Privacy Policy
1. INTRODUCTION
This Privacy Statement describes how StockMentor handles and respects personal data and information. This statement may be amended from time to time. We recommend our visitors and users to review the Privacy Policy regularly.
All “Personal data” collected and managed by us (by definition, any data that identifies the person to whom the data relates, or is suitable for identifying, contacting or locating that person) is subject to this – as amended from time to time – Privacy Policy falls under its scope. To update your information and preferences, see the section “Updating your personal information and privacy settings”.
StockMentor consists of different legal entities. This data protection policy is published on behalf of the StockMentor group of companies. By the name “StockMentor” and the first person plural references, we mean the StockMentor company that acts as a data controller or data processor of your data. You can read more about this in the section “Organizations that collect personal data” below.
2. Collection of personal data
As a visitor to the Website, you can perform many activities without providing personal data.
However, when you sign up for a StockMentor website and order products or services as a StockMentor subscriber, we may collect the following personal information about you in order to perform the services:
• Contact information, such as your name, phone number, primary address and email address, as well
• Billing information, such as your credit card number, expiration date, card type, and billing address.
• Demographic data, such as your job title, description, company name and type.
• Profile information such as your username and password, details of your purchases and details of content licensed from us.
If you submit content for StockMentor licensing, you may be required to provide the following information:
• Contact details such as your name, telephone number, primary address and email address
• Payment and uploader information, including: payment method, payment email address, display name you want to display, interests, recording equipment and information about your skill and creativity level.
Depending on the activity, the data requested by us and to be provided by you are partly mandatory and partly voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data for a specific activity, you cannot participate in that activity.
As is the case with most websites, while you are using the Website, StockMentor or its third parties may collect technical and access information about your computer in order to facilitate your use of the Website and its services. We may log certain environmental variables, such as your browser type, your computer’s operating system, processor speed, and IP address. We use these environmental variables to enable and track your use of the Site and its services. StockMentor also uses these environmental variables to measure the traffic characteristics of the Website. In order to better understand the needs of our visitors to the Website, we may occasionally compare this data with your personal data.
In order to reduce errors in our databases, authenticate our users and prevent abuse of our system, we may supplement the personal data you send us with data from external sources. For example, we may supplement your contact information with address information received from the United States Postal Service to qualify your information and prevent errors in our databases. We may supplement the data collected directly from you with data stored in external databases, such as demographic or company data, so that the marketing messages sent to you are more likely to be relevant and interesting to you.
When you download and use our mobile applications and services, we automatically collect information about the type of device you use and the version of your operating system. We do not request, access, or track location-based information from your mobile device while you download or use our mobile applications or services.
3. Update personal information and privacy settings
Upon your request, StockMentor will provide you with information about your Personal Data managed by us and provide access to them. To request the data, write to the following address: stock@StockMentor.hu.
You are entitled to access, modify or delete your personal data at any time, as well as to change your data protection settings. This can be done by clicking on “My Account”, where most personal data can be displayed and changed immediately. If you wish to delete your account or revoke your permission to use the information you have provided us with, please follow the instructions in the “Delete My Account” section under the “My Account Settings” link on our website. If you are an uploader, you can edit your profile. For security reasons, changes to some personal data can only be requested from customer service. We respond to requests without unnecessary delay and within a realistic time frame.
4. Method of using personal data
StockMentor collects your personal information to provide services to you, to comply with its legal obligations, and to improve its products and services. Your personally identifiable information will not be sold, loaned, or shared with third parties in any way other than as described in this Privacy Policy. StockMentor may use this data to:
• Provides access to the StockMentor website, mobile application and services based on personal identification.
• Processing your financial transactions.
• To send you order/renewal confirmations.
• A record of your eligibility for technical support or other benefits available to registered users.
• Answering customer service requests, questions and complaints.
• Managing your account.
• Sending you requested product or service information.
• Providing you with information about special offers and services from StockMentor and selected third parties.
• Administering promotions and prize draws that you have taken advantage of and notifying you of the results.
• Investigations, preventive steps and measures related to illegal activities and/or violations of the Terms of Service.
• Meeting our research and product or service development needs, improving our Website, services and offerings, and
• Customization of user experience, including our services, search results and offers targeted to you.
The data we collect is stored in cookies, log files, transparent images and/or third party sources to summarize your preferences. We link your personally identifiable information and/or membership usage history with the data in the summary to provide you with customized promotions and marketing offers, to improve the content of the website for you and/or to determine your preferences.
In certain situations, for example due to reasons of national security or law enforcement, StockMentor may be required to provide personal data by means of a legal data provision order in accordance with its legal obligations.
When required by law (e.g. to comply with a subpoena, order, court decision or legal process regarding StockMentor) or if we believe it is necessary to protect our own rights, avoid litigation, protect your safety or that of others, investigate fraud and/or this is necessary in order to fulfill an official request. In order to comply with the relevant legal requirements, we may release your data even if, in our opinion, the data release is necessary for reasons of national security, law enforcement or other public interest.
5. Legal bases for data processing
For residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom, we process personal data within the following statutory and regulatory framework:
• If the processing is justified by the obligation to fulfill our agreement with you:
o Provide access to the StockMentor website, mobile applications and services necessary to fulfill the terms of our agreement;
o Customization of user experience, including our services, search results and offers targeted to you.
o Providing data necessary for making decisions regarding StockMentor’s services;
o Processing your financial transactions and delivering confirmations of orders and renewals;
o Records of your possible entitlement to technical support or other benefits available to registered users;
o Answering customer service requests, questions and complaints;
o Managing your account.
• Data processing necessary to protect the fundamental interest of the data subject or another natural person:
o Investigating and preventing violations of intellectual property rights;
o Confirm the license validity of StockMentor content;
o Investigations, preventive steps and measures related to violations of the Terms of Service.
• Processing aimed at fulfilling the legitimate interests of StockMentor:
o Providing, developing and customizing our website and services;
o Carrying out our transaction and fulfilling our contractual obligations towards our customers and uploaders;
o Analysis and interpretation of the way our online interface is used;
o Maintaining the security and integrity of our website, applications and other services;
o Providing requested information about products and services, as well as information about special offers and services from StockMentor and selected third parties.
o Conducting promotions and sweepstakes;
o Research and product-service development affecting our website and services.
• Processing resulting from StockMentor’s legal obligations, for example:
o Investigating and preventing intellectual product infringements, fraud, spam, harassment, crimes and security risks;
o Compliance with laws and regulations sanctioning money laundering, bribery and corruption; and
o Complying with financial reporting and other obligations arising from securities laws.
6. Sharing data with service providers/agents
The invoicing of StockMentor’s goods and services is facilitated by one or more third-party credit card processing companies. To the best of our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store or use any personally identifiable information for any purpose.
We also share personal data with some companies that provide services on our behalf. We only share the personal data that the companies need to provide the respective services. We require all companies with which we may share personal data to protect the data in accordance with this policy and to limit the use of such personal data to the performance of the services provided to StockMentor.
We do not sell or otherwise transfer personal data to other companies for the purposes of marketing activities related to their own products or services.
7. Data retention and portability
We keep your data as long as your account is active, they are needed to provide services, to authenticate and execute licenses for the use of Content, and to fulfill our legal obligations. If you wish to delete your account or revoke your permission to use the information you have provided us with, please follow the instructions in the “Delete My Account” section under the “My Account Settings” link on our website. If you cannot access your account, contact us: stock@StockMentor.hu. We will respond to your request within 30 days. We store and use your data as necessary to fulfill our legal obligations, settle disputes and enforce our agreements.
If you have already licensed StockMentor content, the license history is available under the License History menu item.
8. Disposition (rejection) option
StockMentor does not sell your personal data to third parties. We use the services of third-party advertising companies to manage our advertisements placed on other websites. Our third-party partners use cookies, trackers, and similar solutions to collect information about your activity on our website and other websites to ensure that the advertisements that appear reflect your browsing activity and interests. If you do not want the data to be used for the purpose of sending advertisements based on your interests, you can disable it at any time. Note that this does not turn off the advertising service itself. You will continue to see general advertisements.
StockMentor uses your personal data only for the purposes described in this privacy statement, and without your express consent, it does not use your personal data for purposes that are essentially different from it.
You can “unsubscribe” from StockMentor’s notification e-mails, newsletters and/or partners’ e-mails by clicking on the “My Account” link on the Website and then selecting the necessary settings. It is also possible to unsubscribe from such messages during the registration process. Regardless, StockMentor will send you a message when the Terms of Service or the Uploader Service Terms are changed. In addition, we will send you service-related notices, including but not limited to: registration email, benefit notification emails, emails automatically generated as a result of your actions on the Site, and billing notifications. You generally cannot opt out of these non-promotional messages. If you do not wish to receive such messages, you have the option to deactivate your account.
If you use one of StockMentor’s mobile applications, we may send you push notifications from time to time to let you know about events and promotions we run. If you no longer wish to receive such messages, you can turn them off on your device.
You can request the deletion of your personal data from our system, or you can opt out of the further processing of your personal data by following the instructions in the “Delete your personal data” section of the “My account – settings” page. If you cannot access your account, contact us: admin@StockMentor.hu
9. Protection of your personal data
We protect the personal data you provide in connection with the use of the Website in a number of ways.
• You can access your own account profile only with the password and unique customer ID you provide. The password is encrypted. You should always use a strong alphanumeric (including letters and numbers) password and not share it with others.
• Your personal data is stored on a secure server. The server can only be accessed by certain employees and subcontractors of StockMentor, using a password.
• Your personal data is always sent to StockMentor in encrypted form.
• If you enter special data (such as a credit card number) on our registration or order forms, the data is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology.
We protect the personal data sent to us during the data transmission and also after their arrival. However, there is no 100% secure method of Internet data transmission and electronic data storage. We take into account the special nature of the personal data we collect, process and store, and we protect your personal data with up-to-date technological solutions, but we cannot guarantee their complete security.
You can send your questions about the security of our Website by e-mail to the following address: stock@StockMentor.hu.
10. Cookies and tracking technologies
When you visit our website, for example, the following data may be collected automatically: Internet service provider, browser type and version, operating system and device type, average time spent on our website, pages viewed, data accessed, IP address used by your computer to connect to the Internet, and other statistical data related to the subject. These data are also called Web Analytics and Clickstream data.
We may combine this automatically logged data with other data we may collect about you. This is to improve the service we provide, to provide marketing, analytics and website operational functions.
StockMentor and its partners, analytics, and website operational features use, for example, cookies, data collection signals, tags, and scripts. With these technical solutions, we analyze trends, help operate the website, track users’ movements on our website, and collect demographic data about our users. Using the above technical solutions, we can receive both individualized and aggregated reports from these companies.
• A cookie is a small, unique text file that our system sends to the user’s computer visiting our website. The cookie can be session, which is deleted when the browser is closed, or it can be permanent, which remains on the user’s computer until it is deleted. Most browsers can be set to warn you when cookies are received, or to completely prohibit their acceptance. If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you can set your browser to reject them or request a notification when a website tries to place cookies on your machine. If you reject cookies, you may not be able to use our website.
• We use external partners either to display advertisements on our website or to manage our own advertisements appearing on other websites. Our third-party partners use cookies and similar solutions to collect information about your activity on our website and other websites, thereby ensuring that the displayed advertisements reflect your browsing activity and interests. If you do not want the data to be used for the purpose of sending advertisements based on your interests, you can disable it at any time. Note that this does not turn off the advertising service itself. You will continue to see general advertisements.
The Cookie Statement provides more detailed information about cookies and external advertising partners.
We allow you to create a profile to access blogs and online communities so that you can exchange data such as messages, photos and videos. Please note that we cannot determine the behavior of the people with whom you may share your pages and information. All information posted on a public message board or chat room, such as the Uploader Forum (the “Forums”), is available to any visitor there. If you request the removal of your personal data from the blog or social forum, contact us: stock@StockMentor.hu. If it is possible that your personal data cannot be removed, we will provide information about this and the reason. If you have published such data through the system of a third party, you can delete it either by logging into that system, or you can request it in the third party’s system.
By default, our system does not publish your e-mail address on the Forums, unless you enable it by changing your default settings. If authorized, your email address will be available to anyone accessing the Forums. In addition, the data you may provide in your profile will always be available to those visiting the Forums. You can edit your profile.
We use mobile analytics software to better understand how our mobile software works on your phone. This software may record information about, for example, how often you use the application, in-app events, aggregate usage, performance data, and where you downloaded the application. We do not link the data stored within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you provide within the mobile application.
11. Amendments to the data protection policy
StockMentor reserves the right to modify the Privacy Policy from time to time at its own discretion, and in case of material changes to the Privacy Policy, it will send a notification by e-mail or place a notification on the homepage of the Website before the modification takes effect. If, due to the changes, you would like to change the way you allow StockMentor to use your Personal Data, you can do so by following the relevant procedure.
After the relevant notice is published, you will be deemed to be aware of the material changes to the Privacy Policy and accept them, with the following exception: When you provide your Personal Data to StockMentor (as you do now), you have the option to limit how such data is used. may be used by StockMentor or a third party to communicate with you, and if you apply such a restriction, StockMentor will not change your settings for this without your express consent. In addition, if StockMentor is acquired by or merged with another legal entity, StockMentor may transfer to that legal entity all user data related to the scope of our services affected by the acquisition or merger without your consent, however StockMentor will provide notice of any divestment, acquisition or merger on this Site.
12. Non-discrimination
StockMentor does not discriminate against users who exercise their rights under California or similar consumer privacy laws. We do not deny service to, or apply different rates to, users who choose to exercise their rights under applicable data protection laws.
13. Links to Third Party Websites
Our website contains links to websites with privacy policies that differ from those of the StockMentor site. If you enter your personal information on such an external website, it will be handled by the privacy policy of that website. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of all other websites you may visit.
14. Social page widgets
Our websites may include various social features, such as a Facebook Like button and widgets such as a Share button, as well as interactive mini-programs that run on our website. These features may access your IP address and the list of pages you have visited on our website, and may place a cookie for the functionality to function properly. Social features and widgets are either operated by a third party or directly by our website. Activities carried out with such functions are subject to the data protection policy of the party providing the respective function.
15. Single sign-on
You may be able to log in to our website using a login provider, such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services verify your identity and may be configured to transmit certain personal information to us, such as pre-filling our registration form with your name and email address. For example, Facebook Connect can be set up to post information about your activity on our website to your profile page, which your friends can see.
16. Broadcast program email addresses
If you choose to act as an intermediary to send a notification from our Website to a colleague, share a collection, or invite someone to your workgroup, we will ask for their name and email address. We invite your colleague to visit our website in a one-time automatic e-mail message. StockMentor stores the data solely for the purpose of sending this one-time email, tracking the success of the referral program, and controlling access to the collection.
Your colleague can contact: stock@StockMentor.hu with a request to remove data from our database.
17. Children
We do not intend to solicit or collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not enter any information on this website or use our services. If you believe that your child under the age of 18 has entered personal data on our website, write to support@StockMentor.hu to delete the data and terminate the child’s account.
18. Organizations that collect personal data
Data controller (headquarters or place of registration)
E-mail address: stock@StockMentor.hu
The StockMentor group has a designated data protection officer who is responsible for supervising issues related to this data protection information. If you have any questions, concerns or requests regarding this data protection information, the processing of your personal data or any other matter related to your personal data, please contact the data protection officer here: stock@StockMentor.hu.
Certain companies of the StockMentor group may perform data management activities with Personal Data, as stated in our information on further data management within the StockMentor group.
19. Complaints about data protection
In some countries, such as the European Economic Area, legislation provides natural persons with certain rights in relation to their personal data. Apart from the exceptions provided for by law, you have the right to request access to personal data, or to request the updating, deletion, correction or limitation of their further processing.
If the processing of personal data by StockMentor falls under the scope of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, StockMentor processes the data based on the legitimate interests described above. If StockMentor processes personal data for its own direct business purposes, you have the right to object to this at any time. To do this, click on the “My Account” link and unsubscribe from emails. If you are an uploader, you can edit your profile separately.
You can request the deletion of your personal data from our system, or you can opt out of the further processing of your personal data by following the instructions in the “Delete your personal data” section of the “My account – settings” page.
If you wish to object further to the processing of your personal data, you can do so by e-mail: stock@StockMentor.hu
StockMentor takes your user privacy concerns seriously. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you believe that StockMentor has not acted in accordance with the Privacy Policy when handling your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer at the following address: stock@StockMentor.hu
Data controller (headquarters or place of registration)
E-mail address: stock@StockMentor.hu
In accordance with current laws, you also have the right to file a complaint with the local competent authority or the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which is StockMentor’s primary supervisory body in the European Union. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and believe that we are storing personal data about you, you have the right under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to address a question or complaint to the locally competent data protection authority or to our company’s primary supervisory body.