Privacy Notice

"We", "our" or "us" means Winterflood Securities US Corporation and our subsidiaries. We collect and use your information (which includes personal data) as described below. We will use your personal data in compliance with applicable data protection law. The information you provide to us will be stored on our secure servers in the US.

What information do we collect?

We collect and use your information, including that which you provide when filling in application forms, fields in a contract or when registering to use sections of our website together with any other information or updates that you provide to us when corresponding with us (by phone, e-mail or otherwise). This information may include your personal data.

We may use your information to provide services to you and to carry out our obligations arising under or in connection with a contract.

We may record, monitor and retain communications (which may include the recording, monitoring and retention by a third party appointed by us), between us and you for the purposes of providing services to you and/or otherwise in order to comply with applicable law.

How we use your information

We may use your information, where necessary to:

comply with legal obligations (including anti-money laundering, know-your customer checks) and for the prevention and detection of crime);
provide services to and communicate with you or your employer;
generate data for internal analysis (including monitoring and improving our website and services); and
market our services to you, including event invitations in connection with our business development activities.

You can object to us processing your personal data by contacting us as described below. and you may cancel your subscription to email updates using ‘unsubscribe’ link within any email communications or by emailing us at unsubscribe@winterflood.com.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Our websites uses cookies and similar tools to gather statistical information such as the number and frequency of visitors and their IP addresses. This information is used as aggregated statistical information about users, providing usage by IP address. We do not identify individual users from this type of data and it does not involve the processing of personal data about you. By using our website, you agree that we can use cookies. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn about how you can manage cookies on your device.

Sharing your personal data

We may disclose your personal data to our affiliate companies, competent authorities and to third party service providers for the purposes described above in Section 2. We will take steps to ensure that your data is accessed only by persons that have a need to do so for the purposes described in this policy.

We may also share your personal data with third parties under obligations of confidentiality:

if we sell any of our business or assets, in which case we may disclose it to the prospective buyer for diligence purposes;
to third party agents or contractors (for example, the providers of our electronic data storage services) for the purposes of providing services to us; and
with your consent, to our affiliates who may wish to offer you products and services which may be of interest to you.

How long we will keep your personal data?

How long we hold your personal data for will vary. The retention period will be determined by various criteria including the purpose for which we are using it and our legal and regulatory obligations.

Your rights

You have rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you. You may:

object to our processing of your personal data where we process your personal data for the reasons set out in Section 2. Note that there may be circumstances where you object to our processing of your personal data but we are legally entitled to refuse that request;
obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data and access to the personal data which we hold about you;
withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data at any time. Please note, however, that we may still be entitled to process your personal data if we have another legitimate reason (other than consent) for doing so
in some circumstances, request personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or request that we transmit such data to a third party where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to personal data which you have provided to us;
correct or update your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances. Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask us to erase your personal data but we are legally entitled to retain it;
object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes and opt out of this; and
lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator if you think that we have infringed any of your rights.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We keep this Privacy Policy under regular review. Any changes we make in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates.

Contact Us

FAO: The Data Protection Team,1460 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York 10036

Telephone: 917-382-1796

email: dp-enquiries@winterflood.com.