Privacy Policy

1. Who controls your data

The controller of the personal data this notice describes is HADAL INSTRUMENTS LTD, a company registered in England and Wales under number 17382774, whose registered office is Suite 53C, Unimix House, Abbey Road, London, NW10 7TR, United Kingdom. Hadal Instruments is a trading name of that company. Before it was incorporated on 5 August 2026 the same data was held by its founder personally; the waitlist records passed to the company as they were, and your rights over them did not change. Data-protection requests reach the controller at privacy@hadalinstruments.com.

2. Data We Collect

During pre-launch, the personal data we collect through forms is what you type into the waitlist form: an email address, which is required, and — only if you choose to give them — a name and a one-line answer to the question of what you would want measured. Both of those are optional, the form says so beside each field, and leaving them blank has no effect on joining. Stored beside them are the moment they arrived, which page on this site they were submitted from, and whether the notification of the signup went out — no IP address, no user agent, no cookie and no identifier that follows you anywhere. We do not use advertising cookies or fingerprinting on this site, and the analytics this site uses — Google Analytics — is not loaded at all unless you accept its two cookies in the banner, so until then nothing is sent to Google and nothing on your device is written or read for it. If you accept, the random identifier those cookies hold for your browser is personal data, and so are the IP address each pageview is then sent from and the record of your visits kept under that identifier, which Google receives as Hadal's processor; the Analytics paragraph below says what each is used for. The cookie policy enumerates every piece of browser storage this site touches, including any cookie the network layer may set that we neither read nor control — a short list is only credible if it is complete.

One more record exists, at the network edge, and it is described here for the same reason. The software that serves this site keeps a log of each request, for one purpose: to see which automated crawlers — search engines, AI answer engines — read which pages, and with what result. For a person's visit that log holds the page requested, the moment, the response and the referring site, and nothing that identifies you or your browser: no IP address, no user agent, no cookie. Software that declares itself a crawler is recorded with that declaration and its network address, so the claim can be checked — a machine's address is not your data. The log is read by the measurement platform that audits this site and by nobody else, and it feeds no advertising, no profiling and no scoring of anyone.

3. How We Use Your Data

Your email address is used for two things and no others: to notify you when Hadal instruments become available, and occasionally to ask what you would find worth measuring, so that what we publish is shaped by the people waiting for it rather than guessed at. Every such message carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing from one unsubscribes you from both — we do not operate a list you can only partly leave. A name, where you gave one, is used to address you in those messages and for nothing else. An answer about what you want measured is used to decide what to research; it is never published, quoted or attributed.

We will never sell, rent, or share your email with third parties. This is a pre-launch notification list and nothing else is attached to it: no advertising, no profiling, no scoring, and no transfer to anyone for their own purposes.

Analytics. Google Analytics is loaded only for a visitor who accepts analytics cookies in the banner. Until you choose, and after you reject, no page on this site requests anything from Google: nothing is sent to it, and nothing on your device is written or read for it. If you accept, each page loads Google Analytics, which stores two cookies holding a random identifier for your browser and sends Google a pageview, and the events the tag records by itself as the page is used (time on the page, scrolling, links followed off the site, downloads, forms started or sent, embedded videos played, and a search term in the address you arrive by): the page address and the referring page, cut before any ? or #, that identifier, and the coarse device and country information Google derives from your browser and your IP address. None carries anything you type into a form here. The pageviews and events of your visits are joined to that browser — never to your name or your email address. Google act as Hadal's processor for that, and the data reaches Google LLC in the United States. That processing rests on your consent, and Cookie settings, at the foot of every page, withdraws it at any time: from then on no page of this site sends anything to Google, the ones still open in your browser included, and the two cookies are removed at once. The advertising categories stay off whatever you choose. Google Analytics keeps user-level and event-level data for 14 months; if you want the visits already recorded under your identifier erased sooner, write to privacy@hadalinstruments.com with the value of your _ga cookie, which your browser's storage panel shows, before you withdraw. This paragraph is deliberately not conditional on anything: it describes what can happen on the page you are reading, as you loaded it.

4. Trading Data

When instruments launch: marketplace instruments run entirely on your own platform — your trading data never leaves your machine. Hub subscriptions that process data server-side will operate under strict data handling agreements detailed in the full privacy policy.

5. Your Rights

You may request deletion of your data at any time. You may unsubscribe from the waitlist via the link in any email we send. Under UK GDPR, you have the right to access, rectify, and erase your personal data.

6. Contact

Data-protection requests — access, rectification or erasure of anything this site holds about you — go to privacy@hadalinstruments.com. This address replaced an interim personal one on 2026-08-02, and the right it serves did not change when the address did. No Data Protection Officer has been designated yet — that decision arrives with the full policy, before commercial launch, and is not listed as a placeholder in the meantime. The full channel list is on the contact page.