Generic Trade Privacy Policy

Your Privacy is Our Priority

Generic Trade is committed to safeguarding the personal information that you provide us. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect personal information that we collect about individuals, such as you, who apply for or receive our products and services. The provisions of this notice apply to former customers as well as our current customers. In order to preserve the integrity of the information you provide to us while opening an account with us, we want you to clearly understand how we strive to protect your privacy.

Why and How We Collect Personal Information

When you apply for or maintain an account with Generic Trade, we collect personal information about you for business purposes, such as evaluating your financial needs, processing your requests and transactions, informing you about products and services that may be of interest to you, and providing customer service. The personal information we collect about you includes:

• information you provide to us on applications and other forms, such as your name, address, date of birth, social security number, occupation, financial statement, and income;
• information about your transactions with us and with our affiliates;
• information we receive from consumer reporting agencies, such as your credit history and creditworthiness, and other entities not affiliated with Generic Trade
• information you provide to us verifying your identity, such as a passport, or received from other entities not affiliated with Generic Trade.

How We Protect Personal Information

We restrict access to your personal information to those employees who require access in order to conduct our business, service your account, and help you accomplish your financial objectives, such as providing you with a broad range of products and services. All employees are required to maintain and protect the confidentiality of your personal information and must follow established procedures to do so. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. We do not rent or sell your name or personal information to anyone.

Disclosure to Non-Affiliated Third Parties

In order to support the financial products and services we provide to you, we may share the personal information described above with third-party service providers and joint marketers not affiliated with us, including:

• Governmental agencies, other regulatory bodies and law enforcement officials;
• Financial service institutions (e.g. advisers, dealers, brokers, trust companies and banks) with whom we have joint marketing agreements, such as agreements to market financial services or products that we jointly offer, endorse or sponsor; and
• Companies under contract to perform services for us or on our behalf, such as vendors that prepare and mail statements and transaction confirmations or provide data processing, computer software maintenance and development, transaction processing, auditing and marketing services.

These companies acting on our behalf are required to keep your personal information confidential.

Also, we may disclose personal information with non-affiliated companies and regulatory authorities as permitted or required by applicable law. For example, we may disclose personal information to cooperate with regulatory authorities and law enforcement agencies to comply with subpoenas or other official requests, and as necessary to protect our rights or property. Except as described in this privacy policy, we will not use your personal information for any other purpose unless we describe how such information will be used at the time you disclose it to us or we obtain your permission to do so.

Accessing and Revisiting Your Personal Information

We endeavor to keep our customers files complete and accurate. We will give you reasonable access to the information we have about you. Most of this information is contained in account statements that you receive from us and applications that you submit to obtain our products and services. We encourage you to review this information and notify us if you believe any information should be corrected or updated. If you have a question or concern about your personal information or this privacy notice, please contact us.

If you wish that Generic Trade does not disclose your information to non-affiliated third parties that are not under contract to perform services for us, please call toll-free at 1.800.707.2006 and request that your information be removed from our mailing list.