Privacy Policy
Barker Financial Group, Inc. (The “Firm”) is committed to the responsible use and protection of our customers’ confidential information.
To conduct regular business, we may collect nonpublic personal information from sources such as:
- Information reported by you on applications or other forms you provide to us
- Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others
- Such information as you provide
to us, which may include name, address, phone number, e-mail address,
Social Security number, occupation, date of birth, and information
about your interests, investments, investment objectives and investment
experience. It may also include information about your personal
finances, information about your health (to the extent it is needed
for the planning process), information about transactions between
you and third parties and other information.
As the Firm shares nonpublic information solely to service our client accounts, we do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to any non-affiliated third parties, except as permitted by you, i.e., to a client-designated broker-dealer, and as required by law. The Firm does not sell client non-public information to anyone.
Outside of the following exceptions, we will not share your personal information with third parties without your specific direction or consent.
(a) In the course of servicing accounts, we may share personal information about our clients with party(ies) referring the client to us or membership group(s) of which you are a member, service providers such as client’s tax preparer, insurance company(ies), mutual fund company(ies), banks and investment firms to effect transactions, provide account maintenance or customer service to client’s account.
(b) We may disclose personal information to companies such as your designated broker-dealer or the custodian of your account, and other companies that help us process or service your transactions or account(s), including companies with which we may contract to print and mail your account statements. We disclose personal information to the qualified custodian, if any, with whom your funds are maintained, in order to ensure proper handling and delivery of account statements.
(c) We may disclose or report personal information in limited situations where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required or permitted under law (for example, to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, resolve consumer disputes, perform credit/authentication checks, or for institutional risk control, or as consented by you). Federal regulations permit us to share a limited amount of information about you with a brokerage firm in order to execute securities transactions on your behalf, or so that our firm can discuss your financial situation with your accountant or lawyer.
(d) We may also disclose your information to other organizations as permitted or required by law such as government agencies and law enforcement officials (for example, for tax reporting or under court order), and/or to other organizations and to other party(ies) and individuals with your consent (for example, to your attorney or tax professional).
(e) We may use your personal information to fulfill our regulatory obligations and to help us deliver services to you.
Information Safeguarding
Barker Financial Group, Inc. will internally safeguard your nonpublic
personal information by restricting access to only those employees
and agents who provide products or services to you or your accounts
or those who need access to your information to service your account.
In addition, we will maintain physical, electronic and procedural
safeguards as required to comply with applicable federal and state
laws, regulations and standards to guard your nonpublic personal
information.
For unaffiliated third parties that receive access to your personal information, the Firm also requires confidentiality in our agreements with them to keep such information private. Federal and state regulators may also review Firm records as permitted by law.
Personal Information of Former Clients
We treat our former clients’ personal information in the same
manner as we treat the personal information of current clients, in
accordance with this policy. Personally identifiable information
about you will be maintained during the time you are a client of
the Firm and for the required time thereafter that such records are
required to be maintained under federal and state securities laws
and regulations, and consistent with the CFP Board Code of Ethics
and Professional Responsibility. After this required period of record
retention, all such information may be destroyed in compliance with
the Firm’s then disposal policies.
Notices
At the commencement of our business relationship and annually thereafter,
we shall provide you with a copy of our Privacy Policy. We shall
provide you with notice of any changes made to our Privacy Policy
or to our privacy related practices, so that you may have the opportunity
to opt out of any changes.
In the event that this Privacy Policy changes in such a way that may cause your nonpublic personal information to be disclosed other than as set forth above, you will be provided with notice of that change prior to its effectiveness and you will have the right to opt out by providing notice to us within thirty days of the postmark date on the notice of such change, via mail to our address at 3 Burlington Woods Drive, Burlington, MA 01803, or by telephone at (781)743-2600, or via e-mail to inquiry@barkerfg.com.
