Pursuant to Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act (GLBA) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s
(SEC) Regulation S-P (17 CFR 248.1-248.30), we are required
to notify you of Vanderbilt Securities, LLC’s (VS) Privacy
Policy. This disclosure is intended to notify you of the uses
we make of the non-public financial and personal information
we obtain about you in the course of providing brokerage services
for you.VS is a New York Limited Liability Company with
a main office located in Melville, New York. We are an introducing
securities broker-dealer, with our transactions clearing through
another registered broker-dealer, Bear, Stearns Securities
Corp. (BSSC). You should have received a separate disclosure
regarding BSSC’s Private Policy. VS is registered with the
SEC and a member of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. (NASD), and the Securities Investor Protection
Corporation (SIPC).In order to transact securities business on your
behalf, we obtain a variety of non-public financial and personal
information about you.
In addition, we maintain a record of your securities
transactions, which is also non-public. We obtain and maintain
records of this information only for the purpose of maintaining
the business of being a securities broker-dealer, and in compliance
with applicable federal, state and self-regulatory organization
rules.
NO SALE OF YOUR NON-PUBLIC FINANCIAL AND PERSONAL
INFORMATION
VS DOES NOT SELL YOUR NON-PUBLIC FINANCIAL OR
PERSONAL INFORMATION
NON-PUBLIC FINANCIAL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION
COLLECTED
The information collected and maintained by VS
in transacting securities information on your behalf includes,
or may include, the following types of non-public financial
and personal information:1. Information from you: information you provide
on new account form(s); whether provided in writing, in person,
by telephone or facsimile, via electronic communication or
any other means; such as your name, telephone number, address,
social security number, tax ID number, assets, income, investment
objectives, financial situation, employer, age and previous
securities experience.2. Information about your securities and/or other
transactions: (a) information VS collects and relates to account(s)
balance, payment history, trading activity and any other transactions,
which take place through or affect transactions which take
place through VS; and (b) information VS collects as part
of servicing your account(s).
3. Information about your transactions with non-affiliated
third parties: (a) information from non- affiliated third
parties pursuant to law, rules, regulations, standard securities
industry practice and/or legal process, including documents
received, shared, produced or provided in connection with
a subpoena, discovery request or other legal process compelling
production; and (b) information from non-affiliated third
parties related to servicing your account(s).
NON-PUBLIC FINANCIAL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION
DISCLOSED TO AFFILIATES AND NON-AFFILIATED
THIRD PARTIES
VS discloses to affiliated and non-affiliated
third parties non-public financial and personal information
only in connection with the conduct of its securities brokerage
business. Such disclosures may include, among other things,
information related to transactions, settlement, billing,
payment, processing, clearing, transferring, reconciling,
collection or tax reporting. Disclosures may be made to affiliates
or non-affiliated third parties: (1) as required or necessary
to carry out fully and properly the securities business conducted
by VS (e.g. to service providers supplying document processing
and delivery, data maintenance or processing services, to
BSC for clearing purposes and to non-affiliated clearing agencies
or entities); (2) as required by law or legal process; (3)
with your consent; (4) to resolve customer disputes; (5) when
requested by a fiduciary or beneficiary on the account; (6)
when requested by the client’s attorney(s) or accountant(s);
(7) when required by a regulatory agency, or for other reasons
required or permitted by law; or (8) in connection with a
sale or merger of the firm’s business.
FORMER CUSTOMERS
The same protections for non-public financial
and personal information of current customers of VS apply
to information regarding former customers: disclosure is made
only as permitted/required by law or legal process, or with
your consent.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY OF NON-PUBLIC FINANCIAL
AND PERSONAL INFORMATION
VS is committed to implementing and maintaining
commercially reasonable and appropriate measures to maintain
the privacy and confidentiality of the non-public financial
and personal information we collect and maintain about you.
Our procedures for insuring this include, at a minimum, the
following:
•Access
controls on customer information systems, including controls
to authenticate and permit access only to authorized individuals,
as well as physical access controls.
•Policies
restricting the provision of non-public financial or personal
information to anyone other than the customer over the phone.
•Pre-employment
screening, including fingerprinting of all employees with
responsibilities for or access to non-public financial or
personal information.
VS regularly reviews and may revise, or update
its privacy policies and systems at any time, in accordance
with changes in technology or legal requirements.
OPT-OUT PROVISIONS
Since sharing information under the circumstances
noted is necessary to service the client account or mandated
by competent authority, VS does not have any opt-out provisions.
SEC REQUIRED REPORT ON ROUTING OF CUSTOMER ORDERS
In compliance with SEC Rule 11Ac1-6 requiring
all brokerage firms to make publicly available quarterly reports
on the routing of non-directed orders, please access VS’ website
at www.VanderbiltSecurities.com under the "SEC Rule 11Ac1-6" section to obtain this information.
In addition, upon your request, Vanderbilt Securities, LLC
will provide you with the name of the market center or exchange
a specific order was routed for execution. The specific order
must have been processed within the past six (6) months from
the date of your request. Please contact Operations at 631-845-5100.
CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS
Please be advised that any customer complaint
can be made in writing and directed to:
Attn: Compliance Department
Vanderbilt Securities, LLC
445 Broad Hollow Road, Suite 400
Melville, NY 11747
or by facsimile to the attention of Compliance
631-845-4531.
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