Last update: 31 of March 2023
General
Welcome to CEX-ETRADE.COM Privacy Policy.
CEX-ETRADE.COM Group of companies (hereinafter, "CEX-ETRADE.COM ", "we", "us" or "our") are committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of our Users (hereinafter, “User(s), you, customer). CEX-ETRADE.COM Group of companies refers to the group of affiliated companies that are mentioned in our Terms of Used.
By agreeing to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, you are entering into an electronic agreement between you and a specific company of CEX-ETRADE.COM Group of companies.This Privacy Policy (together with our Terms of Used ) describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we collect when you use CEX-ETRADE.COM ’s website, any and all services, products, and content, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We adhere to the standards outlined in this Privacy Policy, ensuring we collect and process personal information lawfully, fairly, transparently, and with legitimate, legal reasons for doing so.
Our Policy for residents of the United States is available.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of:
1. Interpretation and Definitions
1.1. Interpretation The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
1.2. Definitions For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
1.3. Other capitalised terms, not specified above, have the meanings as defined in the Terms of Used and the applicable data protection legislation.
2. Who We Are
CEX-ETRADE.COM Group of companies is a leading digital asset ecosystem comprised of entities defined in Terms of Used .
Established in 2013 as the first cloud mining provider, CEX-ETRADE.COM has become a multi-functional cryptocurrency exchange, trusted by over 6 million users.
CEX-ETRADE.COM offers cross-platform trading via website, mobile app, WebSocket and REST API, providing access to high liquidity order book for top currency pairs on the market. Instant cryptocurrency buying and selling is available via a simplified bundle interface.
The exchange has developed a multi-level account system with an individual approach to each customer, from crypto beginners to institutional traders. Worldwide coverage in permissible jurisdictions, multiple payment options, and 24/7 support are accompanied by time-proven platform stability that focuses on the safety of assets and data.
3. Collecting and Using Your Personal Information
3.1. We may collect your Personal Information if you open an account or perform any transactions. This is defined as collection for the purpose of provision of service(s) to you in accordance with our Terms of Use. Please note, if you refuse to share your Personal Information for this purpose, we will not be able to provide our services to you.
3.2. The types of Personal Information which we collect may include:
3.3. Use of your Personal Data
3.3.1. We will process your Personal Information only for the purpose(s) of providing the service(s) to you, to satisfy the legal and regulatory obligations that arise from providing you the service(s) and our legitimate interest.
3.3.2. Based on our obligations and legitimate interest, we may request other documents for identity verification and sources of funds.
3.3.3. We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
3.4. Children's personal data Minors are not permitted to use CEX-ETRADE.COM . If you are a parent or guardian and believe that CEX-ETRADE.COM has information of a child under the age of 18 please contact us immediately at dpo@CEX-ETRADE.COM so we remove any such information from our database.
4. Your rights in relation to your personal data
4.1. Right to be informed: you have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you with clear and concise information about how we process your personal data.
4.2. Right to access: you have the right to access your Personal Information and request details about processing activities that we undertake with your data. You can do this by sending an email to us at dpo@CEX-ETRADE.COM or where possible, you can do these actions in your account profile page yourself. Upon your written request we will also give you a copy of the Personal Information we have retained. There may be a minimal charge for providing you additional copies of your Personal Information to cover administrative costs.
4.3. Right to Rectification: you may request us to rectify or update any of your personal information held by CEX-ETRADE.COM that is incomplete or inaccurate by sending an email at dpo@CEX-ETRADE.COM or where possible - do it in your account profile page yourself.
4.4. Right to Erasure: you have the right to request the erasure of both the Account and Personal Information by sending an email to us at: dpo@CEX-ETRADE.COM . CEX-ETRADE.COM will action your request, unless we have a legal or regulatory obligation or overriding legitimate interest to store your Personal Information (for instance, in cases you have performed transactions).
4.5. Right to object or to restrict processing - you have the right to restrict and object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, such as where the processing is carried out for direct marketing purposes. To do so, please send an email to us at dpo@CEX-ETRADE.COM or where possible do it yourself, f. e. unsubscribe from our marketing emails by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link provided in each of our marketing messages.
4.6. Right to data portability - you may also ask us to transfer your Personal Information to another controller of your choice.
4.7. Identity Verification - to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your information, we may request you to confirm your identity by providing identification documentation and/or other methods prior to assisting you in exercising any of your rights. If you refuse to prove your identity, we may decline to take actions in respect of your data, save restricting processing, until we can ensure that such actions are the true wish of the data subject.
4.8. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling. In the carrying out of our services we may use automated processing and profiling to reduce the risks of fraud, money laundering and abuse of our services. Through this automated processing, we carry out an analysis of your identification, transactional and behavioural patterns. We may not be able to provide you with some or all our services if you do not wish this automated processing to be carried out. If you feel that this processing might be detrimental to you, please contact us on dpo@CEX-ETRADE.COM , and our compliance officer will review your application.
4.9. Timeframe for Response: if you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If we are unable to respond within the month, we will inform you and provide an explanation for the delay.
4.10. Non-discrimination: we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particular service or offer (for example providing user support), We will not deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
4.11. No Fee usually required: you will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
5. Exercising of your Data Protection Rights
5.1. You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and opposition by contacting us. We may ask you to verify your identity before responding to requests.
5.2. You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. If you reside in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK, you have the right to discuss any instance where you feel we may not be adhering to the terms within this Privacy Policy or raise a complaint about our practices with the supervisory authority of your country or state.
5.3. In Gibraltar, use the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority, 2nd floor, Eurotowers 4, 1 Europort Road, Gibraltar, +350 200774636, +350 20072166, info@gra.gi.
5.4. In the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office www.ico.org.uk.
5.5. The Data Protection Commission in Ireland, located at 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD2, info@dataprotection.ie.
6. Retention of Personal Information
6.1. Your information is held within our servers located within the European Union. Access to this information is provided to staff of CEX-ETRADE.COM whose office may also be outside of the European Union but who adhere to the same principles of data security and processes as those within the European Union (please see the Section on International data transfers for more details).
6.2. Your payment method information to effect or receive payments from CEX-ETRADE.COM are passed on to third-party payment processor(s) based in the EU and with which CEX-ETRADE.COM has a contractual agreement to safeguard your rights. Unless you create an account with us and conduct transactions, we do not retain your payment method information.
6.3. We will hold your Personal Information only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and our legal and regulatory requirements.
6.4. In accordance with CEX-ETRADE.COM ’s legal obligations, we will retain Personal Information for a period of five years after our User closes their Account and terminates legal relationships with us, or for five years from the end of the tax period in which the User conducts their last transaction.
6.5. Data stored for regulatory purposes will be protected from unnecessary processing and will be held only for the purpose of being able to provide information or access to relevant authorities.
7. Disposal of Personal Information
7.1. Once we do not have any obligation to provide you with a service you requested, nor an obligation to hold Personal Information for regulatory or legal purpose, we will anonymise or dispose of your Personal Information in line with acceptable industry and security standards so that this cannot be subsequently retrieved and associated with you.
7.2. Where we cannot directly remove such records, such as in archived backups, we will retain a log of which Personal Information should be removed if ever the backup data is restored.
8. Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our site and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our site. The technologies we use may include:
8.1. IP Addresses We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and will not be used to identify any individual unless that same individual.
8.2. Web Beacons Certain sections of our service(s) and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the CEX-ETRADE.COM , for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
8.3. Cookies
8.3.1. We use a browser feature known as a "cookie", which assigns a unique identification to your computer. Cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive. Information collected from cookies is used by us to evaluate the effectiveness of our Sites, analyze trends, and administer the Platform. The information collected from cookies allows us to determine such things as which parts of our Sites are most visited and difficulties our visitors may experience in accessing our Sites. With this knowledge, we can improve the quality of your experience on the Platform by recognising and delivering more of the most desired features and information, as well as by resolving access difficulties.
8.3.2. We also use cookies and/or a technology known as web bugs or clear gifs, which are typically stored in emails to help us confirm your receipt of, and response to, our emails and to provide you with a more personalised experience when using our Sites.
8.3.3. We use third party service provider(s), to assist us in better understanding the use of our Sites. Our service provider(s) will place cookies on the hard drive of your computer and will receive information that we select that will educate us on such things as how visitors navigate around our Sites, what products are browsed, and general transaction information. Our service provider(s) analyses this information and provides us with aggregate reports. The information and analysis provided by our service provider(s) will be used to assist us in better understanding our visitors' interests in our Sites and how to better serve those interests. The information collected by our service provider(s) may be linked to and combined with information that we collect about you while you are using the Platform. Our service provider(s) is/are contractually restricted from using information they receive from our Sites other than to assist us.
8.3.4. You may control the cookies through your browser settings.
8.3.5. We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below: Necessary / Essential Cookies Type: Session Cookies Administered by us Purpose: these cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Site and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by us Purpose: these cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Site.
Tracking and Performance Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by third parties Purpose: these cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Site and how users use the Site. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Site. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of the Site to see how our users react to them.
8.4. Analytics. We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the website and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps, and online resources. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our site. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the site available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (gtm.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy&Terms web page: policies.google.com/privacy.
8.5. Do Not Track Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Currently, we do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.
9. Disclosure of Personal Information
9.1. We use the Personal Information for purposes indicated at the time you provide such information/for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy/as permitted by law.
9.2. Business Transactions. We may make available the Personal Information that you provide to us for the limited purpose indicated for and during the provision of the service that you would have requested in particular to:
9.2.1. We may also share users’ Personal Information with financial institutions, insurance companies or other companies in the case of a merger, divestiture, or other corporate reorganisation and notify you of such sharing of your information to be able to exercise any of your rights where applicable.
9.3. Law Enforcement. We may be required to disclose your Personal Information under certain circumstances, such as we are obligated to do so due to valid requests from public authorities (e. g. law enforcement or regulatory agencies, court, etc.). In certain cases, we may not be able to inform you of such sharing of data due to legal restrictions.
9.4. Any third party which receives or has access to Personal Information shall be required by us to protect such Personal Information and to use it only to carry out the services they are performing for you or for CEX-ETRADE.COM , unless otherwise required or permitted by law. Such a third party, except for regulatory authorities, would be contractually bound to adhere to the same or higher level of security and confidentiality policies as CEX-ETRADE.COM , and assume at least the same level of responsibilities as CEX-ETRADE.COM .
9.5. The legitimate exercise of any of your rights with CEX-ETRADE.COM will also be notified to be applied by any such third parties having been given access to your Personal Information.
9.6. We will ensure that any such third party is aware of our obligations under this Privacy Policy, and we will enter into contracts with such third parties by which they are bound by terms no less protective of any Personal Information disclosed to them than the obligations we undertake to you under this Privacy Policy, or which are imposed on us under applicable data protection laws.
10. International Data Transfers
10.1. Our contractors and affiliates are situated in various countries, including countries located outside the European Union (EU), and we may need to transfer your personal data to third countries to provide our services to you. We strive to ensure an adequate level of protection for your personal data, regardless of where our contractors are located. Please note that we may transfer your Personal Information only in the following cases:
11. Third-Party Sites and Resources Disclaimer
11.1. Our Site may contain links to third-party sites and resources. Please note that his Privacy Policy applies only to our Sites. By clicking on any such links and accessing those third-party sites or resources, you will be leaving our Site.
11.2. We want to make it clear that we have no control over these third-party sites, or any content contained therein. Therefore, we cannot accept any responsibility or liability for any of those third-party sites, including but not limited to their content, policies, promotions, products, services, actions and any damages, losses, failures, or problems caused by, related to, or arising from those sites. We strongly advise you to review all policies, rules, terms, and regulations, including the privacy policies, of any site that you visit.
12. Marketing Data Processing, Advertising and Social Media Fan Pages
12.1. We may use your Personal Information for marketing purposes if you provide your consent during registration or post-registration by checking marketing preferences boxes in your account profile page. Additionally, we may notify existing Users about our products or services that are similar to those we have already provided based on our legitimate interest.
12.2. You have the right to withdraw your consent for us to process your Personal Information for marketing purposes. To exercise this right, you can uncheck the marketing preferences boxes in your account profile or contact us at dpo@CEX-ETRADE.COM .
12.3. We maintain a strong presence on various social media platforms to stay connected with our customers and keep them updated on our latest developments. Our social fan pages include Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Telegram, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, and TikTok.
12.3.2. Please verify that you are on the correct website, to do it you can use the links provided above to access these pages directly.
12.4. We encourage our customers to follow and engage with us on our social media pages. However, please note that any information shared on these platforms is subject to the respective social media platform's privacy policy and terms of service. We do not have control over the information collected by these platforms and are not responsible for their actions.
12.5. We may use social media advertising to promote our services and reach a wider audience. Such advertising may involve the use of cookies or similar technologies to collect data about your browsing behavior. If you do not wish to receive targeted advertising from us, you can adjust your social media platform's settings or opt-out of targeted advertising by following the instructions provided by the respective social media platform.
12.6. Please note that any content posted by users on our social media pages is subject to the respective social media platform's terms of service and community guidelines. We reserve the right to moderate or remove any content that violates these guidelines or our company policies.
13. Security of Your Personal Data
13.1. We have implemented technical and organisational security measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and accountability of your Personal Information and to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorised alteration or destruction. Such measures include:
13.2. Only authorised personnel of CEX-ETRADE.COM have access to your Personal Information, and these personnel are required to treat the information as confidential.
13.3. Where you have consented to or we are obliged to pass on Personal Information to third parties to provide you with a requested service or in the carrying out of a regulatory or legal obligation, we will request that the high levels of technical and organisational security measures be applied through contractual arrangements, where possible.
13.4. We conduct testing, assessment, and evaluation of our technical and organisational measures effectiveness on a regular basis. Technical and organisational security measures in place, from time to time, are reviewed in line with legal and technical developments.
13.5. In the event of incidents, personal data leakage or the failure of the security measures to protect such information we will notify you without undue delay.
14. Security measure for processing payment card details
14.1. CEX-ETRADE.COM Ltd is fully compliant with PCI DSS (Level 1 Service Provider). PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is an information security standard designated for merchants, financial institutions, and payment service providers to ensure the safety of cardholders' data. You can check our Certificate of compliance.
14.2. Please note that our trusted payment service providers are PCI DSS compliant as well.
15. Fraud, Phishing and Email Scams Disclaimer
15.1. Please note that CEX-ETRADE.COM is not in any partnership with any individuals or organisations who represent themselves as customer support agents and offer customer support services through phone and/or social media channels for a fee. Please be aware that customer support is provided only through the CEX-ETRADE.COM website and is always free of charge.
15.2. If you believe that you have been a victim of fraud, phishing, or any scam that impersonates CEX-ETRADE.COM , please contact us immediately through the live chat available on our website.
16. Changes to this Privacy Policy
16.1. Our Sites policies, content, information, promotions, disclosures, disclaimers, and features may be revised, modified, updated, and/or supplemented at any time and without prior notice at the sole and absolute discretion of CEX-ETRADE.COM . If we change this Privacy Policy, we will take steps to notify all users by a notice on CEX-ETRADE.COM 's Site and will post the amended Privacy Policy on the CEX-ETRADE.COM 's Site.
16.2. If we consider that your rights may be affected by any such changes, we will request you to confirm your consideration and acceptance prior to continuing our relationship with you.
17. Contact us
17.1. CEX-ETRADE.COM , due to applicable data protection laws, appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO). Our DPO is the main contact for data protection supervisory authorities. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy and/or how we process your personal data, please contact our DPO at the email address dpo@CEX-ETRADE.COM .
17.2. You may also wish to check our Help Centre on support for frequently asked questions where a solution may easily be found ready for you.