Privacy Policy

From time to time we may review and update this privacy policy. When we make changes to this privacy policy, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

This statement discloses the privacy, security, and information management guidelines that serve as the basis for our user relationships with respect to users of all websites that display a link to this Privacy Policy and that are published by Barchart.com (collectively, “Barchart.com”). Barchart is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy.

Children Under the Age of 16

Barchart.com is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on Barchart.com. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on Barchart.com, through any of its features, register on Barchart.com, make any purchases through Barchart.com, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at ccpa@barchart.com.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection, sharing and sale of their personal information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.

What information does Barchart.com collect?

By registering with Barchart.com or signing up to receive a newsletter from Barchart.com, we will automatically opt your email address into our email lists, where we will look to send you relevant content, some of which are advertisements for third party products and services, including special offers, webinars, educational booklets, and promotions tailored to your perceived interests. You can opt-out at any time (opt-out details are below).

Barchart maintains logs which contain information on anonymous users such as IP address, browser type, operating system, and referring web page. We use this information to track usage and diagnose bugs. We also gather regular statistical information regarding site usage, browser information, OS, device and network information, and user interaction on our various websites and services from all users without any personally identifiable information.

Websites and apps with logins require personal data, and, without such, gaining access may not be possible. When you set up an account, we collect personal data such as your name, address, company, telephone number, email address, username and password. We also collect information from third party providers (e.g., if you log-in to our site using a Google, Facebook or another third-party log-in, you grant permission the third-party to share your user details with us). This will include your user ID, first name, last name, and email address which we will then use to create a Barchart account. Barchart also collects Unique Personal Identifier. Online Identifier.

• Device Information. We automatically track and collect data from the devices and applications you use to access our Services, such as IP addresses, domain servers, length of visit and the pages you viewed, operating system version, device type, system and performance information and browser type. We may also infer your geographic location based on your IP address or using your device’s native features. We also automatically log your activity when you use our Services. These logs may identify features you use, actions you take, and information you access. This data is anonymous and does not personally identify you, but is helpful for marketing purposes or for improving our Services.
• Billing Information. If you sign up for our services and/or to attend a paid event or webinar, we require you to provide billing details, such as a name, address, telephone number, email address and financial information corresponding to your applicable method of payment (e.g., payment card information).
• Event Registration Information. If you elect to attend an event hosted by Barchart (e.g., webinar, conference), we may collect personal data, such as your name, address, company, telephone number, email address, billing information and other information. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to register with us or take advantage of some features (e.g., receipt of emails regarding event details, electronic copies of event materials, etc.).
• Survey Data. We will occasionally post surveys on our sites. Participation in Barchart surveys is voluntary, and information collected from surveys will be used to improve Barchart user experience and our services.
• Other Data. We may collect your personal information or data if you submit it to us in other contexts (e.g., sales inquiries, customer support requests, feedback forms, etc.). Billing information is collected but not stored, such as credit or debit cards used for the purchase of Barchart products and services, as well as the history of those purchases. We may also generate and store inferences and profiles from user preferences and interactions with Barchart.com content, services and advertising types. Use of certain Barchart apps (e.g. Marketplace) may require you to sync and submit other personal data related to physical commodity transactions you facilitate, such as bids and offers, receipts, electronic contracts and other transactional information related to the buying and selling of physical commodities.
• Email Information. We record the time and date a user opts-in or opts-out of email lists as well as the source of the subscription (which form was used to sign up), your name, email address, and IP. We may track interaction within any email sent such as opens or click-throughs as well as the email client used (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc.) and/or device and OS.

For more information, please visit the section below titled “What information do third-party advertisers gather and collect?”

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

1. Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase.
2. Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on Barchart.com.

Residents of certain states have the right to request that we disclose certain additional information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Please see Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.

Does Barchart.com use cookies and other tracking technologies?

To optimize the user experience Barchart may make use of cookies, analytics services, tracking pixels, web beacons and client-side Java technology. We may use these technologies and other storage methods to target ads via third party providers, keep temporary user preferences per the user’s device, or for some mapping services we offer. Barchart also uses functional cookies to enhance the performance of our websites and services which are unrelated to collecting or storing personal information.

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on Barchart.com are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with other tracking technologies, to collect information about you when you use Barchart.com. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. Please read our Cookie Notice here.

Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How do I opt-out of commercial email communications from Barchart.com?

Commercial email communications from Barchart.com come with an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email where you can opt-out of future such marketing communications. You can also email Barchart.com at removeme@barchart.com at any time and request to be removed from one or all of our email lists, or visit our Newsletters page at www.barchart.com/my/barchart-newsletters.

Can you opt-out of providing personally identifying information or receiving marketing messages?

You may opt-out altogether from providing personally identifying information to us by not registering with Barchart.com and thereby not providing personal information, or by not visiting the Barchart.com sites. You can delete your Barchart.com account by emailing us at removeme@barchart.com. Such a request must include your user name. Members can automatically deactivate or delete their Barchart.com account through the Member Profile (www.barchart.com/my/profile) page. If you choose not to register or provide mandatory information in the registration form, Barchart.com will not be fully accessible to you. You can edit your account information, including your newsletter preferences, at any time. Commercial email communications from Barchart.com come with an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email for you to opt-out of future such marketing communications.

Manage your Newsletters and third-party emails: www.barchart.com/my/barchart-newsletters

Manage your Reports emails: www.barchart.com/my/eod-reports

Manage your Portfolio emails: www.barchart.com/my/eod-portfolio-emails

Manage your Watchlist emails: www.barchart.com/my/eod-watchlist-emails

Manage your My Charts emails: www.barchart.com/my/eod-my-charts-emails

Manage your Screener emails: www.barchart.com/my/eod-my-charts-emails

Manage your Author Following emails: www.barchart.com/my/author-followings

Manage your Barchart Alerts: www.barchart.com/my/alerts

Deactivate or Delete your Barchart account: www.barchart.com/my/profile

How does Barchart.com protect its content and user information?

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online, including security for credit card submissions. Such commercially reasonable precautions, however, do not absolutely guarantee the absolute protection of your personally identifying information. You must understand that there will always be some risk that any personally identifying information that you provide to us may be released without our permission or knowledge.

What does Barchart.com do with the information it gathers and/or tracks?

Barchart.com uses information for the following general purposes:

• To fulfill your requests for products and services.
• To create, maintain, customize and secure your account with us.
• To process and collect your payments.
• To fulfill orders and contractual obligations.
• To fulfill customer support requests.
• To customize the advertising and content you see.
• To profile user behavior and interests.
• To improve our services.
• To contact you.
• To conduct research, and to provide trend reporting for internal and external clients.
• To respond to law enforcement requests as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our consumers is among the assets transferred.

Barchart.com may also 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.

We may 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.

To whom does Barchart.com disclose the information it gathers and/or tracks?

Barchart.com may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose, including with third parties that perform services on our behalf such as running our sites, sending communications for us and executing marketing programs and promotions. Barchart.com may disclose user information it gathers, in aggregate or statistical form, that does not identify individuals nor include personal information, with advertisers and other partners. Barchart utilizes email service providers for its commercial email communications which requires providing personal information, such as email address, to the email service providers for the purpose of using their service to send commercial emails. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract. Barchart uses reputable email service providers that implement high standards of care, protection and security of personal information. Barchart may disclose pseudonymized personal data, including hashed email addresses, to third parties for monetization purposes. We also may disclose information about you, including personally identifying information, if sought by legal process or requested by law enforcement, or in order to protect the rights and property of Barchart.com or the safety of our users or the public, or to protect against unauthorized use of our site. You can opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information at any time (opt-out details are below).

We only sell personal information under limited situations, including if Barchart.com is acquired by another company or otherwise merged into another company, we will transfer collected registrant and user information subject to this policy to a successor. In the event that information will be subject to a materially different privacy policy, Barchart.com or its successor will provide notice.

How long does Barchart store the data it collects?

Barchart can store usage data for the life of the service starting from its release date. Barchart stores personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed, with certain limited exceptions, or until a request has been made to delete the data.

SMS Privacy Policy

In order to use Barchart's SMS services, users must opt-in to the service and provide Barchart with their mobile phone number and name. Users can opt-out at any time. The information provided to Barchart to use Barchart's SMS services (mobile phone number and name) is not shared with any third-party or sold.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

See SMS TERMS OF USE for more information.

Security Breach Notification

In the event of a security breach that exposes your personal information, Barchart shall notify you that there has been a breach of the system containing your Personal Information and related details. The notification will be done as quickly as possible and will be reported to any required authorities.

What information do third-party advertisers gather and collect?

Third-party companies which place advertising on Barchart.com may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising through the use of their cookies or other tracking technologies, which may include delivering targeted advertisements and marketing messages based upon the third-party websites that you visit, or through other purposes. We cannot control this collection of information and are not responsible for the privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices of these third-party advertisers. You should contact these third-party advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect from you. Google/DoubleClick DFP, CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive, Braze and JWP Connatix are our third-party ad servers. They may place and host advertisements on Barchart.com, and will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. If you would like to know more about their information gathering practices and opt-out procedures, please see http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/, https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/, https://www.braze.com/company/legal/privacy and https://jwpconnatix.com/legal/privacy. Also, if you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.

When you use our website and enter your email address on our website (either to log in, or to sign up for a newsletter, or similar), we may share with our third-party advertisers information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with any of the following, acting as “joint controllers” (as applicable and defined in the GDPR).

Advertisers may use this information to create an online identification code that we may store in our first-party cookie for our use in online, in-app, and cross-channel advertising. This may be shared with advertising companies to enable interest-based and targeted advertising. Advertisers may use this information to create an online identification code for the purpose of recognizing you on your devices. This code does not contain any of your directly identifiable personal data and will not be used by advertisers to re-identify you.

Your State Privacy Rights - Additional Information for Residents of Certain Jurisdictions

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.

California

This section applies solely to visitors to and users of the website who reside in the State of California. In addition, this section applies to employment-related personal information collected from California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals.

We have collected the following categories of personal information from California residents within the last 12 months:

We do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information other than to:

• To perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by you when you request those goods or services.
• To prevent, detect, and investigate security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and or confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information, provided that the use of your personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.
• To resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at the business and to prosecute those responsible for those actions, provided that the use of your personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.
• To ensure the physical safety of natural persons, provided that the use of your personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.
• For short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us, provided that your personal information is not used to build a profile about you or otherwise alter your experience outside the current interaction with us.
• To perform services on behalf of the business, provided that the use of your personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose, including the disclosure of pseudonymized personal data, including hashed email addresses, to third parties for monetization purposes.
• To verify or maintain the quality or safety of a product, service, or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured by, manufactured for, or controlled by us, provided that the use of your personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.
• For purposes that do not infer characteristics about you.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), provide California residents with the following rights:

• The right of Californians to know what personal information is being collected about them;
• The right of Californians to request the deletion of personal information collected from and retained about them (subject to certain exceptions);
• The right of Californians to know whether their personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom;
• The right of Californians to say no to the sale of personal information;
• The right of Californians to access their personal information;
• The right of Californians to rectify their personal information;

In addition, you have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

You have the right to request that we stop all sharing of your personal information with third parties for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia¹
This section applies solely to visitors to and users of the website who reside in Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia and are acting in an individual or household context.

Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia each provide their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of sales of personal information.

Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia each provide their state residents with rights to:

• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose.
• Opt-in to processing sensitive data.

Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia each provide their state residents with rights to opt-out of processing for profiling/targeted advertising purposes.

Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia each provide their state residents with rights to opt-out of automated decision making.

Exercising State-Specific Rights

To exercise any of the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us through the methods below.

Email: privacy@barchart.com
Phone: 800-238-5814

Mail:
Barchart.com, Inc.
222 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 810
Chicago, IL 60606
ATTN: Privacy Rights

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

For display advertising on Barchart.com to exercise your California rights and request any of the actions or information under the CCPA, you can also do so at https://www.barchart.com/privacy-tool.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Appealing Decisions on Data Requests

You have the right to appeal a refusal to take action on a request within a reasonable period of time after your receipt of our decision. Within 60 days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If the appeal is denied, you will be provided with an online method through which you may contact the Attorney General of your state of residence to submit a complaint.

Contact Us

To contact Barchart or if you have any additional questions, please visit https://www.barchart.com/contact.

Barchart.com, Inc.
222 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 810
Chicago IL, 60606

Footnotes

¹Indiana effective only as of January 1, 2026; Iowa effective only as of January 1, 2025; Montana effective only as of October 1, 2024; Oregon effective only as of July 1, 2024; Tennessee only effective as of July 1, 2025; New Jersey effective only as of January 15, 2025.