| At PTI
Securities & Futures L.P. (PTI), we strive to provide
you with the highest level of service and quality of products.
In that regard, the privacy of the information you provide
to us is important and we want to assure you that we are
committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy
outlines the types of information we gather about you, how
we use it and with whom we might share it. We urge you to
read this Privacy Policy so that you will understand our
commitment to you and to your privacy. In order to provide
you with the highest level of service possible, it is necessary
for us to collect and maintain certain personal information
about you. We collect this information from applications
and other forms, from your dealings with us and others.
Depending upon the services and products you have requested
or for which we have been asked to provide, we may also
receive information from consumer reporting agencies and
other sources such as our Web site. The types of information
we collect and maintain may include: Information contained
in applications and other forms including your name, address,
social security number, family member information, beneficiaries,
assets and income; Information concerning your relationships
with us such as products or services purchased from us,
account balances and transactions and payment history; Information
from consumer reporting agencies such as credit relationships
and related history; and Information from visits to our
Web site such as site visitor data, and online data collection
devices known as "cookies". We use personal information
in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which
we originally requested it. PTI may use your personal information
for the purpose of processing your requests and transactions,
offering or furnishing additional products and services
or to evaluate your financial needs. PTI does not share
your personal information with unaffiliated companies except
as provided in this notice. PTI will only grant access to
your personal information to those employees who have a
business purpose for accessing such information. In that
regard, we have implemented certain physical, electronic
and procedural safeguards to ensure that access to personal
information is limited to the appropriate employees. Moreover,
PTI requires its employees to protect your personal information
and keep it confidential. In order to provide you with the
appropriate level of service, we may share account and transactional
information within PTI. We may also share personal information
described above with firms that assist us in carrying out
your needs. For example, we may share your personal information
for specific business purposes with the following companies:
Financial service institutions, such as mutual fund companies,
securities brokers, and banks, with whom we have joint marketing
agreements OR companies under contract to perform services
for us or on our behalf (such as vendors providing data
processing, computer software maintenance and development,
transaction processing and marketing services.) Be assured
that PTI does not sell personal information to anyone. Additionally,
we treat the personal information of our former clients
in the same manner as we treat the personal information
of our current clients. We also reserve the right to disclose
your personal information in certain circumstances where
we feel that disclosure is required by law, to assist law
enforcement officials or officials of regulatory agencies,
to perform credit checks or collect monies owed to us, and
to protect our rights and property. At PTI, our goal is
to maintain current and accurate information about you in
order to properly service your needs. Consequently, PTI
clients can have reasonable access to their personal information
to verify the accuracy of this information. You may either
write or call your PTI representative to request your personal
account information. If you identify any error in your personal
information or you would like to update your records, please
advise your PTI representative. This Privacy Policy applies
to PTI’s clearing firm, Mesirow Financial, Inc. |
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