Privacy Policy
TF8 Technologies Ltd ("TF8") respects your privacy and is committed to ensuring that consumers who access our website and/or use or access products or services offered by us ("you" or "your") are informed regarding the way their personal data is used. This Privacy Statement applies to our website www.thefloor8.com ("Site") and TF8 affiliates, subsidiaries, parent companies, and any other related entities (hereinafter collectively "TF8", "we" or "us"), and all products and services offered by TF8, and governs personal data collection and usage by us. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy Statement ("Statement"), unless otherwise noted, all references to TF8 include the Site and TF8. By using the Site, you consent to the data practices described in this Statement and all revisions or amendments made to this Statement from time to time. TF8 provides assistance to individuals with disabilities to communicate effectively with them. Please contact TF8 by visiting our website at https://www.thefloor8.com/contact and use the contact form to send us a message.
Collection of your Personal Information
We collect information about you in a variety of ways depending on how you interact with us, the Site, and our services, including:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when you register for an account, sign up to receive communications from us, start a service, or contact us by phone, email, or otherwise;
- Automatically through the use of cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies when you interact with the Site, promotional material, advertisements and emails; and
- From other sources, including, for example, our affiliates, business partners, service providers, online social media networks, and other third parties, or from publicly available sources. For example, if you submit a job application, or become an employee, we may conduct a background check.
We collect this data and provide it to third parties, as discussed below, if it is a necessary step in the user's account creation process, contributes to the ease of use, reliability, security, or functionality of our products. If you purchase TF8's products or services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction or issue payments to you.
You may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future for the same purpose.
Use of Your Personal Information
We collect and use your personal information to:
- Operate and deliver the products or services you have requested.
- Inform you of other products or services available from TF8 and its affiliates.
- Identify you when you visit our Sites or use our products or services.
- Improve our services and product offerings.
- Conduct analytics.
- Communicate with you, such as to respond to and/or follow-up on your requests, inquiries, issues, or feedback.
- Detect and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including violations of our Terms of Service, other policies, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of our company and our users, employees, or others.
- Debug, identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website and services.
- Comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim.
- For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships.
- For such other purposes as you may consent (from time to time).
Although the sections above describe our primary purpose in collecting your information, in many situations, we have more than one purpose. As a result, our collection and processing of your information may be based in different contexts depending on your consent, our need to fulfill a contract, our obligations under the law, and/or our legitimate interest in conducting our business. You explicitly consent to share your data with TF8 and/or our affiliates, simulated trading platforms, mentorship programs, mentors, or third parties for the purposes of detecting fraudulent, deceptive, malicious, or criminal behavior or any violations of our Terms or this Agreement.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Statement, we may disclose personal information in the following situations:
- Affiliates and Acquisitions. We may share information with our corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control). If another company acquires, or plans to acquire, our company, business, or our assets, we will also share information with that company, including at the negotiation stage.
- Other Disclosures without Your Consent. We may disclose information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also share your information in order to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our policies, or to comply with your request for the shipment of products to or the provision of services by a third-party intermediary.
- Public. Our website may provide the opportunity to post comments, or reviews, in a public forum. If you decide to submit information on these pages, that information may be publicly available.
- Service Providers. We may share your information with service providers. Among other things service providers may help us to administer our website, conduct surveys, provide technical support, process payments, and assist in the fulfillment of orders.
- Other simulated trading platforms and mentors. We may share information with simulated trading platforms, mentorship programs, mentors, and/or related affiliates in order to detect and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity or violations of our Terms of Use, and other policies.
- Other Disclosures with Your Consent. We may disclose your information to other third parties when we have your consent or direction to do so.
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Tracking User Behavior
TF8 may track and record the websites and pages our users visit within TF8, in order to determine what TF8 services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within TF8 to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by TF8. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site.
Use of Cookies
The Site may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize TF8 pages, or register with the Site or services, a cookie helps the Site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the Site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Site when you visit. Additionally, depending on where you live, you may have the right to restrict certain cookies using the cookie banner on the Site.
Third-Party Links
The Site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security and Retention of your Personal Information
We take reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through the Site cannot be guaranteed. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may, at our discretion, notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.
Our Site permits you to create an account. If you create an account on the Site, you will be prompted to create a password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and you are responsible for any access to or use of your account by someone else that has obtained your password, whether or not such access or use has been authorized by you. You should notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account.
We retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we obtained the information, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.
We process your personal data only when it is necessary and we have a valid legal basis to do so. These legal bases include your consent, our compliance with applicable laws, providing services, fulfilling contracts, protecting your rights, and serving our legitimate business interests, which are set out in our Terms of Service. Additionally, we also process your data in order to protect the Company against fraud.
This section applies to Users located in the European Union or the United Kingdom. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the United Kingdom Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR) necessitate that we state the legal grounds for processing your personal data. Therefore, we process your information based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: We are legally entitled to process your information if you have granted us your explicit consent to employ your personal data for a specific purpose. You are able to revoke your consent at any time. To do this, please contact us through the contact form or email us at contact@thefloor8.com.
- Legitimate Interest: We may use your information if it is necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided that these interests do not outweigh your interests or basic rights and freedoms, including those set forth in our Terms of Service and to safeguard the Company against fraud.
- Legal Obligation: We may process your information to fulfill our legal obligations, such as cooperating with law enforcement or regulatory bodies, defending our legal rights, or using your information as evidence in pertinent legal proceedings. Additionally, we may process your information if it is essential to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of others, e.g. in emergency situations where safety is at stake.
California Sensitive Information Disclosure. We collect the following categories of sensitive personal information (as defined under California law): your biometric data. This information is collected to process transactions, comply with laws, manage our business, or provide you with services. Note that we do not use such information for any purposes that are not identified within the California Privacy Rights Act Section 1798.121. We do not "sell" or "share" sensitive personal information for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you. We are only able to process your information with your expressed consent for a particular purpose or once the implied consent has been given. However, you have the prerogative to revoke this consent at any given moment. In extraordinary cases, where the law permits, we may process your information without your consent.
Your Choices
Subject to certain exceptions, and only for those individuals who meet specific jurisdictional and legal requirements, you have the right to make the following requests:
- Access to Your Personal Information. You may request access to your personal information or confirmation that we have information about you. In certain limited circumstances, you may also request to receive access to your data in a portable, machine-readable format.
- Changes to Your Personal Information. We rely on you to update and correct your personal information. Our Site will allow you to modify or delete your account profile. If our Site does not permit you to update or correct certain information, you can contact us at the address described below to request that your information be modified. You may ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete. Note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by law.
- Deletion of Your Personal Information. You may request that we delete your personal information. If required by law, we will grant a request to delete information, but you should note that in many situations we must keep your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for other business purposes.
- Opt-out of Selling or Sharing for Targeted Advertising. You may opt out of online tracking-based targeted advertising (e.g., cookies) by clicking the "Reject" button in the "We value your privacy" window. Please note that if you change browsers or computers, or if you clear your browser's cache, you may need to click the link again to apply your preference. You can also reject cookies on our cookie banner.
- Objection to Certain Processing. You may object to our use or disclosure of your personal information by contacting us at the address described below.
- Online Tracking. We do not currently recognize the "Do Not Track" signal.
- Promotional Emails. From time to time, TF8 may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from TF8, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the "unsubscribe" button found at the bottom of each email.
- Revocation of Consent. Where we process your personal information based upon consent, you may revoke consent. Please note, if you revoke your consent for the processing of personal information then we may no longer be able to provide you with the Services.
To exercise any of your rights, please contact TF8 by visiting our website at https://www.thefloor8.com/contact and use the contact form to send us a message. We will deny the request if we are unable to verify the requestor or the authorized agent.
Changes to this Statement
TF8 reserves the right to amend this Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of our website and/or Services available after any such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the revised Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by such Policy as revised.
Contact Information
Additional Information For California Residents
California law requires us to disclose the following additional information related to our privacy practices. If you are a California resident, the following privacy disclosures apply to you in addition to the rest of the Privacy Policy.
California Shine the Light. If you would like more information concerning the categories of personal information (if any) we share with third parties or affiliates for those parties to use for direct marketing, please submit a written request to us using the information in the Contact Information section above.
Notice of Collection
TF8 may sell or lease customer information to third parties for the following reasons:
- TF8 may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party.
- TF8 may, if we in our discretion consider it potentially beneficial to you, share personal data or information with our affiliates or trusted third-party partners in order to provide you with further educational, marketing and promotional offers we believe may be of interest to you. You are always entitled to opt-out from receiving such offers.
Fraud Prevention. You explicitly consent to TF8 sharing your personal information with other proprietary simulated trading firms, mentorship programs, mentors, or third parties for the purposes of detecting fraudulent, deceptive, malicious, or criminal behavior or any violations of our Terms or this Agreement.
European Privacy Notice
This European Privacy Notice describes how TF8 Technologies Ltd, located at Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia ("TF8") complies with the General Data Protection Regulation effective as of 2018 and the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act of 2018 (collectively, "GDPR") with respect to personal data collected about citizens or residents of the European Union or United Kingdom, respectively ("European data subjects").
How TF8 Processes Data
TF8 collects with your express consent, or may collect in the future, your first and last name, email address, phone number, and your financial information. TF8 may collect other information about you with your express consent. They collect your data through the online or physical registration process, completion of surveys or feedbacks, payment methods used to purchase their products or reimburse you, and use of cookies on their websites.
TF8 may also partner with cloud computing companies to store personal data through their software. TF8 may receive your data indirectly through your credit card processing companies and governmental agencies.
How TF8 Uses Your Data
TF8 uses your data to process your purchase or to issue payments to you, manage your account, email you with special offers on other products they think you might like, send billing reminders, and perform other activities necessary and proper to serve you as best they can.
Please see TF8's general Privacy Statement (www.thefloor8.com) and TF8's Privacy Statement as amended from time to time and incorporated by reference, made a part of this Agreement for more details.
GDPR Rights
The GDPR is a law of the European Union that gives individuals in Europe additional rights relating to the personal information collected about them. The main rights under that law are:
- Right to Access. You have the right to request TF8 to make copies of your personal data. You may be charged a small fee for this service.
- Right to Rectification. You have the right to request TF8 to correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request TF8 to complete any information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure. You have the right to request TF8 to erase your personal data, with certain exceptions.
- Right to Restrict Processing. You have the right to request TF8 to restrict the processing of your personal data, with certain exceptions.
- Right to Object to Processing. You have the right to object to TF8's processing of your personal data, with certain exceptions.
- Right to Data Portability. You have the right to request TF8 to transfer the data that they have collected to another organization, or directly to you, with certain exceptions.
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Contact Information & Methods
TF8 Technologies Ltd welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement. If you have any questions or comments, please visit our website at https://www.thefloor8.com/contact and use the contact form to send us a message.
TF8 is an e-commerce entity with no physical storefront. They exclusively operate through their websites or other online methods, and they have direct relationships with their customers. You can email or mail them to exercise your rights. When you email your request, please write "My European Privacy Rights" in the subject field and identify as to who you are. TF8 is not responsible for notices that are not properly labeled or sent. When you mail your request, please write "My European Privacy Rights" on the header.
In order to contact TF8 to exercise your rights as an individual in Europe, you can mail or message them through the following:
TF8 Technologies LtdAttn: Data Protection OfficerGround Floor, The Sotheby BuildingRodney Village, Rodney BayGros-Islet, Saint Lucia
Email Address: contact@thefloor8.com
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