The privacy of your personal information has always been important to us at SMC. We are committed to respecting your right to privacy and protecting your personal information against unauthorized disclosure. Our staff is trained to respect your privacy in accordance with our standards, policies and procedures.
If you are acquiring or have acquired a product or service from SMC, it will collect and hold your personal information for the purposes of:
SMC may also collect your personal information for the purpose of letting you know about products or services from SMC that might better serve your needs or promotions or other opportunities in which you may be interested.
The information collected may include your name, postal or email address, date of birth, financial details, PAN number or other information SMC is required by law to collect or it otherwise considers necessary.
We will, if it is reasonable or practicable to do so, collect your latest personal information from you request your regular updates. This may happen when you fill out a product or service application or an administrative form (e.g., a change of address form) or when you give us personal information over the telephone or counter, or through our website.
In line with modern business practices common to many financial institutions and to meet your specific needs (such as where you have a financial adviser) we may disclose your personal information to the organisations described below:
Our aim is to make sure that the personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. This is the legal requirement and we can provide you better service. If you believe your personal information is not accurate, complete or up to date, please contact us for updating/correction. We solicit your co-operation in updating your correct information.
We store information in different ways, including in paper and electronic form. The security of your personal information is important to us and we take reasonable steps to protect it from misuse, loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Some of the ways we do this are:
We take care to ensure that the personal information you provide on our websites is protected. For example, our websites have electronic security systems in place, including the use of firewalls and data encryption. User identifiers, passwords or other access codes may also be used to control access to your personal information.
We take care to ensure that the personal information you provide on our websites is protected. For example, our websites have electronic security systems in place, including the use of firewalls and data encryption. User identifiers, passwords or other access codes may also be used to control access to your personal information.
You may be able to access external websites by clicking on links we have provided. Those other websites are not subject to our privacy standards, policies and procedures. You will need to contact or review those websites directly to ascertain their privacy standards, policies and procedures.
SMC Group engages the services of an outside advertisement company to display advertisement on the Website. These advertisements may contain cookies. While SMC Group uses cookies in other parts of the Web Site, cookies received with banner advertisements are collected by the Advertisement company, and SMC does not have access to this information.
SMC, on website ( www.smctradeonline.com ), has introduced eKYC for where clients can provide their UID / Aadhar Number to complete their Know Your Customer (KYC) requirement. SMC will act as KUA The clients will be able to link their UID / Aadhar Number to their account by Authenticating using OTP received from UIDAI. The data provided by visitor will be sent to UIDAI or its agencies in secured manner as prescribed in the guidelines by UIDAI. By entering UID / Aadhar Number, the visitor agrees to authorize SMC to validate the UID / Aadhar Number with UIDAI or it’s authorized agencies. SMC will store the authenticated UID / Aadhar Number and demographic information along with client’s profile in secured manner. Data collected for eKYC will not be used for any profiling purpose or marketing purpose.
If you have any issues you wish to raise with SMC, or would like to discuss any issues about our Privacy Policy, you may do so in a number of ways:
