Privacy and Cookies

In the course of serving our clients, Leander Equities may obtain personal information about such clients. Obtaining this information is important to our ability to deliver the highest level of service to you, but we also recognize that you expect us to treat this information appropriately.

This policy describes the types of personal information we may collect about you, the purposes for which we use the information, the circumstances in which we may share the information and the steps that we take to safeguard the information to protect your privacy.

Leander Equities, Inc. (“Leander Equities”, “We”, “Our”, or “Us”) values the privacy of the visitors to its website (“Website) and the users of the services provided thereon (individually, “User” or “you”, and collectively, “Users”), and makes it a priority to protect any personally identifiable information it obtains from its Users. This Privacy Policy explains Leander Equities’ collection, use, and protection of your personal information on and in connection with the https://leandereq.com website (“Website”) and all content, services and/or products provided through the Website (collectively, the “Services”).

If you have any questions that this policy does not address, please contact us on legal@leandereq.com. By accessing the Services, registering as a user, using our Service or by otherwise submitting your personal information to us, you give your consent to the collection and use of personal information as explained in this policy.

Non-public information that personally relates to or identifies you (such as your name, password, age, gender, email address, postal mailing address, zip code, home/mobile telephone number, Social Security number and/or taxpayer identification number, investment objectives, investment experience, assets and income, website pages viewed, and other similar information) is referred to as “personal information.”

Non-personally identifiable information collected on the Website may include, but is not limited to, sites visited before visiting the Site, frequency of visits, clickstream data, browser type, operating system, organisation name, articles, internet connection speed, presentations viewed, time spent viewing pages of our website or using certain features of our website, demographic data such as server locations, location services, cookies on your computer, search criteria and results, and other information which does not specifically identify you.

How we limit collection & use of data

In order to provide our Services to you, we are required by law and regulatory bodies to collect certain information. Leander Equities makes commercially reasonable efforts to keep our clients’ personal information confidential, secure, and intact.

Keeping client information secure and using it only for the purposes that our Users have requested is a matter of principle for all of us at Leander Equities. With this in mind, the following is our promise to each and every User: Unless you expressly authorise otherwise, we will limit the collection and use of client and user information to what we believe is necessary to service your accounts, administer our business, or inform you about our Services. We will restrict employee access to client and user information to those who need to know in order to provide Services to you;

• We will educate our employees according to our internal policies to reinforce the importance of confidentiality and client and user privacy;
• We will maintain commercially reasonable and customary security standards and procedures to protect information about you;
• and We will respond quickly to your request to correct inaccurate information.

The Sources of Information

We collect personal information about you primarily through account applications and other forms and materials you submit to Leander Equities during the course of your relationship with us. We may also collect information about your transactions and experiences with Leander Equities in relation to the services provided by Leander Equities. Furthermore, depending on the services you require, Leander Equities may obtain additional information about you from consumer reporting agencies, such as your credit history.

Finally, in the course of providing financial services to you, and subject to strict compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, information about you may be gathered indirectly through monitoring or other means (e.g., e-mail monitoring). In these circumstances, the information is not accessed on a continuous or routine basis, but it may be used for compliance or security purposes.

The Information We Have about You

If you deal with Leander Equities in your individual capacity (e.g., as a private client), or as a settlor/trustee/beneficiary of a trust, or as an owner or principal of a company or other investment vehicle established to invest on your behalf or on behalf of your family, etc., the typical information we collect about you may include (in addition to any other information as may be determined on a case-by-case basis):

• Your full name, phone number, email address, organization, and other details;
• Extensive financial information, including source of wealth, investment experience and objectives, risk tolerance and, in certain jurisdictions, representations required under applicable law or regulation concerning your financial resources; and
• A personal identifier such as, depending on your country of residence, your Social Security Number, National Insurance Number, Tax File Number, etc.

Of course, you are not required to supply any of the personal information that we may request. However, failure to do so may result in our being unable to open or maintain your account or to provide services to you. While we make every effort to ensure that all information, we hold about our clients is accurate, complete and up to date, we rely on our clients promptly notifying us if there are any changes to their personal information.

Disclosures of Your Personal Information to Third Parties

Leander Equities does not disclose your personal information to third parties, except as described in this policy. Third party disclosures may include sharing such information with investment partners (e.g., deal sponsors), other financial institutions (e.g., lenders requiring such information pursuant to regulatory requirements) and/or non-affiliated companies that perform support services for your account or facilitate your transactions with Leander Equities, including those that provide professional, legal or accounting advice to Leander Equities. Each such third party is required to maintain the confidentiality of such information to the extent received and to use your personal information only in the course of providing the services, and only for the purposes, dictated by Leander Equities.

We may also disclose your personal information to fulfil your instructions, to protect our rights and interests and those of our business partners or pursuant to your express consent. Finally, under limited circumstances, your personal information may be disclosed to third parties as permitted by, or to comply with, applicable laws and regulations; for instance, when responding to a subpoena or similar legal process, to protect against fraud and to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or regulatory authorities or with organizations such as exchanges and clearinghouses.

You should know that Leander Equities will not sell your personal information.

Updates and Changes to Privacy Policy

An updated Privacy Policy will be posted to our website if this policy is changed, and the “Updated” date will be changed. Notice of the change will be sent to you or displayed on the Website’s home page if the new Privacy Policy contains a major change to how we collect or use personal information.

Please return to this page to become acquainted with any changes to the Privacy Policy. You agree to accept the publication of a revised Privacy Policy as genuine notice to you of such updated Privacy Policy as detailed below. Your continued use of the Services following the publishing of such notice constitutes your consent to the collection and use of your information as outlined in the Privacy Policy in effect at the time.

Privacy and the Internet

The following additional information will be of interest to you as a visitor to this site:

• Users of https://leandereq.com are required to identify and authenticate themselves prior to accessing our services. Generally, identification and authentication take place through the use of your user’s name and a password.

• https://leandereq.com is built upon a secure infrastructure with multiple layers of protection. Leander Equities uses industry standard encryption technologies to protect your information from external compromise.

• Security is a cooperative effort between Leander Equities and the users of the website. Please remember that your login and password are personal to you and should not be made available to any other person. Also, you should discontinue their use and notify us if you have any reason to suspect that someone else may be using them.
• We may collect certain aggregate and non-personal information when you visit the http://leandereq.com/. We may collect this information through “cookie” technology. Cookies are bits of text that can be placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular website. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. Remember, though, without cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the website features.

• “Clickstream” data (e.g., information regarding which of our Web pages you access, the frequency of such access, and your product and service preferences) may be collected by Leander Equities itself, or by our service providers, using cookies, Web beacons, page tags, or similar tools that are set when you visit our Web site or when you view an advertisement, we have placed on another Web site. Clickstream data and similar information may be shared internally within Leander Equities and used: for administrative purposes; to assess the usage, value and performance of our online products and services; to improve your experience with our Web sites; and as otherwise permitted by applicable law or regulation. If you are a Leander Equities client, this information helps us suggest products or service offerings that may be of interest to you. This information may be processed by us for the purposes described above, or on our behalf by third parties, solely in accordance with our instructions.

• Leander Equities may make available on this Web site third party applications such as content linking or sharing facilities. Information collected by providers of such applications is governed by their privacy policies.