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Information about our Organisation and Website
Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like The London Metal Exchange Limited.
We are based in the United Kingdom. Our principal activity is as a financial futures exchange.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This online privacy policy describes the ways in which we collect information from you when you use this website and what we may use it for. Please read the policy to check how your information will be treated. This policy may vary from time to time so please check it regularly.
Our privacy policy covers The London Metal Exchange Limited and its websites http://www.lme.com/, https://secure.lme.com/ , http://lmeplastics.com/ , http://lmesteel.com/ and http://www.lmelive.com/.
Providing Visitors with Anonymous Access
You can access our website home pages and browse our sites without disclosing your personal data.
The Services of our Websites
Our Plastics and Steel Community websites (available at https://secure.lme.com/) enable you to communicate with other users or to post information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data.
Our online store enables you to sign up for a user shopping account and purchase goods and services from us.
Our mailing list service enables us to send you certain communications about LME products and services.
Our free data service enables you to sign up to access limited LME data online via the LME website
Our LMElive data website enables you to subscribe to access LME data online (http://www.lmelive.com/).
The Data we Collect
We may collect data from you in a number of ways:
- By use of our cookies
Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website, and which are stored in the cookies directory of your computer. We may use cookies to record details such as a user identity on your computer. This helps us to recognise you on subsequent visits so that you don't have to re-enter your registration details each time you visit us. You are not obliged to accept a cookie that we send to you. Depending upon the type of browser you are using, you may be able to configure your browser so that: (i) you are prompted to accept or reject cookies on an individual basis or (ii) you may be able to prevent your browser from accepting any cookies at all. You should refer to the supplier or manufacturer of your web browser for specific details about cookie security.
- During the course of your use of this website, including all data you may send to this website or an email address given on this website.
- When we request further information from you following on from any contact you have made with us through this website.
We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.
Our use of the Data
We will use the data we collect from you to provide you with the information or services you have requested and for internal customer administration purposes.
If you have already consented to receive marketing materials from us, we may use your data in order to send you in electronic and/or paper form marketing and other materials relating to the London Metal Exchange.
If you are not registered to receive marketing information and wish to receive such information, please email us on lme.marketing@lme.com. You may withdraw your consent to the receipt of marketing materials at any time and free of charge by sending an email to us at lme.marketing@lme.com.
We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, we offer you the means to consent to this new purpose: by indicating in a box at the point on the site where personal data is collected.
Confidentiality / Security
We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data:
- primary personal data (such as name and contact details)
- identifiers (such as credit card details, website password)
We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:
- unauthorised access
- improper use or disclosure
- unauthorised modification
- unlawful destruction or accidental loss
All our employees and data processors who have access to and are associated with the processing of personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.
We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties unless you have provided your consent or unless required by law or other regulation.
Consent
By continuing to use this website and by providing any personal data to us via this website or email addresses provided on this website, you are consenting to our use of your personal data as set out in this privacy policy. Please do not send us any personal data if you do not want that information to be used by us in any manner.
Access to the Personal Data we may hold about you
You have the right to apply for a copy of the data we hold about you and to have any inaccurate data about you corrected. For more information, please send an email to lme.marketing@lme.com.
Privacy Compliance
Our privacy policy is compliant with the Data Protection Act 1988, the Data Protection Act 1998, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC).
Privacy Support
If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact:
Address: 56 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3A 2DX
Phone Number: +44 (0) 207 264 5555
Fax Number: +44 (0) 207 264 5541
Email address: lme.marketing@lme.com
URL: http://www.lme.com/contact.asp
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