Forecasts and market analysis based on price assessments from Fastmarkets MB and Fastmarkets AMM
Fastmarkets provides commodity price benchmarks and analysis critical to our customers’ business processes and workflows. It provides prices across the supply chain from the creation of the commodity to recycling in the metals and mining, forest products and agriculture markets.
Fastmarkets and its group companies are committed to respecting the privacy of every person who visits, registers with or subscribes to our websites, publications, events and other products or services, or about whom we otherwise collect personal data.
This privacy notice describes how we use your personal data. Please read it carefully along with our Cookies Notices. We may make changes to this notice from time to time, so please check it regularly. We will make you aware when it has been updated.
Fastmarkets provides commodity price benchmarks and analysis critical to our customers’ business processes and workflows. It provides prices across the supply chain from the creation of the commodity to recycling in the metals and mining, forest products and agriculture markets. There are a number of businesses in our family. You can find out more about these businesses on our website. Fastmarkets is the official Data Controller of your personal data. This Privacy Notice applies to all Fastmarkets businesses. To complement our global approach to privacy protection, this policy also incorporates specific information privacy rights granted to individuals under California and Chinese privacy laws. This reflects our relationship with our customers in these locations.
If you wish to exercise your rights under data protection law, you can do so by contacting us at the details under the heading How to exercise your rights.
We collect your personal data when you visit our sites and apps, subscribe for products or services, register for, and attend our events, contribute to our businesses or when you otherwise interact with us. We have described below the personal data that we process, what we use it for and where we get it from (which, in each case, may vary depending on the way in which you engage with us).
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and the relevant data protection regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We have a data retention policy that ensures we don’t use or store your personal data for longer than necessary. We consider the following to determine retention periods:
Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner and other regulatory agencies, as well as industry best practice recommendations;
We may occasionally need to keep personal data for either shorter or longer periods than specified in our retention policy. In such circumstances, application of the retention period to the data will be temporarily suspended. The suspension of any retention period will be carried out in a manner that respects the rights and interests of all persons concerned.
We use third parties to enable, perform or improve a range of our business processes. These may require us to share your data with third parties and/or they may share your data with us. These third parties may include (but are not limited to):
Fastmarkets has offices around the world. Your data may be transferred to or accessed globally.
As well as other Fastmarkets operations, the service providers we share your data with may have operations in the UK, the EEA and elsewhere in the world.
While some countries - for example those in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the Isle of Man, Andorra, Argentina, Guernsey, Israel, Jersey, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay are recognised as having must have the same high standard of data protection as offered in the UK, other parts of the world may not guarantee that same level of protection. When we share your data with anyone outside of the UK and the EEA, where necessary, we always put in place the safeguards required by law to ensure that a consistent high level of protection travels with your data.
If you would like more specific details about the safeguards in place when transferring your data, please contact us.
You can opt-out of receiving communications from us by selecting " cancel or manage your subscription" on our communications. You can also choose the channels we use to contact you (email, phone, post, etc.) by contacting us directly.
You have certain rights in relation to your personal data which include the following:
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us by post or email at the following addresses:
Fastmarkets 8 Bouverie Street, Temple, London EC4Y 8AX Email: privacy@fastmarkets.com
We may need to check your identity prior to processing a request. We will do our best to respond to any questions and address any of your concerns.
You also have the right to complain directly to the Regulator regarding the processing of your personal data - the Information Commissioner in the UK or the regulatory body of the country where you live. You can contact the UK Information Commissioner at the link provided or in writing to:
Information Commissioner's Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
For other regulatory bodies, this information is readily available. But, you can contact us should you require assistance.
We have explained our privacy practices in full in the other sections of this Privacy Notice. In this section, we provide a list of the categories of personal information set out in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) that have been collected, the purposes for which those categories of information are collected or used, and the business purposes (as defined in the CCPA) for which those categories are disclosed. In the twelve months preceding the date this Privacy Notice took effect, we have not sold personal information although we do use standard Internet advertising and analytics tools provided by third parties that rely on cookies and other tracking technologies (see our Cookie Settings for more information), and we may disclose your information with your consent and for the business purposes described below.
Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to: request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, and disclose; request deletion of your personal information; opt out of any “sales” of your personal information that may be occurring; and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
To access any of your rights described in this section (for customers who are California Residents), please submit your request by submitting the CCPA Data Request form. When you exercise your rights, we may seek to verify your identity, for example by verifying purchases you have made with us. If we receive your request from an authorised agent, we may ask for evidence that you have provided such agent with power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to submit requests to exercise rights on your behalf. If you are an authorised agent seeking to make a request, please contact us. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
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ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
We also comply with specific requirements stipulated by PIPL (“Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China”) and other relevant Chinese rules and regulations. This section of the Privacy Notice supplements the information in this rest of the Notice.
We will process your personal information in accordance with the principles of legality, legitimacy, necessity, and good faith. We will obtain your consent before processing your personal information, where required. Especially, when we want to process your sensitive personal information, we will obtain your separate consent or your written consent according to laws and administrative regulations.
If we process your personal information beyond the content in this Privacy Notice, we will separately explain the purpose, method, and scope of such processing to you through page tips, interactive processes, website announcements, etc., and obtain your consent again.
When it comes to directing marketing, we will request your consent. You will always be free not to respond. You could easily withdraw the consent at any time.
You’re fully aware that we may process your personal information outside the need to obtain the authority and consent from you, under any of the following circumstances:
We will not share your personal information with a third party unless we obtain your separate consent or in circumstances where your consent is not required according to laws and regulations.
We may share your name, job title, company, address, telephone number and email with event sponsors. Due to the fact that event sponsors will differ from time to time, we will inform you of the name and contact information of the sponsors, purpose and method of processing and obtain your separate consent before sharing your personal information.
Where we need to transfer your personal information due to merger, division, dissolution or declaration of bankruptcy, etc., we will notify you of the name and contact information of the recipient, as well as urge the recipient to continue to process your personal information based on this Privacy Notice. Otherwise, we will request the recipient to obtain your consent again before processing.
Your personal information will be stored outside of the People’s Republic of China. Fastmarkets is a global organisation and will receive your personal information (name, job title, company, address, telephone number and email).
We may also share your personal information with our corporate affiliates, for them to send you marketing materials.
We will take necessary measures required by laws including obtaining your separate consent, concluding standard contractual clauses with the overseas recipient to stipulate the rights and obligations between us, and will ensure that the foreign receiving party provides adequate protection for your personal information under applicable laws.
You could contact us or the overseas recipient to exercise personal information rights through the contact information listed in this Privacy Notice.
Under the stipulations of PIPL, you have the following rights:
For security, we may verify your identity before handling your request. After verifying your identity, we will respond to your request in time, and give a reply and reasonable explanation within 15 days after verifying your identity, or inform you of the external ways to solve the dispute.
We will not be able to respond to your request under the following circumstances:
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice and the processing of your personal information, you can send your questions to or to the following address:.
We endeavor to keep your personal data secure and take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from loss, unauthorized use, disclosure or destruction. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee that any transmission of data is without risk.
All our employees, contractors and data processors (i.e. those third parties that process personal data on our behalf) are required to keep such data confidential and not to use it for any purpose other than the performance of services we have requested.