Legal & privacy

Plain English first. What PiChan is, what it isn't, and what it keeps about you. Last updated .

01Not financial advice

PiChan reports onchain observations: what happened, when, and the evidence. It does not tell you to buy, sell or hold anything, and it does not predict prices.

Nothing on this site, in the Telegram bot or on PiChan's social accounts is a recommendation, an endorsement or an invitation to trade. PiChan is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Crypto assets are high risk and you can lose all of the money you put in. Decide for yourself, and get independent advice if you need it.

02No affiliation

PiChan is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or paid by Circle, the Arc network, or any launchpad, token or project it reports on.

Being tracked, listed or shown on PiChan is not an endorsement. Names and marks of other companies belong to their owners.

03Privacy notice

This notice covers the website and the Telegram bot.

Who runs PiChan

PiChan is operated by Digital Nomad Ltd, the controller of the personal data described here. Contact: contact@pichan.app.

What PiChan keeps, why, and for how long

Your Telegram user ID

Why
To send you replies and alerts
Lawful basis (GDPR and UK GDPR, Art 6)
Contract: needed to run the service you asked for
How long
Until you send /forget

The wallets you guard and the tokens in them

Why
To send alerts and “since you bought”
Lawful basis (GDPR and UK GDPR, Art 6)
Contract
How long
Until you remove the guard or send /forget. If you block the bot for 30 days, your guards end.

The alerts and scans PiChan sent you

Why
So a report can point at what you saw
Lawful basis (GDPR and UK GDPR, Art 6)
Legitimate interests: checking reports against what was sent
How long
30 days

Reports you send

Why
To check and publish corrections, never with your name
Lawful basis (GDPR and UK GDPR, Art 6)
Legitimate interests: keeping PiChan's data accurate
How long
Deleted after 12 months; the published correction stays. After /forget, the report text stays as you typed it, with nothing linking it to you. Don't put personal details in a report.

The link or campaign code you arrived with, and the dates you used the bot

Why
To count which links bring people, and how many come back
Lawful basis (GDPR and UK GDPR, Art 6)
Legitimate interests: measuring PiChan's own outreach
How long
Until /forget. Daily counts by link code are seen only by the operator; they hold no ID and no wallet.

Emails you send to contact@pichan.app

Why
To reply to you
Lawful basis (GDPR and UK GDPR, Art 6)
Legitimate interests: answering you
How long
Deleted after 12 months

Website visits

Why
Totals of visits and pages, counted only from Cloudflare's server-side request logs. No analytics script runs in your browser, and the site sets no cookie.
Lawful basis (GDPR and UK GDPR, Art 6)
Legitimate interests
How long
As long as Cloudflare keeps its request logs

Technical logs

Why
To keep the service running and secure
Lawful basis (GDPR and UK GDPR, Art 6)
Legitimate interests
How long
Cloudflare Workers logs: 7 days; they hold PiChan's internal id, never your Telegram ID. The server's logs are capped by size, not by days, and hold no Telegram ID.

Telegram sends a bot your first name, username and language with every message. PiChan stores only your Telegram user ID: no name, username or language.

  • Giving PiChan your Telegram ID or wallets isn't a legal requirement, but the bot can't work without them.
  • PiChan makes no automated decisions about you with legal or similarly significant effects. Alerts are automatic messages about public onchain events.

Wallets and onchain data

  • Wallet addresses and transactions are public on Arc, and PiChan reads them like anyone can.
  • A wallet linked to your Telegram ID is personal data, and PiChan treats it as such. It never publishes or sells the link between your Telegram and your wallets.
  • Most of what PiChan shows (launches, pools, swaps, transfers) comes from public blockchain records, which PiChan collects, stores and analyses. Its pages describe tokens, launchpads and creator wallets, never PiChan's users.

Who else handles it

PiChan never sells personal data, and never shares it for anyone else's marketing. These providers help run the service:

  • Cloudflare: the website, database and storage. It runs a global network that includes the United States, and it also processes every visitor's IP address to deliver pages and protect the site.
  • Hetzner: PiChan's servers, in the European Economic Area.
  • Telegram: it carries the bot's messages under its own privacy policy (telegram.org/privacy).
  • Blockchain node providers: Alchemy, dRPC and Arc's public RPC read the public balances of a wallet you guard, so they receive its address.
  • Google: the contact@pichan.app inbox, reached through Cloudflare Email Routing.

Data outside the UK

Some data is processed outside the UK:

  • in the EEA (Hetzner), which the UK treats as adequate;
  • on Cloudflare's network, including the US. Cloudflare's Data Processing Addendum relies on the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, with the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses as a fallback.

Ask contact@pichan.app for a copy of these safeguards.

Your rights

You can ask:

  • for a copy of your data;
  • to correct it;
  • to delete it;
  • to restrict its use, or object to it;
  • to receive it in a portable form.

You can object at any time to the uses based on legitimate interests.

  • /forget in the bot deletes your data at once, except the daily counts and unlinked report text described above. Deleted data stays in the database's recovery history for up to 30 days before it is permanently deleted. The wallet records PiChan built while guarding stay, with no link to you. Queued messages hold no Telegram ID and expire within 4 days.
  • For anything else, email contact@pichan.app. PiChan replies within one month.

Complaints

You can complain to PiChan at contact@pichan.app, or to the data protection authority where you live.

Age

PiChan is for people aged 18 and over.

Changes

Changes to this notice are dated at the top of the page. A change to how PiChan uses your data is announced on this page.

The bot's /privacy reply, word for word

What PiChan keeps

  • Your Telegram user ID, so PiChan can send you replies and alerts.
  • The wallets you guard and the tokens in them, to send alerts and "since you bought".
  • The alerts and scans PiChan sent you, for 30 days, so a report can point at what you saw.
  • Your reports, so corrections can be checked and published (without your name).
  • The link or campaign code you first arrived with, and the dates you used the bot.

What PiChan never does

  • It never asks for a private key, seed phrase or signature.
  • It never publishes or sells the link between your Telegram and your wallets.

What stays after /forget

  • Daily counts of how many people started, guarded or scanned on a day, grouped by link code. They hold no Telegram ID and no wallet.
  • The text of reports you sent, without any link to you.

Wallet addresses and transactions are public on Arc; PiChan reads them like anyone can.

/forget deletes everything else at once. Deleted data stays in the database's recovery history for up to 30 days before it is permanently deleted. If you block the bot for 30 days, your guards end.

Full privacy notice and your rights: pichan.app/legal#privacy

Complaints: contact@pichan.app, or the data protection authority where you live.

Operated by Digital Nomad Ltd. Contact: contact@pichan.app.

04Terms of use

  1. What PiChan is. PiChan reports onchain observations: what happened, when, and the transaction that shows it. It gives no recommendation, rating or price prediction. Nothing it shows is an invitation to buy, sell or hold anything.
  2. Not financial advice, and not regulated. PiChan is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, and it gives no investment advice. Crypto assets are high risk, and you can lose all the money you put in. Decide for yourself, and get independent advice if you need it.
  3. Who can use it. You must be 18 or over. If you use the bot, Telegram's own terms apply too.
  4. What PiChan can get wrong. Every finding carries its time and source, and PiChan says Unknown when it hasn't seen enough. Data can still be incomplete, late or wrong. Report what looks wrong: corrections are published at pichan.app/corrections.
  5. Alerts can be late or missed. The guard is a free service run on a best-effort basis. Don't rely on it as your only source of information.
  6. Fair use. Don't misuse PiChan. That means no attempts to break or overload it or to get round its limits, no automated scraping that degrades the service, and nothing unlawful. PiChan may limit or end access for misuse.
  7. The service can change. PiChan is free today. It may change, pause or stop features, and will say so on the site or in the bot.
  8. Responsibility.
    • PiChan is free and gives no advice, so you make your own trading decisions, and PiChan is not responsible for trading losses.
    • If PiChan breaks these terms or fails to use reasonable care, it is responsible only for loss that was a foreseeable result. It is not responsible for loss it could not have foreseen.
    • Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't allow to be limited. Your rights as a consumer are not affected, including your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
  9. Names and marks. PiChan is independent. It is not affiliated with Circle, the Arc network, or any launchpad, token or project it reports on. Being tracked or shown is not an endorsement. Other names and marks belong to their owners.
  10. Contact. contact@pichan.app.

05The name

PiChan is named as a tribute to Pi-chan, the parakeet of a well-known Japanese trader, as described on The Story page. There is no connection with him or his publisher, and no endorsement by them.