PRIVACY POLICY
KDM Trading, Inc. is committed to safeguarding the personal information you provide to us. These provisions apply to former customers, prospective customers, as well as current customers.
Why and how we collect personal information
When you apply for, contact us about, or maintain a trading account with us, we collect personal information about you for business purposes such as evaluating your financial needs, processing your requests and transactions, informing you about products and services and providing customer service. The personal information we collect about you includes:
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Information you provide us on applications and forms, such as your name, social security number, address, income, net worth and occupation.
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Information about your transactions with us and with our affiliates.
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Information you provide us to verify your identity, such as a driver’s license or information we receive from other entities not affiliated with KDM Trading, Inc.
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Information collected on customer visits to KDM Trading, Inc.’s web site. If you elect to use our online products or services, KDM Trading, Inc. allows you to register and create your own unique user ID and password, so that KDM Trading, Inc. may recognize you as a registered user. KDM Trading, Inc. may collect information about your visits to our web site through that ID and password.
How we protect personal information
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We do not share, sell or rent your personal information to anyone.
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We limit access to your personal information to those employees or independent contractors who need to know in order to conduct business, service your account, help provide you with products and services, help us improve our services to you, and to inform you about additional products or services that may be of interest to you.
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We require that our employees, independent contractors and clearing affiliate’s maintain and protect the confidentiality of your personal information. For example, except for information sent directly from us, you should not receive any marketing solicitations, product advertisements, solicitor phone calls, or any solicitations from other brokers or organizations as a result of establishing a relationship with us.
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We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information.
Disclosure to Non-Affiliated Third Parties
We do not disclose any personal information to non-affiliated third parties. However, we may disclose personal information with non-affiliated companies and regulatory authorities as permitted or required by applicable law. For example, personal information may be disclosed to cooperate with regulatory authorities and law enforcement agencies to comply with subpoenas or other official requests or to protect our rights or property with regard to any contractual, collection, or legal issues.
Affiliated Parties and brokers
KDM Trading, Inc. is currently an introducing broker affiliated with MF
Global, Inc. ("MFGI"), one of the world’s largest futures commission merchants. Except for customary business communications, you should not receive any solicitations for other services from
MFGI or their affiliates. Except as described in this privacy policy, we will not use your personal information for any other purpose unless we describe how such information will be used at the time you disclose it to us or we obtain your permission to do so.
Non-personally identifiable information collected
KDM Trading, Inc. collects certain non-personally identifiable information, such as the
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address of the web site you came from
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name of the domain used to access the Internet
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type of browser used
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date and time of the visit
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pages visited
This statistical information is used only to measure traffic and usage patterns, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. We do not use IP address logs to track your session or your behavior on our site. We do not release this information to non-affiliated third parties, nor do we link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable.
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