Last updated: 8-05-2018
This Privacy Policy explains how StockPoint, and its affiliates (collectively, " StockPoint," "we" or "us"), collects, uses, discloses and protects your information. This policy applies to information we collect when you access or use StockPoint's websites and mobile applications (collectively, "StockPoint Services") or otherwise interact with us as described below.
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy, and in some circumstances, we may provide you with additional notice, including, for example, by adding a statement to the homepage of the StockPoint Services or by sending you an email notification. We strongly encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use StockPoint Services to stay informed about our information practices and your privacy rights and choices.
StockPoint uses information collected about you in order to meet legal obligations and provide a better service.
This policy together with Terms of Use and other documents referred to it sets the basis on which Personal Data we collect, process and use your Personal data.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting this website you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Information You Provide To Us
We may collect and process information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information about you when you create an online personal account, complete a transaction, fill out a form, respond to surveys, post messages to our forums or wikis this includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, search for a product, place an order on our site, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition, promotion or survey, and when you report a problem with our site or otherwise communicate with us.
The types of information we may collect are as follows:
Information We Collect From Other Sources
We may also obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through the StockPoint Services. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them. For example, we may collect nonpublic personal information about you from third parties, including identity verification services.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you access or use the StockPoint Services, with regard to each of your visits to our site, we automatically collect information as follows:
USE OF INFORMATION
We may use your information as follows:
PROCESSING OF INFORMATION
The StockPoint processes data and is responsible for processing your data.
By accessing or using the StockPoint Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing and transfer of information in and to the U.S. and other countries. Please refer to the "U.S. – EU / Swiss Safe Harbor Compliance" section below if you are a resident of the European Union or Switzerland.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We may disclose and share any information we collect about you, whether you are a current or former customer, including nonpublic personal information and any other information we collect, any member group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and subsidiaries, and with nonaffiliated third parties, which include non-financial companies, such as email service providers and fraud verification services, business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you, advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 females aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience, analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site and others, such as other StockPoint users with which you engage in transactions. We may make such disclosures:
(1) To service providers that perform marketing services on our behalf; and
(2) For our everyday business purposes, such as to process transactions, maintain accounts, respond to court orders and legal investigations or report to credit bureaus. For example, in connection with our everyday business purposes, we may share information about you as follows:
(3) If we are under a duty to disclose or share your information to comply with our legal obligations.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
Other than in connection with a merger, sale of StockPoint's assets, financing or acquisition, we will not sell or rent any of your information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Please note that third parties that support our customer identification and anti-fraud controls may retain and use information about you to perform services on our behalf and to improve their services. By using our Services, you consent to the retention and use of such information by these providers to improve their services.
We may also share aggregated or de-identified information with our affiliated companies or nonaffiliated third parties, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
ANALYTICS SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHERS
We allow other entities to provide analytics services on our behalf. These entities may use cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of the StockPoint Services, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages and links clicked. This information may be used by StockPoint to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand your online activity.
SECURITY AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA
We implement reasonable security practices and procedures to help protect the confidentiality and security of your information, including any nonpublic personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We protect your information using reasonable physical, technical and administrative security measures, including by limiting access to your information to employees with a need to know such information.
Only authorized personnel of StockPoint have access to your personal data, and these personnel are required to treat the information as confidential. The security measures in place will, from time to time, be reviewed in line with legal and technical developments.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may be processed by a staff member operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in amongst other things, the fulfillment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site, and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
YOUR CHOICES
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
You have a right to access the information we hold about you. We may ask you to pay a fee before providing you with this information to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes, or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us. Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA
We will hold your personal data only for as long as it is necessary for us to do so, having regard to the purposes described in this privacy policy and our own legal and regulatory requirements. In accordance with our record keeping obligations we will retain accounts and personal data for, at least a period of five years after they are closed by you.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at https://support.stockpoint.io.