The short version
Privacy notices are usually painful to read. Here is the whole thing in seven bullets.
- You can read everything here without telling us who you are. No account, no sign up.
- We collect personal information in one situation only: when you write to us, through the contact form or by emailing contact@reviewingcenter.com.
- We use a basic analytics tool to see which articles people read. It runs only if you agree to the cookie banner.
- We never sell your information. We are not an advertising business and we do not build marketing profiles.
- We only pass your details to an independent legal adviser if you specifically ask us to.
- Messages are deleted after two years. Server logs go after twelve months.
- You can ask what we hold, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, at any time, by writing to contact@reviewingcenter.com.
This notice covers reviewingcenter.com and was last updated in 2026.
1. Who we are
The site
ReviewingCenter publishes research and warnings about online financial fraud: fake brokers, cloned crypto exchanges, trading apps that never let anyone withdraw, and investment groups run through messaging apps. Everything here is written by our editorial team.
Who is responsible for your information
The team that runs this site decides what happens to information collected through it. In data protection language that makes us the controller. To reach a human, write to contact@reviewingcenter.com with “privacy” in the subject line.
2. What we collect
When you just read the site
Almost nothing. Our server keeps a short technical record of each request: a shortened IP address, the page you asked for, the time, your browser type, and the page that sent you here. We use it to keep the site online and spot attacks, and delete it after twelve months.
When you use the contact form
You give us an email address and a description of what happened. Fields for your first name, country and phone number are optional. Leave them blank and your message still reaches us and still gets read.
Most people describe an amount, a platform name and rough dates, which helps us check what we already published. Please do not send passport copies, bank statements or card numbers.
When you email us
We keep the message like any business keeps its correspondence.
3. Cookies and analytics, without the jargon
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file your browser stores when you visit a site. It has no idea who you are, and is closer to a cloakroom ticket than a name badge.
The ones we cannot avoid
Two cookies are needed for the site to work. They remember whether you answered the banner, and carry a security token on the contact form that stops bots spamming us. They do not track you across other sites.
The analytics ones
If you say yes to the banner, we set an analytics cookie that counts visits. It tells us things like: four hundred people read a particular article this week, most from a search engine. The tool truncates IP addresses before we see them, so we cannot tie a visit to a person.
Saying no, or changing your mind
Decline the banner and no analytics cookie is set. If you accepted and want to reverse that, clear the cookies for reviewingcenter.com in your browser and the banner will ask again. You can also block cookies entirely; the site still works, though the banner returns each visit because we cannot record your answer.
No advertising trackers
There are no advertising pixels here. No retargeting tags, no data brokers.
4. What happens after you send the contact form
Someone actually reads it
Your message lands in an inbox only our editorial staff can open. A person reads it, usually within two or three working days. If the platform you name is one we have written about, we compare your account with what we published, and sometimes update the article.
We do not publish what you send
Your name, email address and transaction details never appear on the site. If a case is unusual enough that we want to write about it, we ask you first and agree what can be said. Silence is not permission.
What we cannot do
We are journalists and researchers, not investigators and not a regulator. We cannot contact a platform for you or make an authority act. What we can do is explain what is publicly known about the operator and point you toward people qualified to handle the formal side.
5. Independent legal advisers
Who they are
We work alongside qualified lawyers and regulated advisory practices who help people prepare and file reports to financial regulators, police cybercrime units and other authorities. They handle the paperwork and the procedure, which is the part most people find impossible alone.
They are separate businesses
These practices are not part of ReviewingCenter. They do not work for us and we do not work for them. They set their own terms and are responsible for their own advice, so ask for those terms in writing before you engage anyone.
Nothing is passed on unless you ask
This is worth reading twice. We do not forward your message to anyone by default. If we think an adviser would be useful, we say so in our reply and ask whether you would like an introduction. Only if you say yes do we send anything, and we tell you which practice first. Say no and your details stay with us until they age out under section 6.
After the introduction
Once an adviser has your details they are responsible for them under their own privacy terms, so ask them directly to remove anything from their files. We keep a note that the introduction happened for three years.
6. How long we keep things
- Contact form messages and email threads: two years from the last time either of us wrote.
- A record that you agreed to an introduction: three years, so we can show consent was given.
- Server logs: twelve months.
- Analytics totals: fourteen months, by which point they contain nothing personal.
Earlier if you want
Those are maximum periods, not commitments. Ask us to delete your message today and we will, unless an active matter depends on it.
7. Your choices and your rights
What you can ask for
- A copy of what we hold about you.
- A correction if something we hold is wrong.
- Deletion of your information, subject to the note above.
- A pause on our use of it while a disagreement is sorted out.
- Withdrawal of consent. Anything you agreed to, you can unagree to later.
- An objection to a use we justified as our legitimate interest, which we will then look at again.
- A portable copy in a common file format you can hand to someone else.
How to ask
Write to contact@reviewingcenter.com from the address you originally used, or tell us enough to find your record. We reply within a month, and if your request is complicated we will say so rather than going quiet. There is no charge.
If you are not happy with our answer
Come back to us first if you can, because most problems are a misunderstanding that one email clears up. If that goes nowhere, you can complain to the data protection authority in the country where you live, and you do not need our permission.
8. Security
What we do
The whole of reviewingcenter.com runs over an encrypted connection, so what you type into the form is not readable in transit. Stored messages are encrypted, only named staff can reach the inbox, and administrative accounts need a second factor to log in.
What you should do
If you have been targeted once, expect to be targeted again. People who claim they can help you after a fraud often turn out to be part of the same operation, and they are convincing. Nobody from ReviewingCenter will ever call you out of the blue, ask for a payment, ask for a code from your phone, or ask you to install remote access software. Tell us at contact@reviewingcenter.com if someone tries it in our name.
9. Links to other sites
Our articles link out constantly, mostly to regulator warning lists, company registers, court documents and archived promotional pages. Those sites have their own privacy practices, so once you click through, this notice stops applying and theirs takes over.
10. Changes, and how to reach us
We update this notice when the way we work changes, or when the law does. The date at the top tells you which version you are reading, and the current one is from 2026. If we change something significant, such as adding a new tool that collects information, we will put a notice on the site rather than quietly editing this page.
Questions, requests, corrections, or a complaint: contact@reviewingcenter.com. A real person reads that inbox and you will get an answer.