We consider customer privacy to be a fundamental aspect of our relationship with clients. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of our current, prospective and former clients' personal/corporate information. We have developed policies designed to protect this confidentiality, while allowing client needs to be served.
In the course of providing you with products and services, we may obtain non-public personal/corporate information about you. This information may come from sources such as account applications and other forms, from other written, electronic or verbal correspondence, from your transactions, from your brokerage or financial advisory firm, financial adviser or consultant, and/or from information captured on our internet web sites.
We do not disclose any personal/corporate or account information provided by you or gathered by us to non-affiliated third parties, except as required or permitted by law. We may delegate investment management and administrative service responsibilities to our investment management affiliates and share information with them to the extent necessary to accomplish these limited purposes. As is common in the industry, non-affiliated companies may from time to time be used to provide certain services, such as preparing and mailing prospectuses, reports, account statements and other information, conducting research on client satisfaction, and gathering shareholder proxies. We may also retain non-affiliated companies to market our products and enter in joint marketing agreements with other companies. These companies may have access to your personal/corporate and account information, but are permitted to use the information solely to provide the specific service or as otherwise permitted by law. We may also provide your personal/corporate and account information to your brokerage or financial advisory firm and/or to your financial adviser or consultant.
We do reserve the right to disclose or report personal/corporate information to non-affiliated third parties in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under law, to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, or to protect our rights or property. In addition, we may disclose information about you or your accounts to a non-affiliated third party at your request or if you consent in writing to the disclosure.
We may share client information with our affiliates in connection with servicing your account or to provide you with information about products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. The information we share may include, for example, your ownership of certain types of accounts (such as IRAs), or other data about your accounts. Our affiliates, in turn, are not permitted to share your information with non-affiliated entities, except as required or permitted by law.
We take seriously the obligation to safeguard your non-public personal/corporate information. We have implemented procedures designed to restrict access to your non-public personal/corporate information to our personnel who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. To guard your non-public personal/corporate information, physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards are in place.
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