We know you may be concerned about what we do with the information you provide us. You have our assurance that we are committed to safeguarding your data and maintaining your privacy online and we do not sell your information to third parties, unless we have your prior written consent or are required by law to provide such information. We may, however, share selected information under certain conditions as part of normal business operations and/or in respect to servicing your account, such as executing transactions you have placed, and as part of normal legal/regulatory purposes required by the Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other regulatory and government entities. If applicable, we have ensured that third parties with whom we contract to assist us in providing services for your account have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of your data. Such service providers will only have access to your data as is necessary and are prohibited from any unlawful use of your data.

We may periodically also forward to your attention educational information as well as material pertaining to our products and services that might be of interest to you. This Website uses cookies but does not store any personal or company information on the cookie, such as an e-mail address or name. The only piece of information on a Website cookie is a random identification number so when you come to this Website, we can recognize who you are from the information stored on the most secure part of our website.

When you access password-protected portions of our site using Netscape Navigator® or Microsoft® Internet Explorer, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology is used to protect your communications through server authentication and data encryption. We upgrade and maintain our technology on an on-going basis. This Website does link to some external sites, however, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites.