Website terms and conditions

Responsibility of visitors

The information on this website is not directed at residents of the United States or any particular country outside of Switzerland and is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person in any country or jurisdiction where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation. It is the responsibility of visitors to this website to ascertain the terms of and comply with any local law or regulation to which they are subject.

Third party offers

This website may contain references to other special offers or promotions by persons who are not part of our group of companies. Subject to any applicable law that cannot be excluded, we make no warranties or representations regarding the quality, accuracy, merchantability or fitness for purpose of the goods or services available from these persons. Your obtaining of goods or services from these persons is at your own risk. You indemnify each member of our group of companies against all liability, loss, damage, cost and expense arising from or relating to your obtaining goods or services from a third party referred to on this website.

Market data

With respect to any market data or other information that we or any third party service provider display on the Website, (a) such data is indicative only and we and any such provider are not responsible or liable if any such data or information is inaccurate or incomplete in any respect; (b) we and any such provider are not responsible or liable for any actions that you take or do not take based on such data or information; and (c) such data or information is proprietary to us and/or any such provider and you are not permitted to retransmit, redistribute, publish, disclose or display in whole or in part such data or information to third parties except as may be required by any law or regulation.

Confidentiality

Upon your opening an account with us we shall provide you with an account number and password. It is your obligation to keep these details confidential and you should not disclose them to anyone else. You acknowledge and agree that any instruction or communication transmitted by you or on your behalf via our website is made at your own risk. You authorise us to rely and act on, and treat as fully authorised and binding upon you, any instruction given to us that we believe to have been given by you or on your behalf by any agent or intermediary whom we believe in good faith to have been duly authorised by you. You acknowledge and agree that we shall be entitled to rely upon your account number and/or password to identify you and you agree that you will not disclose this information to anyone not duly authorised by you.

Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions are governed by the law in force in Switzerland. The place of performance of all obligations and the exclusive place of jurisdiction for any dispute arising out of or in connection with the relationship between you and ourselves is Geneva, Switzerland. This shall also be the place of debt enforcement for you if domiciled abroad. Irrespective of the foregoing, we reserve the right to initiate proceedings before any competent court or jurisdiction, including the courts in the country of which you are a citizen or in which you reside.

Severability

If the whole or any part of a provision of these terms and conditions is void, unenforceable or illegal in a jurisdiction then that provision or, if permissible, the relevant part of it, will be severed in respect of that jurisdiction. The remainder of the terms and conditions will have full force and effect and the validity or enforceability of that provision in any other jurisdiction is not affected. This clause will have no effect if the severance alters the basic nature of the terms and conditions or is contrary to public policy.

Notices

We may send notices to the email address provided to us by you. It is your responsibility to ensure that you notify us of any change to your email address. Any notice sent by us to your email address shall be deemed to have been delivered at the time of sending.

Termination

We have the right to terminate your use of this website if we determine in our sole discretion that you have breached the terms and conditions.

Products and services

Not all products and services referred to on this website are necessarily provided by us. The identification or use of any third party products, services, websites or networks is not an endorsement of such products, services or websites or networks. This website may allow you to access websites and networks provided by persons other than us via a hypertext or other link. We accept no responsibility or liability of any kind in respect of any materials on any website or network that is not under our direct control. You acknowledge that your access to such other websites or networks via such a link may require us to provide certain information about you to the proprietor of that website or network. Nothing in this website is intended to be nor should it be understood by you as being investment advice from or by us.

Dealing

This website contains public and client areas. The client area is accessible to clients who have opened an account and contains our internet platform. The internet platform allows you to open and close positions with us and gives you access to account information including your open positions as well as other features. You can open or close a position on the entry screen by hitting the relevant button. A confirmation will appear on screen and the new position should be reflected in your account information.

Privacy

We will comply with obligations imposed on us by applicable Data Protection legislation including the Federal Act on Data Protection. We shall use personal information provided by you in accordance with the provisions of the customer agreement and our privacy policy.

Disclaimer and limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable in any way for any loss or damage suffered by you through use of or access to this website, or our failure to provide this website. Our liability for negligence, breach of contract or contravention of any law as a result of our failure to provide this website or any part of it, or for any problems with this website, which cannot be lawfully excluded, is limited, at our option and to the maximum extent permitted by law, to resupplying this website or any part of it to you, or to paying for the resupply of this website or any part of it to you.

Amendment

Whilst we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information on this website, the information given on the website is subject to change, often without notice.

These terms and conditions can be modified at any time by us and you agree to continue to be bound by these terms and conditions as modified. We will give you notice of these changes by publishing revised terms and conditions on this website - we will not separately notify you of these change

Intellectual Property

All copyright, database rights, trade marks and other intellectual property rights in the content of this website belongs to us or a third party including our licensors. This content may include names, terms and/or data which may or may not be identified with a symbol identifying it as a name, term or item in which copyright is claimed or a registered trademark is held. The lack of any such symbol should not, under any circumstances, be understood as meaning that the name, term or data is not the intellectual of either ourselves or a third party.

Any third party intellectual property used by us in the content of our website should not be interpreted as meaning that the third party owner sponsors, endorses or is in any way affiliated with us or with our business, nor that they make any representation regarding the advisability of betting on or trading in our products.

Except where necessary in order to view the information on this website on your browser, or as permitted under Swiss law or these terms and conditions, no information or content on this website may be reproduced, adapted, uploaded to a third party, linked to, framed, performed in public, distributed or transmitted in any form by any process without our specific written consent.

Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, iPad, iPod touch, and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc, registered in the US and other countries. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.

Android is a trademark of Google Inc.

The trademark BlackBerry® is the property of Research In Motion Limited and is registered and/or used in the US and countries around the world.

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.