Privacy Statement

We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting the information you give to us. Austen Morris Associates strives to protect you, the customer, by adhering to the following principles:

For Your Benefit
In order to provide investment products and services that best suit your needs, we may collect the following nonpublic personal information about you:

Information provided by you on account applications and other forms, such as your name, address and telephone number.

Information from your interactions with Austen Morris Associates, such as account inquiries by mail, e-mail, or telephone, or your entry of information into our interactive tools and on our web site.

Information about your transactions with us or others, such as your account number and balance, transaction history, cost basis information, and other financial information.

Our Commitment
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to nonaffiliated third parties except as directed by law. In order to service your account and to effect transactions that you request or authorize, we may provide your nonpublic personal information to companies that perform administrative or marketing services on our behalf.

We require these outside companies to protect the confidentiality of your information and to use the information only for the purpose for which the disclosure is made.

We restrict access to your nonpublic personal information to our employees who need to know that information to provide products and services to you. Furthermore, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your nonpublic personal information.

We will continue to adhere to the privacy policy described in this notice even after your account is closed or becomes inactive.

Austen Morris Associates will not collect personally identifiable information about you through our web sites except when you agree to provide it.

Austen Morris Associates’ web site may contain links to other web sites. Austen Morris Associates is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these web sites.