LeverageFX's 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
LeverageFX collects and protects your information.
References to "LeverageFX" in this Privacy Statement
include all LeverageFX companies and divisions.
By opening a LeverageFX account or by using LeverageFX
Web sites, you give your consent to the collection and
use of personal information by LeverageFX 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
assets or 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,
LeverageFX 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, LeverageFX 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.
LeverageFX affiliates and
partners
LeverageFX 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. LeverageFX 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, LeverageFX 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
LeverageFX does not sell, license, lease or otherwise
disclose your personal information to any third party
for any reason, except as described below.
LeverageFX 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
LeverageFX.
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 LeverageFX 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 LeverageFX 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.
LeverageFX 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 LeverageFX 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 LeverageFX. These cookies do not contain any
personally identifiable information.
Changes to this Privacy
Statement
In the event LeverageFX 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 LeverageFX Customer Agreement. If
you have any questions that this statement does not
address, please contact a Client Services
representative.
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Last Updated: May 9, 2006
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