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City Forex (otherwise referred to in this statement as "the Company", "we" or "us"), is committed to safeguarding your privacy. This privacy policy sets out how we will use your personal data.
City Forex is a trading style of FairFX PLC, a company registered in England & Wales (No. 05539698).
Most personal data will be collected directly through the application process. The sources of any personal data collected indirectly will be mentioned in this statement. Whether or not you become a customer, we may ask you for (but not limited to) your:
You are free to withdraw your consent at any time. This may result in us not being able to do certain things for you.
We will use your personal data to provide information on services requested or products ordered. Data is collected and used on a lawful basis only which is outlined below
To perform a contract with you
Our legitimate interest
Legal Obligation
Your Consent
We will retain your data whether you become a customer or not for:
If you would like further information about data protection you can visit the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk. The ICO is the UK's independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest and data privacy for individuals. We comply with all ICO regulatory and statutory requirements. You have the right to make a complaint to the ICO regarding the handling of your data.
We may use your personal details in order to conduct identity checks as required by law as a measure to prevent money laundering. The personal data we have collected from you at application or any stage may be shared with fraud prevention agencies. We are required by law to review transactions and report any which may be suspected of being related to money laundering activities.
We may process your personal data without human intervention to evaluate your personal situation such as transactional history and account opening anniversary events. We may do this to decide what marketing communications are suitable for you, to analyse statistics and to assess risks. This is all done on the basis of our legitimate interests, to protect our business, and to develop and improve our products and services. If we use automated decision making including profiling activity to assess your application, this will be performed on the basis of it being necessary to perform the contract.
We will not sell, share, or rent your information to others except as set out in this Privacy policy. However, in the event of the sale of the Company or its assets, your personal details may be disclosed to the purchaser of the Company or the purchaser of its assets.
City Forex may supply strategic partners with certain information from your account, (such as your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, email address and gender) to provide operational services relating to the performance of a City Forex issued product. Our strategic partners gather information for their own purposes and for that reason we cannot exercise control over the uses to which they apply your personal information. All our strategic partners are obliged to comply with the "fair processing code" contained in the Data Protection Act 1998, which requires them to inform you about (or make readily available to you) the following information:
We supply your personal details such as name and address to some suppliers where it is necessary in order to fulfil our obligations to you in setting up and maintaining the account.
Where required by law, strategic partners and suppliers are certified or authorised and regulated to the required standards.
This site may contain links to other sites. City Forex is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites.
While we may collect certain information such as hobbies or lifestyle information from competitions, we will not disclose any personal information collected in this way to merchants. Only aggregate data (which is not personalised) gathered from competitions may be shared from time to time with merchants.
Your personal data may be transferred outside the UK and the European Economic Area. If these countries do not have adequate protections for personal data under applicable laws we will take all necessary steps to safeguard your personal data.
You are free to opt out of receiving all marketing communications from us and our strategic partners at any time by contacting us or logging into your online account.
Should you be opted in to receive email correspondence, there is an unsubscribe link on each email we send out, if you use this, we will not send any unsolicited mail to your registered email address.
Communications regarding changes to existing products or services held, our terms, conditions and policies is important and sometimes critical. You may not opt out of receiving these communications.
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer's hard drive that identifies your computer while you are using our site. Once you shut down your browser software, the cookie simply terminates until you re-enter the site.
Cookies have a number of uses. For example, cookies are part of the mechanism that allows you to log in and out of our website rather than having to enter your password repeatedly during a session. Cookies can be used for analytics purposes to estimate the number of users to our site. Once you are logged in, cookies can be used to enable us to track and target your interests to enhance your experience on our site. They may also be used for other purposes, such as to maintain the security of the site and provide information on what we need to do to provide administration support to the site. Some of our strategic partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
We provide specific details about the cookies we use and the reasons for using these cookies in our Cookie Policy to enable site visitors to make an informed decision and thus provide informed consent.
If any of your details are recorded incorrectly and need to be changed, please contact us on 020 7621 0090 with details of the required changes and the reasons for the change. Proof of change of address may be needed.
Customer Services opening times:
Alternatively you can write to the Data Protection Officer (DPO) regarding accessing your personal data or any part of this privacy policy by writing to FairFX Plc, 3rd Floor Vintners Place, 68 Upper Thames Street, London, EC4V 3BJ or emailing enquiries@cityforex.co.uk
Should our privacy policy change, we will notify you by email to your registered email address so you will always know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose your personal data.
If we want to change the use of personal information we've already collected about you, we will notify you by email. If you have not provided us with your email address you must regularly check the website for an up to date version of the privacy policy. It is then up to you to decide whether you will let us use your information in this way. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected unless you withdraw consent.
The information City Forex holds about you, will be used to provide the products and services requested and for identification, account administration and fraud/loss prevention purposes.
More details about how your information is used can be found in the City Forex terms and conditions.
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