We are committed to safeguarding the confidential information of our clients. We hold all personal data provided to us in the strictest of confidence. We require your specific permission before we will discuss your affairs with anyone external to the firm.
Our policies for safeguarding your personal information are as follows:
Confidentiality and Security
• We limit access to information to only those employees who have a business or professional reasons for knowing it, and only to nonaffiliated parties as permitted or required by law – for example, federal regulations permit us to share a limited amount of information with brokerage firms in order to transact business on your behalf, and federal and state regulators, in the course of inspecting us, may also have access to your data.
• We maintain a secure physical office and computer environment to ensure that your information is not placed at unreasonable risk.
• For unaffiliated third parties that require access to your personal information (such as a brokerage firm), we also require strict confidentiality in our agreements with them and expect them to keep this information private.
• We do not provide your personally identifiable information to mailing list vendors or solicitors for any purpose.
• We will maintain your files containing personally identifiable information about you during the time you are a client, and for as long thereafter as may be required by securities law, and consistent with the CFP Board Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility. After the required period of record retention, all such information will be destroyed.
• We continue to adhere to these privacy policies and practices even after your relationship with Briaud ends or becomes inactive.
Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information about you:
• Information about your identity, such as your name, address, and social security number.
• Information about your transactions with us.
• Information we receive from you on applications, such as your beneficiaries or income.
“Nonpublic Personal Information” is nonpublic information about you that we obtain in connection with providing financial services to you, such as that described in the examples above.
Information We May Disclose
We are permitted, and sometimes required, by law to disclose nonpublic personal information about you to other third parties in certain circumstances. For example, we may disclose nonpublic personal information about you to third parties to assist us in serving you (e.g. setting up a new account) and to government entities (e.g. regulatory agencies in the event of an inspection).