At Hantec Trader Limited (the “Company”; “we”), we protect the personal data and confidentiality of the information and respect the privacy rights of our existing and prospective customers. This privacy notice explains what personal data we collect from you in connection with the provision or offering of our products or services to you or from your use of our products and services (the “Services”), as well as through our interactions with you through our website or applications. This notice also outlines how the data that we collect is used.
What type of personal data we collect and how we collect it?
To utilize the services, the company may collect personal and personally identifiable information from you. Such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, and a username and password for an account that is unique to you. Additionally, the company may capture other information including, but not limited to, your IP address, geolocation, information stored in cookies, pixel tags, and web beacons.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, contact and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- apply for the challenge, funded trader account or our other services;
- subscribe to our service or publications;
- request marketing to be sent to you;
- enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
- give us feedback or contact us.
- Third parties. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties including contact, financial and transaction data from providers of administrative, technical, payment and delivery services.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Site, we will automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.
Cookies data
We use cookies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Site. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
Social networking data
In the event that the Company allows you to integrate any social media function—eg. use of Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn—into your use of the Company’s website, the Company may collect your username associated with any such social media website you use. We may also collect any information that you make public through that website or that such website has shared with us, including, but not limited to profile information, pages you have “liked,” and friend lists.
How do we use your personal information?
Hantec Trader uses the data we collect for the following purposes:
To perform essential business operations (including monitoring and improving ) and provide the products and services we offer;
We use the data we collect to communicate with you and personalize our communications with you. For example, we may contact you by phone or e-mail or other means in order to respond to your query we may receive via our website, e-mail, client portal, chat system or by phone.
To effectively communicate and deliver information to you, including marketing and promotional communications about products and services that may be of interest to you or the institution you represent. Where we send you these communications, we will either do so for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or with your consent.
For any processing that is necessary to perform a relevant contract with you, comply with our legal obligations and/or which is necessary for our legitimate interests as set out above and/or where processing is necessary for reasons of public interest.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and as part of using it for the purposes set out above, we may share your personal information with:
- Other companies within the Hantec Group
- Vendors, service providers and specialist advisers who have been contracted to provide us with services, including administrative, IT, financial, compliance, legal, regulatory, insurance, research or other services including payment service providers, partnered brokers, trading platform providers Service providers we use to help us run our business, for example website hosts and website analytics providers and who work on our behalf for the purposes described in this notice and may need access to personal data to provide those functions.
- Anyone authorised by you.
- Courts, tribunals, law enforcement or other government agencies, applicable competent authorities as required by law or requested to comply with applicable law for internal investigations and to report or respond to valid legal process;
Security of personal data
Hantec Trader is committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal data you provide on computer systems that have limited access and are in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential data electronically, we protect it through the use of encryption. We train our employees who handle personal information to ensure confidentiality of personal data and privacy rights of individuals are respected at all times. However, no security measures entirely impenetrable. As such, the Company is not responsible for the circumvention of its security measures by any User or third parties.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
This Privacy Policy is made in the English language. Any other language translation is provided as a convenience only. In the case of any inconsistency or discrepancy between original English texts and their translation into any other language, as the case may be, original versions of English shall prevail.