Aqua Interest respects your privacy and is committed to protecting and respecting your personal data. This privacy policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process any personal data i.e. information about a Client (as defined below) who is a natural person on the basis of which that Client can be identified (hereinafter the data) in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation and best practice. We strive to create the most secure infrastructure of any broker in the world. In this privacy policy we would like to tell why you can trust us with your data and rest assured that your data is safe.

In this Privacy Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, expressions defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Public Offer Agreement.

Aqua Interest is a global brand, which in your jurisdiction, is operated by Aqua Interest LIMITED a company. We are the controller and responsible for the data of the Client disclosed to us in order to register for a Trading Account, Demo Account and/or to make use of any other services offered by us through the website (hereinafter “Website”) (this term shall at all times include Website’s desktop and mobile versions).

This Privacy Policy is issued on behalf of Aqua Interest LTD the company responsible for collecting and/or processing your data when you use the Trading Platform through the Website, either for a Trading Account or a Demo Account (or their mobile/desktop versions) (hereinafter the Service(s)). We respect your privacy and we are committed to protect your data, which we collect, use and/or have access to

We take measures to implement advanced data protection policies and procedures and to update them from time to time for the purpose of safeguarding the Client's data and the Client’s account. Your data is protected by the legal, administrative and technical measures that we take to ensure the privacy, integrity and accessibility of data. To prevent security incidents with your data, we use a mixed organizational and technical approach based on the results of annual risk assessment

We shall not divulge any private information of our Clients and former Clients unless the Client approves in writing such disclosure or unless such disclosure is required under applicable law or is required in order to verify the Client's identity or it is required for us to perform our contractual obligations under any agreement concluded with the Client. The Clients' information is processed only by our employees and/or trusted third parties which provide specific services necessary for the provision of our services. All such information shall be stored on electronic and physical storage media according to applicable law.

Data Usage:

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data includes first name, last name, and patronymic (if available), date of birth gender, passport, ID, Driver’s number, and copy of photo.

Identity Data includes billing address, email address and telephone numbers

Identity Data includes bank account, payment card details and tax identification number (including but not limited to social security number, income tax identification number, national insurance number).
Financial Data includes bank account, payment card details and tax identification number (including but not limited to social security number, income tax identification number, national insurance number).

Identity Data includes your Client Account details, username and password, transactions made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and/or information received through your interaction with us within the course of providing our services and survey responses.

Identity Data (Know your customer) includes identity document information, including copies of recently dated Utility Bills, Identity Card, Passport, and/or Driver’s License.

Identity Data includes details on your actual location when interacting with our Website (for example, a set of parameters that determine regional settings of your interface, namely residency country, time zone, and the interface language)

Purpose For Which We Will Use Your Data And on What Legal Basis

We process the aforementioned data in compliance with the applicable legislation as amended from time to time in order to (i) be able to perform our contractual obligations towards the Client and offer them the best possible service, (ii) provide our Services efficiently, (iii) comply with our legal obligations, including, inter alia, to prevent fraud and money laundering acts, and (iv) protect our legitimate interests and your vital interests

Opting Out

If you do not want to receive any marketing newsletters or transmit your data to the third-parties for marketing purposes, you can configure your preferences. Such configuring can be done when (i) opening an account or (ii) when receiving such advertising content or (iii) by logging in and going to My Account > Profile > Notification Settings. You may also send us, at any time, an email to support@aquainterest.com using the registered email address you disclosed and registered with us through your Account asking us to cease from sending such advertising content or sending your data to third-parties for marketing purposes. The aforesaid mark removal and/or e-mail received by Aqua Interest will oblige us to cease sending advertisement content to you within 7 (seven) business days.

Disclosure of Data

We may share your data with the parties for the purposes set out above. We take all reasonable steps so that our third-party service providers do not use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your data for specific purposes and in accordance with our instructions. In general, your data is used by our processors. In addition, a transfer of your data to another legal entity may occur as part of a transfer of our business or parts thereof in the form of a reorganization, sale of assets, consolidation, merger or similar. With regard to the transfer of data to recipients outside of our related and/or affiliated entities, we note that we strive to maintain discretion with respect to client related matters and assessments of which we acquire knowledge. We may disclose data that concerns you only.

Any transactions made by the Client must be executed through the determined source of the transaction, belonging exclusively to the Client, who carries out the payment by his/her own funds. The withdrawal, refund, compensation, and other payments carried out from the Client’s account can only be made using the same account (bank, or payment card) that was used to deposit the funds. Withdrawal from the Account may be carried out only in the same currency in which the corresponding deposit was made.

Data Retention

We store your data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, 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 your data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your data, the purposes for which we process your data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, tax, accounting and other requirements. We shall keep your data (including call recordings) during our contractual relationship and for a minimum period of 7 (seven) years from the date of termination of the Service used by you. In general, all other data is stored for a period of 30 (thirty) business days after the date of termination of the provision of our Services unless there is any other legal reason to keep it

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data breach and will notify you of a breach where we are legally required to do so.