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616 West Fulton Street, Suite 411 • Chicago, IL 60661, USA
+1 312-909-6539 • [email protected]
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Last verified: February, 2012
This notice applies to individuals who obtain or apply for a financial service for personal,
family, or household purposes, or have done so in the past, from Bourbon Financial
Management, LLC (“BFM”). Protecting our clients’ privacy is of paramount importance to
BFM. Your privacy is not for sale. As a financial services company, we believe that the
privacy and security of your data are essential. Personal information you give us is handled
with care.
BFM does not and will not sell your personal information to anyone, for any reason. Because
the trust is the base of our relationship, we attach importance to satisfy the client (“you”). Our
goal is always to give you the best service through a personal access to your information.
Because your satisfaction is important, BFM wants you to know its policy concerning the
communication of your information.
We will not share non-public personal information about our clients with non affiliated third
parties without prior client consent, except for specific purposes described below.
Client information may be released in accordance with applicable laws and
regulations.
This notice explains our collection, use and safeguarding of client information.
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We may obtain information about you from the following sources:
Client agreements and other information that clients provide to us, whether in
writing, in person, by telephone, electronically or by any other means. This
information may include a client’s name, address, phone number, email address,
social security number, employment information, income, investment experience,
and credit references
Net worth statement
Personal tax returns provided by the client
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We only disclose non-public client information to non-affiliated third parties with prior client
consent when we believe it is necessary for the conduct of our business or as required or
permitted by law, such as:
If you request or authorize the disclosure of the information
To provide client account services or account maintenance
To respond to a subpoena or court order, judicial process, law enforcement or
regulatory authorities
To perform services for the firm or on its behalf to develop or maintain proprietary
trading or other software
In connection with a proposed or actual sale, merger, or transfer of all or a portion of
our business or an operating unit
To help us prevent fraud
We do not make any disclosure of client non-public personal information to other
companies who may want to sell their products or services to you. For example, we do
not sell client lists and we will not sell client names to catalogue companies.
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If, at any time in the future, it is necessary to disclose any of client personal information in a
way that is inconsistent with this policy, we will give our clients advance notice of the
proposed disclosure so that they will have the opportunity to opt out of such disclosure.
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Our Privacy Policy continues to apply to all former clients.
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This Privacy Policy applies to individuals who obtain or have obtained services from Bourbon
Financial Management, LLC used primarily for personal, family or household purposes.
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We take steps to safeguard client information. We restrict access to the personal and account
information of our clients to our employees and agents for business purposes only. We
maintain physical, and electronic safeguards to guard your personal information.
Additionally, we have internal controls to keep client information as accurate and complete as
we can. If you believe that any information about you is not accurate, please let us know.
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Independent advice: Bourbon Financial Management is an independent investment
advisor. We do not sell mutual funds or receive commissions from any of the funds we
recommend. As a fee-based advisor, our primary revenue comes from the fees we charge
customers, their employers or financial service firms for the advice portion of our service.
We reserve the right to change this Statement of Privacy Policy. The examples contained
within this Privacy Policy are illustrations and they are not intended to be exclusive. If you
have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact Patrick Bourbon, Founder of
Bourbon Financial Management, LLC at 312-909-6539.
FAQ:
What personally identifiable information of mine is collected?
Bourbon Financial Management collects information from you upon registration. At this
point, you provide us with your name, zip code and e-mail address. You may also give us
information about your gender, annual income, state of residence, marital status and your
individual financial accounts. If you indicate you have a spouse or partner, his/her personal
and financial account information will also be requested. If you receive advice, we keep a log
of the advice that we provide to you in our records for your protection. We are required by
law to keep records of your usage of our advisory service. This enables us to provide you with
a history of the advice we have given to you. Occasionally, we may also conduct optional
surveys through our e-mail newsletters. In this case, we would collect the information you
provide us from answering the survey questions.
How is my information used?
Your personal, investment and forecast information are maintained by Bourbon Financial
Management to provide you with the services you have requested and to fulfill our legal and
regulatory requirements.
With whom is my information shared?
Bourbon Financial Management will not sell, reveal or share any of your personal information
to others except in the following limited circumstances:
· We have your permission to share the information;
· We are required or authorized by law to disclose your information (for example, to
comply with a subpoena or regulatory requirement, or to protect against fraud or illegal
activity or for the safety of customers and their property).
What choices are available to me regarding collection, use and distribution of my
information?
At Bourbon Financial Management, we would like to give you control over your account
information. On occasion, we may use your e-mail address to inform you of products or
services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive future
communications from us, please let us know. We will ensure that you do not receive further
e-mails from us.
How will you notify me of changes in the use of my personal information?
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that
stated at the time of collection, we will notify you via e-mail. You will have a choice as to
whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any
material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in
our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying users of the change.
In some cases where we post the notice we will also e-mail users notifying them of the
changes in our privacy practices.
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