The user privacy policy applies to your use of this website and all Democracy Trading applications, services, products and tools provided by the Democracy Trading Platform. The user privacy policy applies regardless of how you access or use these services including via mobile phone and apps.
We collect your personal data when you use our services, create a new Democracy Trading account, participate in conversations via Democracy Trading messenger or interact with us. We also collect personal data from other sources such as Democracy Trading affiliates, credit agencies and companies as well as data providers. When you use the Democracy Trading Platform or send e-mails, text messages, and other communications from your desktop or mobile device to us you are communicating with us electronically. By doing this you consent to receive communications from us electronically and agree that communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
We process your personal data for various purposes and based on several legal bases that allow this processing. For example, we process your personal data to provide and improve our service, to provide you with a personalized user experience on this website, to contact you about your Democracy Trading account and our services, to provide customer service, to provide you with personalized advertising, marketing communications and to detect, prevent, mitigate and investigate any fraudulent or illegal activity. We also share your information with third parties including service providers acting on our behalf for these purposes. In addition, we may share your personal data among Democracy Trading affiliates in order to fulfill our contract with you under our user agreement.
Some recipients of your personal data are located outside your jurisdiction or have offices in jurisdictions where data protection laws may provide a different level of protection than the laws in your jurisdiction. When transferring data to such recipients we provide appropriate safeguards. Democracy Trading’s servers are located within Australia.
Your personal data will be stored by us and our service providers in accordance with applicable data protection laws to the extent necessary for the processing purposes set out in this user Privacy Policy. Subsequently, we will delete your personal data in accordance with our data retention and deletion policy or take steps to properly render the data anonymous unless we are legally obliged or permitted to keep your data longer (e.g. for legal compliance, tax, accounting or auditing purposes or to detect and prevent fraudulent or illegal activity on Democracy Trading). Retention periods may vary between different countries and jurisdictions.
As far as legally permissible or required, we restrict the processing of your data instead of deleting it (e.g. by restricting access to it). This applies in particular to cases where we may still need the data for the execution of the contract or for the assertion of or the defense against legal claims or where such retention is otherwise permitted by law. In these cases, the duration of the restriction of processing depends on the respective statutory limitation or retention periods. The data will be deleted after the relevant limitation or retention periods have expired.
Subject to possible restrictions under national law, as a data subject, you have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, of processing and data portability with regard to your personal data. In addition, you can withdraw your consent and object to our processing of your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests. You can also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
When you use our services, we and authorized third parties make use of cookies and similar technology to provide you with a better, faster and safer user experience or to show you personalized advertising.
We protect your personal data through technical and organizational security measures to minimize risks associated with data loss, misuse, unauthorized access and unauthorized disclosed and alteration. To this end we use network security services and data encryption.