Privacy Policy

Specialized Public Finance Inc. Privacy Policy

 

Specialized Public Finance Inc. (SPFI) is committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal and financial information. The measures we take to keep your personal information private and secure are outlined below.

 

How we Protect Your Information

 

SPFI has policies in place that use procedural, physical and electronic system safeguards to store and secure information about you in compliance with federal standards. Your information is protected from unauthorized access, alteration, and destruction. Access is permitted only to those individuals within our organization who need the information to perform their job responsibilities. When we enter into agreements with other companies to provide services to us or to make products and services available to you, we include a confidentiality clause. Under such an agreement, these companies may receive information about you, but they may only use it for the intended purpose to benefit you.

Who is Covered by our Privacy Policy

 

This Privacy Policy applies to anyone who is a current or former client. We provide you with a link to this policy on our website when we contract with you to provide you services, and we send you annual notifications thereafter. If we change our policy regarding the sharing of information, we will notify you in advance and give you the opportunity to “opt out” of such disclosure, where applicable and where allowed by law. How we Obtain the Information we have about our Clients In the course of business, we collect, retain and use information about you to serve your financial needs, administer your accounts and inform you of products and services that may be of interest. This data, known as nonpublic personal information, may be collected from several sources, including: applications and other forms you file with us (e.g., name, phone number, email address, etc.), records of transactions with us, nonaffiliated third parties and others. Because we strive to provide you with the best possible service, the accuracy and completeness of your personal information is important to us. We ask that you review your information regularly to ensure that it is correct. If corrections need to be made, please contact us.

Who we may Share your Information with

 

SPFI does not sell your personal information to anyone. We restrict the types of information we share and the types of entities with whom we share it. The primary reason for sharing information about you is to increase your convenience in transacting business with us and to give you more financial service choices. We do not disclose your personal information to nonaffiliated third parties, unless one of the following exceptions applies: (1) We disclose personal information to service providers that assist us in processing your transactions or servicing your accounts. (2) We disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances when we believe in good faith that disclosure is required or permitted under law.

Information Security (website and client files)

 

We do not retrieve account or personal information from visitors who browse the public areas of our website. Our employees use your information (contained in our client files) to respond to your needs and to provide you with information about specific products in which you may have an interest. We instruct our employees to use strict standards of care in handling the personal, confidential information of customers and remind them on a regular basis of their obligations with regard to the confidentiality of customer information.

Opting Out and Change Notices

 

If for any reason at any time in the future, we find it necessary to disclose any of your personal information in a way that is inconsistent with this policy, we will give you advance notice of the proposed change and the opportunity to opt out of such disclosure. For your reference, this Privacy Policy has been posted at www.spubfin.com. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us at (214)-373-3911.