New York Portfolio Clearing Privacy Policy
As of March 2012
New York Portfolio Clearing, LLC (“NYPC”) respects the privacy rights of our users and is strongly committed to protecting your privacy online. This privacy policy sets forth our policies relating to this web site (the “Web site”) and, where indicated, the site hosting our NYPC PRIME™ margin estimation tool (the “NYPC PRIME™ site”); this privacy policy does not apply to other NYPC products or services.
This Web site is provided for information purposes only. NYPC does not collect personal information (that is, information from which an individual may be identified) from visitors to this Web site. There is no mechanism to sign-in to this Web site, and we do not undertake to match your Internet Protocol address (“IP address”) to any personal information.
This Web site uses cookies and NYPC collects, uses, and shares web analytics information in aggregated form. NYPC may also use a third-party service to collect this information remotely by using tags embedded in the Web site’s content. The data that NYPC collects may include the type of operating systems and browsers that visitors use, IP address information, how visitors navigate to and through the Web site, and how long visitors stay on pages within the Web site, among other information. This information does not include your name, e-mail address, or any contact information. NYPC may share this information with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (“DTCC”) and its affiliates, NYSE Euronext (“NYSE”) and its affiliates, and NYPC’s third-party vendors, such as Google. We use analytics data to improve our site by responding to our users’ interests and providing more relevant and useful information.
If you would like to learn more about the use of cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies
Please note that when you visit any other website the privacy policy governing this Web site will not apply, and the operator of such other website may collect information about you, including through cookies or other technologies; this remains so even if you visit another website via a link from this Web site. In addition, your Internet or other service provider(s) may collect information about or submitted by you while you use this Web site or any other web site. You acknowledge that the information collection and privacy practices of other parties are not monitored or controlled by NYPC and that we are not responsible for such websites.
Links on this Web site to other websites are provided only as a convenience, and the inclusion of such links does not imply endorsement of the linked site. You should review the privacy policies of any other website that you visit to understand how your information is collected and used.
It is necessary to use authorization credentials to sign in to the NYPC PRIME™ site. The NYPC PRIME™ site uses session cookies to ensure you remain signed in to the site while using it, but those session cookies are not saved by your browser when you leave the NYPC PRIME™ site. We do not track your navigation within the NYPC PRIME™ site, and we do not match your use of the NYPC PRIME™ site or any securities or position data you enter in the margin estimation tool to any other records we may possess about you or your company. We keep an audit trail of log-in and log-out times associated with each user of the NYPC PRIME™ site; if we share any information relating to these log-in and log-out times, we will do so without identifying you or your company.
Notwithstanding the privacy policy stated above, we reserve the right to store information and disclose it to third parties under the following circumstances: when the law permits it; to legal and business advisors; in the event of a merger or acquisition of our company by another; and to protect the rights, property, safety or security of NYPC, its related companies, Web site visitors or the public. Also, you should be aware that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, may have the authority under certain circumstances to permit your information to be shared or transferred to third parties without your permission.
NYPC reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy from time to time, and we will notify you by posting a revised version of this privacy policy on this Web site. The revised version will be effective upon posting.