FASTMARKETS LTD USE OF COOKIES
FastMarkets Ltd (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is FastMarkets Ltd (company registered number 03879279) whose registered office is at 2 More London Riverside, London SE1 2AP.
OUR SITE USES COOKIES IN SEVERAL WAYS
Session tracking cookies
- These cookies identify your browser uniquely but anonymously for the life of a session (usually from when you first visit a site until you close the tab or browser). They do not contain any personal information. They contain a unique and randomly generated number. All visitors to all sites will gain a session cookie on first visit. This will be deleted by the browser when the session ends.
Authentication cookies
- Our sites use authentication cookies, which are short-lived cookies containing a cryptographic hash that is used to validate your log in status and prevent session hijacking and other attacks. These do not contain any personal information.
Cookies for logged-in users
- Once you are logged in, our sites store several cookies on your machine with information about your status and permissions. These include information like your user id, which ticker feed to use and which features are enabled for your account.
Cookies from 3rd party advertisers
- Any visitor to one of our sites which display advertising www.thebulliondesk.com, www.basemetals.com, www.minormetals.com will receive cookies from our advertisers. These advertisers adhere to standard best practice for privacy, and have their own privacy policies. While we choose our advertising partners carefully and constantly review them, we do not control the content of the adverts directly. You should refer to the privacy and cookie policies of individual advertisers for more details.
Google Analytics
- All our sites make use of Google Analytics to analyse traffic statistics. Google Analytics writes several cookies to your machine which it uses in order to track your activity on a site. This data is anonymously collected using unique, random Ids and does not contain any information which could identify you personally. See www.google.com/analytics/ for more information.
The only part of this information that personally identifies you is your Fastmarkets user id, but this information is stored as part of your account information in our database and is not accessible to anyone else in accordance with our data protection and privacy policies. Therefore this cookie only personally identifies you to our sites, and not to anyone else.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our sites.
For any further questions, concerns or request to opt out and therefore discuss the implications of doing so, please email us at privacy@fastmarkets.com