Application and registration information. We collect information from you when you open an account or enroll in one of our services. You will also be asked for information when you choose to participate in any DeepStacks, Inc.  promotion. The information we collect may include your name, address, phone number, and email address and any other personal information.

Transaction and experience information. Once you have opened an account, we maintain information about your account activity, including your transactions, balances, positions and history. This information allows us to administer your account and provide the services you have requested.

Third-party Information providers. We may collect information about you from information services and consumer reporting agencies to verify your identity, employment or credit worthiness.

Web site usage. When you visit our web site, our computer may use devices known as “cookies,” graphic interchange format files (GIFs) or other similar web tools to enhance your web experience. These tools enable us to recognize you when you return to our site, and to maintain your web session while you browse throughout the site, as well as help us provide you with a better, more personalized experience. Cookies do not, standing alone, identify you as an individual by name or account number; they merely recognize your browser.

How We Share Information About You. We may share your information if the information is required to provide the products and services you have requested or to provide you the with the opportunity to participate in products and services that we feel you will benefit from.

help provide you with better service or perform services on your behalf; respond to communications from you or as you authorize or request;

You may instruct us not to share information about you with our affiliates for certain purposes, as explained under “How to Limit the Sharing of Information About You.”
 

How We Share Information About You Outside the DeepStacks, Inc. Family of Companies. We provide access to information about you to outside companies and other third parties in certain limited circumstances, including:

to help us process transactions for your account; when we believe that disclosure is required or permitted under law. For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with regulatory or law enforcement authorities, to resolve consumer disputes, to perform credit/authentication checks, or for risk control; or when we believe that an affiliate or partner company can provide you with a service we feel that you will benefit from.

You may instruct us not to share information about you with outside companies for joint marketing purposes, as explained under “How to Limit the Sharing of Information About You.”
 

How to Limit the Sharing of Information About You. If you prefer, you may choose to limit the information we share about you with our affiliates and outside companies. Specifically, you may instruct us:

not to share with our affiliates consumer reports and other personal information about you that may be used to determine your eligibility for credit (for example, information about your income, profession or employment status.);
not to allow our affiliates to market their financial products or services to you based on information that they receive from us about your eligibility for credit or your transactions and experiences with us;
and not to share personal information about you with an outside company for joint marketing purposes.

Your choice will be applied to you as an individual and may be extended to all of your accounts you may have with DeepStacks, Inc. You may make your privacy choice at any time and it will remain in effect until you change it.

If you choose to limit these types of information sharing, we may continue to share information within the DeepStacks, Inc. family of companies that identifies you (such as your name, etc.), as well as information about your transactions and experiences with us. In addition, our affiliates may continue to use information they receive from us to perform services on our behalf to respond to communications from you, as you authorize or request, or, if you are the affiliates’ customer, to offer you products and services. We may also continue to share information about you with outside companies as permitted or required by law.

State Laws. We will comply with State laws that apply to the disclosure or use of information about you. For example, if your address is in Vermont, we will automatically limit information sharing as described in “How to Limit the Sharing of Information About You” without your having to advise us of this privacy choice.

Safeguarding Your Information, Maintaining Your Trust.

We take precautions to ensure the information we collect about you is protected and is accessed only by authorized individuals or organizations.

Companies we use to provide support services to you are not allowed to use information about our customers for their own purposes without permission and are contractually obligated to maintain strict confidentiality. We limit their use of information to the performance of the specific service we have requested.

We restrict access to personal information by our employees and agents. Our employees are trained about privacy and are required to safeguard personal information.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information.

Teaming Up Against Identity Theft. Identity theft is a serious concern to all of us. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is our priority. DeepStacks, Inc.  takes steps to protect you from identity theft by:

utilizing customer identification and authentication procedures before initiating transactions;
creating a secure transmission connection to our DeepStacks, Inc.  web sites.
You will see the padlock in the lower right corner of your browser’s frame indicating it is a secure site. ensuring our employees are trained to safeguard personal information about you.

You can also help protect your identity and accounts. Here are a few steps to remember:

DeepStacks, Inc. will never request your account number, login password or Social Security number in either a non-secure or unsolicited email communication. shred documents that contain personal information; check your credit report regularly for unauthorized activity and protect your personal identification numbers (PINs) or personal data.
 

Greater Accuracy Means Better Protection. We are committed to keeping accurate, up-to-date records to help ensure the integrity of the information we maintain about you.