Our relationship with you is our most important asset. Protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal and financial information is one of our highest priorities. The following Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information collected on the Bonds.com, Inc. and BondStation websites. References to the “We” in this Privacy Policy include both Bonds.com, Inc. and BondStation. The policy that applies on any of our domains or sub domains is always the policy that appears in the footer of each website.

Subject to the requirements of applicable law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices. By accepting the Privacy Policy, and the Term & Conditions in registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. For the purpose of this document, the term "our customers" refers to you.

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We recognize the importance of protecting the confidentiality of nonpublic personal information that we collect about our customers. You can browse Bonds.com without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are no longer anonymous to us. This information is used to ensure accuracy in reporting and record keeping, to maintain our customers' accounts, and to carry out requested transactions. We collect nonpublic personal information about our customers from the following sources:

• Applications or other forms (such as name, address, social security number, employer, assets, income, phone and fax numbers)
• Customers transactions
• Consumer reporting agencies (such as credit worthiness and credit history)
• Quote button affiliates (name, address, domain URL, email and phone of our affiliate member)
• Instant email alerts sign-up (such as name and email address)

As requested by law, to assess your experience in margin use and trading, we may also collect your approximate annual income, net worth, and credit reports to assess your financial position.

We may also collect demographic information when you register through our site or request information on our products, such as gender, birth date, education and occupation, etc.

• Name, email address and physical contact information
• Community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through the Site, and correspondence sent to us
• Computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the Site, and ad data
• Other information, including IP address and standard web log information
• Supplemental information from third parties

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Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use your personal information to verify your identity and contact information. We may also use this information to establish and set up your trading account, issue an account number and a secure password, maintain your portfolio and trading activity, and contact you with account information. This information helps us provide the services and customer support you request; resolve disputes, and troubleshoot problems, prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our Terms & Conditions, and customize, measure, and improve our services and the sites' content and layout.

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Our internal data security policies restrict access to nonpublic personal information to authorized employees. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that are designed to comply with federal standards to guard our customers' nonpublic personal information. Employees who violate our data security policies are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.

Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers and letters and do not disclose your password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, remember that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately notify us and change your password.

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You can see, review and change most of your personal information by logging into the Site. Generally, we will not manually modify your personal information because it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law. We do retain personal information from closed accounts in order to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms & Conditions, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.

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We may disclose nonpublic personal information about our customers in order to provide them with products, services and offerings. Such information will be provided to:

• Non-affiliated financial organizations with which we have clearing agreements
• Regulatory agencies such as FINRA, SEC and Federal and State Law enforcement agencies
• Law enforcement or other governmental officials, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity or an audit; (In such events we will disclose name, city, state, telephone number, email address)
• Government agencies such as the IRS
• Non-affiliated third-parties with whom we have contracted to perform services on our behalf, such as, printing, mailing, fraud prevention, and data processing services
• We may also disclose non-public personal information about our customers as permitted or required by law

We do not disclose non-public personal information about former customers, except as permitted or required by law. We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies (such as demographic data) to improve and personalize our services.

If we propose to share information in a manner not covered under this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of this change by posting an addendum on our Web site, and if appropriate, provide you with an opportunity to opt out of such use.

For our clients in California, Vermont or North Dakota, please read this special notice:

If you are a resident of California, Vermont or North Dakota, you may request that we not share your personal information with unaffiliated companies. Please note that this does not apply if we need to disclose the information to effect service, administer or process a transaction, product or service you have authorized or requested; to protect against fraud, liability or damages to property; to respond to judicial process; in connection with settling a transaction; or otherwise permitted by law.

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We do not tolerate spam, spy ware or spoofing. You may NOT use our tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our Terms & Conditions.

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We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain pages of the Site to help analyze our web page flow, customize our services, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety.

A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

• We offer certain features that are only available through the use of cookies
• We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status
• Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session
• You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of the Sites
• You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the Sites that we do not control

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We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know such information to provide services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information. Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use encryption, passwords, physical security, etc., to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure.

We offer a secure server and a password-protected environment. Personal information is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. SSL encodes and decodes the transmission of your personal information to prevent the interception by another party. By viewing the URL/address/location line of your browser, you can determine if you are in a secure mode by looking for https://. (In contrast http:// would represent a non-secure transmission.)

In addition to the measures our employees take to protect your confidential information, we also offer information to our customers on what they can do to protect themselves. Please visit the Customer Security link to learn more.

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Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are on our Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Since we do not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

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