Vestech Securities Commitment to Privacy
As you may know Vestech Securities and National Financial Services LLC (“National Financial) have an agreement that National Financial will provide trade execution, clearing and related activities for your account. In connection with these services, Vestech is required to communicate its position as it pertains to the privacy of customer information. Please take a moment to review our Private Policy, as described below.
Vestech Securities Privacy Policy
How and Why We Obtain Information
In order to facilitate the serving of your account, Vestech may receive nonpublic personal information about you from you or any of the following sources:
From your application forms (example include name, address, Social Security number, birth date, assets and income)
From transactional activity in your account (examples include trading history and balances)
From verification services and consumer reporting agencies (to ensure accuracy of application data, or to assess creditworthiness if you apply for our credit products)
From other sources with your consent or with the consent of your broker dealer (for example, from other institutions if you transfer positions into National Financial)
Vestech has always been considered the protection of sensitive information to be a sound business practice and a foundation of customer trust. We employ extensive information protection controls in keeping with industry standards and practices, and we regularly adapt these physical, electronic and procedural controls to respond to changing requirements.
Within Vestech and among our service providers, we restrict access to your information to those who require that access in order to provide products and services to you. We may share the personal information that we collect about our customers, prospects or former customers with their broker dealers or with:
Affiliates—including affiliates service providers (for example, our data processing company and printing operation)
Un affiliated service providers (for example, fulfillment companies and securities clearinghouses)
Government agencies and law enforcement officials (for example, for tax reporting or under court order)
Other organizations, as permitted by the laws that protect your privacy (such as fraud prevention)
Other organizations, with your consent or as directed by your broker dealer (for example, if you request personalized performance reporting)
Privacy Online
Vestech considers privacy, security and service to be just as critical in the online environment as in the rest of our operation. We therefore employ all of the safeguards described above, along with the following Internet-specific practices. Vestech uses a variety of proven protections to maintain the security of your online session. For example, we make extensive use of firewall barriers, encryption techniques and authentication procedures. We also use cookies and similar files that may be placed on your hard drive for security purposes, to facilitate site navigation, and to personalize the appearance of the site. When we conduct business online, we may collect technical and navigational information, such as computer browser type, internet protocol address, pages visited, and average time spent on our Website. This information may be used, for example, to alert you to software compatibility issues; or it may be analyzed to improve the Web design and its functionality
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