Financial Risk Management deals with proprietary information
that is often deemed strategic to a company or individual.
This
is why RiskServers, strives to ensure
all the personal details you have entered, as well as positions,
portfolios, prices, volatility levels, analysis setup, counterparty
information and results are yours and only yours and can only be
accessed by you !
For those who's internal security policies
prohibit from entering data into a third party system, RiskServers
provides standalone components that can be downloaded from our sites. For
more information on standalone products please refer to the
products section.
Account Sign-Up and Privacy:
When you sign-up for an account, we collect a minimum of information that can be used to identify you from other users.
All data stored on your computer or collected from your computer is always designed to either determine your licensing credentials or make your user experience smoother.
Privacy and Security ownership: You are the Owner of Your Data !
For you own security the unique keys used to identify your access
rights are always the results of complex proprietary processing
encrypted and authenticated with military grade 1048 and 2096 bit key
length ciphers and 256 or 512 bit key authentication schemes.
For your
own piece of mind, these ciphers are designed so that you are the sole owner
of your data. This means if you loose your keys, there
is absolutely no way we can recover your data and you will have to start off
again. So please make sure you back up your data.
When you sign up for your account we ask you to have the courtesy of
providing a legitimate e-mail address.
This address is only used as a
token of your goodwill.
It is indeed against our policy to even
look at user details or user account activity, except if you have
triggered a security alarm, which
would mean you are not using your account for the purpose it was
designed for.
We do not accept anonymous accounts because a small proportion of "users" thought this was a simple way to try and obtain proprietary information.
We have a long list of anonymous mailboxes that have been traced to well known corporations who were caught trying to unsuccessfully hack into our systems to either bring down our servers or "filch" proprietary designs, data or technology.
Truth is, hacking behavior is, proportionally, extremely rare, so we recognize there are
still plenty of reasons why you might want to use an anonymous account.
We will accept your anonymous e-mail address, if you contact us via any separate channel (products, support, sales) and specifically identify yourself.
Experience has nevertheless proved us most anonymous email account users, even if the vast majority are honest law abiding citizens are not serious or accountable users. Worse, the vast majority have regularly demonstrated they are sloppy or unreliable!
We therefore believe asking you for a proper e-mail should not be an issue as you are getting free access to a multimillion dollar system.
Note: If you don't want to supply a proper e-mail handle, you can always use our guest account !
Processed Information:
For your own comfort and piece of mind, we only require the
minimum amount of information in order to create a unique account that can
be processed according to your licensing credentials, your data access
level and the workgroup(s) to which you might belong.
Your email address and personal details are considered strictly confidential information and will never be reviewed, except if your e-mail address has been scanned by the registration process as an anonymous e-mail address.
As
such, we do not collect or harvest names, e-mail address, or
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We never sell our customers' personal information or provide access
or links to third
parties.
Your browser includes features you can use to enhance the privacy and
security of your personal information.
We strongly recommend you use them !
Some web sites publish their privacy policies according to the Platform for
Privacy Preferences (P3P) standard.
For information on how to customize your
browser based on this please refer to your browser manufacturer online help.
Privacy on the Internet
This section summarizes some background information about privacy on the
Internet. It also describes several things you can do to help safeguard your
own privacy.
This section is not intended to provide a complete description of Internet
privacy issues.
When your browser displays a web page—for example, each time you click a link or type a URL, or when a web page is displayed in an email message—it gives certain kinds of information to the site. This information may include (but is not limited to) your operating environment, your Internet address, and the page you're coming from.
The site is told something about your operating environment, such as your browser type and operating system. This helps the site present the page in the best way for your screen. For example, the site might learn that you use the Spanish version of Mozilla 1.2 on a Windows 7 computer.
Your browser must tell the site your Internet address (also known as the Internet Protocol, or IP address) so the site knows where to send the page you are requesting. The site can't present the page you want to see unless it knows your IP address.
Your IP address can be either temporary or fixed (static).
If you connect to the Internet through a standard modem that's attached to your phone line, then your Internet service provider (ISP) may assign you a temporary IP address each time you log on. You use the temporary IP address for the duration of your Internet session—for example, until you sign off or hang up your dial-up connection, or otherwise end your computer's live connection with the Internet. Each ISP has many IP addresses, and they assign the addresses at random to users.
If you have DSL, a cable modem, or a fiber-optic connection, you may have a fixed IP address that you use every time you connect.
Your IP address is not the same as your email address.
The site is also told which page you were reading when you clicked a link to
see one of the site's pages.
This allows the site to know which site
referred you. Or, as you traverse the site, it allows the site to know which
of its pages you came from.
When you log into your account a cryptographic key is issued. This key is placed into a cookie that is sent to your browser.
RiskServers uses your cookies to define your licensing credentials. We also use cookies to save your settings and preferences.
When you return to our site, your browser sends us back the list of cookies that were previously set.
When you are using the default cookie settings, this activity is invisible
to you, and you won't even know if a site is setting a cookie or when your
browser is sending a web site's cookie back.
You can change these
settings so that you will be asked to accept a cookie before it is set.
Cookies allow RiskServers products to know your licensing level, your private data access and your market data access as well as the following settings regarding the default values that are used when a page is generated or information is missing:
Default Counterparty and Account Information:
Default Portfolio.
Default Tag.
Default Bond DayCount convention;
Default Money Market
DayCount convention.
Default Banking Holiday Calendar.
Default Graph
Color.
Default Style.
Default Counterparty and Account Information:
Is used when the Account information was not defined.
Trade import, Credit Tag, Exposure, etc
Default Portfolio: Is used when no Portfolio
information was supplied during trade import and definition
Default Tag: Is used when the Tag information is
missing. (Trade import, Internal Trades, etc)
Default Bond
DayCount: The default Bond DayCount convention is used
to generate cash-flows, when Bond DayCount information is missing.
Default Money Market DayCount: The default Money Market
DayCount convention is used to generate cash-flows, when DayCount
information for the trade is missing.
Default Banking Holiday
Calendar: The financial center is used to determine
holidays in order to generated cash-flows based on valid business days.
Default Graph Color: The Graph Color is used to
define the color of Graphics
Default Style:
Is used when to define the overall page look and feel.
A Cookie is also used to filter trades.
For example, if you typically filter your trades by asset type, the application might use a cookie to remember what filter was used so that the application can select it for you the next time it is needed. This means you won't need to select it again, except if you decide to change it!
If your browser stores a site's cookie, it will return the cookie only
to that particular site.
Your browser will not provide one site with cookies
set by another.
Since a web site can only receive its own cookies, it can
learn about your activities while you are at that site but not your
activities in general while surfing the Web.
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You can disable cookies, images, JavaScript, and plug-ins completely for web pages that are received as part of email messages.
While it may be convenient to enable some or all of these capabilities when you're browsing the web, they may not be necessary in single web pages sent as attachments to messages.