When you work with a financial services professional to develop a financial plan or purchase an insurance or investment product, you may share highly personal information about your health, assets, income, estate, business and family. The information we collect is critical to providing superior products and service. But we recognize that protecting the privacy and security of this information is an important responsibility.
The following information will help you understand our privacy policy, describes St. Louis Financial Planners practices and policies for handling your personal financial information, and how we will maintain confidential customer information to fulfill our obligation to protect your privacy.
We collect personal information to help us serve your financial needs; offer new products and services provide customer service and fulfill legal and regulatory requirements. “Personal information” refers to nonpublic personal financial and health information we obtain from you in connection with providing you with a financial product or service. We may obtain this information directly from you or from other sources.
• Information we receive from you or applications and related forms; such as name, address, social security number, assets and income;
• Information about your transactions and relationships with us and our affiliates; such as products or services purchased, account balances and payment history;
• Information we receive from consumer reporting agencies, such as credit relationships and history, and;
• Information we receive from third parties in order to issue and service your policies, such as motor vehicle reports and medical information.
St. Louis Financial Planners may disclose your non-public personal information as part of servicing and maintaining your policy, contract or account, and for other legally required and permitted purposes.
In the normal course of business, we may share personal information with persons or entities involved in servicing and administering products and services on your behalf. These could include our broker/dealer, insurance companies, consumer reporting agencies, medical consultants, firms assisting in administration of policies and claims, and other service providers and affiliates assisting us.
We will not disclose personal information about current or former customers to non-affiliated third parties, except as permitted or required by law. We do not sell any personal information about you to any third party.
St. Louis Financial Planners has procedures in place that limit access of personal information only to employees, representatives and service providers who need to know the information to perform business services or market products on your behalf. We also educate our employees about the importance of protecting the privacy and security of confidential personal information. Finally, we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal and state regulations to guard your personal information.
Confidentiality is an established hallmark of St. Louis Financial Planners business. We understand the need to safeguard the personal information that you disclose to us and we have an established a tradition of discretion and respect for our customers privacy. We reinforce this daily in the way we routinely handle sensitive client information as part of our normal business operations.
We will update our policies and procedures when necessary to ensure that your privacy is maintained and that we conduct our business in a way that fulfills our commitment to you. If we make any material changes in our privacy policy, we will provide our customers with an updated notice. If you have any question about St. Louis Financial Planners privacy policy, please contact us at (636) 532-3900.