NOTICE OF PRIVACY POLICY

Congress recently passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which deals in part with how financial institutions treat nonpublic personal financial information. Newman Dignan & Sheerar, Inc. (NDS) has always been committed to maintaining customer confidentiality. We appreciate this opportunity to clarify our privacy practices for you as a result of this new law. 

•  We do not sell your personal information to anyone.


•  We do not disclose personal information to third parties, unless the following exception applies.


• We disclose personal information to companies that help us process or service your transactions or account(s), including companies that print and mail your account statements.


•  We collect and use “nonpublic personal information” in order to provide our customers with a broad range of financial products and services as effectively and conveniently as possible.


• We collect information that you provide to us when you open an account. The information we collect may include name, address, phone number, email address, social security number, and information about your investment interests, account balances, payment history, investments, and investment experience.


• Once you have an account with us, to administer your account and better serve you, we collect and maintain personal information about your transactions, including balances, positions, and history, and may include your name or other data in internal client files that reflect your activities at NDS.


• We restrict access to personal information to our employees and agents for business purposes only. All employees are trained and required to safeguard such information.


• We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information.


•  We continue to evaluate our efforts to protect your personal information and make every effort to keep your personal information accurate and up to date.