Privacy Policy
Van Hulzen Financial Advisors considers the privacy of its clients to be fundamental importance and has established a policy to maintain the confidentiality of the information you share with us.
In providing asset management services to you, we collect certain nonpublic information about you. Our policy is to keep this information confidential and strictly safeguarded, and to use or disclose it only as needed to provide services to you, or as permitted or required by law. This policy is applicable to information for current and former clients.
Information we collect
The personal information we collect directly from you includes information required to communicate with you and assist us in effectively addressing your financial needs. This information could include:
- Your name and address
- Investment objectives and experience
- Financial circumstances
- Account balance and account transactions
- IP, cookie tracking
- Social Security Number
- Employment Information
We collect your personal information, for example, from the following sources:
- Information we receive from you on applications and other firms
- Information about your transactions with us or others
We also collect your personal information from others such as custodians, brokers/dealers, and other companies.
We also use the The Trade Desk display advertising network to collect visitor data on our site and then serve targeted display ads to you on other sites. Our partners use technology such as cookies and web beacons to collect this data. You can also opt out of seeing personalized ads from The Trade Desk (and other companies) using the NAI opt-out tool here. Please note you will still see ads even if you opt-out, but they will not be personalized by The Trade Desk. For more information please see The Trade Desk’s privacy notice here.
How information is used
All financial companies need to share clients' personal information to run their everyday business. We use information about you to provide our asset management services to you. We may disclose the information to third parties as permitted by law, including the broker/dealers, custodians, or other companies used to provide services to you. From time to time, we may be required to give information about our business to regulatory authorities. This may include personal information about you. We do not sell your personal information to anyone.
How information is safeguarded
We have procedures in place that we believe are reasonably designed to protect the security and confidentiality of your information. These include confidentiality agreements with companies we hire to help us provide services to you, password-protected user access to our computer files, training of employees, and strict confidentiality policies that apply to all employees.
Contact information
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy, you may contact us at (800) 709-5379.