Privacy Policy
Registered Investment Advisors, like all providers of personal
financial services, are now required by the new Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Privacy Act to inform their clients of their policies regarding
privacy of client information. Financial Advisor's have been and
continue to be bound by professional standards of confidentiality
that are even more stringent than those required by law. Therefore,
we have always protected your right to privacy.
TYPES OF NON-PUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect non-public personal information about you that is provided
to us by you or obtained by us with your authorization. Some of
this information includes, but is not limited to:
Your applications or forms (name, address, Social Security, Driver's
License number, birth date, assets and income); and
Transactional activity in your account(s) (for example, trading
history and balances);
PARTIES TO WHOM WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION
For current and former clients, we do not disclose or sell any
nonpublic personal information obtained in the course of our practice
as required or permitted law. proper authorization from you the
permitted disclosures include, for instance, providing information
to unrelated third parties who need information to assist us in
providing services to you (i.e. attorneys and CPA's). In all such
situations we have permission from you and we stress the confidential
nature of information being shared.
PROTECTING THE CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY OF CURRENT AND FORMER
CLIENTS' INFORMATION
We retain records relating professional services that we provide
so that we are better able to assist you with your professional
needs and, in some cases, to comply with professional guidelines.
In order to guard your non-public personal information, we maintain
the highest physical and electronic safeguards that exceed the
professional standards required of Registered Investment Advisor's.
Original documents containing client information are kept on premises
in areas supervised by Firm personnel. Computers containing customer
information are password-protected. On this web site, there is
neither client information nor access to any of our client's accounts.
Outdated and non-essential draft documents and reports are shredded.
Any and all necessary changes to this Privacy Policy are immediately
made and the web site is updated.
Upon their association with Adams Financial Concepts, each employee
must sign an Employee Confidentiality Agreement which outlines
the Firm's policies for safeguarding propriety information and
which provides for sanctions should the employee violate the Agreement.
These forms are kept in each employee's personnel folder maintained
by the Office Manager.
Any and all necessary changes to this Privacy Policy are immediately
made and the web site is updated with the new information.
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