PRIVACY POLICY
Contents
1.
Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 3
2.
Scope of the Privacy Policy
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3.
Our Commitment to You...................................................................................................................... 3
4.
Data Protection Officer
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Your Consent to Collection and Use of Personal Information
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6.
Why We Process and Use Your Information
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Disclosure of your Personal Data
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8.
Safeguard Measures
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9.
Duration of keeping Your Information
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10.
Your Legal rights
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11.
Cookies
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12.
Geographical processing of Personal data
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13.
Questions
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14.
Update of this Policy...........................................................................................................................8
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1.
Scope of the Privacy Policy
Through this privacy policy, your data may be called either “personal data” or “personal
information”. We may also sometimes collectively refer to handling, collecting,
protecting and storing your personal data or any such action as “processing” such
personal data.
For the purposes of this statement, personal data shall mean any information relating to
you which identifies or may identify you and which includes, for example, your name,
address and identification number.
To fully understand the changes and terms that will govern your use of our “Services,”
you will need to read the full Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
2.
Our Commitment to You
We understand the importance of maintaining the confidentiality and privacy of Your
Information. By entrusting us with Your Information, we would like to assure you of our
commitment to keep such information private. We have taken measurable steps to
protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of Your Information.
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Data Protection Officer
Should you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to
exercise your legal rights, please send us an email at: [email protected]
4.
Your Consent to Collection and Use of Personal Information
The Company collects information directly from you, through any correspondence made
with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise; including information which you enter when you
register to use our website, mobile app, subscribe to our service or any other
activities carried out on our website or any connected applications. Please note that
when you access our Website we collect non-identifiable information in the following
ways:
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Contact Data we collect, which may include, but are not limited to, your first
name, last name, nationality, date of birth, telephone number (landline and
mobile), fax number, email address and postal address
Personal and Professional Information - we collect, which may include, but are
not limited to, your marital status, education, occupation, information regarding
your financial situation such as source of wealth and gross annual income, tax
identification number.
Cookies (including third party Cookies) Please refer to section 11 “Cookies
Financial data to use the Company’s services, we may require to collect certain
information, such as bank details, trading activity, transaction history, account
balance information.
The Company will need to obtain the following documents for verification purposes of
Clients’ trading accounts which are not limited to:
a) Proof of Identification (e.g. Passport/ID/Driver’s License)
b) Proof of Address (e.g. Utility Bill, bank letter)
c) Proof of Payment (e.g. Bank Statement)
The Company has the right to request additional documents and information to carry
out its due diligence where it deems fit. We only collect personal data that is adequate
and relevant for the purposes of our business and for a reasonable period of time as
required by law. We never ask for more information that is required by law.
If you have given us your specific consent for processing (other than for the reasons set
out above) then the lawfulness of such processing is based on that consent. You also
consent when the Company is transferring your personal information outside the
European Economic Area (“EEA”) where this is necessary for the Company to fulfil its
contractual obligations to you (see section 12 below). You have the right to revoke
consent at any time. However, any processing of personal data prior to the receipt of
your revocation will not be affected.
5.
Why We Process and Use Your Information
We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in a transparent
manner, and as such we collect, use, disclose, store and process your personal data for
the performance of our services as required by law.
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Furthermore, we are obligated to collect such personal data not only for the
commencement and execution of a business relationship with you but also for the
performance of our contractual, regulatory, statutory and legal obligations.
Based on the requirements of our regulated authorities in our efforts to maintain our
Know-Your- Client procedures, we will require to verify clients trading accounts, so to
ensure our clients meet appropriateness and suitability requirements, process
transactions, send information about transactions/services and keep you updated with
products, services and news.
We further collect data to operate, provide, improve, understand, customise and
support our services in relation to your account.
We may collect your personal information through our App(s), one of our social medial
channels, public databases; joint marketing partners; from people with whom you are
connected on social media platforms, as well as from other third parties. Use of this
personal information, allows us to deliver information by email, SMS, push notification,
email, in-app notification or contact you by telephone or by any other means to provide
you with information about our products, services, training and offers we think would be
of interest to you. Such information is secured and treated as confidential. We always
give you the right to opt out/unsubscribe to receiving such communications from us at
any time.
6.
Disclosure of your Personal Data
When providing our services or conducting our business operations, if necessary, we
may disclose or share your personal data. Such sharing of data is in accordance with
the Company’s internal security policies and applicable data privacy laws. We do not
sell the personal data we collect from you, or we do not distribute/transfer any personal
data to any unauthorized or non- affiliated third parties.
All the Company’s external services providers and suppliers enter into contractual
agreements with us, by which they legally agree to confidentiality and data protection to
the data protection law and General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) (“GDPR”)
and the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013. Recipients with whom we may
disclose or share your personal information, may include the following:
a) Within the Company such as various departments within the Company, where
all employees and contractors are required to follow our data privacy and
security policies when handling personal data.
b) Supervisory and other regulatory and public authorities, notary offices, tax
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authorities, criminal prosecution authorities as much as a statutory obligation
exists
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c) Third Party service providers such as, and which are not limited to, financial
institutions, banks and payments processing providers, external and internal
auditors, financial and business advisors, fraud prevention agencies, Debt
collectors subject to bankruptcy or insolvency claims, External authorised
processors for processing client data, software system and platform
support, cloud hosting services, data analytics,
direct marketing/advertising services.
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Safeguard Measures
The Company takes reasonable precautions to protect Personal Information from loss,
theft, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
The Company employ physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect Personal
Information and it does not store Personal Information for longer than necessary to
provide the Service or as permitted by law.
In accordance with the recommendations of Payment Card Industry Security Standards
Council, customer card details are protected using Transport Layer encryption TLS
1.2 and application layer with algorithm AES and key length 256 bit. The Company
does not store or collect any Credit Card data. All credit card information is stored on
the payment provider side. All payments made between Company and Client, and vis a
vis, via the Company’s merchant accounts and/or third party payment processing
service providers, the Client will receive unique billing descriptor on their card statement
from the bank, confirming the payment and which may include, but not limited to, the
description "ehamarkets, branded website and Customer support service telephone
number.
The Company’s datacenter(s) contain both internal and external servers. Access to the
Company’s internal server is restricted to pre-approved persons, servers and locations;
our external servers can be accessed via the Internet. Your Information is stored and
encrypted on secure servers and our servers can only ever be accessed by authorized
personnel.
While we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard Your Information, you acknowledge
that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot
guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data transferred from you, or to you
via the internet.
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Duration of keeping Your Information
You may request from us to erase/delete your personal data in cases where there is no
rationale as to the need for us to continue to process it. However, we may not be able to
comply with your request due to regulatory requirements by which you will be notified
accordingly.
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We will not keep Your Information for any longer than is required for legal and/or
business purposes. In many cases, information must be kept for considerable periods of
time, subject to a maximum of seven (5) years. Retention periods will be determined
considering the type of
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information that is collected and the purpose for which it is collected, bearing in
mind the requirements applicable to the situation and the need to destroy outdated,
unused information at the earliest reasonable time.
9.
Your Legal rights
You have the following rights under data protection laws in terms of personal data we hold
about you:
a) Receive a Copy of your personal data you have the right to have access to your
personal data, where your personal data is stored, how we collected your data
and for what purposes. Your request to obtain your personal data must be sent
to us in writing via a durable medium, where we will process your request in
accordance with the applicable law(s).
b) Request rectification/correction of the personal data we hold about you you can
at any time have the right to correct any inaccurate or incomplete data we hold
about you. If this applies to you, please reach to our Customer Support Team.
c) Request erasure of your personal information you have the right to request
deletion of your personal data (“right to be forgotten”). Please bear in mind that
we are under certain legal obligation to hold your data for a maximum of seven (5)
years.
d) Object to processing of your personal data you have the right to object to the
processing of your personal data. Should you object to processing certain data,
then we may not be able to provide you our services.
e) Right to data portability you have the right to request for your personal data to
be transferred to a third party, your request to transfer your personal data must
be sent to us in writing via a durable medium, where we will process your request
in accordance with the applicable law(s).
f) Data being processed for direct marketing purposes you have the right to
object for your personal data to be used for direct marketing (this includes
profiling), where you can unsubscribe to our direct marketing campaigns.
Please note that for all the above mentioned, we may need to request specific
information from you to help us confirm your identity. This is a security measure to
ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any unauthorized third party. In
certain circumstances relevant legal requirements may prevent us from providing your
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personal information.
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10.
Cookies
We use cookies to help us find which services you are interested in and remember
details about your application. We don't store sensitive information like your name or
address in our cookies, just an anonymous reference to them so that we're able to find
them. We also occasionally set Cookies to help you navigate around the site, enhance
your experience, or give you important information regarding interests.
When you access our Website, we collect information that your browser sends
whenever you visit the Website or an online service (“Cookies”). Such Cookies may
include, but is not limited to, your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser type,
the web page you were visiting before you came to the Site and information you search
for on the Site. In addition, if you access the Website via a mobile device, we may
collect a PushID, subject to your consent as indicated by you in the mobile application,
and a Mobile IP.
You can choose to disable or block these cookies in your browser but without some of
them our site will not be able to give you the best experience possible.
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Geographical processing of Personal data
In order to provide services to you, you acknowledge that it may be necessary for your
information to be transferred to someone who provides a service to us in other countries,
including some outside of the European Economic Area ( ''EEA''), and you consent to
such transfer. To the extend we transfer your information outside the EEA, we will ensure
that the transfer is lawful and that the Processors in third countries are obligated to
comply with the European data protection standards and to provide appropriate
safeguards in relation to the transfer of your data in accordance with GDPR Article 46
and Protection of Information Act, 2013.
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Questions
If you have any questions regarding this policy, wish to access or change your
information or have a complaint, or if you have any questions about security on our
Website, you may email us at support@ehamarkets.com
14. Update of this Policy
This Policy is subject to change without notice. For this reason, you are advised to look
for up- dates from time to time.