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        "The terms let you read the site, link to it and quote from it, as long as you include attribution. The terms forbid reproducing whole pages and stripping out the risk warnings.",
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        "Nothing on TheTraderWiki is investment advice, financial advice, tax advice or legal advice. Nothing on the site is a recommendation, an offer or an invitation to buy, sell or hold any instrument, or to open an account with any provider. The site explains how contracts for difference work, what they cost and how they are regulated, as general information. Your decision to trade depends on personal circumstances the site cannot know, and the risk disclosure states the risks in full. If you are unsure, you should consult a qualified, independent adviser."
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        "The publisher pursues accuracy by citing primary sources for every rule and statistic, and corrects a page when an error is reported or a source changes. Each page lists the sources it cites, and the updated date in the byline records when a page was last changed (about). But rules change, sources move and errors occur. The publisher does not warrant that any page is complete, current or free of error at the moment you read it. Availability is not guaranteed. The site may be unavailable for maintenance or for reasons outside the publisher’s control, and its content may be changed or withdrawn at any time.",
        "Information about a provider, such as its licence, leverage, fees and payment methods, comes from that provider’s published terms and from regulators’ registers on the date it was checked. Check it with the provider and on the regulator’s register before you open an account."
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        "The site includes third-party links that direct you to regulators, legislation, central banks and statistics agencies. They also point to the pages of brokers and payment system operators, to show where a figure about that broker or payment system came from. Each link was chosen because it is a primary source for a fact the site states. The publisher does not control those sites. The publisher is not responsible for their content or availability and does not endorse them or their operators beyond citing them. No link on the site is an affiliate or referral link. Whoever publishes a linked document may amend or withdraw it after the link was made."
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        "The exclusion also covers losses from relying on information about a provider without checking it with that provider."
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        "Changes to these terms take effect when they are published at this address. The updated date in the byline records when the current version was published. You accept the changed terms if you keep using the site after a change. If you do not accept them, you should stop using the site."
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