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Your personal information is protected by The Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the “Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act” or GLB Act and The Securities and Exchange Commission
Regulation S-P. At Hampton Securities (USA) Inc., we comply with the privacy principles set out by the GLB Act and Regulation S-P and recognize the confidentiality of your personal information. Since the protection of your information is important to us, we have adopted the following disclosure and policy on how the information you share with us is used and maintained:
- We collect nonpublic personal information about you from account application forms and other account related forms, transactions with our affiliates, others, or us and possibly from consumer reporting agencies.
- Information that we collect from you on your account application such as name, address and other similar data is used to administer your accounts, process transactions requested by you and provide customer services. Financial, spousal and investment related information that we collect is required by our regulators and aids our registered representatives in determining suitability of securities for your account. We must collect identification verification to satisfy the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and various securities regulators.
- We do not share the personal nonpublic information you provide to us with any unaffiliated third parties except with your authorization or when permitted or required by law.
- Our employees are required to safeguard the confidentiality of your information and understand the importance of maintaining client confidentiality and privacy.
- You will have access to your personal information upon request and you may challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information for amendment purposes as appropriate.
- Our Affiliated Company, Hampton Securities Limited, and our clearing broker, National Financial Services (NFS), have access to client information and are required to keep client information confidential and to use it only to provide services for Hampton Securities (USA) Inc..
- We have systems in place, which safeguards your personal information and prevents unauthorized access. We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to access that information to provide products and services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.
If you should have any concerns about our privacy policy or require additional information, please contact Compliance at 1-877-225-0229.
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