
Protecting
Your Privacy |
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We consider it our great privilege to serve your financial needs and we value the trust you have placed in us. As we serve your financial relationship, we are committed to safeguarding your customer information. |
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| Here is our privacy pledge to you: | |||||||||
| 1. Your privacy is a top priority. | |||||||||
| 2. The accounts and services you use are provided in a secure environment. | |||||||||
| 3. We collect information in order to service and administer your customer relationship. | |||||||||
| 4. Your customer information is shared only in limited ways and is carefully controlled. | |||||||||
| 5. We will work together with you to protect the security of your customer information, and to keep your information accurate and current. | |||||||||
Please
read further to learn more about our privacy policies. We are dedicated to
continuing our long tradition of integrity and responsive personal service.
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| A note about this information: | |||||||||
The
privacy policies described in this publication apply to individuals who obtain
or apply for a financial product or service for personal, family, or household
purposes, or have done so in the past, from EACM Advisors LLC.
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As
described below, you will find our policies and practices for collecting,
disclosing, and safeguarding "nonpublic personal information," which may
include financial or other customer information. This notification replaces all
previous statements of our consumer privacy policy, and may be amended at any
time. We'll keep you informed of changes as required by law.
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| 1. Your privacy is a top priority. | |||||||||
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are committed to your privacy. We take great care to protect the security of
your customer information and to control how it may be used. In addition, we
will provide annual notification of our privacy policies and procedures to keep
our customers informed about this issue.
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| 2. The accounts and services you use are provided in a secure environment. | |||||||||
We
use sophisticated technology and security measures to protect your customer
information. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that
comply with federal regulations to guard nonpublic personal information.
Whether you conduct business with us by mail, telephone, the Internet, or by
visiting our office, you can be confident that our security measures are
appropriate to each of these servicing channels. |
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| 3. We collect information in order to service and administer your customer relationship. | |||||||||
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the course of serving or administering your customer relationship, we collect a
variety of nonpublic personal information which is provided by you, as well as
other sources, and may include:
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Information we receive from you, such as your name, address, Social Security
number, assets, and income, as provided, for example, on a subscription
agreement.
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Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates and others, such as
balances, parties to transactions, and account usage.
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The information we collect is based on the services we may provide to you. This
information is used or shared as described in the section that follows.
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| 4. Your customer information is shared only in limited ways and is carefully controlled. | |||||||||
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use or share customer information in a limited and carefully controlled manner.
For example, the information we collect is used for purposes such as:
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| . To identify you in order to protect against fraud and guard against unauthorized access to your accounts. | |||||||||
| . To enable us to complete your transactions quickly and efficiently, and to provide you with high quality customer service. | |||||||||
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To better serve your relationship by understanding which services may be the
right match for your needs, and telling you about new offers that may be of
interest to you.
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| . To help ensure that our information about you is current and accurate. | |||||||||
| Examples of categories of customer information that we may share include: | |||||||||
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Information we receive from you, such as your name, address, Social Security
number, assets, and income, as provided, for example, on a subscription
agreement.
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Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates and others, such as
balances, parties to transactions, and account usage.
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This
customer information may be shared with authorized users, including both
affiliates and nonaffiliated third parties, in order to provide you with the
services and financial choices that you request. These sharing policies and
practices are described in this section.
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| With affiliates: | |||||||||
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may share customer information with our various administrative and service
departments who use customer information as part of their data processing
requirements to prepare your account statements or service your accounts. We do
not share customer information with our affiliates for marketing purposes.
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| With third parties not affiliated with us: | |||||||||
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may share the customer information we collect, as described earlier in this
section, on a limited basis with certain nonaffiliated third parties. For
example, we share information in order to process your transactions. We may
also share customer information with other nonaffiliated third parties as
permitted by law.
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| The third parties with whom customer information may be shared include: | |||||||||
| . Companies that provide services necessary to effect a transaction that you request or to service your account. | |||||||||
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Companies or others that provide specialized services on our behalf, such as
programming contractors or companies and individuals that help us market our
services.
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Government agencies, courts, parties to lawsuits, or regulators to whom we may
provide information about you and your transactions. For example, federal and
state laws give people involved in lawsuits or other legal proceedings the
right to obtain records and customer information from us. In such cases, we
share only the information that we are required or authorized to share.
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| 5. We will work together with you to protect the security of your customer information, and to keep your information accurate and current. | |||||||||
As
described above, we use a combination of safeguards such as employee training
and accountability, strict privacy policies, rigorous security standards, and
fraud detection to protect your nonpublic personal information. |
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2008, EACM Advisors LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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