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PRIVACY POLICY




INTRODUCTION

FD Technologies PLC and its affiliates (“FD”) respects your privacy and are
committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice (“Notice”) will
inform you as to how we look after your personal data, tell you about your
privacy rights and how the law protects you. We recommend that you read this
Notice in full to ensure that you have a clear understanding of the data that we
collect or receive and how we use that data.

 


PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how FD collects or receives
and processes your personal data through your use of;

 * our websites, including any data you may provide through the websites when
   you sign up to our newsletters, webinars and events or purchase a product or
   service and
 * by corresponding with us, either through networking events or email/phone
   interaction.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data
relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other
privacy policy or notice or fair processing policy we may provide on specific
occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that
you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice
supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override
them.

 


ABOUT US

FD is a global technology provider with more than 20 years of experience working
with some of the world’s largest finance, technology, automotive, utility,
manufacturing and energy institutions. The Group’s KX technology, incorporating
the kdb+ time-series database, is a leader in high-performance, in-memory
computing, streaming analytics and operational intelligence. KX delivers the
best possible performance and flexibility for high-volume, data-intensive
analytics and applications across multiple industries. FD operates from 15
offices across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, including its
headquarters in Newry, and employs more than 2,400 people worldwide.

 


THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

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:

 * Business contact information – (e.g. your name, mailing address, telephone
   number and/or email address)
 * 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 your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or
demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your
personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data
will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may
aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a
specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with
your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat
the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this
privacy policy.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this
includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical
beliefs, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership,
information about your health, and genetic and biometric data), nor do we
collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

 


HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

 * Direct interactions. You may give us your business contact information by
   filling in forms or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise.
   This includes personal data you provide when you purchase a product or
   service, sign up to or attend our events or webinars, face to face through
   networking, download content or software from our website or give us
   feedback/contact us.
 * Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we
   may collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and
   patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar
   technologies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
 * Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data
   about you in the form of business contact data from various third-party
   providers and public sources.


HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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 that we are about to enter 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.
 * Where you have consented to being contacted by us.


LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING THE PERSONAL DATA

FD relies on several different legal grounds for processing personal data
including performance of a contract, consent and legitimate interest, depending
on the circumstances surrounding the processing.

FD may process personal data pursuant to specific purposes which are in our
interests and that enable us to enhance the services we provide. For example, we
may process Personal data pursuant to legitimate business purposes to respond to
your inquiries and to fulfil your requests or to send you marketing information
and offers.

We may also from time to time relying on consent to process your data for
marketing purposes particularly where this is required by law. You have the
right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us. Please see
our section on “opting out” below.

If you are an individual from the EEA, our legal basis for collecting and using
personal data will depend on the personal Data concerned and the specific
context in which we collect it. However, we normally rely on our legitimate
interests to collect personal data from you, except where such interests are
overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal
basis on which we collect and use your personal data, please contact us using
the contact details provided under the ‘contact us’ section below.

 


PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may use and process your information based on the legal grounds and for the
legitimate business purposes outlined in this Notice. We have set out below, a
description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground
depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please
contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on
to process your personal data.

Personal data may be used for the following purposes;

 * Marketing purposes – FD may use personal data to send you various marketing
   regarding FD products and services via email or phone.
 * To make content and webinars available to you – FD may process personal data
   provided by you to make available requested content or webinars
 * To provide you with a service/product – personal data may be processed to
   provide you with FD products or services which may have been download from
   the FD website or purchased via other means.
 * To enable you to attend an event – where you have provided your information
   to attend an FD event or and affiliated event, FD may process this data to
   communicate further information to you which may be of interest
 * To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that
   may be of interest to you – FD may process your personal data to make
   available information it deems to be of interest to you regarding FD products
   and services


MARKETING

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses,
particularly around marketing. You can opt-out of marketing at any time by
sending your request to marketinginfo@firstderivatives.com.

We may use your personal data along with other information to form a view on
what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is
how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we
call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested
information from us or purchased goods or services from us and you have not
opted out of receiving that marketing.

 


THIRD-PARTY MARKETING

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with
any third party for their marketing purposes.

 


OPTING OUT AND CHANGING YOUR MARKETING PREFERENCES

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages or change your preferences
on how you would like to be contacted at any time by sending your request
to marketinginfo@firstderivatives.com.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to
personal data provided to us as a result of a product or service purchase and
for which we might need to process for other purposes and on other legal
grounds.

 


COOKIES

See FD’s cookie policy for further information on how FD use cookies and other
similar technologies.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you
when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please
note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function
properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see the FD
cookie policy.

Please note that the use of online tracking mechanisms by third parties is
subject to those third parties’ own privacy notice/policies, and not this Notice
or the FD cookie policy. If you prefer to prevent third parties from setting and
accessing cookies on your computer, you may set your browser to block cookies.

 


CHANGE OF PURPOSE

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it,
unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that
reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an
explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the
original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify
you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or
consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted
by law.

 


DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may share or disclose your personal data for the purposes set out above.
Examples include;

Third Parties
– FD may from time to time share your personal data with third party partners
who are assisting in the organisation and management of events and webinars.

– FD may also use third party systems and platforms to facilitate its marketing
activities.

– FD may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of its business or assets.
Alternatively, FD may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a
change happens to the FD business, then the new owners may use your personal
data in the same way as set out in this Notice.

Affiliates
– FD may share your information with its affiliates (meaning any subsidiary,
parent company or company under common control of First Derivatives PLC). Our
affiliates will use your information only for the purposes described in this
Notice.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and
to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service
providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them
to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our
instructions.

 


INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Personal data collected or received for the purposes outlined above, is
transferred to and stored in FD servers in the United States of America. We will
protect your personal data in accordance with this Notice wherever it is
processed.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar
degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following
safeguards is implemented:

 * We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed
   to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European
   Commission.
 * Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts known
   as the EU Model Clauses which have been approved by the European Commission
   and give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
 * Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they
   are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar
   protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used
by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

 


DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data
from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised 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 instruction and are
subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach
and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are
legally required to do so.

 


DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to
fulfil the purposes we collected, received or obtained it for, including for the
purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting
requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event
of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in
respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the
amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm
from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for
which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes
through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or
other requirements.

 


YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in
relation to your personal data. You have the right to;

 * Request access to or ask that we change, update, or delete your personal data
   at any time.
 * Withdraw your consent at any time, where FD are processing your data on the
   legal ground of consent. 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 data conducted in reliance on lawful
   processing grounds other than consent.
 * Opt out of receiving marketing communications from us/

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you may also have the
right to:

 * Object to processing of your personal data, restrict processing of your
   personal data or request portability of your personal data.
 * Complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your
   personal data. For more information, please contact your local data
   protection authority.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please send your
request to marketinginfo@firstderivatives.com.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your
identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any
of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data
is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also
contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to
speed up our response.

 


UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE

We keep our Notice under regular review. This version was last updated on 5th
June 2020. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by means of a
notification on www.firstderivatives.com website prior to the change becoming
effective.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and
current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes.

 


THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and
applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow
third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these
third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When
you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy/notice of
every website you visit.

 


CONTACT DETAILS

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or our privacy practices,
please contact us:

By Mail;
FAO: Data Privacy team
Brian Conlon House, 3 Canal Quay, Newry, BT35 6BP, Northern Ireland

By Email
Email us at: marketinginfo@firstderivatives.com

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information
Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection
issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with
your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first
instance.

 


Main Office Contacts

EMEA
Tel: +44 (0)28 3025 2242

AMERICAS
Tel: +1 (212) 447 6700

ANZ
Tel: +61 (0)2 9236 5700

ASIA
Tel: +65 65921960

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