Last updated: February 2024

Thank you for visiting Globalmarketcaps and the website www.globalmarketcaps.com (collectively referred to as "Site"). At Globalmarketcaps, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our users and this Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how it is used, and the choices you have regarding your personal information.

1. Introduction

Globalmarketcaps is a financial market website that provides information and analysis for investment decisions. We offer a platform for investors to access independent and balanced stock research, tools for fundamental analysis, reliable news, and actionable market data.

Personal Information Collected by Globalmarketcaps

When you visit our Site or register for our products and services, we may collect personal information about you. This information is used to provide our products and services and to market 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 may collect are:

Identifiers: This includes your name, nickname, username, email address, phone number, postal address (including ZIP code), Internet Protocol address, and any unique identifiers assigned to you. This information is obtained when you provide it to us or automatically during your interactions with our products and services.

Demographic Information: This may include information such as your age and date of birth, obtained when you provide it to us for identification purposes when registering as a user.

Commercial Information: This includes information about your investment portfolio, trading patterns, list of authors you follow, investment style preference, broker information, and payment information (including bank account details). This information is obtained directly from you or automatically during your interactions with our products and services.

Internet or Electronic Network Activity Information: This includes information about your device screen size, device type, browser information, and your interactions with our Site, as well as your preferred language for displaying the Site. This information is obtained automatically during your interactions with our products and services.

Geo-location Data: This includes your country location, based on your IP address, and is obtained when you provide it to us or automatically during your interactions with our products and services.

Audio, Video and Other Electronic Data: This includes any audio, video, or visual information you provide, such as chat interactions and any feedback or testimonials you provide about our products and services. This information is obtained when you provide it to us or automatically during your interactions with our products and services.

Professional or Employment-Related Information: This includes your job title, education information, professional interests and areas of expertise, and other biographical information. This information is obtained when you provide it to us upon registering as a user.

Profiles and Inferences: This includes any inferences drawn from the information collected about you, such as your preferences, characteristics, and behaviors. This information is obtained automatically during 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, or apply for employment with us.
  • Directly and indirectly from your activities on our Site and other services.
  • Service providers who provide services on our behalf, such as those used to fulfill orders, process payments and requests, verify information, monitor activity on our products and services, provide analysis and analytics, maintain databases, administer and monitor emails and marketing, serve ads on this and other services, and provide consulting services.
  • Third-party data providers, who may provide personal information about you with your consent or as permitted or required by law.

3. How Globalmarketcaps Uses Personal Information

We use personal information collected through our products and services, both individually and combined together, 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 us showing you articles and news about your preferred stocks, or articles by authors you follow
  • Respond to your enquiries
  • Enable you to send and receive messages to other registered users and contributors, and post comments
  • Carry out analytics and to 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.

4. Personal Information Globalmarketcaps Discloses

We share personal information with other Globalmarketcaps companies who help us to provide you with products and services.

We also share personal information with third parties for the business purposes of providing our products and services, and marketing our products and services to existing and potential customers. The categories of these third parties with whom we share personal information are:

  • Hosting and infrastructure providers;
  • IT services;
  • Email service providers;
  • Advertising partners;
  • Payment processors.

We share all of the categories of personal information with these third parties when we need to do so in order to provide you with Globalmarketcaps products and services.

We may also share personal information with the following:

Competent law enforcement bodies, regulators, government agencies, courts or other third parties where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;

Actual or potential buyers (and their agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy;

Other persons where you have given your consent.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Globalmarketcaps uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (referred to collectively as "Cookies") to collect and use personal information about you, including for serving interest-based advertising.

6. Children's Privacy

In accordance with our Terms of Use, the Globalmarketcaps website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18. As a result, Globalmarketcaps does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone known to be under the age of 18. If you believe that we have collected personal information from someone under 18 years of age, please contact us at the email address listed below.

7. Security

Globalmarketcaps has implemented various security policies, rules, and technical and organizational measures to protect and secure the personal information that we collect and process about you. These measures are designed to provide an appropriate level of security for the risks associated with processing your personal information.

8. California Privacy Information

If you are a resident of California, the following information applies to you and serves as a supplement to the information outlined in the Globalmarketcaps Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Sources

In the past 12 months, we have collected personal information as described in the section "Personal Information Collected by Globalmarketcaps" in our Privacy Policy. This information includes categories of sources from which the information was obtained.

Use and Sharing of Information

We collect and use personal information for business and commercial purposes, as outlined in the section "How Globalmarketcaps Uses Personal Information" in our Privacy Policy. Personal information is not shared by Globalmarketcaps except as approved by the individual or as described in the Privacy Policy.

In the previous 12 months, the following categories of personal information were disclosed for business purposes as described in the Privacy Policy:

  • Identifiers
  • 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
  • Profiles and Inferences

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the definition of "sale" is broad and includes various forms of data sharing. As defined by the CCPA, we have "sold" the following categories of personal information in the last 12 months: identifiers/contact information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, and inferences derived from the above. These categories were "sold" to advertising networks, data analytics providers, and social networks. The purpose of "selling" this personal information is for third-party companies to perform services on our behalf, such as marketing, advertising, and audience measurement. We have no knowledge of "selling" personal information of consumers under the age of 16.

Modern web browsers provide the option to send a Do Not Track signal to the websites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. However, there is no standard for how a website should respond to this signal, and Globalmarketcaps does not take any action in response to this signal.

California Privacy Rights

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

  • Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold over the past 12 months, as well as information about our data practices.
  • Right to Request Deletion: You can request that we delete personal information about you, though certain information may be kept in accordance with California law. You can submit a deletion request 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 defined in the CCPA).
  • Right to be Notified of Financial Incentives: You have the right to be notified of any financial incentives and their material terms, the right to opt-out of such incentives at any time, and cannot be included in such incentives without your prior informed opt-in consent. Currently, Globalmarketcaps does not offer any such incentives.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

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

You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us at privacy(at)globalmarketcaps.com and providing your name

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.

As a Globalmarketcaps "Data Subject," you have the following rights in regards to the protection of your personal information:

  1. Right to Access, Correct, or Delete: You can access, correct, or request the deletion of your personal information by accessing your Seeking Alpha account or by contacting us.
  2. Right to Object or Restrict Processing: In specific circumstances, you may request us to stop processing your personal information.
  3. Right to Request Portability: You may be eligible to request that we transfer your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  4. Right to Opt-Out of Marketing Communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking the "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link in our marketing emails or by contacting us directly.
  5. Right to Withdraw Consent: You may withdraw your consent for the processing of your personal information at any time. Please note that withdrawing your consent will not impact the legality of any processing that took place before the withdrawal, nor will it affect processing based on legal grounds other than consent.
  6. Right to Complain: If you are dissatisfied with our handling of your personal information, you have the right to file a complaint with your local data protection authority. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

We take all requests to exercise Data Subject rights seriously and strive to respond to all such requests in accordance with the relevant data protection laws. If you wish to exercise any of these rights or need additional information, please contact us using the information provided under the "How to Contact Us" section.

The legal basis for our collection and use of personal information includes:

  1. Performance of a Contract: We collect personal information to perform a contract with you, such as setting up and managing your account and providing our products and services.
  2. Legal Obligation: We have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you for compliance with financial, accounting, and other legal requirements.
  3. Legitimate Interests: The processing of personal information is in our legitimate interests and does not override your rights, such as analyzing and improving our products and services and providing customer service.
  4. Consent: We collect personal information with your consent, such as for certain types of marketing.

International Data Transfers:

Your personal information may be transferred and processed in countries other than your residence, including the United States and Israel, where our site servers are located, and our group companies, third-party service providers, and partners operate globally. To protect your personal information, appropriate safeguards have been taken in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and the UK and EU recognize Israel as a territory providing adequate protection for personal information received from the EEA and UK.

When transferring your personal information to other territories, we will take appropriate measures in accordance with applicable law to safeguard your information. This may include implementing the Standard Contractual Clauses for international transfers for EEA and UK residents' personal information.

Data Retention:

We retain personal information for legitimate business needs, such as providing requested services or complying with legal, tax, or accounting requirements. When there is no longer a legitimate business need, we will delete or anonymize the information or securely store it until deletion is possible.

10. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal, technical, or business conditions. If we make any material changes, we will take appropriate measures to notify you of the changes, depending on the significance of the updates.

You can check the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy to see when it was last revised.

11. Contact Us

For any questions, comments, or to exercise your rights under this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy(at) globalmarketcaps.com.