Legal Notice, Terms & Privacy
Last updated: September 2026
Legal Notice (Impressum)
Contact
bubbyfinance@zohomail.euPurpose
Bubby is a pre-launch fintech platform providing AI-powered trading strategy tools. This website is operated for informational and waitlist sign-up purposes only. No financial advice is provided.
Information obligations pursuant to § 5 E-Commerce-Gesetz (ECG) and § 25 Mediengesetz (MedienG), Austria.
Terms of Service (Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen)
These Terms govern your use of bubby.finance and the Bubby subscription. By creating an account or subscribing you agree to them. German section titles are provided for orientation only.
1. Scope & Contracting Party (Geltungsbereich & Vertragspartner)
These Terms apply to all contracts concluded via bubby.finance between the operator named in the Legal Notice above ("Bubby", "we", "us") and you as the customer. They are written for consumers within the meaning of the Austrian Consumer Protection Act (KSchG). Deviating terms of the customer do not apply unless we have agreed to them in writing. The contract language is English.
2. The Service (Leistungsbeschreibung)
Bubby is an information and signal service. A subscription gives you:
- The current Bubby Strategy portfolio — five US-listed stocks with target weights, published in the app each week after the Monday rebalance. In weeks where the strategy's rules call for no change, the portfolio is republished unchanged.
- The complete historical record of the strategy since 20 April 2026: every rebalance, every trade and the corresponding Bitcoin OP_RETURN proof, including the decryption key once it is released 21 days after the rebalance.
- Weekly emails — a preview on Saturday describing what will happen on Monday (including "no trades"), and a report on days when trades were actually executed.
What Bubby is not:
- Not investment advice and not a personal recommendation. The portfolio is identical for every subscriber and takes no account of your personal situation, objectives, or risk tolerance.
- No portfolio management, no custody. We never hold, manage, or have access to your money or securities.
- No order execution, no brokerage. Whether, when, and how much you trade is your decision alone, made in your own brokerage account and at your own risk.
- Bubby is not a regulated investment adviser, investment firm, or bank.
Bubby runs the same strategy with its own money in its own brokerage account. That is what produces the published track record and the on-chain proofs; it is not an offer to manage yours. Please also read the Risk Disclosure.
3. Account (Benutzerkonto)
- You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or subscribe.
- You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date. Your email address must be verified before you can subscribe; changing the address later requires verifying the new one.
- Keep your login credentials confidential. You are responsible for all activity under your account; tell us immediately if you suspect unauthorised use.
- One account per person. Accounts are personal and may not be transferred.
- We may close accounts that violate these Terms.
4. Subscription & Prices (Abonnement & Preise)
- Standard: €30.00 per month.
- Waitlist: €12.99 per month for customers who joined the waitlist before the public launch on 3 October 2026 (20:15 Vienna time), confirmed their email address via the link we sent (the confirmation itself may happen after launch) or were invited by us, and who subscribe with that same, verified email address. This price is locked for life and will never be increased.
- All prices are in euro and include VAT where applicable.
The subscription is billed monthly in advance and renews automatically each month until cancelled. Payment is by card via Stripe Checkout; card details are entered on Stripe's hosted page and never reach our servers. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries it; if payment cannot be collected, the subscription ends and access stops.
We will announce any change to the standard price by email at least 30 days before it takes effect. You may cancel before the new price applies. The waitlist price is never increased.
5. Term & Cancellation (Laufzeit & Kündigung)
The subscription runs for one month and renews automatically for further one-month periods. You can cancel at any time in Settings → Subscription (takes effect at the end of the paid period), or by email to bubbyfinance@zohomail.eu. Until then you keep full access. Fees already paid for the running month are not refunded, except where the law provides otherwise (see section 6). We may terminate the contract for good cause with immediate effect, in particular for a breach of section 7. If we discontinue the service entirely, we will notify you and refund any fees prepaid for the period after discontinuation.
6. Right of Withdrawal (Widerrufsrecht)
As a consumer you have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal. The details, the model withdrawal form, and the effect of requesting immediate access are set out in the Right of Withdrawal section below.
7. Acceptable Use (Zulässige Nutzung)
The subscription is for your personal, non-commercial use. Using the information to trade in your own brokerage account is what the service is for. You may not:
- share, publish, resell, or otherwise redistribute the portfolio, picks, weights, or other subscriber content in any form — whether for free or for payment, including by forwarding the weekly emails;
- access the service by automated means (scraping, bots, bulk downloads) or attempt to circumvent access restrictions;
- share your login with others or let others use your account;
- interfere with the operation or security of the service.
We may suspend or terminate access in case of abuse.
8. Intellectual Property (Geistiges Eigentum)
The Bubby Strategy, its rules and selections, the published portfolios, the track record, the software, design, and texts, and the Bubby name and logo are our property or licensed to us. Your subscription grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the content for your own investment decisions during the subscription term. No other rights are granted. The Bitcoin OP_RETURN proofs and the keys we release are public and may be used freely to verify the record.
9. Availability & Changes (Verfügbarkeit & Änderungen)
We provide the service with reasonable care but do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, technical faults, and outages at third parties we depend on (market data, our broker, hosting, email delivery) can delay or interrupt the service. Publication follows the US stock-market calendar; on US market holidays the weekly rebalance and its publication shift to the next trading day. We may change, improve, or discontinue features. Material changes that reduce the scope of the service will be announced by email at least 30 days in advance; you may cancel before they take effect.
10. Liability (Haftung)
Bubby provides information, not results. We do not guarantee that the strategy will be profitable, that past performance will continue, or that the information is complete, accurate, or timely at all times. Every trading decision you make is your own responsibility. We are not liable for losses, lost profits, or other damage resulting from your investment decisions, nor for damage caused by outages of third-party services outside our control.
To the extent permitted by law, our liability is limited to damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence. This limitation does not apply to personal injury, to liability under the Austrian Product Liability Act (PHG), or to any mandatory consumer-protection liability that cannot be excluded by contract; those rights remain unaffected.
11. Data Protection (Datenschutz)
How we process personal data is described in the Privacy Policy below.
12. Final Provisions (Schlussbestimmungen)
- Austrian law applies, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If you are a consumer residing in another EU member state, the mandatory consumer-protection provisions of your country of residence remain applicable.
- Information on the European Commission's platform for online dispute resolution (ODR) is available at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
- Changes to these Terms will be announced by email at least 30 days before they take effect. If you do not agree, you may cancel before then.
- Should any provision be or become invalid, the remaining provisions remain in force.
Right of Withdrawal (Widerrufsbelehrung)
If you are a consumer, you have the following right of withdrawal under the Austrian Distance and Off-Premises Contracts Act (Fern- und Auswärtsgeschäfte-Gesetz, FAGG).
Right of withdrawal
You may withdraw from your subscription contract within 14 days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is 14 days from the day the contract is concluded, i.e. the day you complete the subscription checkout.
How to withdraw
To exercise the right, inform us of your decision by an unambiguous statement — for example an email to bubbyfinance@zohomail.eu or a letter to the address in the Legal Notice. You may use the model form below, but it is not mandatory. Sending your withdrawal before the 14-day period ends is sufficient to meet the deadline.
Model withdrawal form
To: Bubby, Neusiedl am See, Austria — bubbyfinance@zohomail.eu
I/we hereby withdraw from the contract concluded by me/us for the provision of the following service: Bubby subscription.
Ordered on: ____________
Name of consumer(s): ____________
Address of consumer(s): ____________
Email address used for the account: ____________
Signature of consumer(s) (only if sent on paper): ____________
Date: ____________
Consequences of withdrawal
If you withdraw, we will refund all payments we have received from you without undue delay and no later than 14 days from the day we receive your withdrawal. We will use the same payment method you used for the original transaction (a refund to your card via Stripe), and you will not be charged any fees for the refund.
Immediate start of the service and loss of the right of withdrawal
The value of the service lies in the portfolio being available to you right away. When you subscribe, you therefore expressly request that we start providing the service immediately, before the 14-day withdrawal period has expired, and you acknowledge the following: once the current week's portfolio has been made available to you in the app, the service has been fully provided for that billing period and your right of withdrawal is lost (§ 18 (1) 1 FAGG).
If you withdraw before the portfolio has been made available to you, you receive a full refund.
Privacy Policy (Datenschutzerklärung)
1. Data Controller
The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR / DSGVO) is the operator named in the Legal Notice above: Bubby, Neusiedl am See, Austria. Contact: bubbyfinance@zohomail.eu
2. What Data We Collect
We collect only what is needed to run the waitlist, your account, and your subscription:
- Waitlist: your email address, the date and time of sign-up, whether you confirmed the sign-up (double opt-in), and a referral code if you were referred by another user.
- Account: your email address, your password (stored only as a bcrypt hash — we cannot see it), a display name, single-use email-verification and password-reset tokens, your account settings including your email preference, and the time you accepted these Terms.
- Subscription: your Stripe customer ID, subscription ID, tier (standard or waitlist), status, and the dates of the current billing period. Card data never touches our servers — you enter it on Stripe's hosted checkout page and Stripe stores it. We never receive your full card number.
- Content you create: if you use the strategy builder, the strategies you save and your conversations with the AI builder are stored in your account.
- Emails: which transactional and weekly emails were sent to you.
We also collect standard server logs (IP address, browser type, requested URL, timestamp) for security and diagnostic purposes only. These are not used to profile you and are deleted after 30 days.
3. Purposes & Legal Bases
- Performance of the contract — Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR: running your account, providing the subscription, and sending the transactional emails that are part of the service (email verification, password reset, payment confirmations, and the weekly trade emails).
- Consent — Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (and § 1(2) DSG Austria): the waitlist. You can withdraw that consent at any time by emailing us; withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before it.
- Product news to account holders — Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR and § 174(4) TKG 2021: occasional emails about Bubby itself (changes to the service, new features), sent to existing customers for our own similar service. Every account has an "Email updates" toggle in Settings; switching it off stops product news and the weekly trade emails — account-security and billing emails are always sent because the service cannot run without them.
- Legitimate interest — Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR: server logs and security measures to keep the service secure and to detect abuse.
- Legal obligation — Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR: keeping invoicing and accounting records as required by Austrian tax law.
4. Data Storage, Security & Processors
Your data is stored on EU-based servers. We apply industry-standard security measures including encrypted HTTPS connections (TLS 1.2+), bcrypt password hashing, strict access controls, and regular backups. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties. The following companies process data on our behalf as processors under data processing agreements in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR:
- Hetzner Online GmbH (Gunzenhausen, Germany; data centres in Germany and Finland) — hosting and backups.
- Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) — payment processing, subscription billing, and invoices. Stripe also acts as an independent controller for its own purposes (such as fraud prevention) under its own privacy policy.
- Resend, Inc. (USA) — delivery of transactional and weekly emails. Transfers are safeguarded by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
- Google (Gemini API) — only if and when the AI strategy builder is made available to you and you use it (it is not part of the public launch): the text you type into the builder is sent to Google to generate the strategy document. Your account details are not included.
Alpaca is Bubby's own brokerage for the strategy account that produces the track record. It receives no customer data.
5. Retention Period
- Account data: until you delete your account (Settings → Delete account) or ask us to delete it. It is then deleted within 30 days, except where we must keep it for the reasons below.
- Invoicing and accounting records (including Stripe payment records): 7 years, as required by § 132 of the Austrian Federal Fiscal Code (BAO).
- Waitlist: until you request deletion, or 24 months after our public launch — whichever comes first.
- Verification and reset tokens: until used or expired.
- Server and application logs: rotated continuously and kept no longer than needed for security diagnostics — typically under 30 days.
- Database backups: daily encrypted-at-rest backups are kept for 14 days, plus one monthly backup for 12 months, on the same EU servers. Data you delete disappears from backups as they rotate out; backups are used only to restore the service after a failure, never to reinstate deleted accounts.
6. Your Rights (DSGVO / GDPR)
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access (Art. 15) — request a copy of the data we hold about you
- Rectification (Art. 16) — correct inaccurate personal data
- Erasure (Art. 17) — "right to be forgotten" — request deletion
- Restriction (Art. 18) — ask us to limit how we process your data
- Portability (Art. 20) — receive your data in a machine-readable format
- Objection (Art. 21) — object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Withdraw consent (Art. 7(3)) — at any time, with immediate effect
To exercise any right, email bubbyfinance@zohomail.eu. We will respond within 30 days (Art. 12(3) GDPR).
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority: Datenschutzbehörde (DSB), Barichgasse 40–42, 1030 Wien, Austria — www.dsb.gv.at
7. Cookies & Local Storage
This website does not use tracking cookies, advertising cookies, or third-party analytics (no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel). We use only what is technically necessary to run the service:
- session_token (cookie, HTTP-only, 30 days) — keeps you logged in.
- bubby_access (cookie, 1 year) — grants access to the app before the public launch.
- Browser storage (localStorage) — your language preference, your login state and similar technical preferences (chart settings, dismissed notices, an unsent draft). This stays in your browser and is not sent to third parties.
Because all of these are strictly necessary, no consent banner is required. Stripe's hosted checkout page sets its own cookies on Stripe's domain, governed by Stripe's privacy policy. No personal data is transmitted to advertising networks.
8. Risk Disclosure & No Financial Advice
Risk warning — Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.
All content on this website is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing on bubby.finance constitutes financial advice, investment advice, portfolio management, a personal recommendation, or a solicitation to buy or sell any financial instrument. Bubby is a research and signal service, not a regulated investment adviser or MiFID II investment firm, and does not take custody of client funds at any point.
Performance figures shown for the Bubby Strategy reflect the live trading history of the Bubby account held at Alpaca from April 20, 2026 to the current date, denominated in USD. That date is the inception of the strategy's own live record, and no earlier period is included in any figure we publish. Each weekly rebalance is committed to the Bitcoin blockchain via OP_RETURN, so the record is independently verifiable. The track record is currently shorter than one year; annualised or projected returns are therefore not reported. Returns are reported gross of any management fees, platform fees, trading commissions, slippage, currency conversion, and applicable taxes, and include reinvested dividends. The reference benchmark is the S&P 500 total-return index, proxied by SPY. Any additional charts labelled "backtest" reflect simulated historical performance of the same rule set applied to prior market data; simulated results have inherent limitations and do not represent actual trading.
Trading financial instruments involves significant risk, including the risk of total loss of invested capital. Leverage, currency exposure, market illiquidity, and sudden macro events can materially amplify losses. Individual investor results may differ substantially from the performance shown, depending on entry and exit timing, portfolio size, base currency, chosen broker, applicable fees and taxes, and personal risk tolerance.
You should not invest money you cannot afford to lose. Before acting on any information from Bubby, you should consider whether it is appropriate for your circumstances and, where relevant, seek advice from an independent financial adviser authorised in your jurisdiction.
9. Changes to this Policy
We may update this policy as the platform evolves. Material changes will be communicated by email to account holders at least 14 days before they take effect. The date at the top of this page always reflects the latest revision.
Questions, cancellations, or data requests?
Reach us at bubbyfinance@zohomail.eu. We respond within 1–2 business days.