First Rate FX Data Protection Policy

 

First Rate FX is committed to safeguarding any information we receive about you. 

 The First Rate FX Data Protection Policy, set out below, is in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and explains how your information will be treated by First Rate FX

First Rate FX Data Protection Policy

• We will only collect & use your information where we have lawful grounds and legitimate business reasons to do so.

• We will be transparent in our dealings with you, and will tell you about how we will collect and use your information.

• If we have collected your information for a particular purpose we will not use it for anything else unless you have been informed and where relevant your permission obtained.

• We will not ask for more information than we need for the purposes for which we are collecting it.

• We will update our records when you inform us that your details have changed.

• We will continue to review and assess the quality of our information.

• We will implement and adhere to information retention policies relating to your information and will ensure that your information is securely disposed of at the end of the appropriate retention period.

• We will train our staff on their privacy obligations, observe your rights under the data protection act and ensure that queries relating to Data Protection issues are promptly and transparently dealt with.

• We will ensure we have appropriate physical and technological security measures to protect your information regardless of where it is held.

• We will ensure that when we outsource any processes we ensure the supplier has appropriate security measures in place and will contractually require them to comply with these Data Protection Principles.

 

When completing various forms on this website – such as the registration form – you will be required to provide personal information. We will only use the information you provide to us on these pages in order to process the relevant form.

 First Rate FX is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under Notification Number Z1848790

 Cookie Policy

 

Cookies are harmless text files that web servers can store on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a site. They allow the server to recognise you when you revisit. There are two main types:

 1. Session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your computer until you close your browser (at which point they are deleted).

2. Persistent or stored cookies that remain permanently on the cookie file of your computer.

Cookies cannot look into your computer and obtain information about you or your family or read any material kept on your hard drive and, unless you have logged onto an authenticated page, cookies cannot be used to identify who you are.

 Cookies cannot be used by anyone else who has access to the computer to find out anything about you, other than the fact that someone using the computer has visited a certain website.

 Cookies do not in any way compromise the security of your computer.

 First Rate FX only uses cookies for the following purpose:

 When prospective or existing clients enter our website via the web links located on third party – affiliate – websites, a cookie will be used to monitor which company’s website they were previously in. This is done to determine which affiliates are recommending clients to us and to help comply with various UK legislation that require us ascertain the source of our client database.

 First Rate FX will not use cookies for any other purpose.

 

If you have any questions about First Rate FX’s Data Protection Policy, please contact the compliance team at:

 

Level 33,
25 Canada Square,
Canary Wharf,
London
E14 5LQ

Tel: 0203 514 3700

 

Important note

First Rate FX is not responsible for the accuracy or content of web sites of other providers which may have links from this website. In creating hypertext links to any other web site, First Rate FX is not recommending that web site or giving any assurances as to its standing.