Effective Date: [1/2024]
Welcome to TradeWars! We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Purpose of This Privacy Policy – This privacy policy aims to give you information on how TradeWars collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for an account, participate in a trading competition, or subscribe to our newsletter.
Controller – TradeWars is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “TradeWars,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in this privacy policy).
Contact Details – If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us through our website.
– Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
– Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
– Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
– Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
– Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
– Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
– Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
– Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
– Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
– Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
– Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
– Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
– Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
– Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
– Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to access, correct, erase, object to processing, and request the transfer of your personal data to another party.
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us through our Contact Us section.