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Financial Growth Concepts (FGC), and its founder and principal, Dennis L. Roubal, CFP®, CRPS®, RIA, value their client-planner relationships and strive to protect the privacy of their clients, whether prospective, current, or former.
Job one is safeguarding the security, integrity, and confidentiality of the nonpublic personal information entrusted to them by their clients from foreseeable infringements.
The financial privacy law
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act of 1999*—also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, or simply the GLB Act—regulates the financial privacy requirements of firms like Financial Growth Concepts (FGC), and financial planners such as Dennis L. Roubal, both of which conduct business in full compliance with the Act as well as the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility promulgated and administered by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
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* Public Law 106-102 (page 113, Statutes at Large 1338)
Financial Growth Concepts and Dennis L. Roubal are committed to controlling and managing the nonpublic, personal information they collect about their clients. Collection of information is limited to that which allows them to assess a client's financial situation, meet a client's financial services needs, and transact their business in a professional and ethical manner.
The only information they collect—other than that which is required to be collected by law—is information clients care to share, either directly through oral, written, and electronic communications, or indirectly through authorized contact with third parties. While the amount and type of information collected will vary according to the scope of the financial services requested by the client, it typically will include:
• A client's name, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address to facilitate subsequent contact with the client. • Information of a personal, financial, investment, income, tax, asset, credit, medical, health, etc., or other nature that is necessary to complete a client's financial plan or provide another requested financial service. • Information obtained from a client's transactions with Financial Growth Concepts and Dennis L. Roubal. • Information obtained from a client's transactions with an affiliated third party, a non-affiliated third party, or other entity, such as a financial services company, banker, securities broker, insurance agent, consumer reporting agency, lawyer, accountant, tax preparer, estate planner, mortgage lender, personal assistant, consultant, auditor, etc.
Accuracy of nonpublic, personal information collected
Financial Growth Concepts and Dennis L. Roubal are committed to ensuring the accuracy of the nonpublic, personal information they collect about their clients. If a client notices an inaccuracy or error in any of their account statements, documents, communications, or other information, they are encouraged to immediately report the inaccuracy or error so it can be promptly corrected by Dennis L. Roubal.
Financial Growth Concepts
Dennis L. Roubal, CFP®, CRPS®, RIA
16 Timber Creek Road
Marquette, Michigan 49855
E-mail: DenRoubal@Yahoo.Com Phone: 906-249-2041 Cell: 906-360-1328
Confidentiality and security of nonpublic, personal information
Financial Growth Concepts and Dennis L. Roubal are committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of the nonpublic, personal information they collect about their clients.
They employ an array of procedural, system, electronic, physical, professional, and ethical safeguards to accomplish this, inculding:
• Maintaining a secure office and digital environment. • Limiting access to nonpublic, personal information to only those employees and agents who have a legitimate, need-to-know business or professional reason • Stressing to non-affiliated third parties—such as financial services companies, bankers, securities brokers, insurance agents, consumer reporting agencies, lawyers, accountants, tax preparers, estate planners, mortgage lenders, personal assistants, consultants, auditors, etc.—the confidential and privileged nature of the nonpublic, personal information being shared with them on a client's behalf.
Disclosure of nonpublic, personal information
Financial Growth Concepts and Dennis L. Roubal are committed to limiting the disclosure of nonpublic, personal information they collect about their clients. The nonpublic, personal information collected about their clients is never released, rented, or sold to solicitors, mailing list vendors, or other third parties.
They only disclose non-public, personal information when they are required to by law or authorized to by a client, including:
• Information necessary to provide a client with the services requested. • Information a client has authorized to be released to non-affiliated third parties such as financial services companies, bankers, securities brokers, insurance agents, consumer reporting agencies, lawyers, accountants, tax preparers, estate planners, mortgage lenders, personal assistants, consultants, auditors, etc. • Information necessary to comply with federal, state, or local laws, rules, and other applicable legal requirements. • Information necessary to comply with a properly authorized civil, criminal, or regulatory investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities. • Information necessary to respond to judicial process or government regulatory authority having jurisdiction over a financial services company for examination, compliance, or other purposes, as authorized by law.
Retention of nonpublic, personal information
Financial Growth Concepts and Dennis L. Roubal maintain the nonpublic, personal information they collect about their clients according to the following guidelines:
• Information is retained as is needed to efficiently and effectively meet a client's requests for financial services. • Information is retained as is mandated by federal and state rules and regulations. • Information is retained as is customary and prudent according to professional standards and business practices within the financial services industry.
Transmission of nonpublic, personal information
Financial Growth Concepts and Dennis L. Roubal caution clients to thoroughly consider the risks and consequences of conveying their nonpublic, personal information—particularly social security numbers, dates of birth, account numbers, usernames, passwords, etc.—to them by insecure means, such as regular mail or non-encrypted e-mail, which is very insecure.
Changes to privacy policy
Financial Growth Concepts and Dennis L. Roubal reserve the right to alter or amend the above financial privacy policy principles, or their related provisions, in the future.
Questions, comments, or concerns about privacy policy
Financial Growth Concepts (FGC), and its founder and principal, Dennis L. Roubal, CFP®, CRPS®, RIA, are committed to respecting a client's right to privacy as well as safeguarding the nonpublic, personal information they have collected about them. If a client has any questions, comments, or concerns about the above privacy policy, they are encouraged to contact them:
Financial Growth Concepts
Dennis L. Roubal, CFP®, CRPS®, RIA
16 Timber Creek Road
Marquette, Michigan 49855
E-mail: DenRoubal@Yahoo.Com Phone: 906-249-2041 Cell: 906-360-1328
I might have been a goldfish in a
glass bowl
...for all the privacy I got.
—Hector Hugh Munro (a.k.a. Saki),
1870-1916
Scotish novelist and short-story writer
Reginald: The Innocence of Reginald, 1904
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