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This page tells you what TheDomainCheck does with your information, in plain English rather than the usual wall of boilerplate. If anything is unclear, write to contact@thedomaincheck.com.
We publish reviews, investigations and warnings about online financial fraud, and we run thedomaincheck.com as a publisher. Not your bank. Not your broker. Not your lawyer. That shapes everything below.
What we log when you read an article
You can read thedomaincheck.com without telling us who you are. No account, no email address.
Our server still keeps a short record of each visit: your IP address, the browser and device, the page you asked for, the page you came from, the time. Ordinary web server behaviour. It keeps the site online, spots attacks, and tells us how many people read an article. Those log lines go after ninety days.
Cookies, kept small
Cookies are little files your browser stores. We keep ours to a minimum.
- A session cookie that keeps pages loading and protects our forms from bots. It goes when you close the browser.
- A cookie remembering what you chose in the banner, so we stop asking. One year.
- Analytics cookies, set only if you agree.
- Occasionally a cookie from an embedded video or map.
No advertising cookies. We do not follow you around other websites. Block or delete cookies for thedomaincheck.com whenever you like and the site still works.
What our analytics actually sees
Aggregate numbers, nothing more. How many read an article, roughly which country, phone or desktop, how long a page held attention. It tells us what to investigate next. We build no profile of you and never try to work out your name. The data is held twenty six months, then cleared.
The contact form
Plenty of people who come here have lost money to a fake broker or a bogus investment group. The form is there so you can say what happened, and you choose what goes in it: a name or nickname, an email address so we can reply, your country, a description of the operator.
Please do not send passwords, banking credentials, wallet seed phrases or passport scans. We do not need them and we delete them if they arrive. Nobody legitimate asks for a seed phrase, us included.
We do not sell anything about you
Your details are not for sale. We do not rent them, trade them, or hand them to marketing lists.
A few suppliers touch your information because they run the machinery: our host, the mailbox behind contact@thedomaincheck.com, the analytics provider if you agreed. They work under contract, only on our instructions, and cannot use what they see for their own ends. We also disclose where a court order leaves no choice, and then only what it requires.
Being introduced to an independent legal adviser
We work alongside independent legal advisers and law firms who help people prepare and file reports to regulators, police and other authorities. If you want, we can introduce you.
Only if you ask. We will not pass your story to anyone on a hunch. When you ask, we send your contact details and a summary, nothing else. Change your mind any time before the introduction is made: email contact@thedomaincheck.com. Afterwards that practice is responsible under its own policy.
Children
thedomaincheck.com is written for adults. The subject is investment fraud, and none of it is aimed at children. We run no games, prizes, quizzes or character content that would draw a young audience.
Our age line
If you are under sixteen, please do not use the contact form or join any mailing list we run. We cannot verify age from a web form, so we rely on this being respected.
If a child has sent us something
Sometimes a parent finds a child has been targeted by a scam operator and has written to us. If so, email contact@thedomaincheck.com. Give us the address the message came from and roughly when, and we will find it. You do not need to prove anything elaborate.
We then delete the record, cancel any introduction attached to it, and confirm in writing, normally within seven days. Anything we published from that message comes down too, even if anonymous. We do not argue and we do not ask a parent to justify it.
What we will never do with a child’s information
No marketing. No passing it to an adviser. No keeping it for research. Deleted means deleted.
How long we hold things
Nothing sits here forever. A form submission needing no reply goes after six months. An email exchange is kept two years from the last message, so if you write again we know the history. An introduction record lasts three years. Server logs go at ninety days, mailing list details thirty days after you unsubscribe. The only exception is a legal hold, which we keep until it lifts.
You can ask us to stop
Depending where you live, you can ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to fix or delete it, ask us to pause while a dispute is sorted out, object, ask for a portable file, or withdraw a consent.
How to make the request
Email contact@thedomaincheck.com with the words data request in the subject. Tell us which of those you want. If it is about one particular thing, say which, because a narrow request is far quicker to handle.
Proof of identity
We must be sure it is really you. Usually easy: write from the address you used originally. If you have lost access to it, we ask for two or three details only the sender would know, such as roughly when you wrote and the operator you reported. We never ask for a passport scan, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
How long we take
We acknowledge within seven days and answer fully within one month. If the request is complicated, or you made several at once, we can extend by up to two further months, telling you inside the first month and saying why. No fee, unless a request is plainly excessive or repetitive.
If we say no
Sometimes we refuse, wholly or partly. Usually because we are a publisher and the material is bound up in journalism about ongoing fraud, where the law protects some of what we hold. Other reasons: a legal hold, or that answering would expose someone else. When we refuse we name the exemption and explain why it applies. We do not just say no. Disagree, and a different person reviews it, free.
Complaining, and going over our heads
If you are unhappy with how we handled your information, tell us first. Email contact@thedomaincheck.com with the word complaint in the subject. Say what went wrong and what you want done.
What happens next
We acknowledge within five working days. Someone not involved in the original decision looks at it. You get a written answer within thirty days: what we found, what we are changing, what we are not changing and why. If we got it wrong, we say so plainly.
Going to the supervisory authority
You never have to come to us first. You can complain directly to the data protection supervisory authority where you live, where you work, or where you think the problem happened. Complaining to us does not use up that right, and complaining to them does not stop you raising it with us too.
Those authorities are free and you need no lawyer to use one. Most take complaints through an online form and will want to know who the organisation is, what you asked for, when, and what response you got. Keep our emails so you have the dates, or ask at contact@thedomaincheck.com and we will send the correspondence in one file to attach. In some countries you can go to court as well. That route is yours and nothing here takes it away.
Keeping it safe
Traffic to thedomaincheck.com runs encrypted. Only a handful of people have administrative access, each with a strong password and a second factor. Attachments are scanned before opening. Backups are encrypted.
We cannot promise perfection, and anyone who does is lying. If something goes wrong and there is a real risk to you, we tell the supervisory authority within seventy two hours and tell you directly where the risk is high.
Links out, and changes to this page
Our articles link out constantly: regulator registers, court filings, archived scam websites, news reports. Those sites are not ours. We do not control what they collect, and their policy applies once you click.
We update this statement when the way we work changes, and review it yearly. The live version on thedomaincheck.com counts, and the date shows when it took effect. Anything significant during 2026 is flagged for a while, and the 2026 edition replaces everything before it. Carry on using TheDomainCheck after a change and you accept it. If you would rather not, email contact@thedomaincheck.com and we will delete what we hold.