Privacy

Who we are

Viru is built by TE Viru Inc. ("TE", "we"). This page explains what we collect when you use Viru at viru-te.com, why, who else handles it, and the choices you have. Questions: joaquin@trading-edu.net.

What we collect

Your account: the email you sign in with. There are no passwords; each sign-in uses a one-time code sent to that email. If you turn on an authenticator app, our sign-in provider keeps the secret that checks its codes.

Your profile: your name and @username, your motto, your picture or the stick person you drew, your background, and the country you choose to represent. These are visible to other signed-in people on Viru.

Your campus: if you verify a school email, we use that address once to send a code and do not keep it. We keep only which campus you belong to.

Your wallets: the public addresses of the wallets you verified as yours. Viru never has your private keys.

Your growth: one value of your portfolio per day, used to show your growth in percentages. Growth percentages are public by default; your holdings and dollar amounts are private by default. You can change both in Settings.

Your activity: the trades you make through Viru are posted to the activity feed as the pair traded (for example, cash to SOL), never the amount. Payments to other people are never posted.

Where you live: if you tell Viru the country you live in, we keep it, together with the country your connection appeared to come from at that moment, only to decide which assets you may trade. It is never shown to anyone.

Other things you send us: club applications, your watchlist, waitlists you join, and messages in clubs.

What we don't collect

Your private keys or passwords. Your card or bank details: when you add money by card or bank, you enter them with our wallet provider's payment partners, not with Viru. Your Social Security number or ID documents.

We don't sell your data, we don't show ads, and we don't use advertising trackers.

On your device

Your browser keeps your sign-in session, the accounts that signed in on that device (so you can get back in with one tap), and preferences like the light or dark look. Signing out everywhere removes them.

Who else handles your data

Supabase (our database and sign-in), Privy (your wallets), Netlify (hosting the site), Resend (sending sign-in and campus codes), and Alpaca Securities LLC if you connect a brokerage account (see below).

To show prices and prepare trades we use CoinGecko, 0x, Jupiter and blockchain network providers such as Helius. When you ask for a quote, your public wallet address is sent so the trade can be built for it.

The weather in the background comes from MET Norway and, in the US, the National Weather Service. Our server asks them for the city your device's time zone points to (for example New York for the whole US East Coast), never your own location, and nothing about you is sent.

Blockchains are public: anything your wallet does on a network can be seen by anyone, with or without Viru.

US stocks through Alpaca

If you connect your own Alpaca brokerage account, Alpaca gives Viru a key that lets Viru read your account (cash, holdings, orders) and place the orders you ask for. We keep that key encrypted on our servers and use it only for that. Your identity documents, tax id and bank stay with Alpaca. You can disconnect at any time in Viru or in your Alpaca account.

How long we keep it

As long as your account exists. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete your profile and the data above; trades already recorded on a blockchain can't be removed by anyone.

Your choices

Change your profile, privacy settings and sign-in email in Viru at any time. To get a copy of your data or delete your account, write to joaquin@trading-edu.net from the email you sign in with.

Viru is for people 18 and older.

Changes

When this policy changes, we update this page and its date. Important changes are announced on Viru.