Who publishes Pawn Board and what it measures

Pawn Board is an independent editorial desk. It is not a broker, not an exchange, not a licensed adviser, and it holds no client money. Its subject is one measurement, taken from named public sources and republished with the date and the hour it was read.

What the desk does

The desk reads one figure from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka: the world ounce in rupees. It then divides that figure out and multiplies by karat over twenty-four to produce the rows below. Every table names its source and links to it, so a reader can check the figure at its publisher. The desk reads the source on a fixed schedule and republishes the hour alongside the figure. A figure that is wrong is corrected, and the correction is dated. The desk answers corrections sent to editor@pawnboardlk.pages.dev.

The desk does not offer investment advice, a recommendation or an offer. The figures describe what things cost, not what a reader should do. The desk cannot promise that a figure is fit for a transaction, because it is not a market participant. It cannot answer questions about a reader's personal finances or a broker's terms. Its role is narrow: read a public source, do the arithmetic, show the working, and correct a mistake when one is found.

What the site collects

The site has no accounts, no login, no newsletter and no comment form. It sets no cookie of its own, runs no analytics and stores nothing in the reader's browser. A reader can open the page, read the figures and leave no trace with the desk. The desk does not ask for a name, an email or a telephone number, and it does not build a profile of a reader. The only personal data the desk ever sees is what a reader chooses to write in an email to the address above.

The pages are served by a hosting provider which, like any web host, keeps its own technical request logs. Those logs exist to keep the service running, not to identify a reader. The desk does not read a reader's personal data out of them. The desk's publisher does not combine those logs with anything else, because it has nothing else. The desk cannot promise that the host sees nothing; every web host sees an IP address. The desk can promise that it does not use it.

How the site earns

The site links to one broker, FxPro, through an affiliate link, and is paid a commission if a reader opens an account there. The reader pays nothing to this site and nothing extra at the broker. The commission does not change the figures in the tables, and the desk does not earn from a reader's trades. The desk's income is a flat payment for a new account, not a share of a reader's losses or gains. The desk has no other income from the site.

The desk's editorial work is separate from the broker link. The desk reads the Central Bank's figure, does the arithmetic and publishes it whether or not a reader opens an account. The broker's own site is operated by someone else, under its own terms and its own privacy policy, and following the link leaves this site. The desk cannot speak for the broker and does not review the broker's offers. The link is a commercial relationship, stated plainly here and on the terms page.

What is worth writing about

Writing to editor@pawnboardlk.pages.dev reaches the desk. Corrections are the reason the address exists: a figure that is wrong is corrected and the correction is dated. A reader who finds a row that does not match the source should write, with the date and the hour they saw the figure, and the desk will check the archive. A reader who finds a broken link should write, because the desk cannot see every reader's screen. A reader who finds a source that has changed its format should write, because the desk reads the source on a schedule and may not catch a change at once.

The desk cannot answer questions about what a reader should do with the figure. It cannot say whether a pawnbroker's offer is fair, because it does not know the broker's costs or the reader's circumstances. It cannot compare the Central Bank's figure to a street price, because it does not collect street prices. It cannot promise that a figure will move in a particular direction. What it can do is check its own arithmetic, re-read the source and correct a mistake. That is the desk's whole job.