The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was required by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to establish standards to safeguard client information and records. As a result, the SEC adopted Regulation S-P, which among other things, requires investment advisors registered with the SEC to adopt appropriate policies and procedures that address safeguards to protect this information and to disclose its privacy policies to clients.
Savant Capital Management, Inc has always taken great measures to protect and safeguard information we gather on our clients. As part of this new SEC regulation we are required to give you this notice concerning our privacy policy.
Types of Information Collected
We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:
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Information we receive from you on applications or other forms, such as your name, address, phone number, Social Security Number, date of birth, account numbers, tax documents, other investments, and net worth; and |
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Information about your transactions with us or with your custodian(s), such as buys, sells, gains, losses, fees, and/or holdings. Such information may be obtained from paper statements or via electronic download directly from your custodian. |
Savant's web servers collect domain names and/or IP addresses of users to measure what pages and features are accessed by our visitors. This information helps us administer the site, improve content and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Savant may use “cookies” or similar files or scripts throughout its website to enhance your convenience in using our websites, to improve search functionality or to hold information that you would otherwise need to re-key. “Cookies” are text files collected by a user's web browser. If you do not wish to accept “cookies” from our website, you may configure your web browser so that it does not accept “cookies”; however, you may lose certain functions available on our website.
Use of Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information to anyone.
We do not disclose nonpublic personal information about you to third parties, unless one of the following limited exceptions applies or you have specifically asked us to do so:
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We disclose personal information to companies that help us process or service your transactions or account(s) (such as Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Schwab Institutional, The Vanguard Group or others, as applicable). |
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We may disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required or permitted under law, for example, to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities. |
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Savant restricts access to your personal and account information to those employees who need to know that information in order to provide services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information. |
In the future, Savant may offer new and different programs that necessitate a change in this Policy. Savant reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted on our website at www.savantcapital.com under the Privacy section and will be effective immediately upon posting.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Policy, and Savant's collection and use of customer information, shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United States and the State of Illinois. Any disputes arising out of this Policy shall be adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction in the Eastern District of the State of Illinois.
Phishing Scams
Savant does not send emails to customers requesting billing, login or password information. If you receive an email purporting to be from Savant that asks you to provide personal or account information, or login and passwords, do not provide such information unless you have first verified that the website or email is from Savant. Such emails may be fraudulent and used in connection with scams known as phishing. Savant asks that you report any suspicious emails or websites to Savant.
Disposal of Information.
The Adviser taken steps to reasonably ensure that the privacy of your nonpublic personal information is maintained at all times, including in connection with the disposal of information that is no longer required to be maintained. Such steps shall include whenever possible, shredding paper documents and records prior to disposal, requiring off-site storage vendors to shred documents maintained in such locations prior to disposal, and erasing and/or obliterating any data contained on electronic media in such a manner that the information can no longer be read or reconstructed.
Contact and Modifying Personal Information
If you should ever decide to close your account(s) or become an inactive client, we will continue to adhere to the privacy policies and practices as described in this notice.
Should you have any questions about the privacy and protection of your records, please contact us and we will be happy to discuss this matter with you.
You may request copies of or have Savant make changes or corrections to personal information in Savant's possession by contacting Savant at privacy@savantcapital.com.
You may opt out of receiving further communications from us or others through any of the following methods:
• Send an email to privacy@savantcapital.com
• Send a request by mail to: Concierge Team, Savant Capital Management, Inc., 190 Buckley Drive, Rockford, IL 61107.
• Call: 815.227.0300
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information. We protect your account information by placing it on the secure portion of our Web site, using firewalls and other security technology to protect our network and systems from external attacks, and requiring you to enter a unique user name and password to access your account information online. Also, our servers utilize a VeriSign® Secure Site Pro with Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate. Extended Validation triggers the display of the green address bar in the latest web browsers so you can be confident you are secure.
The highest levels of security are only possible when we work together. Safeguard your account access information. If you share this information with anyone, we’ll consider their activities to have been authorized by you.