Privacy Policy Statement
Information We Collect
- Name, address and phone number
- E-mail address
- Age and Gender
- URL of the last page visited before visiting our website
- Your browsing pattern, search history, links clicked, services viewed, features used to view services, the duration of such views, etc.
- Information received through peer-to-peer electronic communication (e.g.: Telephonic conversation, emails, online chat, etc.)
- User Content and/or any specific Online interaction (e.g.: Testimonials, feedback, etc.)
- Risk appetite, Investment objectives, and duration of investments
- Income details
Usage of Information
To provide the service you request;
Identify your ability to accept the risk of loss of capital;
Interpret your responses for risk profiling;
Provide you our services including but not limited to Research Analyst services;
To send you email notifications; and
To send newsletters, research report, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to our Services and for other marketing purposes;
To develop, enhance, market, sell or provide our products or services, or those of companies with which we have a commercial relationship;
To issue invoices, administer accounts, collect and process payments;
To provide tips or guidance on how to use our website, inform you of new features on our website, or provide other information that may be of interest to you;
To send you emails, e-newsletters, personalized offers via direct messaging or other communications about our services, if you have subscribed to receive this information;
To process and track your transactions;
To evaluate credit standing and to match credit bureau or credit reporting agency information; to investigate, detect and protect us and other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, fraud, theft and other illegal activities.
To effect a corporate transaction, in connection with the sale, merger, spin-off or other corporate reorganization of our corporation, where the information is provided to the new controlling entity in regular course of business;
To audit compliance with our policies, contractual obligations and statutory obligations; and
As permitted by, and to comply with, any legal or regulatory requirements or provisions; or for any other purpose to which you consent.
Communications
Disclosure Policy:
- Staff and Employees: We will share your personal information with our staff member(s) and employees for the purpose of providing services (for example, our billing or a customer service representative);
Third Party: We share information with third parties only when needed to deliver to your products or services that you request. We may share your information including personal information to third parties to carry out technical, logistical and other functions on our behalf (for example sending emails, SMSs or newsletters to users). We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information about you and your visits to this and other Web sites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. When you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to third-party websites, the third party may collect information about you at their website/application. The third party may have its own privacy policies that differ from ours. We encourage you to read such posted privacy statement(s) whenever interacting with any website you visit. However, we ensure to the best of our efforts the protection of your data and that your personal data is handled securely without any danger of leakage or breach.
Except as set forth above, we will not transfer your personal information to an unrelated third party without your consent.
We may share with third parties’ certain pieces of aggregated, non-Personal Information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a hypertext link. Such information does not identify you individually.
- Statutory purpose: In compliance with the applicable laws, we may be required to disclose certain information as required by law enforcement or the courts. Such statutory disclosure shall not be construed as an infringement of this Privacy Policy.
- Cookies: We may use a software technology called “Cookies” and similar technologies. Cookies are small files sited on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized Services for our users. This technology is not used to collect personally identifiable information. It is only meant to customize your online experience with us and enables us to provide optimized services to you. We may ask advertisers or other partners to serve ads or services to your devices, which may use cookies or similar technologies placed by us or the third party. We may also offer certain features that are only available using a Cookie. Cookies help us provide information, which is targeted to your interests. Cookies may be used whether you register with us or not.
- Analytics information: We may use third-party analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage treads for the Services. These tools collect information sent by your device or our Services, including the pages you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Services. We may collect and use this analytics information from other users to identify any individual user.
- Device identifiers: When you use a mobile device like a tablet or phone to access our Services, we may access, collect, monitor, store on your device, and/or remotely store one or more “device identifiers.” Device identifiers are small data files or similar data structures stored on or associated with your mobile device, which uniquely identify your mobile device. A device identifier may be data stored in connection with the device hardware, data stored in connection with the device’s operating system or other software, or data sent to the device by VSN Equities. A device identifier may deliver information to us or to a third-party partner about how you browse and use the Services and may help us or others provide reports or personalized content and ads. Some features of the Services may not function properly if use or availability of device identifiers is impaired or disabled.
- Remember information so you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the services;
- provide personalized content and information to you and others, which could include online ads or other forms of marketing;
- provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our services;
- develop and test new products and features;
- monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns; and
- diagnose or fix technology problems
Protecting Your Privacy – Security
Your Options- Choice/Opt-out
Data Retention and Erasure
- Please note that if you request for the erasure of your Personal Information; We may retain some of your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend an account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain certain information from that account to prevent that user from opening a new account in the future.
- We may retain and use your Personal Information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations and reasons of public interests. For example, we may keep some of your information for tax, legal reporting and auditing obligations.
- Information you have shared with others (e.g., Reviews, forum postings) may continue to be publicly visible on the website, even after your account is cancelled. However, attribution of such information to you will be removed. Additionally, some copies of your information (e.g., log records) may remain in our database, but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
- Because we maintain copies of Personal Information to protect from accidental or malicious loss and destruction, residual copies of your personal information may not be removed from our backup systems for a limited period.