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- Privacy Statement -
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
OF OUR CONCERN FOR PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS
UNDER FEDERAL PRIVACY LAWS.
We
collect personal information about you and all our
clients from the information you submit on our
applications or other forms, and through
information, we obtain over the course of your
business relationship with our affiliates, others,
and us. In addition, we may from time to time
receive information about you from a
consumer-reporting agency.
As a rule,
we will not disclose any personal
information about our clients or former
clients to anyone, consistent with our
professional confidentiality
obligations. However, upon your request,
we will disclose information about you,
and we may be required by law to
disclose personal information about you,
as, for example, in response to a
subpoena or other court order.
In addition,
if requested by you, we may disclose
personal information about you to your
team of financial and legal advisor
firms. In all such situations, we stress
the confidential nature of information
being shared. We employ precautions to
maintain the security of our data
transmitted via computer. We use the
services of a document shredding company
to destroy paper records no longer
required. Instructions' regarding client
confidentiality has always been a part
of our employee manual. We provide
access to your personal information only
to those employees who need to know the
information to provide you with our
services. We maintain physical,
electronic and procedural safeguards to
guard your personal information. We have
been and continue to be bound by
professional standards of
confidentiality that are even more
stringent than those required by law.
We pledge
equal access to services and employment
regardless of race, color, religion,
gender, age, national origin,
disability, or sexual orientation.
Please call us if you would like to
review this or any other matter in
detail.
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