Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (the "Policy") explains how Viperium Ltd, a Saint Lucia International Business Company with company number 2025-0065, with its registered office at the offices of Fortgate Offshore Investment and Legal Services Ltd., Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia (collectively "Viperium", "we", or "us" and each member of the Viperium group for whose services you registered, the "Viperium Entity") collects, uses, and discloses personal information through its websites, mobile applications, and other online products and services that link to this Policy, including the Viperium proprietary trading platform, and any of the products and services detailed in the following paragraph or made available by Viperium (collectively, the "Services") or when you otherwise interact with us.

We encourage you to read the Policy carefully as it forms part of the relevant Viperium Entity's terms and conditions, terms of business, agreement with you, and/or terms of use, as the case may be. By using services, by registering with the Viperium Platform, or by clicking a box marked “accept” or “agree", you understand and agree to the practices described in this Policy, and that we will process your data based on this Policy. If you accept or agree to this Policy on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that company or other legal entity to the Privacy Policy and, in such event, "you" and "your" will refer and apply to that company or other legal entity.

At Viperium, we are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring a safe and secure trading experience. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, and share your personal information when you use our platform.

1. Information We Collect

We only collect the most relevant, proportionate for each purpose and strictly necessary personal information from you in the course of our business when you use the Services, including when you use the Viperium Platform. We collect and process different types of personal data from you or via your representative or via any channels of communication we have, in the context of our business relationship.

We may also collect and process personal data which we lawfully obtain not only from you but from other entities within the Viperium Group, or other third parties such as, public authorities. We may also collect and process personal data from publicly available sources (e.g. the national company registers, commercial registers, the press, media and the Internet) which we lawfully obtain and we are permitted to process.

We may collect the following types of information:

  • Identity Information: This may include your name, email address, phone number, username, date and place of birth, if you hold or held a prominent public function (PEP) or are connected to a PEP, employment status, FATCA info, authentication data, and other identifiable information provided during registration or while using the services.
  • Contact Information: This may include your email address, delivery address, billing address, telephone number.
  • Financial and Transaction Information: For trading purposes with the Viperium Platform, we may collect information such as your payment details (credit card, bank account), account balance, transaction history, services you have purchased from us, payment for acquiring the VPR token, or subscribing to our Viperium Platform, and any other financial data necessary to operate your account.
  • Usage Data: This includes information about how you interact with the services, including your IP address, browser type, device information, and activity on the site (pages visited, links clicked).
  • Device Information: Information about the devices used to access our platform, such as device type, operating system, and location data.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about your usage of the platform to improve functionality, provide personalized experiences, and analyse traffic. Please consider our cookie policy for more information about our cookie practices.
  • Profile Information: This may include but is not limited to the username, purchases or order, interests, preferences, and feedback.
  • Marketing and Communications Information: This may include but is not limited to preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and communication preferences.

Further information may be obtained to determine your eligibility in the VPR Initial Exchange Offering, residence, tax residence and tax ID, Worldcheck data, economic and financial background and credit reference agency data, financial information (source of income, source of wealth).

Please note that we or the trading platform for the VPR Initial Exchange Offering may engage third party providers for the performance of due diligence, anti-money laundering checks and Know Your Customer processes, as may be required by law (KYC Checks). You acknowledge, agree, and accept to be bound by their privacy policies and procedures in terms of personal data processing.

If you fail to provide information

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

2. How We Use Your Information

We will use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  •    When we have your consent,
  •    Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  •    Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

 

The firm shall not carry out any automated decision-making activities, including profiling, using your personal information which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.

Your personal information is used for the following purposes:

  • Account Registration and Management: To create and manage your account, enable you to access and use the platform, and ensure smooth transactions and trading experience.
  • Performance of contract: To perform the contract we have with you for various Services, including your registration with our platforms, participation in token offerings, or any other service or product we make available, track and process your orders, collect any money owed to us , return money owed to you.
  • Trading and Funding: To provide instant proprietary capital funding, manage your trading credits, and track your trading progress as you reach milestones and goals.
  • Customer Support: To respond to your inquiries, resolve issues, and provide assistance related to your account or platform usage.
  • Marketing and Promotions: With your consent, we may send promotional offers, updates about new features, and other marketing materials. You may opt-out of these communications at any time.
  • Compliance and Legal Obligations: To comply with relevant laws, regulations, and financial standards, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.
  • Legitimate Interests: We process personal data to safeguard the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. But even then, it must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you. Examples of such processing activities/purposes include: o Taking all steps necessary for the termination of accounts, collecting or recovering debts, o Initiating legal claims and preparing our defence in litigation procedures, o Administering and protecting our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data), o Enabling you to complete a survey or asking you to leave a review, o Improving our Services, o Utilising agents and/or other agencies for conducting further investigation for customers posing increasing money laundering/terrorist financing risk and where enhanced due diligence measures are deemed necessary, o Performing enhanced due diligence of existing customers where there is a suspicion that the client’s country of origin or residence is a country subject to sanctions.
3. How We Protect Your Information

We implement a range of security measures to protect your personal data, including data encryption, secure servers, firewalls, and access control. All of our partners, employees, consultants, workers and data processors (i.e., those who process your personal information on our behalf), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of such personal information, keep it secure and protect it.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so. While we take reasonable steps to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security, as no system is completely invulnerable to breaches.

4. How we obtain your personal information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Information you give us. This is information you consent to giving us about you by filling in forms on Services, or by corresponding with us (for example, by email), by conducting KYC checks and by providing your personal information to participate in Services. It includes information you provide when you sign up or make an account with us, to participate in the Services, subscribe to our publications, register for the Viperium Platform, apply to participate in the Viperium Initial Exchange Offering, request marketing to be sent to you, enter a survey, give us feedback, and when you report a problem with our Services. If you contact us, we will keep a record of that correspondence.

Information we collect about you via automated technologies or interaction. Each time you visit or use our website and Services, we will automatically collect personal data including usage and device information, and other technical information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this data using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy [LINK] for further details. We may also receive technical information about you, such as your IP address, login data, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website, if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy [LINK] for further details.

Information we receive from other sources including third parties and publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:

  Technical data and usage information from the following parties:

o  analytics providers, such as Google Analytics.

o  advertising networks, search information providers.

o  social media service accounts if we give you the option to use these service accounts to sign-up for our site.

Contact, Financial and Transaction Information from providers of payment services. 

5. Sharing Your Information

We do not sell or share your personal or financial information with third parties, except in the following cases:

  • Service Providers: We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who help us operate our platform, who provide IT, administration and customer screening services, process payments, or provide services to you. These third parties are obligated to keep your information confidential and secure. In making any purchase connected to the Services, you agree to be bound by the payment processor privacy policies, so please make sure to review the payment processor’s Privacy Policy to determine how they use, disclose and protect the relevant payment data.
  • Professional advisers : We may share your information to professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, financial and business advisors, auditors, accountants, insurers and other professionals who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, corporate, administration and accounting services.
  • Legal and Regulatory Requirements: We may disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, legal processes, or requests from governmental authorities (e.g., responding to subpoenas, court orders, or regulatory investigations).
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of Viperium Trading, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. In such cases, we will notify you before your information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • Advertising networks: We may share your information to support and display ads on our Services, and other social media tools.
  • Analytics providers: We may share information to assist us with client insight analytics, such as Google Analytics.

Please note that We do not sell, rent or otherwise make personal information commercially available to any third party, except with your prior permission.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for longer if we are required to do so based on our regulatory, compliance, or professional indemnity obligations or in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements. We may remove your personal information based on our retention policies in compliance with our security standards without further notice or liability.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Your legal rights below for further information.

In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

7. Your Rights and Choices

In connection with your personal information, you have the following rights:

  • Access: you are entitled to ask us if we are processing your data and, if we are, you can request access to your personal data.  This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and certain other information about it.
  • Correction: you are entitled to request that any incomplete or inaccurate personal data we hold about you is corrected.
  • Erasure: you are entitled to ask us to delete or remove personal data in certain circumstances. There are also certain exceptions where we may refuse a request for erasure, for example, where the personal data is required for compliance with law or in connection with claims.
  • Restriction: you are entitled to ask us to suspend the processing of certain of your personal data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
  • Transfer: you may ask us to help you request the transfer certain of your personal data to another party.
  • Objection: where we are processing your personal data based on legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and you may challenge this.  However, we may be entitled to continue processing your information. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
  • Automated decisions: you may contest any automated decision made about you where this has a legal or similar significant effect and ask for it to be reconsidered.
  • Consent: where we are processing personal data with consent, you can withdraw your consent. If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at admin@viperiumtrading.com.
8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our platform. These technologies help us personalize your user experience, analyse usage patterns, and improve platform functionality. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings, but disabling cookies may affect certain features of the platform. Please see our cookie policy [LINK] for more information.

9. Children's Privacy

Viperium is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected data from a child under the age of 18, we will take immediate steps to delete that information.

10. International Data Transfers

Your information may be stored and processed in countries outside of your country of residence, which may have different data protection laws. Also, in order to provide our services, we may need to transfer your personal information to locations outside our country of incorporation. Again, this may entail a transfer to jurisdictions which may have different data protection laws.  For any international transfer of data, we will implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information remains protected and secure in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.

12. Links to third-party websites and apps

Our Services, email updates and other communications may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites or apps of others. The personal data that you provide through these websites or apps is not in any case subject to this Privacy Policy and the treatment of your personal data by such websites is not our responsibility. 

You should consult the third parties’ Privacy Policy notices which will set out how your information is collected and processed when visiting those websites or apps, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

13. Our Marketing Policy

We will only process your personal data for marketing purposes once we have your consent. You have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes. This means you can opt-out from receiving direct marketing from us at any time.

You can opt-out of receiving direct marketing from us at any time.  You can do this by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link included at the end of any marketing email we send to you, or by contacting us at marketing@viperiumtrading.com.

You have the right to ask us not to continue to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

14. Contact Information
For any questions, contact us:

Viperium Trading

Email: admin@viperiumtrading.com

Phone: +971 585 943 102