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Privacy Notice
This notice is being provided to you in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule regarding the privacy of consumer financial information (“Regulation S-P and S-AM”). Please take the time to read and understand the privacy policies and procedures that we have implemented to safeguard your nonpublic personal information. Nonpublic personal information means personally identifiable financial information and any list, description or other grouping of consumers that is derived using any personally identifiable financial information that is not publicly available.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Pacific Northwest Asset Management, LLC must collect certain personally identifiable financial information about its customers to provide financial services and products. The personally identifiable financial information that we gather during the normal course of doing business with you may include:
l. information we receive from you on applications or other forms;
2. information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others;
3. information collected through an Internet “cookie” (an information collecting device
from a web server); and
4. information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.
INFORMATION WE DISCLOSE
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted or required by law, or as necessary to provide services to you. In accordance with Section 248.13 of Regulation S-P, we may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to certain nonaffiliated third parties such as attorneys, accountants, auditors and persons or entities that are assessing our compliance with industry standards. We enter into contractual agreements with all nonaffiliated third parties that prohibit such third parties from disclosing or using the information other than to carry out the purposes for which we disclose the information. In accordance with 17 CFR 248.101 through 248.128 Regulation S-AM, we do not provide client information to any affiliates for marketing purposes.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those Employees who need to know that information to provide financial products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information. We will notify you in the event of any material breach of security.
PNW Asset Management has a business continuity/disaster recovery plan that will go into effect if our office space becomes uninhabitable, loses internet connectivity for an extended period, or if we have any other business interruption. PNW Asset Management will simply set up in a location that has internet connectivity and will post on our website the best way for you to contact us. Location will be determined by the extent of the disaster or business interruption. In the event of an emergency situation, we will attempt to contact you, and we encourage you to check this page of our website for instructions on how to contact us. Thank you.
At PNW Asset Management, we go to great lengths, both procedurally and electronically, to ensure our clients have a secure environment in which to interact with us. Employees are required to sign a Confidentiality Agreement and vendors, such as an information technology consultant, must enter in to a Non-disclosure Agreement. Furthermore, we have policies and procedures to protect our clients’ nonpublic personal information at all times. Please see our Privacy Notice for more information on the policies and procedures we have implemented to safeguard your nonpublic personal information.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC Legal Disclaimer Pacific Northwest Asset Management, LLC (hereinafter “PNW Asset Management”) is a registered investment adviser in the State of Washington. PNW Asset Management may not transact business in states where it is not appropriately registered or qualifies for an exemption or exclusion from registration. Individualized responses to persons that involve either the effecting of transactions in securities, or the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation, will not be made without registration or exemption.
PNW Asset Management’s web site is limited to the dissemination of general information regarding its investment advisory services to United States residents residing in states where providing such information is not prohibited by applicable law. Accordingly, the publication of PNW Asset Management’s web site on the Internet should not be construed by any consumer and/or prospective client as PNW Asset Management’s solicitation to effect, or attempt to effect transactions in securities, or the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation, over the Internet. PNW Asset Management does not make any representations as to the accuracy, timeliness, suitability, completeness, or relevance of any information prepared by any unaffiliated third party, whether linked to PNW Asset Management’s web site or incorporated herein, and takes no responsibility therefore. All such information is provided solely for convenience purposes only, and all users thereof should be guided accordingly.
Information on this Internet site should not be construed, in any manner whatsoever, as the receipt of, or a substitute for, personalized individual advice from PNW Asset Management. Any subsequent, direct communication by PNW Asset Management with a prospective client shall be conducted by a representative that is either registered or qualifies for an exemption or exclusion from registration in the state where the prospective client resides. For information pertaining to the registration status of PNW Asset Management, please contact the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on their web site at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. A copy of PNW Asset Management’s current written disclosure statement discussing PNW Asset Management’s business operations, services, and fees is available from PNW Asset Management upon request. Download Our Legal Disclaimer
