MFN Privacy Policy
At MedCentric Financial Network (MFN), your privacy is our priority.
We recognize that you expect your personal information to be handled
in a professional, confidential manner. We have adopted the following
policies to safeguard your privacy and to explain the circumstances
under which we may collect, maintain and use any non-public personally
identifiable information that you may provide us.
We collect personal information to:
1) provide you with services, including requested referrals to advisors;
2) maintain quality control;
3) fulfill contractual obligations between MFN and its advisors;
4) meet our regulatory obligations.
The type of information we collect may include:
For
those visitors to our website who choose not to provide personal
information, we only collect such basic data as your IP (Internet
Protocol) address, operating system, and the time and date of your
visit. We may also collect some data about your visit through the
use of "cookies". This information is personally identifiable
only if you chose to identify yourself on the site.
If you use
this website to obtain a referral to a MFN affiliated advisor, we will ask you
to provide personal information, including your name, address, work phone number,
your employer affiliation, and your acknowledgement of:
1) a fee sharing disclosure document and,
2) the advisor's Form ADV Part II.
This data is used to provide services to you, to monitor the referral process
to our advisors, and to fulfill our regulatory obligations under the Investment
Advisor's Act of 1940.
If you engage
an advisor to whom MFN referred you for financial planning services, such as the
Personal Financial Review or a comprehensive financial plan, then your personal
information will be used by MFN and the advisor to facilitate making these services
available to you. If you are part of an employer sponsored financial planning
benefit program, then your data may be used to help process any payment made on
your behalf by your employer, or for quality control purposes.
If after being
referred by MFN to one of our affiliated advisors, you engage that advisor for
asset management services through Charles Schwab, SEI Investments, or other custodians,
MFN may periodically reference your investment accounts at each custodian. This
information is used only for the purpose of fulfilling the contractual obligations
between MFN and your advisor, and for quality control purposes, or as outlined
below.
We take steps to protect the security and confidentiality of the
personal information we collect. MFN does not share non-public personal
information of any kind about referrals or clients with unaffiliated
third parties with whom MFN has no contractual business relationship
for their independent use unless (1) the client gives MFN written
permission, (2) it is necessary to protect against fraud, comply
with a subpoena or other court order or is otherwise required by
law. We do not sell or rent information about referrals or clients
to outside parties for any purpose.
Further, we restrict access to the personal information of referrals
and clients to those employees who need to know that information
to provide products or services to you, and maintain strict physical,
electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your non-public personal
information.
If a person becomes an inactive customer, MFN will continue to
adhere to the privacy policies and practices as described in this
notice.
We reserve the right to change these privacy policies at any time.
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