Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At Market Stock Trading, we value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use and protect it, and your rights regarding your personal data.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:
  • Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, and other contact details.
  • Account Information: Username, password, and other details necessary for account creation and maintenance.
  • Financial Information: Payment details, transaction history, and other related financial information.
  • Technical Information: IP address, browser type, operating system, and other technical details.
  • Usage Information: Information about how you use our website and services, including pages visited, links clicked, and other interactions.
  • Google User Data: Information we access, use, store, or share through our integration with Google APIs, such as user profile information, email, and other data obtained through Google services.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the following purposes:
  • To provide and maintain our services.
  • To process transactions and manage your account.
  • To communicate with you, including sending updates and promotional materials.
  • To improve our website and services based on user feedback and usage patterns.
  • To ensure the security of our website and prevent fraud.
  • To comply with legal obligations and resolve disputes.
  • To use Google user data in ways described in this published privacy policy and for the purposes outlined in the OAuth consent screen.

4. Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:
  • Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, processing payments, and providing services to you. This includes, but is not limited to, Google Fonts, Font Awesome, Elementor Cloud, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare, WordPress (self-hosted), and Elementor Form widget.
  • Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information to comply with legal requirements, such as responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes.
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we may transfer your information to the acquiring entity.
  • With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties if you have given us explicit consent to do so.

5. Protecting Your Information

We implement a variety of security measures to protect your personal information. These measures include encryption, access controls, and regular security audits. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

6. Your Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:
  • Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
  • Correction: You have the right to request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete information about you.
  • Deletion: You have the right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal obligations.
  • Objection: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Restriction: You have the right to request restriction of processing your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Portability: You have the right to request a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that help us recognize you and remember your preferences. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools.

8. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

9. Google OAuth Information

Our app uses Google OAuth 2.0 for user permissions and consent, which enables us to specify the type and level of access required for our app to function via strings known as API scopes. If your app uses Google APIs to access Google users’ data, it may be subject to a verification process before you publish your app. Apps that request access to scopes categorized as sensitive or restricted must complete Google’s OAuth app verification before being granted access. A complete list of Google APIs and their corresponding scopes can be found in the OAuth 2.0 Scopes for Google APIs. When you add scopes to your project, scope categories (non-sensitive, sensitive, or restricted) are indicated automatically in the Google Cloud Console. If your app utilizes only non-sensitive scopes, it is not mandatory for your app to complete the app verification process. However, if you want your app to display an app name and logo on the OAuth consent screen, you will need to complete a lighter-weight verification process known as “brand-verification”. For detailed information on the specific verification requirements for sensitive and restricted scopes, please refer to the verification requirements section. For detailed information on app types that are not subjected to the verification requirements, refer to the “When is verification not needed” section.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website. Your continued use of our services after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: Last Updated: July 7, 2024 Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 7, 2024

Thank you for visiting marketstocktrading.com, one of the Market Stock Trading websites, or using one of the apps or services, (together the “Site”) operated by Market Stock Trading. We provide this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at the Site.

1. Introduction

Market Stock Trading is a crowd-sourced content service website for financial markets. Our services empower investors to make the best investing decisions by leveraging our independent and balanced stock research, fundamental analysis tools, reliable news, and actionable market data.

2. Personal Information Market Stock Trading Collects

When you visit our Site or register for our products and services (including as a subscriber or a contributor), Market Stock Trading collects personal information about you. We use this personal information for the business purpose of providing our products and services, as well as marketing our products and services to new and potential customers. This includes providing you with personalized recommendations and customized content on our Site.

The categories of personal information we collect from users of and visitors to our Site are:

  • Identifiers: This includes, for example, your name, nickname, username, email address, phone number, postal address (including ZIP code), Internet Protocol address, and cookies or other identifiers which we assigned to uniquely identify you or which others assigned to uniquely identify you. We obtain this information when you provide it to us or otherwise automatically in the course of your interactions with our products and services.
  • Demographic information / Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law: This includes information such as age (including date of birth). We may obtain this information when you provide it to us, for identification purposes upon registering as a contributor.
  • Commercial Information: This includes Stocks, ETFs, and other securities in your investment portfolio, your trading pattern, list of authors you follow, investment style preference, broker information, and payment information (including bank account details, to enable payments to you and from you when you register as a subscriber or contributor). We obtain this information directly from you or otherwise automatically in the course of your interactions with our products and services.
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information: This includes, for example, device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, your interactions with our Site, and preferred language used to display our Site. We obtain this information automatically in the course of your interactions with our products and services.
  • Geo-location data: This includes your country location (based on your IP address). We obtain this information when you provide it to us or otherwise automatically in the course of your interactions with our products and services.
  • Audio, Video, and other Electronic Data: This includes audio, electronic, visual or similar information such as chat and any interaction that you may have with us (such as for customer service purposes) as well as your profile photo. It also includes any information you submit in forums, chat or message boards, and feedback or testimonials you provide about our products and services. We obtain this information when you provide it to us or otherwise automatically in the course of your interactions with our products and services.
  • Professional or employment-related information: This includes your job title, education information, CFA status, and other biographical information including professional interests and areas of expertise. We obtain this information when you provide it to us upon registering as a subscriber or contributor.
  • Profiles and Inferences: This includes inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile reflecting preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behavior, and attitudes. We obtain this information automatically in the course of your interactions with our Services.

The sources from which we collect personal information are:

  • Directly from you: For example, when you create an account, make a purchase, apply for or accept an employment position with us, etc.
  • Directly and indirectly from an activity on our Site and other services.
  • Service providers who provide services on our behalf such as those used to fulfill orders, process your payments and requests, verify your information, monitor activity on our products and services, provide analysis and analytics, maintain databases, administer and monitor emails and marketing, administer and send mobile messages, serve ads on this and other services, and provide consulting services.
  • Third-party data providers.

From time to time, we may also receive personal information about you from third-party sources but only where these third parties have confirmed to us that they either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us. We use this information to maintain and improve the accuracy of the records we hold about you and to send you personalized content, such as showing you articles and news about your preferred stocks, or articles by authors you follow. The personal information we collect includes:

  • Contact information
  • Investment style and market preferences

3. How Market Stock Trading Uses Personal Information

We use personal information collected through our products and services, both individually and combined, for purposes described in this Privacy Policy or disclosed to you in connection with our products and services. For example, we may use your information to:

  • Create your account
  • Provide and deliver products and services you request
  • Send you service-related information updates, alerts, and support and administrative messages
  • Send you marketing communications and personalized content such as showing you articles and news about your preferred stocks, or articles by authors you follow
  • Respond to your inquiries
  • Enable you to send and receive messages to other registered users and contributors, and post comments
  • Carry out analytics and improve the quality and relevance of our Site
  • Survey your opinions through surveys or questionnaires
  • Serve and measure the effectiveness of advertising
  • Protect the integrity of our products and services and enforce our Terms of Use and other applicable terms, including to detect and prevent fraud and unauthorized activities, to secure our systems and the services, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity

We may use personal information we collect from or about you to create aggregated or de-identified data that does not specifically identify you.

5. Cookies and other tracking technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technology (collectively, “Cookies”) to collect and use personal information about you, including to serve interest-based advertising.

6. Children’s Privacy

In accordance with our Terms of Use, the Site is not designed for use by individuals under the age of 18. Accordingly, we do not intend to or knowingly collect personal information from anyone we know to be under 18 years of age. If you believe we have collected personal data from anyone under 18, please contact us at the email address listed below.

7. Security

We have implemented various security policies, rules and technical and organizational measures to protect and safeguard the personal information that we collect and process about you. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.

8. California Privacy Information

If you are a California resident, the following information also applies to you and supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect and Sources of Information

In the past 12 months, we have collected the information described in the section “Personal Information Market Stock Trading Collects” above, which also includes categories of sources from which we have collected that personal information.

How we use and share information

We collect and use personal information for the business and commercial purposes as described in the section “How Market Stock Trading Uses Personal Information?” above. Market Stock Trading does not share your personal information except as approved by you or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information described above for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy:

  • Identifiers such as those set forth above;
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information;
  • Demographic information / Protected Classification Characteristics;
  • Commercial Information;
  • Geo-location data;
  • Audio, Video and other Electronic Data;
  • Professional or employment-related information; and
  • Profiles and Inferences.

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), “sale” is defined very broadly and includes a wide array of data sharing. As the term is defined by the CCPA, we “sold” the following categories of personal information in the last 12 months: identifiers/contact information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, and inferences drawn from the above. We “sold” such information to advertising networks, data analytics providers, and social networks. The business or commercial purposes of “selling” personal information is for third-party companies to perform services on our behalf, such as marketing, advertising, and audience measurement. We do not have any actual knowledge that we “sell” personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

Most modern web browsers give you the option to send a Do Not Track signal to the sites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. However, there is no accepted standard for how a site should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the following consumer privacy rights:

  • Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold over the past 12 months, and information about our data practices.
  • Right to request deletion: You can request that we delete personal information about you. Although you may request deletion, we are allowed, under California law, to keep certain personal information. You can submit a request to delete by submitting a form here.
  • Right to Opt-Out of “Sale” of personal information: You can opt out of the “sale” of your personal information to “third parties” by clicking on this link (as those terms are defined in the CCPA).
  • Right to be Notified of Financial Incentives: You have the right to be notified of any financial incentives offers and their material terms, the right to opt-out of such incentives at any time, and may not be included in such incentives without your prior informed opt-in consent. We do not offer any such incentives at this time.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

California law also permits you to request certain information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by us and our related companies to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

In addition to the specific forms listed above, you can exercise any of these rights by contacting us at [email protected] and providing us with your name, email address and address (including zip code) or by submitting a request to us through your Market Stock Trading account. We may verify your identity by asking you to submit a request through your password protected Market Stock Trading account and by providing us with your California zip code or other proof of California residency.

You can also authorize an agent to submit a request on your behalf. An authorized agent must have your signed permission to submit a request on your behalf or provide proof that they have power of attorney in accordance with California probate law. Authorized agents that are business entities must be registered with the California Secretary of State to conduct business in California. Where you use an agent, we will ask for verification of your authorization, namely a copy of your written authorization for the agent to submit the request on your behalf.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We do not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their consumer rights.

9. European Privacy Information

If you are a visitor to our Site from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and certain other territories in Europe, the following information also applies to you and supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy.

Data Controller

The data controller of your personal information is Market Stock Trading Ltd, located at 47 Hanesiim Street, Ra’Anana, 43583 Israel.

Data Subject Rights

You have the following data protection rights:

  • Right to access, correct, or request deletion: You may be able to do some of this in your Market Stock Trading account or by contacting us.
  • Right to object, or ask us to restrict processing: In certain circumstances, you can request that we stop processing your personal information.
  • Right to request portability: In certain circumstances, you can request that we transfer personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
  • Right to opt-out of marketing communications: You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing e-mails we send you or by contacting us.
  • Right to withdraw your consent: You can withdraw your consent at any time if you previously gave us consent for processing of your personal information. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
  • Right to complain: You have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you would like to exercise any of these rights or would like further information please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.

Legal Basis

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information is usually as follows:

  • Performance of a contract: where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, for example setting up and administering your account and providing our products and services
  • Legal obligation: where we have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you, for example to comply with financial, accounting and other legal obligations
  • Legitimate interests: where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights, for example to analyse and improve how our products and services are used, and to provide you with customer service
  • Consent: where we have your consent to do so, for example in relation to certain types of marketing
International Data Transfers

Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. Specifically, our Site servers are located in the United States and Israel, and our group companies and third party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information, we may process it in any of these countries.

Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, Market Stock Trading has taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In particular, the United Kingdom and the European Union recognizes Israel as a territory that provides adequate protection for personal information that is received from the EEA and UK.

When we transfer your personal information to any other territories, we will take such measures as are appropriate to safeguard your information in accordance with applicable law. For EEA and UK residents’ personal information, this may include implementing the Standard Contractual Clauses for any such international transfers.

Data retention

We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

10. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.

You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “Last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Policy.

11. How to contact us

If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, or if you want to exercise your rights, please contact us at [email protected]. If you are located in the UK, please contact us at [email protected]. If you are located in the EU, please contact us at [email protected]. We will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible, and respond to requests within the time required under applicable law.