Privacy Policy3.1 What is personal data?
3.2 Personal data that you provide when using our services or when ordering a trading account
3.3 Personal data that we collect automatically when using our services or when ordering a trading account
3.4 Personal data that we collect using cookies or similar technologies
3.5 Recording of telephone conversations
3.6 Data and communications from service providers with whom First Quant GmbH collaborates
3.7 Personal data from other sources
4.1 Use for the fulfillment of our contractual relationships
4.2 Use to pursue our legitimate interests
5.1 Use to pursue our legitimate interests
5.2 Advertising
5.3 Newsletter
5.4 Loginmechanismen
7.1 Service partners and brokers/banks
7.2 Law enforcement agencies, third parties in court proceedings, or legally authorized third parties
7.3 Change of ownership
8.1 Retention periods
8.2 Retention location
10.1 Unwanted and threatening emails
10.2 Communication tools
10.3 Privacy of children
10.4 Privacy rules of third parties
This Privacy Policy applies to all websites, applications, services or tools (collectively referred to as "Services") that are controlled by First Quant GmbH and their partners (hereinafter referred to as "AGORA direct" or "we"), regardless of how they are accessed or used by you. Partners of First Quant GmbH are always informed on our website under About Us.
The constant development of laws and regulations make it necessary to adapt and supplement this privacy statement. Therefore, please always pay attention to our website, we always try to inform you in good time about it under "My AGORA" or via e-mail. Although it is in our best intention, we cannot we cannot by its very nature give any guarantee for this.
Personal data is information about a specific or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is a person who identifies directly or indirectly through attribution features such as account numbers, database identification numbers, or specific information that is an expression of their physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.
Anonymous or aggregated data are not regarded as personal data, which therefore can no longer be used to identify a determinable natural person.
In order to be able to use our services, First Quant GmbH will collect personal data from you. Whenever data is referred to below, we refer to personal data.
The pages of First Quant GmbH Limited can be visited by anyone without providing any personal data. Despite of this, the First Quant GmbH Limited is collecting IP Address, time of access, amount of data, referer, and browser that has been used for statistics and for improving our systems. Should it be the unlikely case that from these data conclusions can be drawn in regard to your person these will be treated highly confidential.
First Quant GmbH can use text information files, also called cookies, on its website. This serves to make offer and achievement more individually available. These text information files are sent from an Internet server to the customer's home computer to identify this computer for time during its visit. For better transparency, computers can be set to inform about the placement of these so-called cookies.
As an introducing broker, we are legally obliged to record telephone conversations with customers and to store them in accordance with legal regulations. If you do not want a recording, please use another communication channel.
Service providers we work with can, according to the mailing authority you give us, provide us with communications and information.
First Quant GmbH continually strives to ensure the strict confidentiality of personal information. All employees, any representatives or other vicarious agents, the shareholders of First Quant GmbH, as well as all contract and cooperation partners are in principle obliged to secrecy.
First Quant GmbH respects and protects the personal data of customers and users of the First Quant GmbH website. Personal data will only be collected and processed if voluntarily provided by the user / customer of the First Quant GmbH website. These data will then be used only for the purpose for which they are intended for input or for First Quant GmbH to assume that they should be intended for a particular purpose.
Data that is collected is used to provide the services offered by First Quant GmbH and are limited in scope and nature of these services. In the course of issuing an Account Opening Order, First Quant GmbH is required by law to collect and process personal information. In order for First Quant GmbH to be able to perform the services offered, First Quant GmbH uses other contractual service partners. However, these contractual partners are only aware of the customer data disclosed to First Quant GmbH, insofar as these are necessary for the performance of the services. The disclosure of customer data to third parties is prohibited to the service partners by contract and according to statutory provisions, as well as the further use of the data outside the contractual relationship with First Quant GmbH. First Quant GmbH is always up-to-date on its website with the current contractual service providers.
We will use your personal information to pursue our legitimate interests, unless your fundamental rights and freedoms prevail.
Under "My AGORA" you can make various settings to determine how we can send you information, such as general information about your account, annual account statements, margin requirements, etc.
If you do not want to get targeted advertising, if you do not want to be tracked on social networks, please check with your browser manufacturer to see how certain privacy settings work in your browser. Keywords for this include cookie usage and storage, browser tracking, anonymous mode.
For the continuous supply of information, newsletters can be obtained. Additionally, user/customer provides an e-mail address, and obligatory name, first name and date of birth. The customer assures that these data are not wrong or third party data. By entering this data, the customer agrees to receive newsletters. First Quant GmbH is not obliged to send regular newsletters. First Quant GmbH is expressly allowed to contact the customer in writing, by telephone or by e-mail to inform about products and services. At any time, customers may revoke the authorization in writing to datacontroller@agora-direct.com or by phone at: +49 (0) 309 789 59 75 - 0. For subscriptions, the agreed notice periods shall apply. All data collected in this context will under no circumstances be disclosed to third parties and otherwise treated as described above. These data may be stored by First Quant GmbH and evaluated for statistical purposes.
We use and store cookies to verify login and login time. This cookie contains your session. After completing your login, this cookie will be deleted.
Users/customers, who request which of their data has been stored and/or processed by First Quant GmbH Limited, are entitled to request information about this. If this is the case, the request needs to be as detailed as possible in written form and with appropriate remarks with appropriate evidence exclusively to:
German Website: First Quant GmbH – Data protection officer
PO Box 304235
10757 Berlin Germany
Requests for information about data by e-mail or fax can only, due to a lack of clear identification, be requested by post and in written form. First Quant GmbH may and will, in case of doubt about the identity of the requester, require further identification information.
We are an Introducing Broker, which means you ask us to open an account with another service provider. We shall keep clients/users updated on our website, about who is our current contractual service provider. When ordering an account application, we need your above mentioned data in order in order to open an account with this service provider.
In order to comply with legal regulations, in order to enforce our terms and conditions, as well as the terms and conditions of our service partners, in order to defend legal claims, we may pass data to the above authorities or third parties.
If legally authorized third parties involved in a lawsuit provide us with a legal evidence, with a court-, or with an equivalent legal act, or if we believe in good faith that disclosure of the data is necessary in order to prevent an imminent threat to life and limb, or in order to prevent financial loss, or to report a suspected wrongful act, we may also share information.
In the event of a merger, sale or other equivalent event, we may share information with this company in accordance with our privacy policy. If such an event occurs, we will require the new entity to comply with this Privacy Policy.
Data is kept in accordance with legal deadlines and regulations. Data containing a complaint potential will be retained for the period in which a complaint or legal action against us is possible.
All personal data is being stored, processed, and accessed within the EU and UK. Data will never leave the scope of our servers or if necessary the scope of the servers of our service partners.
First Quant GmbH Limited has appointed a Data Protection Officer.
Mr Markus Nowatzki, Schwäbische Str. 5, 10781 Berlin, Germany
We do not tolerate misuse of our services. Unless expressly permitted, we do not tolerate any commercial use of our services.
First Quant GmbH does not send spam. Please report spam or fraudulent e-mail or SMS messages related to First Quant GmbH and forward them to datacontroller@agora-direct.com.
We may automatically scan messages sent through our messaging tools and check them for spam, viruses, phishing content or other malicious activity, unlawful or prohibited content, or for violations of our Terms and Conditions, this Privacy Policy or our other policies.
Our websites are intended for the general public and not for children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from users who are considered to be children under their respective national laws.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the use and disclosure of personal information that we collect from you in connection with the provision of our services. If you disclose your information to third parties or if you are directed to a third party website, its privacy policy applies to any personally identifiable information you provide to or collect from that third party.
Date: 31.03.2021
