Privacy Policy

Barchart.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

Barchart.com uses a registration system for real-time and delayed Barchart customers. Our web site's registration procedures require users to provide Barchart.com with information including but not limited to name, email address, street address, and other demographic information. Barchart.com collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer. When you register with Barchart.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

Barchart.com also collects personal information when you use Barchart.com's additional products or services, when you visit Barchart.com pages or the pages of certain Barchart.com partners, and when you sign up for promotions or sweepstakes. Barchart.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

For certain advanced subscription features, Barchart.com automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request. Barchart.com uses information for the following general purposes: to fulfill your requests for products and services, customize the advertising and content you see, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Barchart.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Barchart.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Barchart.com communicate with you about offers from Barchart.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Barchart.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  
• We transfer information about you if Barchart.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Barchart.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Barchart.com may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, people trading agricultural products from a particular geographic area.

• Barchart.com does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
  

You can edit your Account Information, including your newsletter preferences, at any time. All email communication from Barchart.com comes with an unsubscribe link at the bottom for you to opt-out of future communication. For other changes to your Account Information, email us at realtime@barchart.com, including your username and password.

New categories of marketing communications might be added to Your Account from time to time. You can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories by emailing us at realtime@barchart.com, or you can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages you receive.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Barchart.com service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Barchart.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your Barchart.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.