Privacy Notice
Effective Date: 1 January 2026 | Last Updated: 15 February 2026
1. General Information
Dawnbay Sylor ("we", "us", or "our") respects the fundamental privacy rights of every visitor and platform user. This Privacy Notice outlines how we collect, store, process, transfer, and protect your personal data when you interact with our quantitative trading website, API endpoints, and client interfaces.
Dawnbay Sylor operates in strict alignment with data protection legislation applicable in the United Kingdom, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. Categories of Personal Data We Collect
Depending on your engagement with our platform, we may process several categories of information:
- Identification and Contact Data: Name, email address, telephone contact details, and country of residence provided during onboarding.
- Technical and Device Information: Internet Protocol (IP) address, device operating system, browser configuration, timezone, screen resolution, and diagnostic logs.
- Trading and Platform Usage Data: Analytical telemetry, algorithmic parameter selections, feature interaction patterns, and session metrics.
- Verification and Compliance Data: Information required to maintain anti-fraud integrity, regulatory compliance, and system security.
3. Legal Bases for Processing
Under the UK GDPR, we process personal data under one or more of the following lawful conditions:
- Contractual Performance: Processing necessary to deliver, administer, and maintain platform features requested by you.
- Legitimate Interests: Improving machine-learning infrastructure, mitigating operational fraud, maintaining cyber defense systems, and diagnosing server health.
- Legal and Regulatory Obligations: Compliance with financial surveillance, tax accounting, or governmental data retention duties.
- Consent: Explicit authorization granted for non-essential cookies, newsletter updates, or secondary analytics.
4. How We Utilize Your Information
We use collected data solely for legitimate operational purposes, including:
- Authenticating your account and verifying user identity.
- Calibrating neural network latency and improving algorithmic execution speed.
- Providing technical customer support and operational service advisories.
- Detecting and neutralizing security vulnerabilities, bot traffic, and unauthorized intrusion attempts.
5. Data Sharing and Third-Party Disclosures
Dawnbay Sylor does not sell, rent, or lease personal user information to third-party commercial marketing firms. We disclose personal data only under strictly regulated conditions to:
- Cloud hosting providers and infrastructure partners maintaining enterprise-grade security protocols.
- Regulated identity verification and security audit providers.
- Legal counsel, judicial courts, or regulatory authorities where mandated by applicable United Kingdom statutory procedures.
6. International Data Transfers
Where processing involves transferring personal information across international borders, we ensure adequate security guarantees are enforced. Such transfers rely on UK International Data Transfer Agreements (IDTAs), European Standard Contractual Clauses, or recognized adequacy regulations to safeguard data to the standard required within the United Kingdom.
7. Data Retention and Storage
We retain personal information only for as long as required to fulfil the purposes articulated in this notice, satisfy statutory obligations, resolve legal claims, and maintain system integrity. When records are no longer required, they are securely purged using cryptographic erasure or irreversibly anonymized for ongoing statistical analysis.
8. Your Statutory Rights
Under UK data protection law, you hold recognized rights regarding your personal records, including:
- Right of Access: Requesting confirmation and copies of records held about you.
- Right to Rectification: Requesting prompt correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Right to Erasure ("Right to Be Forgotten"): Requesting deletion of records when lawful retention grounds no longer apply.
- Right to Restriction: Requesting temporary suspension of active processing under defined dispute scenarios.
- Right to Data Portability: Receiving your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
- Right to Object: Opposing processing based on legitimate interests or direct informational updates.
9. Cookie Practices and Tracking
Our website utilizes strictly essential session cookies to preserve login state, maintain navigation continuity, and optimize page load speeds. Non-essential analytical telemetry is captured only with your explicit consent and can be adjusted through browser configuration controls at any time.
10. Information Security
We enforce defense-in-depth security standards across all layers of our technological stack, including end-to-end Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3), AES-256 resting encryption for stored databases, strict principle-of-least-privilege access permissions, and periodic vulnerability reviews.
11. Contact and Supervisory Authority
For questions or requests concerning your privacy rights, contact our Data Governance Officer. If you believe your data has been handled inconsistently with UK privacy laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).