Welcome to the Traders’ Leadership Council website. If you continue to browse and use this website, as a registered or un-registererd user, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the Conditions of Use outlined below. These govern Traders’ Leadership Coundil’s relationship with you in relation to this website.
To create an account and profile with Traders’ Leadership Council, you are required to supply us with certain personal information. In this section, we cover:
- The personal information that Traders’ Leadership Council collects and holds
- The way that this is displayed
We categorise the personal information that we hold on you into seven categories:
Basic Information
- Your name and username
Contact Information
- Information which may be used to contact you, including your email address and telephone numbers
Account information
- Information that enables us to manage your Traders’ Leadership Council account including a username and password
Personal & professional background information
- Information on your role, responsibilities and personal background (voluntary)
Interests information
- Information on your professional exposure to, and interest in, particular issues, including regions/countries, trading topics, companies and organisations (voluntary)
Site usage information
- Information about the way you use the site, interact with third party websites or participate in research initiatives
Financial information (if subscribing)
- If paying for a subscription by credit card, you will, of course, be required to supply Paypal with the details of this card
To open an Traders’ Leadership Council account and create a profile, you must supply us with:
- Basic Information, as described above
- Contact Information – specifically your email address
- Account information – specifically an account username and an account password
You are also encouraged to add further information to your profile by supplying:
- Personal and professional background
- Interests information
This information enables us to customise the information that you receive through the site.
By creating an account and supplying personal information to Traders’ Leadership Council, you acknowledge that:
- The information you provide is personal to you and that supplying information to Traders’ Leadership Council, including any information deemed ‘personal’ or ‘sensitive’ by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on your part
- Other site users may identify you using this information on the grounds that Traders’ Leadership Council will display no more than your ‘Basic Information’ to ‘unregistered browsers’ of the site
- The information you provide may reveal, or allow others to identify, your nationality, ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, location, or other aspects of your private or professional life
- Traders’ Leadership Council may retain such data about you and process such information about you as enables it to fulfil the purpose of the site and to provide you with services through the site; you have the right to withdraw your consent to Traders’ Leadership Council collection and processing of your information at any time by closing your account, although your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.
- You expressly and voluntarily agree to the Conditions of Use outlined in this document
If you have any hesitation about providing information to us and/or having your information displayed on the Traders’ Leadership Council website or otherwise used in any manner permitted in these Conditions of Use, you should not become a member of the Traders’ Leadership Council community; if you are already a member, you should close your account.
Traders’ Leadership Council uses your personal information to:
- Enhance your usage of Traders’ Leadership Council
- Display a profile of you to other site users
Supply of personal information to Third Parties
Traders’ Leadership Council does not rent, sell, or otherwise provide to third parties any personal information that you provide to us (whether for marketing purposes or otherwise) except as required to carry out your instructions or to provide services to you.
We may however provide aggregated anonymous data about your usage of the Services we provide to Third Parties (organisations and individuals that have not been accepted as registered users of the Traders’ Leadership Council site, including prospective advertisers) for any purposes we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate.
We also reserve the right to share your information in the following specific circumstances:
- If compelled by law – for example, where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required to investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies;
- As necessary to enforce the Conditions set out in this document – for example, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations;
- To protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Traders’ Leadership Council, its Users, and the public, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; or
- In connection with the reorganisation or sale of Traders’ Leadership Council’s assets.
Your email address will never be made available to other individuals or organisations apart from where you specifically authorise us to do so.
Currently, the only circumstance under which you will be invited to do so is when you recommend the site to your colleagues and contacts.
In general, you are welcome to post any information that you believe will be of interest to other users of the site.
To maintain and protect the quality of information posted, the rights of other site users, the atmosphere of trust necessary for the effective operation of the site and the protections due to investors, all users are asked to:
- Focus their contributions on Trading and TLC
- Commit to publishing in good faith
Material you post on the site should be directed principally towards furthering the TLC community’s understanding of trading and TLC. Such material is likely to include comments, research reports, academic papers, news and articles from the internet and opinion pieces.
Types of sustainability information
We encourage users to publish:
- Trading information for their investment decision-making
- Trading context information – contextual information that helps site users to understand better the structure and drivers of different trading behaviours
We discourage publication of:
- Pure expression of opinion with no factual background that does not have any direct applicability to investment decision-making
- Joking remarks that have no applicabitilty or impact on trading behaviour and decisions
We explicitly forbid publication of:
- Investment/Trading recommendations – see the Investment Compliance section below
- Campaigning or lobbying material
- Excessive advertising
You must post in good faith – that is to say, you should ensure that:
- information provided is accurate, up-to-date and not misleading;
- opinions stated are genuine
- material vested interests are declared, and that
- publication does not violate the purpose and spirit of Traders’ Leadership Council and its community of users.
You should also acknowledge that you will not publish information for the sole (or majority) purpose of marketing or advertising your own products and/or services.
Prohibitions
You must not post content that:
- is illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable;
- may be injurious or detrimental to your person or to your professional or social status.
- is material and misleading false information, submitted knowingly or with intent to defraud
- is in contravention of any industry compliance rules
- constitutes excessive advertising
- is repetitive
- constitutes campaigning material
Traders’ Leadership Council reserves the right to remove any content that we, at our sole discretion, consider fits the descriptions above.
Whilst Traders’ Leadership Council does not pre-screen or regularly review posted Content, we do reserve the right to remove at our sole discretion any Content found to fit the descriptions above or to be in violation of these Conditions of Use in any other way.
Traders’ Leadership Council disclaims any responsibility for Users’ misuse or misappropriation of Content or information posted on the Traders’ Leadership Council website.
No excessive advertising
Posters are not welcome to use the site to present research that is available for purchase (as well as for free) off the site. They are welcome to use the site to make their clients aware of research that they have published.
They should not, however, post ‘excessive advertising’. A post shall be considered ‘excessive advertising’ if:
- The body of the post does not contain any research content
- The post references a report or event that is not readily available to a sizeable number of users for free or upon payment of a reasonable sum
No campaigning
You should not post material whose sole (or majority) purpose is to campaign for a serivce/product.
Traders’ Leadership Council is an actionable community for traders and not a campaigning tool. While we recognise that the line between awareness-raising and advocacy may be blurred, we ask users to respect this line and to avoid active campaigning.
In particular, we believe that campaigns against particular companies and action that seeks public or media attention crosses this line and breaks the spirit of trust necessary for the site to function.
We exclude from the definition of ‘campaigning’, collaboration between investors/speculators to improve the efficiency and quality of their private engagement with companies.
Traders’ Leadership Council respects the intellectual property rights of others, and requires that users of its website do the same of TLC’s intellectual property.
The sharing of information within the context of a competitive industry depends on a clear understanding by all participants of the ways that information will be used.
In particular, there must be clear rules on the way the intellectual property posted by contributing users may be used by viewers. This section describes the specific rules and general guidance that govern copyright and intellectual property within the Traders’ Leadership Council website.
By using the site, you agree to:
- Respect and protect the proprietary rights of Traders’ Leadership Council
- Respect the proprietary rights of other site users
- Respect the rights of other providers of Content
You also confirm your understanding that:
- Copying (in any form) of any Content provided on this site without the permission of TLC, the relevant author or applicable copyright owner may result in an infringement of copyright law, and that
- These conditions remain applicable after you cease using the services provided by Traders’ Leadership Council, to the full extent permissible by law.
You also agree to comply with all reasonable written requests made by Traders’ Leadership Council, its suppliers or its licensors of content, equipment or other products and services to recognise their and others’ contractual, statutory, and common law rights in the Services provided on our site.
You agree to respect the proprietary rights of Traders’ Leadership Council.
The Traders’ Leadership Council website itself contains material which is owned by or licensed to Traders’ Leadership Council. This material includes, but is not limited to, the website’s design, layout, look, appearance and graphics, research, tools contained therein. This material also includes trade marks, including the Traders’ Leadership Council name and logo. Reproduction of any of this material is prohibited by all applicable laws, particularly copyright.
By using the Traders’ Leadership Council website, you acknowledge that the Services provided through the Traders’ Leadership Council website have been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected, and arranged by Traders’ Leadership Council and others through the application of methods and standards of judgement developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money and constitutes valuable intellectual property of Traders’ Leadership Council and such others.
All present and future rights in and to trade secrets, patents, copyrights, trade marks, service marks, know-how, and other proprietary rights of any type under the laws of any governmental authority, domestic or foreign, including rights in and to all applications and registrations relating to the Services (the “Intellectual Property Rights”) shall, as between you and Traders’ Leadership Council, at all times be and remain the sole and exclusive property of Traders’ Leadership Council. All present and future rights in and title to the Services (including the right to exploit the Services and any portions of the Services over any present or future technology) are reserved to Traders’ Leadership Council for its exclusive use. Except as specifically permitted herein, you shall not use the Intellectual Property Rights or the Services, or the name of any user of the Services, or any variations or derivatives thereof, for any purpose, without Traders’ Leadership Council’s prior written approval.
Furthermore, you may not use any of Traders’ Leadership Council’s trade marks, trade names, service marks, copyrights, or logos in any manner which creates the impression that such items belong to or are associated with you or are used with Traders’ Leadership Council’s consent, and you acknowledge that you have no ownership rights in or to any of such items.
If you wish to provide a link to the Traders’ Leadership Council website on your own website, you may request a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use the Traders’ Leadership Council logo solely for providing a link from your website to www.tradersleadersipcouncil.com. No other use of Traders’ Leadership Council’s marks, names or logos is permitted without express written permission from Traders’ Leadership Council.
You may not use the Traders’ Leadership Council name to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause or organisation. Publication of your content on our site does not represent endorsement of your opinions by Traders’ Leadership Council.
Furthermore, you will not use the intellectual property of Traders’ Leadership Council to create the impression that we endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause or organisation.
The primary means by which Traders’ Leadership Council will communicate with you will be via the email address recorded in your profile.
You must ensure that your email address is kept up to date, and checked regularly, so that we can:
- Communicate with you, as necessary, regarding your account the provision of services on the site
- Notify you of on-site activity that you have told us is of interest to you
- Help you find and communicate with other industry professionals
You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into your account and changing your settings related to your email notification choices.
Whilst the primary method of communication between us and you will be email, we may also contact you through:
- Notices posted on the Traders’ Leadership Council website
- Via the telephone or mobile number you specify in your profile
- Via mail
- In future, other means such as we make available (for example SMS)
If you elect to receive communications from us via a mobile phone network or similar which charges fees for such a facility, please also be aware that we bear no responsibility for payment of these fees.
Users may receive two types of communication via mail from Traders’ Leadership Council:
- News and profile updates – regular emails that update users on on-site activity filtered according to their own specific interests. Users may choose which format to receive these in and/or elect not to receive them.
- Site administration emails – to execute the registration process and give users service updates about new features and the maintenance of the site. Users may not opt-out of receiving these
Communications sent through the Traders’ Leadership Council website (such as messages or connection requests) show your name but will not include your personal email address.
However, communications you initiate through Traders’ Leadership Council which are sent to non-registered parties (such as via the ‘Recommend Us’ function) will show your primary email address and name in the header of the message.
You acknowledge and consent that Traders’ Leadership Council will accept no liability associated with or arising from your failure to maintain accurate contact or other information, including, but not limited to, your failure to receive critical information about your Traders’ Leadership Council account.
If you purchase any Services that we offer for a fee, either on a one-time or a subscription basis, you consent that Traders’ Leadership Council may record your payment card information.
You also agree to pay the applicable fees for subscription as they become due plus all related taxes, and to reimburse us for all collection costs and interest for any overdue amounts. Your obligation to pay fees continues through the date you cancel your subscription.
The Traders’ Leadership Council website may, from time to time, provide links to other websites of interest, owned and operated by third parties.
We do not have any control over these websites, and do not endorse any features, content, advertising, products or other materials (including opinions from contributing authors) they may make available.
You are solely responsible for evaluating the risks involved in accessing or using any third party website.
We recommend that you should review any applicable terms of use and/or privacy policy of third party websites before using them or sharing information with them, because you may give the operator permission to use your information in ways Traders’ Leadership Council would not.
Accordingly, when you use a link to leave our site, these Conditions of Use will cease to apply and we will not be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites.
This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The information on this website has been obtained from sources that Traders’ Leadership Council believes to be reliable and accurate at the date of publication, but no warranty of accuracy is given. We are not responsible for the accuracy of information provided by our users or that contained within sites provided by third parties, which may have links to or from our pages.
Any opinions expressed reflect the judgement of the identified author at the time of writing and are subject to change without notice.
Traders’ Leadership Council makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the Traders’ Leadership Council website’s operation and the availability of the information, content or materials included on it. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Traders’ Leadership Council hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. Traders’ Leadership Council rejects any claims of liability for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site.
You agree to preclude Traders’ Leadership Council from any liability in respect of any errors or omissions by us or any other relevant third parties. You also expressly agree that your use of the Traders’ Leadership Council website and the Content provided therein is conducted solely at your own risk.
We may collect information about the fact that you use certain features and functionality of Traders’ Leadership Council, interact with third party websites, or participate in research initiatives like polling and surveys on Traders’ Leadership Council. (All such information will be held anonymously).
Use of cookies
Like most websites, we use cookies and web log files to track site usage and trends. We do this to improve the quality of our service, to customize your experience on Traders’ Leadership Council.
A cookie is a tiny data file that resides on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and allows us to recognize you as a User when you return to the Traders’ Leadership Council website using the same computer and web browser.
One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you have logged in to your Traders’ Leadership Council account. The next time you visit the Traders’ Leadership Council website, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing User so you will not need to log in before using the Services.
Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the Traders’ Leadership Council website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.
Removing cookies
You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use Traders’ Leadership Council.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Traders’ Leadership Council does not store unencrypted personal information in the cookies.
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Traders’ Leadership Council website we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave Traders’ Leadership Council. Traders’ Leadership Council also receives the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, mobile device operating system (if you are accessing Traders’ Leadership Council using a mobile device), as well as the name of your Internet Service Provider or mobile carrier. We use this information to analyse overall trends to help improve the service. The linkage between your IP address and your personal information is not shared with third parties without your permission, except as compelled by law (see “Supply of Information to Third Parties” above).