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Family Management Corporation and its affiliates (“Family Management”) value you as a customer and respect your right to privacy. Family Management pledges it commitment to treating your information responsibly and has established the following policies to assure you that we are protecting your privacy.
We hope you will take a moment to review the privacy policy of FMC. We are proud of our policies and practices, and we want you to know how we protect your information and how we use it to service your account.
How do we protect the confidentiality and security of your information?
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to ensure your personal information is treated responsibly and in accordance with our privacy policy. Employees who have access to customer information may use it only for legitimate business purposes. Additionally, we safeguard customer information in accordance with applicable data security regulations.
What personal information do we collect about you?
We collect personal information about you from the following sources:
- Information we receive from you on applications and other forms;
- Information about your transactions with us through our affiliates, and
- Depending upon the product you are utilizing, information we receive from consumer reporting agencies, attorneys, accountants, or others.
We may disclose this information to entities that perform marketing (e.g. newsletter fulfillment center) and administrative services on our behalf or as required or permitted by law for legal, regulatory or other purposes.
We have always considered the protection of sensitive information to be a sound business practice and a foundation of customer trust. Within Family Management and among our services providers (e.g. clearing firm), we restrict access to information to those that require that access in order to provide products and services to you. We may share the personal information that we collect with the following entities.
- Affiliates Information collected from one affiliate may be shared with our other affiliates for investment or advisory purposes only.
- Unaffiliated service providers (such as printing\mailing fulfillment services).
- Government agencies and law enforcement officials (for example, for tax reporting or under court order).
- Other organizations, with your consent (such as credit agencies or banks).
- Other organizations, as permitted by the laws that protect your privacy (such as for fraud prevention).
- We do not sell your personal information to anyone.
The law allows you to “opt out” of only certain kinds of information sharing with third parties. We do not share personal information about you with any third parties that triggers this opt-out clause. This means YOU ARE ALREADY OPTED-OUT.
Former Customers
If you are a former customer, your information is treated in the same manner as the information of current customers.
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