Capitol Commodity Services, Inc. respects each individual's right to privacy. We value our relationship with you, and we take pride in maintaining loyalty and respect with each individual client by providing you with security.
We realize how important it is for us to safeguard any personal information that may reveal your identity or account information, whether you are our customer or a visitor to our web-site's public domain. To show our commitment to your security, we extend the following pledge to you.
Capitol Commodity Services, Inc. ("Capitol") is committed to safeguarding the personal information that you provide us. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect personal information we collect about individuals, such as you, who apply for or receive our products and services. The provisions of this notice apply to former customers as well as our current customers.
When you apply for or maintain an account with Capitol, we collect personal information about you for business purposes, such as evaluating your financial needs, processing your requests and transactions, informing you about products and services that may be of interest to you, and providing customer service. The personal information we collect about you includes:
We limit access to your personal information to those employees who need to know in order to conduct our business, service your account, and help you accomplish your financial objectives, such as providing you with a broad range of products and services. Our employees are required to maintain and protect the confidentiality of your personal information and must follow established procedures to do so. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. We do not rent or sell your name or personal information to anyone.
Cookies are small files containing information that a Web site uses to track its visitors. Capitol may set and access Capitol cookies on your computer, enabling us to learn which advertisements and promotions bring users to our website. Capitol or any of its divisions may use cookies. Currently, third party companies do not have access to Capitol's cookies. In the future Capitol may use third party services to access our cookies, in connection with Capitol products and services and to track your activities on our websites. In such case, the information that we collect and share would be anonymous and not personally identifiable.
Capitol's websites may contain hyperlinks or "links" to other sites, and other sites may "link" to our sites. These websites that may be linking to or from Capitol's sites provide a separate privacy policy than Capitol does. Capitol's privacy policy applies exclusively to Capitol and information collected by our websites. Capitol is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of the sites you link to, nor do we have control over the use or security of information provided by you or collected by those sites. If you choose to link to one of these websites, you may be asked to supply registration or other information. It is important that you realize this information is going to a third party, and you should become familiar with the privacy policy provided by that third party.
Capitol uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology in order to protect the information that you submit. This type of technology protects you from having your information intercepted by anyone other than Capitol while it is being transmitted to us. We work hard to ensure that our websites are secure and that they meet industry standards. We also use other safeguards such as firewalls, authentication systems (e.g., passwords and personal identification numbers) and access control mechanisms to control unauthorized access to systems and data.
We may share personal information described above with our affiliates for business purposes, such as servicing customer accounts and informing customers about new products and services, and as permitted by applicable law. Our affiliates are companies controlled or owned by us and include financial service companies, such as dealers, other brokers, futures commission merchants, and advisers.
The information we share with affiliates for marketing purposes may include the information described above, such as name, address and Capitol account information, but will not include other credit information, such as credit history appearing on a consumer credit report or net worth and income information appearing on applications for our products and services.
In order to support the financial products and services we provide to you, we may share the personal information described above with third-party service providers and joint marketers not affiliated with us, including:
These companies acting on our behalf are required to keep your personal information confidential.
Also, we may disclose personal information with non-affiliated companies and regulatory authorities as permitted or required by applicable law. For example, we may disclose personal information to cooperate with regulatory authorities and law enforcement agencies to comply with subpoenas or other official requests, and as necessary to protect our rights or property. Except as described in this privacy policy, we will not use your personal information for any other purpose unless we describe how such information will be used at the time you disclose it to us or we obtain your permission to do so.
We endeavor to keep our customer files complete and accurate. We will give you reasonable access to the information we have about you. Most of this information is contained in account statements that you receive from us and applications that you submit to obtain our products and services. We encourage you to review this information and notify us if you believe any information should be corrected or updated. You may also update the information yourself online under My Account. If you have a question or concern about your personal information or this privacy notice, please contact us by e-mail at info@ccstrade.com.
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