Prop-Firms Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy sets out:

1. our methods of collecting, using, and disclosing particular information, which may include your personal information, by Compare Prop Firms Pty Ltd (ACN 605 274 324)(Prop-Firms); and

2. our dedication to safeguarding the privacy of the personal information that we obtain via our website (Site) or what you have chosen to provide us as the user – individual or organisation – that engages with our Site (addressed as you or your).

Our collection, usage, and processing of your data is legally based on your approval of our terms. Upon accessing our Site and supplying us with your data, you verify that you have taken the time to read, comprehend, and consent to this Privacy Policy. If you choose not to provide your personal information to us, you are free not to. However, this may affect your usage of our Site, which may include the products and services we present.

Our Site is monetised and generates revenue by driving traffic to prop trading firms. This entails collecting data, which includes analytics. Our Site collects data through the use of cookies and other technological solutions. To that end, our Site does not ask the user for personal information. In the event that we intend to request your personal information, our Site’s policy will be amended.

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Security of Data

We highly value your privacy here at Compare Prop Firms Pty Ltd. We have secured our Site with an SSL licence.

We guarantee that the personal information our users provide is handled with care and safety following the Australian Privacy Principles (Privacy Principles) included in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).

Contacting Us

For any concern you may have about our Service, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us via email. For concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or our Site’s usage of your personal data (which may include cookies or equivalent technologies), please reach out to our Data Protection Officer via email. If you contact us, you may need to verify the authenticity of your identity before we respond; this is for your and our protection.

Collection of Information

The section below lays out how we obtain and store your information. It includes information you provide to our Site (Information You Provide), information we obtain automatically (Information We Collect), and information coming from other sources (overall, Personal Information).

Information

Upon usage of our Site, information may be collected from you. The information may include your name, device ID (Android or iPhone device details), device location, birthdate, email address, information on services or products you may be interested in, and other data requested at our Site. This information will be obtained via the contact form respectively.

Personal Information

Following the below, the Personal Information we may collect from you may include the following:

1. name;
2. email address;
3. device identification details;
4. location;
5. trading practices;
6. distinct trading data; and
7. any other data asked on our Site otherwise asked by us or supplied by you.

Information You Provide

We gather the information you supply to us, which includes:
1. Clickstream Data;
2. location;
3. device identification details;
4. distinct trading information; and
5. trading practices

We gather this information in numerous ways, which include your interaction with our Site, staff, surveys, or marketing advertisements.

Information We Collect

Prop-Firms will also collect information on you and your use of the Service, your engagement with our Site (may include interaction with our staff) and our marketing, plus particular information concerning the devices you used to visit our Site and Service.
This information includes:
1. your interaction on the Site;
2. your engagements with our system (which includes any text messaging, emails, and push notifications);
3. particulars of your engagements with our staff (like the data, time, and reason for reaching out to us);
4. device IDs or other identifiers;
5. cookies and online marketing and any data collected with the use of cookies, web beacons, and similar automation; and
6. device and software features (like variety and formatting), connection data, page view statistics, directing source (i.e. referral URLs), IP address (which can identify your general location), web browser, as well as common web server log information.

Your use of our Services

Like other businesses online, our Site may keep information on your access and use of the Service, which includes your overall usage of the Site, what browser you are viewing the Site on, your device’s operating system, and your Internet service provider’s domain name.
Your views and comments: We may get in touch with you to voluntarily answer our surveys, questionnaires, or market research for your views and comments. Whether you provide us with your response is entirely optional on your part.

Information from other sources

Prop-Firms may also obtain information from further sources, which may include data straight from Prop Firms (as stated in our Terms and Conditions) and resources available to the public. Prop-Firms secures this information under our Privacy Policy.
For example, when you access a Prop trading website, that firm may relay information to us (which may include for commission purposes).

Collection and Use of Personal Information Services

With our Service, we collect and utilise your information for the following purposes:

  • for internal record storage;
  • for market analysis and company development, which may include website development;
  • for marketing;
  • to conduct promos or offer other benefits to you;
  • for data analytics objectives;
  • to help us in improving our Service and products, as well as in making them more appropriate for our users;
  • to assist us in improving our Site;
  • to optimise content preference, recommendation algorithms and presentation;
  • otherwise handling our internal company functions and procedures; and
  • with your consent, which you can revoke at any time by email following the contract provisions set in this policy, for computerised decision-making in processing your personal data for any of the products or services we offer (you can request to have a manual review of the computerised decision’s accuracy at any time).

Sensitive Information

Prop-Firms, in general, does not collect sensitive information as expressed in the Privacy Act, such as ethnic or racial information, political views or affiliations, criminal histories or health records.

Unsolicited Information

In the event we receive unsolicited information, we will decide within a reasonable period whether or not we are allowed to gather the information. If it is resolved that Prop-Firms is not allowed to gather such information, we will eliminate it or make sure it is de-identified as soon as achievable. Otherwise, Prop-Firms may keep the information under the terms of this policy.

Anonymous Information

Prop-Firms gathers anonymous information to:

  • supply aggregated analysis to Prop Firms;
  • scan the usage of the Site;
  • assist us in recognising areas to improve on the Site; and
  • provide applicable data and services to as many users as we can.

Use of Data for Marketing

We will only mail users direct promotional materials – including but not limited to exclusive offers and information about our Site and Service – where you have expressed consent.

Transfer of Information

By availing of our Service, wherever required for its conditions, you approve of Us sharing all of your information with Prop trading firms.

To safeguard your Personal Information that we share with Prop trading firms, we will have an agreement with said firms to mandate due protection of the Personal Information. If requested by law, Prop-Firms may share your information to deter illegal activities and defend third-party claims against Prop-Firms.

Transfer of Information Outside Australia

Prop-Firms may transfer your Personal Information to entities related to the company as well as Prop trading firms and third-party services providers located in Australia or overseas (which include the USA, UK, Europe or Asia).

We may also transfer your Personal Information to service providers who will keep the data on a cloud computing system; the servers may be based outside Australia. Nevertheless, we will take sufficient measures to guarantee the protection of your Personal Information following the Privacy Principles, the Privacy Act and our directives according to this Privacy Policy whenever your data is divulged to an overseas recipient or kept on a cloud computing system overseas.

Links to Other Websites Including Prop Firms

Using the best forex prop trading firms page, there are links to:

  • Prop firm sites
  • Regulatory bodies

Prop-Firms has no control over these third-party websites (including those run by prop trading firms). To the greatest degree possible, following the applicable laws, we will not be held responsible or accountable for any linked apps or websites not controlled or owned by us, which include their content, app usage, or privacy rules. We place links to third-party websites for you to “click” on. Any third-party software (such as analytics) may track a “click” to record what you do when you are on these websites (which includes tracking your activity when you set up an account with a prop trading firm).

Information we do not collect

Prop-Firms does not collect the following information from you concerning:

  • your ethnicity or race;
  • your political views;
  • your religious or philosophical convictions;
  • your trade union memberships;
  • your biometric data;
  • your health records.

Storage and Security

We are highly committed to protecting your Personal Information. We make sure we uphold the guidelines set by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner concerning the suitable software security and level of information, management and relevant processes to properly protect your Personal Information from misuse, loss, modification, disclosure or unauthorised access.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files set on your hard disk, which permit the server to recognise and engage more efficiently with your Device or computer, and are often used on several websites. We may use cookies so we can recognise you and enhance your usage of our Site. For instance, a cookie may be used so you don’t have to repeat certain information you have previously typed on a registration form. You can decide if and how a cookie will be used by adjusting your options and preferences in your browser. Please note that rejecting cookies may affect your experience interacting with our Site and Service. Also, the cookie may contain your information linked to the stored data. We will gladly assist you if you request to remove cookies or web beacons.

Web Beacons

Web beacons or clear gifs monitor a site’s visitor’s movement and interaction as they are tiny pieces of code put on a web page to collect data. For instance, the data collected by web beacons may include the figures of the users visiting a web page or with the purpose of delivering a cookie to the visitor’s browser while viewing a particular page. We may occasionally utilise web beacons on the Site, with Google Analytics, Facebook Pixels and other similar code. Google Analytics, Facebook Pixels and other equivalent codes are utilised to track and analyse site visitors and understand the interactions done.

Geotracking

To provide our Service to you, we may utilise geotracking or other geolocation technology with your consent. We may utilise geo-tracking to personalise the content you see and deliver a more suitable user experience. We intend to use geotracking to make our Service beneficial to specific locations.

Links to other services

Our Service may also include links to other relevant websites. Do note that we do not possess any authority over those websites. To the greatest degree possible, following the applicable laws, we will not be held responsible or accountable for the privacy and protection of data you provide when viewing these websites.

Access

We make sure that the Personal Information we keep is valid and updated. We recognise the possibility of information changing often brought about by changes in address and other personal events. If you would like to access and modify any of your provided Personal Information at any time, please email our Privacy Officer. In the event that you require duplicates of your Personal Information (including any sensitive information) we hold, we may set a reasonable fee for the administration and postage concerned in complying with said request.

Your rights

Every Information Subject has the following rights:

  • access to your data that we keep;
  • notification – which includes being notified about what, how and why information is processed and the entities that may receive said information;
  • correction of data – which includes your right to have your data altered or fixed;
  • erasure of data – which includes your right to request having your data deleted in cases where you revoke your consent, where your data is no longer required or when data has been unlawfully processed;
  • limiting processing of your information – which includes asking for a temporary stop;
  • retrieving information – which includes asking for any information you have provided to us directly via our forms;
  • objection – which includes demanding any additional processing of Personal Information outside the grounds of why it was collected and processed in events of automation, direct marketing, and profiling; and
  • not to be imposed on a decision based only on automated processing.

Controlling your Personal Information

It is optional to provide us with your Personal Information. You are free to decide not to give out your Personal Information. When you give us your Personal Information, you approve of the terms set in this Privacy Policy and to us sharing or acquiring your data for the intentions mentioned here. If you supply us with third-party Personal Information, you certify that you have the necessary third party’s consent to do so. You may decide to limit the collection or usage of your data. If you have previously consented to use of your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes, you may choose to revoke it at any time. Kindly contact us at our listed email address.

You may submit a Subject Access Request for personal data we have on you. Once we receive it, we can provide you with the necessary information free of charge within 30 days of your request. If you believe there is any form of inaccuracy in any information we have about you, please contact us via our listed email. We partly depend on our users to advise us when there are changes to their Personal Information. We handle requests within a reasonable time. We do our best to rectify any information believed to be outdated, incomplete or false. If you want to unsubscribe from our database or communications, please get in touch with us with the details below.

Complaints

Should you have reason to believe that we have not upheld our commitment to manage your Personal Information as described in the Privacy Policy, contact us immediately via email. We will reply and notify you whether we agree with the complaint. In the event that we disagree, sufficient reasons will be provided. If we do agree, we will advise of the appropriate action to take. If you remain unsatisfied after getting in touch with us and providing us with a reasonable time to reply, then we recommend contacting the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Updates

We will review our Privacy Policy periodically to consider new laws and technologies as well as any change to our practice or operations. Consequently, we reserve the right to alter, revise, add or omit parts of this Privacy Policy and will post the revised policy here on the Site. We will notify you of said changes via email if you have provided your email information. With your continued use of the Site, after changes have been made in the Privacy Policy, you agree with the policy whenever applicable.

Definitions

For the objectives of our Privacy Policy, the terms:

  • “we”, “our” and “us” refer to Prop-Firms and its assignees, legatees, and appointed Data Controller.
  • “Clickstream Data” refers to the data collected by the server upon your visit to our Site- including elements like your location, system, browser, and traffic source (such as Google).
  • “Data Controller” refers to Prop-Firms.
  • “Data Protection Officer” refers to Justin Grossbard.
  • “Device” refers to any mobile phone, tablet, or other gadget that can run the Site or app.
  • “Held Information” means:
    – The Personal Information we keep concerning you;
    – Why we make use of your Personal Information;
    – Who we share access to your Personal Information;
    – How and if your Personal Information is being used in automated decisions; and
    – The procedures we use concerning your information.
  • “Information Subject” refers to a person or persons whose Personal Information is collected by Prop-Firms.
  • “Service” or “Services” refers to the services, functions, usage, and content of our Site.
  • “Subject Access Request” refers to the user requesting access to their Personal Information.

Contact

If you have any questions, concerns, or reactions about our Privacy Policy or our data practices, don’t hesitate to contact us via email at justin[at]prop-firms.com

Further Information

For additional information on Australian privacy law, you can view it at the Federal Privacy Commissioner’s OAIC website