Currency Warriors
Privacy Statement
Protecting the privacy and safeguarding the personal and financial
information of our clients and website visitors is one of our highest
priorities. The following Privacy Statement explains how Currency
Warriors collects and protects your information. References to "Currency
Warriors" in this Privacy Statement include all Currency Warriors companies and divisions, including FOREX.com.
By opening a Currency Warriors account or by using Currency Warriors
Web sites, you give your consent to the collection and use of personal
information by Currency Warriors as explained in this privacy
statement.
Collection of personal information
We collect information required to open an account, to transact
business effectively and to safeguard your privacy. To do this, we
gather information to help us assess your needs and preferences.
The information we collect directly from you includes information
required to communicate with you, including your name, mailing
address, telephone number, e-mail address; and, as required by law, to
identify who you are, including Social Security or Passport/Tax ID
number; address, etc. We also collect demographic information when you
open an account, including gender, birth date, education, occupation,
etc. Our regulatory bodies also require us to assess your trading
experience, your approximate annual income, approximate net worth, and
available risk capital to assess your financial position.
You directly provide to us the majority of information we collect. You
do this by completing the account application and related
documentation, placing a trade, sending us an e-mail, or submitting
information in response to a promotion or special offer. Other ways we
obtain information are by (1) observing your usage of the Web site,
and (2) providing products and services to you. This information
enables us to offer you products and services that should be of
interest to you. The information we collect indirectly from you
includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating
system, Internet Service Provider (ISP), time stamps, transactions
placed, and banner ads you click. We do this through the use of
cookies, which are small text files sent from the Web server to your
computer. Cookies help us to know you better by providing operational
data we can use to aid your interaction with our Web site and improve
its navigation and usability.
Usage of personal information
We use personal information only as appropriate to provide you quality
service and security. For example, Currency Warriors may use the
information collected from you to verify your identity and contact
information. We may also use this information to establish and set up
your trading account, issue an account number and a secure password,
maintain your account activity, and contact you with account
information. This information helps us improve our services to you,
customize your browsing experience and inform you about additional
products, services or promotions that may be of interest to you.
Should you close your account with us, Currency Warriors will retain
your information, but only use it to comply with regulatory
requirements and to periodically contact you to offer you the
opportunity to reactivate your account or participate in other
valuable offers.
Currency Warriors affiliates and
partners
Currency Warriors may share information with affiliates if the
information is required to provide the product or service you have
requested or to provide you the opportunity to participate in the
products or services our affiliates offer. Currency Warriors also
forges partnerships and alliances, which may include joint marketing
agreements, with other companies who offer high-quality products and
services that might be of value to our clients. In order to ensure
that these products and services meet your needs and are delivered in
a manner that is useful and relevant, Currency Warriors may share
some information with partners, affiliates and alliances. This allows
them to better understand the offers that are most relevant and
useful. In our strategic relationships, we will require that it be
identified that an offer is being extended because of the relationship
with us. The use of your personal information is limited to the
purposes identified in our relationship with the partner or affiliate.
Non-affiliated third parties
Currency Warriors does not sell, license, lease or otherwise disclose
your personal information to any third party for any reason, except as
described below.
Currency Warriors reserves the right to disclose your personal
information to third parties where required by law to regulatory, law
enforcement or other government authorities. We may also disclose your
information as necessary to credit reporting or collection agencies,
or when necessary to protect our rights or property.
To help us improve our services to you, we may engage another business
to help us to carry out certain internal functions such as account
processing, fulfillment, client service, client satisfaction surveys
or other data collection activities relevant to our business. We may
also provide a party with client information from our database to help
us to analyze and identify client needs and notify clients of product
and service offerings. Use of the information shared is strictly
limited to the performance of the task we request and for no other
purpose. All third parties with which we share personal information
are required to protect personal information in a manner similar to
the way we protect personal information. Examples of information
shared are identifying information such as name, mailing address,
e-mail address, telephone number, and information on account activity.
If at any time you choose to purchase a product or service offered by
another company, any personal information you share with that company
will no longer be controlled under our Privacy Statement. We are not
responsible for the privacy policies or the content of sites we link
to and have no control of the use or protection of information
provided by you or collected by those sites. Whenever you elect to
link to a co-branded Web site or to a linked Web site, you may be
asked to provide registration or other information. Please note that
the information you are providing is going to a third party, and you
should familiarize yourself with the privacy policy provided by that
third party.
Opting out of disclosures of
non-public personal information
You may direct us not to disclose non-public personal information to
certain non-affiliated third parties. To opt out of sharing non-public
personal information with non-affiliated third parties, please contact
a client service representative. An opt out election made by one
account owner of a Joint account is applicable to all account owners
of the Joint account. An opt-out election must be made for each
separate account you hold at Currency Warriors.
If we propose to share information in a manner not covered in this
Privacy Statement, we will notify you of this change by posting an
addendum on the Web site, a notice in the "What's New" section of the
Web site, and if appropriate, provide you an opportunity to opt out of
such use.
The security of your personal
information
We employ leading-edge security software, systems, and procedures to
offer you a safe and secure trading environment and protect your
personal, financial and trading information.
When you open an account with us, you are issued a unique account
number, User ID and a password. Only a limited number of Currency
Warriors employees who have a need to know this information will have
access to your account number, UserID, and password. Remember: you are
ultimately responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your account
number, UserID, and password. We strongly recommend that you do not
disclose this information.
On our Web site and on our online account application, we use
technology to encrypt information transmitted by or to you through our
Web site. We use VeriSign™ certificates to authenticate our Web
site and secure trading and customer-facing applications, allowing you
to verify that you are connected to our Web site.
Use of "cookies"
We use cookies to assist us in securing your trading activities and to
enhance the performance of our Web site. (Cookies are small text files
sent from the Web server to your computer.) Cookies used by Currency
Warriors do not contain any personal information nor do they
contain account or password information. They merely allow the site to
recognize that a page request comes from someone who has already
logged on.
Currency Warriors may share Web site usage information about visitors
to the Web site with reputable advertising companies for targeting our
Internet banner advertisements on this site and other sites. For this
purpose, pixel tags (also called clear gifs or web beacons) may be
used to note the pages you've visited. The information collected by
the advertising company through the use of these pixel tags is not
personally identifiable.
To administer and improve the Currency Warriors Web site, we may use
a third party to track and analyze usage and volume statistical
information, including page requests, form requests, and click paths.
The third party may use cookies to track behavior and may set cookies
on behalf of Currency Warriors. These cookies do not contain any
personally identifiable information.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
In the event Currency Warriors materially changes this Privacy
Statement, the revised Privacy Statement will promptly be posted to
the Web sites and we will post a notice on our Web sites informing you
of such changes. You agree to accept posting of a revised Privacy
Statement electronically on the Web site as actual notice to you. Any
dispute over our Privacy Statement is subject to this notice and the
Currency Warriors Customer Agreement. If you have any questions that
this statement does not address, please contact a Client Services
representative.
Disclaimer and Disclosure:
Gain Capital acts as the clearing agent and
counterparty to clients introduced by CURRENCY WARRIORS for margined
Forex transactions. Gain is a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM),
regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and a
member of the National Futures Association (NFA)
*Risk Warning: Forex
trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all
investors. |
