Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Concerning Clients' Financial Information

This privacy disclosure statement puts in writing the privacy policies that GVC follows. Our policy is based on the recognition that our clients have an expectation that non-public personal information will be kept confidential. We have adopted this Privacy Policy concerning information you have provided to us and information we obtained in providing  services to you.

Information about you is collected in the normal course of business for purposes of providing services to you. This information is not collected for resale. We provide information to unaffiliated third parties that is necessary for us to provide services to you. The information that is collected, the source of the information and the parties to which the information is provided are explained below.

Categories of Non-public Information We Collect In the Normal Course of Business:

  1. Information you provide in establishing an account. This is information provided by you on forms used to open and maintain an account with us and our affiliates and otherwise provided by you in using our services. Examples of such information are your name, address, employment, age, assets and investment objectives and experience.
  2. Information about your transactions. This includes information obtained from you concerning a transaction that we have done on your behalf. We also have information about assets held for you. If your account was transferred to us, we may have received information from another financial institution. Our Brokerage services are introduced by us to a clearing firm that effects transactions and maintains assets for you. We have access to information about these transactions and assets. We anticipate that the clearing firm will separately provide you with their privacy policies concerning client financial information that is collected or available to them.

Categories of Non-public Information That is Disclosed:

We do not disclose any non-public personal information about our clients or former clients to anyone, except as required or permitted by law.

Examples of such disclosures include:

  1. All information about your account may be disclosed to any person that you authorized pursuant to the documentation you have provided us. For example, information about accounts held jointly shall be disclosed to all persons jointly sharing the account.
  2. Any information that is compelled to be produced by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena issued by a court.
  3. Information provided with your consent or at your direction, such as disclosure to a non-affiliated mortgage lender with whom you are applying for a mortgage loan.
  4. Information to a financial institution where your account is transferred.
  5. Information provided by us to non-affiliated third parties that assist us in providing our services to you such as data processing firms that prepare and print your account statements.

Our Policies Protecting the Confidentiality of Information About You
We restrict access to non-public personal information about you to those employees and non-affiliated third parties who need to know that information so as to enable us to provide products and services to you.

Such employees include your account executive, personnel in the trading department who effect or route your transactions, operations personnel who prepare and reconcile records of your transactions and your security and money positions, and management and compliance personnel who oversee our business.

Non-affiliated third parties include our clearing firm or others that:

  1. Prepare confirmations, account statements and other records of your account.
  2. Transmit trade information to securities regulators and other government agencies as required by applicable
    rules.
  3. Regulate our business in accordance with applicable law.
  4. Maintain accounts.
  5. Facilitate the clearing and settlement of transactions.
  6. Such other parties as permitted by law.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard against persons not authorized by us from having access to your non-public personal information.

Internally, we maintain all written records in secured locations that are accessible only to authorized personnel. Account executives are provided with transaction records of accounts that they have responsibility for servicing. Electronic records are maintained on secure computers that are password protected. Employees undergo background checks as a condition of employment.

We appreciate being able to provide our services to you and will continue to do so while maintaining the confidentiality of the information needed to provide such services. If you have any questions concerning this notice, please call Andrea Kidd at (303) 694-0862.