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Privacy Policy

Gap Futures strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience. We may use Personally Identifiable Information (your name, email address, street address, telephone number) subject to the terms of this privacy policy. We will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any unauthorized third party. Period.

Who We Are

Our website address is: gapfutures and associated subdomains.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, forum, help desk, trading rooms, and webinars. We also show the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public along with your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Forms and Cookies

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days. Screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.

How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate, and the services provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for access to certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as newsletters or when you make a purchase. You may provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards, and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of our site. Like most websites, Gap Futures also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use cookie technology to recognize you and hold information from your visit. Among other things, the cookie may store your username and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or we may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information. For example, you may do this by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do, you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter your username and password. Doing so may cause us not to be able to customize the site's features according to your preferences. You may opt out at any time of any email notifications and/or newsletters simply by clicking the link provided at the bottom of any messages received, by submitting a removal request via help desk ticket, or by replying "Remove" if the link is not working for you on a message received.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, and article. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content, if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Analytics & Application Integration

We use a variety of analytics for statistical purposes and other uses:

  • Twitter tracking and remarketing
  • Facebook tracking and remarketing
  • Google tracking and remarketing
  • Google Analytics tracking and remarketing
  • Yahoo tracking and remarketing
  • Bing tracking and remarketing
  • Courseware for tracking course progress
  • Member Software Hosted on our servers for maintaining memberships
  • Shopping Cart for processing and encrypting payments
  • Payment Gateway for transferring encrypted processed data
  • Ad Roll Tracking for tracking and remarketing
  • Zopim for customer service management tracking
  • Zopim for tracking and remarketing
  • Server-side tracking for data protection
  • AddThis for tracking and remarketing
  • Tappad, Semasio, ADXNSX for site navigation, plugin status, user preferences, and tracking
  • DoubleClick for tracking and remarketing

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. (Usernames cannot be changed.) Website administrators can see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Spam Filters

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our Contact Information

Gap Futures

Gap Futures LLC

Support Contact: support@gapfutures.com

Additional information

How We Protect Your Data

We have backups of data made on highly secured servers. We use data encryption certificates for applications and websites. We do not record your payment information on our servers, but let third party shopping carts and gateways manage the data to ensure we do not have this sensitive information available.

Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place

We block specific countries, multiple login attempts by IP's exceeding normal login practices, permanent IP block of unauthorized root attempts, and have other security measures in place. In addition, we have 24/7 monitoring from our hosting companies.

What We Do With The Information We Collect

Like other web publishers, we collect information to enhance your visit, deliver more individualized content, and for advertising. We respect your privacy and do not share your information with anyone. Aggregated Information, information that does not personally identify you, may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to help enhance our site and services, such as, to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive. Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners. Again, this information does not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to identify you individually. We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains to communicate with you about your registration and customization preferences, our Terms of Service and privacy policy, services and products offered by Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains, and other topics we think you might find of interest. Personally Identifiable Information collected by Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (for example, our Web hosting service) may access such information. We will use your information only as permitted by law. In addition, from time to time, as we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge, or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets. We may also disclose your information in response to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe us, or to law enforcement authorities, whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary. Please note, we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases. You understand and consent that we use analytics to track detailed analytics of any tool accessed by users as we deem appropriate for technology, marketing, and distribution to appropriate parties.

Third Parties We Receive Data From

We may receive data from autoresponders, shopping carts, customer management systems, such as Zopim or Nadex, should you choose to use the scanner.

What We Do With Automated Decision Making and/or Profiling User Data

All member account access levels remarketing services may use automated decision making and profiling for data to provide to the user.

Affiliate and Linked Sites

Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains expect its partners, advertisers, and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates, and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site, you may link to, or view as part of a frame on an Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains, you may be introduced to, or be able to access information, websites, features, contests, or sweepstakes offered by other parties. Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains are not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party. While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners, or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information. Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains do not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information, and are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. You should also know if you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge. It may cause unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains and this policy.

Children

Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains do not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13 years of age, except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 13 years old in violation of this policy, we delete that information immediately. If you believe Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains have any information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at the address listed in Our Contact Information.

Changes to This Policy

Gap Futures Inc and any subdomains reserves the right to change this policy. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected before any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.

Industry Regulation Disclosure Requirements

Risk Disclosure:

Futures trading contain substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Hypothetical Performance Disclosure:

Hypothetical performance results have many inherent limitations, some of which are described below. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown. In fact, there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved by any particular trading program. One of the limitations of hypothetical performance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk and no hypothetical trading record can completely account for the impact of financial risk of actual trading. For example, the ability to withstand losses or to adhere to a particular trading program despite trading losses are material points, which can also adversely affect actual trading results. There are many other factors related to the markets in general or to the implementation of any specific trading program, which cannot be fully accounted for in the preparation of hypothetical performance results and all of which can adversely affect trading results.