Privacy Policy

Safeguarding the personal and financial information and protecting the privacy of Fort clients are one of our highest priorities. The following Privacy Statement declares how we collect and protect your personal and financial data.

Whenever you open an account with Fort, the information required is gathered so we may transact business effectively and secure your assets and privacy. In order of us to do this, we collect information to help us assess your preferences and needs. All the information we attain directly from you includes: your name, information required to communicate with you, mailing address, telephone number and email address. We also collect your location information and birth date.

Our use of personal data is limited to how we can use it to provide you with quality security and customer support. We may use the data gathered from you to verify your identity and contact information. We may also use this data to establish and set up your trading account, issue you with a unique account number and secure password, maintain your account activity and contact you with account information. All this data helps us better our services to you and notify you about additional products, services or promotions that you may be interested in.

Should it be required, we may share data with affiliates if the data is required to provide the product or services you have requested, or to provide you with the opportunity to participate in the products or services our affiliates offer. We may also establish partnerships and alliances which may include joint marketing agreements with other companies who offer high quality products and services that may be of value to you. In order to ensure that these products and services meet your needs and are delivered in a manner that is relevant and helpful, we may share information with partners affiliates and alliances. This is so they may better understand the offers that are the most useful and relevant. The use of your personal data is limited to the purposes identified in our relationship with the partner or affiliate.

We will not sell, license, lease or other disclose your personal data to any third party for any reason with the exceptions as described following. We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to third parties where required by law to regulatory, law enforcement or other government authorities. We may also disclose your information as necessary to credit reporting or collection agencies, or when necessary to protect our rights and/or property. In order to help us improve our services to you, we may engage other businesses to help us carry out certain internal functions such as client service, account processing, client satisfaction surveys or other data collection activities relevant to our business.

We may also provide a third party with client information from our database to help us analyze and identify client needs and to notify clients of product and service offerings. Our use of the information shared is strictly limited to the performance of the task we request and for no other purposes. All third parties with which we share personal information are required to protect personal information in a manner similar to the way we protect your personal information.

Should you, at any point in time, choose to purchase a product or service offered by another company, any personal information you share with that company will no longer be controlled under our Privacy Statement. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of sites we link to and have no control of the use or protection of information provided by you or collected by those sites. Any time you elect to link to a co-branded Web site or to a linked web site, you may be asked to provide registration or other information. Please note that the information you are providing is going to a third party and you should familiarize yourself with the privacy policy provided by that third party.

Cookies are small text files stored on the user’s computer for record keeping and security purposes. It allows us to enhance user experience while browsing our website. Unless the cookie settings on user’s browsers are disabled, Fort issues cookies upon landing on our website, . Please be notified that by turning off cookie tracking in your browser, some of our services might become unusable such as promotions or registration. Cookies used by us do not contain any personal information nor do they contain account or password information. They merely allow the site to recognize that a page request comes from someone who has already logged on. To administer and improve our web site, we may use a third party to track and analyze usage and statistical volume information, including page requests, form requests, and click paths. The third party may use cookies to track behavior and may set cookies on behalf of us. These cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information.

Any communications or material of any kind that you e-mail or otherwise transmit through the services, including information, data, questions, comments or suggestions will be treated as non-proprietary and non-confidential unless otherwise indicated for a particular service. In accepting this Privacy Agreement, you grant a license to us to use your communications in any way we deem suitable, either on the website or elsewhere, with no liability or obligation to you. We may monitor your Communications to evaluate the quality of service you receive, your compliance with this Agreement, the security of the Web site, or for other reasons. We are free to use any idea, concept, know-how or technique or information contained in your communications for any purpose including, but not limited to, developing and marketing products. We are entitled, but not obligated, to review or retain your communications. You agree that such monitoring activities will not entitle you to any cause of action or other right with respect to the manner in which we monitor your Communications. Under no circumstances will we be liable for any costs, damages, expenses or any other liabilities incurred by you as a result of our monitoring activities.

Any any given time, we may update this Privacy Statement. In the event we materially change this Privacy Statement, the revised Privacy Statement will promptly be posted to the websites and we will post a notice on our websites informing you of such changes. You agree to accept posting of a revised Privacy Statement electronically on the website as actual notice to you. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it. Any dispute over our Privacy Statement is subject to this notice and our Customer Agreement. If you have any questions that this statement does not address, please contact a Client Services representative.