Risk Considerations
Investors should note that the Xtrackers ETFs & ETCs are not capital protected or guaranteed and investors in each Xtrackers ETF or ETC should be prepared and able to sustain losses up to the total capital invested. The value of an investment in an Xtrackers ETF or ETC may go down as well as up and past performance does not predict future returns. Investment in Xtrackers ETFs or ETCs involve risks. For a list of related risks please click on the Risks and Terms tab.
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We collect, process, and use personal information on our websites in order to offer you even better products and services, best adapt our business processes to our clients’ needs, and steer you to the most suitable product information and applications.
Information collected on our website will only be retained for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. If you wish to access or correct any information, you may have your data deleted, blocked or corrected (if compliant with applicable law). You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you; this service is free of charge.
Furthermore, DWS strives to continuously improve the website. For this reason, we collect anonymized data on the use of our website, such as domain of origin, number of page views, length of stay, etc. This data is used purely for statistical and market research purposes and is not passed on to third parties. For this purpose, we use the offer of Mapp Digital c/o Webtrekk GmbH (Berlin). It collects and evaluates anonymized information that is transmitted by your browser when visiting the DWS website. You can object to the procedure for the future by clicking here:
In accordance with the requirements of the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 2018 UK GDPR, our website visitors are informed separately about any collection of personal data on the websites concerned that goes beyond the use of Mapp Digital. We do not collect, use or process any personal data without your explicit consent, which can also be declared electronically (e.g. when requesting brochures). Once consent has been given, it can be revoked at any time.
Information input collected through this website will be transferred to the responsible DWS division. Banking secrecy as well as confidentiality are maintained. Data will not be transferred to third parties, unless necessary to answer your queries (i.e. leaflets dispatched by vendors). Your information is used to exclusively fulfil the purpose for which it is collected, relating to the website through which it is collected.
Websites through which we collect your information are usually encoded using the encryption module of your browser. These sites are certified by renowned institutions for international encryption technique. Moreover, DWS put in place additional and comprehensive state-of-the-art security measures when both accounts and custody accounts are accessed via the internet. Firewalls prevent unauthorized access.
Diverse encryption and identification layers protect customer information from intrusion or disclosure to third parties during data transfer. Furthermore, DWS internally uses sophisticated encryption methods in order to prevent de-coding by unauthorized persons. Moreover, an electronic identifier is generated during data transfer to safeguard your information.
In view of the importance of data privacy, and our obligations of transparency, we provide information below about cookies, how we use them on our website based on Article 6 UK GDPR, lawfulness of processing, and what options you have if you want to activate or deactivate these cookies.
Cookies are small text files that are sent to your computer to ensure the technical functionality of the website. DWS uses cookies in some areas of its web pages to make it easier for you to use the pages and to make them more personalized.
Our websites use cookies, which are necessary for the technical functionality of our websites and the detection of errors and security-relevant anomalies or to offer a service or option you have requested.
Functional and preference cookies enable our website to save information that has already been entered (such as username, language selection or location information) and to offer improved, personalized functionalities. Such cookies are also used to enable functionalities such as playing videos.
We strive to continuously improve the website. For this purpose, we use cookies providing us with overall statistics about the number of visitors, which areas of a page are viewed most frequently, information about the city or location of the users and the length of stay, etc. but also as a statistical audience tool to assess the success of digital communication and marketing measures. These can be installed by external analysis providers commissioned by us.
To adapt our website to your interests and needs, as well as for the purpose of market research, we analyze data that is generated when visiting our website in case you have given explicit consent to analysis cookies. We use the Mapp Digital c/o Webtrekk GmbH (Berlin) offers for this purpose.
Mapp Digital collects anonymized usage data on our website visitors' browsing behavior on our behalf. For this purpose, Mapp Digital sets a session cookie through your browser. The session cookie enables us to record your visit across several DWS websites. The session cookie is set anew each time you visit our website and expires after you leave our website. Mapp Digital also sets a temporary cookie that enables us to identify you in a pseudonymized way using the cookie ID as a returning visitor to our website.
Our websites use cookies so that we can measure and optimize the success of our marketing campaigns. To do this, we track the needs of users in order to prevent them from being shown content that is not relevant to them. Based on these cookies, we personalize our marketing campaigns to the needs of the users.
If you have consented to the use of marketing cookies, we use the re-marketing technology of our below listed partners on our website. It enables us to recognize visitors to our websites on the websites of our advertising partners using a pseudonym and to address them with information relating to their interests. During a visit to our website, a temporary cookie from our advertising partners is placed by the browser of your end device as part of the re-marketing. This cookie enables us to carry out the re-marketing in real time.
To display advertisements on the websites of our advertising partners, we use technologies, so-called "remarketing pixels", from third-party providers. The "remarketing pixels" also use cookies to assign a pseudonymized identification number to your browser. The use of cookies enables publishers (based on your visits to our website) to place advertisements on the websites of our advertising partners. The cookies do not contain any information that would allow conclusions to be drawn about you as a natural person.
If you want to prevent the use of these cookies, you can deactivate the marketing cookies under cookie settings. This also prevents the transmission of data to the above-mentioned publishers.
As part of re-marketing, no personal data will be processed or passed on to Mapp Digital or our advertising partners without your explicit consent.
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If you are not satisfied with the data protection measures described here, or if you have any questions regarding the collection, processing and/or use of your personal data, we would be pleased to hear from you. We will do our best to answer your questions as quickly as possible and to implement your suggestions. Please direct your privacy issues to privacy@dws.com.
For US residents, you can find more information on DWS’ data privacy policies and how to exercise your privacy rights under applicable laws here: https://www.dws.com/en-us/footer/legal-resources/privacy-notice/.
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