message. That data sits in a secure inbox or a minimal contact database, not in a trading platform and not in a marketing automation system. It is never combined with third-party cookie data to guess your income or your account size. If you never send a message, the desk holds nothing that can identify you as a person. The privacy posture is straightforward: this is a reference site for UAE gold traders, not a broker, and it does not pretend to need your personal data to show you a spread or a margin formula.

Cookies and what each kind is for

Cookies on Gulf Bullion Desk fall into three narrow groups: essential session cookies, calculator preference cookies, and third-party analytics or affiliate cookies. Essential cookies keep a page working while you move between the home page and a guide, but they do not track you across the internet. Calculator preference cookies remember only your chosen lot size or currency display for the next visit, and they are stored locally in your browser, not on a desk server. Third-party cookies appear only if the desk has placed an analytics tag or an affiliate link, and they are set by the provider, not by the desk itself. No cookie on this site reads your trading platform login or your FxPro account balance.

A session cookie is a short text file that tells the server you are the same visitor from one page to the next, but it dies when you close the browser. It does not contain your name, your email, or any gold price you viewed. A preference cookie may store something like a default of 0.10 lots in the margin calculator, and it lives on your device for a few months, but you can delete it at any time without breaking the site. An affiliate cookie is set by a broker or an affiliate network when you click a link to FxPro, and it lasts long enough to attribute a sign-up if you open an account later. The desk does not read that cookie; only the network and the broker do.

The job of each cookie is to make the site behave predictably, not to sell your data. If a cookie is essential, it exists so a page does not lose your scroll position or confuse two visitors on the same connection. If a cookie is a preference, it exists so you do not have to re-enter 100 oz per lot every time you test a gold margin. If a cookie is third-party, it exists because the desk may earn a small commission if you open a broker account, and the broker needs to know the click came from this site. You can block all cookies and still read every article, but the calculator may forget your last input and affiliate attribution may fail, which means the desk earns nothing from your visit.

Affiliate tracking stated plainly

When you click a link to FxPro from Gulf Bullion Desk, the URL contains a tracking identifier that tells the broker you arrived from this site. That identifier is a string of letters and numbers, not your name, and it is added by the desk or by an affiliate network before the link opens. If you open an account and trade gold, the broker may pay the desk a commission, but the commission amount is not disclosed in the tracking tag and does not change the spread or margin you see on FxPro. The desk does not receive your trading results, your deposit amount, or your personal details from the broker. Only the fact that a click came from this site is recorded for attribution.

The tracking works through a cookie placed on your device by the broker or the affiliate network, not by Gulf Bullion Desk. That cookie typically lasts for a fixed window, often 30 to 90 days, and if you sign up within that window, the broker credits the referral. The desk does not set the window, cannot extend it, and cannot see whether you signed up. If you clear your cookies after clicking, the attribution is lost and the desk earns nothing. If you browse in private mode, the same result occurs. The desk has no way to force the cookie onto your device or to read it later, because it belongs to a third party domain.

Gulf Bullion Desk is transparent about this because the affiliate model is how the site stays free for UAE readers. There is no subscription, no paid report, and no data sale. The only revenue is a possible broker commission when a reader clicks a link and later trades. The desk does not inflate a spread or invent a bonus to push you toward a click; the facts on the page are the same whether you use the affiliate link or type FxPro into your browser yourself. If you prefer not to be tracked, simply do not click the broker links, or clear your cookies after clicking. The content remains readable either way, and the calculators still work.