Effective date: 13 November 2026
Gen Koks Trading Academy, based in Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria, operates this website and its learning services. We provide trading education, learning resources and private mentorship. This notice explains how we handle personal information when you visit our website, contact us or use a member account.
For privacy questions or requests, contact gen.kokshedge@gmail.com.
Information we use
When you sign in with Google, we receive your verified email address and a Google account identifier. We use these to identify your academy account and manage sign-in. We do not receive your Google password or request access to your Gmail messages, contacts, calendars or Drive files. Our application does not retain Google access or refresh tokens.
For member accounts, we store account status, roles and cohort access. Depending on the features you use, we also store your chosen display name, reading preferences, lesson progress and completion, reading or video resume positions, quiz answers and results, review acknowledgements, personal notes, bookmarks, and update preferences and read status.
If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you include. Please avoid including sensitive personal or financial information that is unnecessary for your enquiry.
Hosting and security providers process technical information needed to deliver and protect the website, which can include IP addresses, browser information and request logs. The academy also keeps records of management actions for security and accountability.
Why we use it
We use this information to authenticate accounts, manage access, deliver teaching, save your study activity and preferences, show relevant in-app updates, respond to enquiries, protect the service and maintain backups for recovery. Signing in does not automatically enrol you in a private cohort.
Processing grounds
We process account and study information to provide the learning services you request. Security, recovery and enquiry handling rely on our legitimate interests, balanced against your rights. Where consent is required, we ask separately; you may withdraw it. Legal obligations apply where relevant.
Your personal notes and learning records
Personal note contents are available only to their author through the academy interface. Other students cannot view them, and the management interface does not expose their text. Authorised management users can view learning progress and quiz results to administer the academy.
Personal notes are stored in the academy database and can be included in backups. They are not end-to-end encrypted: authorised people with infrastructure or backup access may be able to access stored information for support, security or recovery. Please do not use notes to store passwords, payment details or other sensitive information.
Service providers and external services
We use Google for sign-in, Cloudflare for website hosting, the member database and private file storage, and Sanity for public website content management. Private member learning records and notes are held in the member database rather than the public content dataset. Recovery copies may be stored in restricted GitHub Actions artifacts and private backup storage. Email enquiries are handled through our email provider. These providers may process information in countries other than yours, including outside Nigeria. You may contact us for information about applicable transfer protections.
Where a lesson includes a YouTube player, we use YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed domain. Loading the player can connect your browser to YouTube before you press play. Opening external session links or other third-party services is also subject to those services' privacy practices.
Cookies and browser storage
We use secure cookies to complete Google sign-in and keep you signed in. The sign-in state cookie lasts up to 10 minutes; the academy session cookie lasts up to 8 hours, unless you sign out earlier. We also use browser storage to remember your learning theme. Some public learning activities keep temporary state in the current page rather than your member account.
Blocking essential cookies can prevent sign-in. Clearing browser storage removes locally saved preferences; it does not delete learning records saved to your account.
Keeping and deleting information
We retain account and study information to provide your account, preserve your learning history and operate the service. Ending cohort access does not itself delete your account or personal notes. When teaching is deleted, your own notes and minimal completion and quiz history can remain; unavailable lesson links and invalid bookmarks are removed.
Our retention schedule is:
- Account and learning records: while your account serves your learning, with an annual necessity review. After 24 months of confirmed inactivity, we review retention and contact you before any proposed closure, allowing at least 30 days to respond and respecting continuing access entitlements.
- Pending accounts without access or learning records: reviewed after 90 days and removed when no enrolment or other valid purpose needs them.
- Resolved support and privacy enquiries: normally 12 months after closure; management audit records: normally 12 months after the event.
- Recovery backups: GitHub artifacts expire after 30 days; academy-controlled downloaded copies are kept for no more than 90 days, unless a documented incident or legal hold justifies longer.
We may retain limited records longer where necessary for a specific legal obligation or dispute, with restricted use and periodic review. Routine hosting-log retention depends on the relevant provider service; contact us for the applicable details.
You can edit or delete your personal notes and remove bookmarks through the study tools. Contact us to request access to, correction of or deletion of other personal information, or permanent account deletion. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request. Permanent member deletion removes the account and its associated personal study records from the active member database. Limited operational records may remain, and existing recovery backups are not erased immediately by deleting an active account. We restrict those backups to recovery and reapply relevant deletions before returning restored data to use. We aim to complete verified deletion requests within 30 days, explaining any justified exception.
You can also remove the academy's Google connection through your Google Account settings. Removing that connection does not itself delete your academy account or saved learning records.
Your rights and complaints
Subject to applicable conditions, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability or objection, and withdraw consent where used. Email gen.kokshedge@gmail.com. You may also complain directly to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.
Quizzes are marked automatically and progress is calculated by the academy. They do not automatically enrol you in a cohort. Contact us for human review of an access or quiz concern.
Changes to this notice
We will update this notice when our data handling changes and show the updated effective date. Contact gen.kokshedge@gmail.com with questions about this notice or your information.