Cookie Policy

Information about our use of personal data and cookies

BANDS Financial Limited ("BANDS"), with a place of business at Unit 1007, Level 10, Cyberport 1, 100 Cyberport Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong ("we", "us" and "our"), operate the website www.bands.financial ("Website") and other brokerage or ancillary services, applications and APIs ("Services"). BANDS acts as the Controller and is therefore responsible for your personal data.

Our Website uses cookies and other tools to help distinguish you from other users of the Website. This helps us provide you with a better experience when using the Services and improve the Services. This policy is designed to explain how we use the personal data we collect from you when you use our Website or Services and assist you in making informed decisions when using our Services. This cookie policy should also be read in conjunction with our privacy policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our Website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information, please visit All About Cookies.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our Website, including:

  • Understanding how you use our Website
  • Remembering your site settings when you visit our Website again

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our Website uses:

  • Functionality - We use these cookies so that we recognise you on our Website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and the location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies is used.
  • Analytics/Performance - We use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our Website, the content you viewed, the links you followed, information about your browser, device, and your IP address. This data is used to improve our Website and Services.

Some cookies on the Website and other parts of the Services are managed by third parties, including, for example, providers of external websites like web traffic analysis services. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies. You should refer to the third parties' own cookie and privacy policies for information about how they may use your information.

The third-party cookies we use in our Services, include but are not limited to:

  • Google - Our Website and Services have embedded Google services/tools, such as 'Google Maps' and 'Google Analytics' for a better user experience and analytics purposes. For details of Google cookies usage, please click here.
  • YouTube - The videos in our Website are hosted on a YouTube channel. For details of YouTube cookies, please click here.

In particular, we use Google Analytics cookies to obtain an overall view of visitor habits and visitor volumes, and to help improve the overall experience of our Services.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and this Website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our Website features may not function as a result.

You can change your analytics cookie preferences for this Website here:

Privacy and cookie policies of other websites

Our Website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our Website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy and cookie policies first.

Changes to our privacy and cookie policies

We keep our privacy and cookie policies under regular review and place any updates on this web page.

How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy or cookie policies, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please email us at info@bands.financial.

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if oyu feel that we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner's Office or your local equivalent authority.

Updated in April 2024