StoryTrading is an investor community which collaborates through crowd-sourced investigative research to discover the hidden story behind the trade. We encourage an approach to trading based on a holistic understanding of the full ‘story’ by combining deep fundamental and investigative research with technical indicators, news catalysts, and investor sentiment. StoryTrading cares about your privacy and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose data. This Privacy Statement covers the collection, use and disclosure on this Site where the statement is linked.
Personal Information. Generally, “Personal Information” refers to any piece or combination of information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can reasonably be linked or associated with you or your household. Personal Information includes, but is not limited, to any means of identification, whether traditional, StoryTrading, or other documentary information.
Traditional identifiers include:
StoryTrading identifiers include:
Other information includes:
Personal Information also includes any information associated with your identity. This might include any information about how you use an StoryTrading website; where you’re located when you login; what operating system you use; what StoryTrading products and services you use; your credit score; and your financial habits. Anything about you is your Personal Information.
Data you give us. StoryTrading collects data you provide us in a variety of ways, such as when you submit questions, request information, or give us feedback, we may ask you for Personal Information. We may also ask you to provide other data relevant to your question, request, or feedback, such as your geographical location, professional and demographic information, industry, and preferred contact method.
In the course of your use of the Services, you may correct or update your information collected at enrollment.
StoryTrading collects your identifiers in order to provide the Services and the following:
Coordinating With Business Partners. In order to accomplish the business purposes described above, StoryTrading may disclose your traditional and StoryTrading identifiers to the following categories of third-party service providers: our bank partners, payment processors, payment networks, identity services, customer service vendors, communications platforms, risk investigation and mitigation tools, transaction dispute processing services, website and app usage trackers, data processors, modeling and analytics tools, and network infrastructure and data storage services. These third-party service providers are contractually obligated to secure and refrain from disclosing any Personal Information which we disclose or otherwise entrust to them.
StoryTrading may use certain transaction information as applicable to determine your eligibility for certain features or elements of the Services. If you are referred to StoryTrading by certain marketing partners, StoryTrading may use this information to determine what information it must collect from you and whether the partner must be compensated for referring you. Additionally, StoryTrading collects this information for the purposes applicable to financial information generally.
History of StoryTrading partner bank account transactions. StoryTrading collects your StoryTrading account transaction history from its processor and bank partner. It collects this information in order to provide you with the Services, in particular preparing your statement, resolving errors and unauthorized transfers, and verifying your identity in certain circumstances.
Commercial Information. Commercial information consists of information about your interest in a particular product or service, your purchasing or consuming tendencies, and/or receipts or records for products or services.
StoryTrading collects this information from you whenever:
In connection with one or more of the purposes outlined above, we may disclose your information to:
In general, StoryTrading discloses each category of Personal Information for the same purpose it is collected. In addition, StoryTrading may disclose certain categories of your Personal Information in the circumstances described below:
This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of any third parties, including those that operate sites to which this site links. Including a link on our site does not imply that we or our affiliates endorse the practices of the linked site.
When you access or use the Services, you may be directed to other websites or applications that are beyond our control. We may also allow third-party websites or applications to link to the Services or use Session Trackers with the Services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked websites and applications. We encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties, websites, and applications. This Privacy Policy only applies to the Services.
StoryTrading understands the importance of protecting the privacy of minors, especially in the online environment. This Site is not designed for or intentionally targeted at minors under the age of 18. It is our policy to never knowingly collect or maintain personal information about anyone under the age of 18. If we become aware that we have collected personal information relating to a minor, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
We have in place reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures that are designed to protect data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, destruction, and other forms of unlawful processing while it is under our control. However, please be aware that the storage and transfer of data cannot always be one-hundred percent secure. You also play a role in protecting your Personal Information. Please safeguard your username and password for your Account and do not share them with others. If we receive instructions using your Account log-in information, we will consider that you have authorized the instructions. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your Account or any other breach of security related to the Services. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to refuse to provide the Services, terminate your Account, and to remove or edit content.
We will retain data about you as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement, unless applicable law or professional obligations requires a longer retention period.
If you are a resident of the state of California, you are entitled to request information regarding the disclosure of personal information about you to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Please note that we do not share personal information about you with non-affiliated third parties for such purposes.
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Pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, and other similar technologies are used in connection with some Site pages to, among other things, track the actions of Site users, compile statistics about Site usage, associate non-identifiable demographic and preference data with device-related data (e.g., cookie IDs), and in some cases matching that with similar data supplied by other companies or estimate the age ranges of the audience that viewed the videos on this Site. We use, and permit third parties to use, this technology that recognize a unique identifier from a cookie placed on your device, and to provide content and ads that are more relevant to you. We also use this technology to compile information about your interaction with email or other communications and determine whether our communications have been opened.
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. To learn more how to manage cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. Some features of the Site may not work properly if you decline the use of cookies.
Third-Parties: The Site contains cookies or similar technologies from third-party providers that help us understand how visitors access our Site, use our Site, and how the site is performing. This information is used to improve our Site and to make our Site more intuitive. These technologies enable the third-party providers to set or read their own cookies or other identifiers on your device.
“Do Not Track” (“DNT”) is a preference you can set in your web browser to let the websites you visit know that you do not want them collecting information about you. At this time, this Site does not respond to DNT or similar signals.
We may update and make changes to this Privacy Statement from time to time in light of, for example, changing business or information handling practices, technology, or legal requirements. When we make changes to this Privacy Statement, we will amend the “Last Revised” date at the top of this page, and such modified or amended version of this Privacy Statement shall be effective as to you and your information as of that revision date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Statement periodically to be informed about how we are protecting your information.