The Information We Collect About You
You typically provide personal information when you complete a Neto Financial Group or NFG Wealth Advisors (collectively, “NFG”) account application and/or contact form.
This information may include your:
- Name and address
- Assets
- Investment Activity
- Email address
- Income
- Accounts at other institutions
- Phone Number
- Account Balances
- Social Security or Taxpayer ID number
In addition, we may collect non-public information about you from the following sources:
- Information we receive on subscription agreements, managed account agreements and other subscription and account opening documents
- Information we receive in the course of establishing a customer relationship including, but not limited to, applications, forms, questionnaires and data through our web site.
- Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or others
Limiting Collection of Information
NFG only collects personal information necessary for business purposes, which includes information for customer account administration, communication with financial advisors on their clients’ accounts, and information that is required for regulatory and tax purposes.
Information About You That NFG Shares
NFG works as an organization to provide products and services that benefit our customers. We may share non-public personal information with our affiliates for proper business purposes in connection with the management or servicing of your account.
When processing transactions or managing accounts on your behalf, NFG restricts access as much as possible to your personal and account information to employees and agents in order to provide products and services for which you have hired NFG.
NFG may also disclose non-public personal information to non-affiliated third parties (such as brokers and custodians) as necessary for us to provide agreed services and products to you consistent with applicable law. We may also disclose non-public personal information to other financial institutions with whom we have joint business arrangements for proper business purposes in connection with the management or servicing of your account. In addition, your non-public personal information may also
be disclosed to persons we believe to be your authorized agent or representative, regulators in order to satisfy NFG’s regulatory obligations, and as otherwise required or permitted by law. Lastly, we may disclose your non-public personal information to companies we hire to help administrate our business. Companies we hire to provide services of this kind are not allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes and are contractually obligated to maintain strict confidentiality. We limit
their use of your personal information to the performance of the specific service we have requested.
To repeat, we do not sell your non-public personal information to anyone.
Information About Former Investors
NFG does not disclose, and does not intend to disclose, non-public personal information to non-affiliated third parties with respect to persons who are no longer our clients.
Confidentiality and Security
Our employees are advised about the firm’s need to protect and respect the confidentiality of our customers’ non-public personal information. Additionally, we maintain physical, procedural and electronic safeguards in an effort to protect the information from access by unauthorized parties.
We’ll Keep You Informed
Periodically we may revise our privacy policy, and will provide you with a revised policy if the changes materially alter the previous privacy policy. We will not, however, revise our privacy policy to permit the sharing of non-public personal information other than as described in this notice unless we first notify you and provide you with an opportunity to prevent the information sharing. At all times, you may view our current privacy policy on our website at www.netofinancial.com, or contact info@netofinancial.com for a copy.