Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how and why any information that we obtain from you, or that you provide to us, will be collected, used and disclosed by us in connection with your use of the Quotron Investment Platform website at www.quotron.co.uk (‘Site’). In this Privacy Policy, the terms ‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’ refer to Quotron. Quotron is a trading name of Absolute Quants Ltd. Registered in England & Wales with company number 15930682 and registered offices at 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Information we may collect from you,

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on the Site, or by contacting us by phone, e-mail or otherwise.

Information we collect about you. When you visit the Site we may automatically collect the following information:

Technical information, including the internet protocol (‘IP’) address used to connect with your computer or Device, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, mobile network and platform;

information about your use of the Site, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from the Site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you from third parties we work with (including, for example, business partners and consultants)

Information we receive from your broker. We may receive information from your broker as part of a Reliance Agreement between London & Eastern LLP and Pepperstone Limited. Under this agreement we may request your broker share identification information that they have already gathered from you with your permission. This agreement is designed to reduce the requirement for you to share the same information twice.

Uses made of the information;

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

To carry out our obligations arising from any contract entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;

To provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you, where you have consented to this. If you want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please notify us during your correspondence with us. We may contact you,

to notify you about changes to our Service; and
to ensure that content available through the Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device;
to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device;
to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service, when you choose to do so;

Disclosure of your information

We may share your personal information with selected third parties including:

Business partners, suppliers and subcontractors where this is necessary for the performance of any contract we enter into with you; Namely London & Eastern LLP and Pepperstone Limited.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; and
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply any agreements between you; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Where we store your personal data

The information about you that you give us or that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a country outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), and it may also be processed by staff operating in a country outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers, but only where the country in question ensures an adequate level of protection or the transferee has provided appropriate safeguards. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet or through telecommunications networks is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site, and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us by email to info@quotron.co.uk

Links to other sites

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner businesses in Quotron. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to your information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@quotron.co.uk