Privacy Policy
CapLink Securities, Inc. (“Firm”) is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of information we collect about our customers. We will not share nonpublic information about you (“Information”) with third parties without your consent, except for the specific purposes described below. This notice describes the Information we may gather and the circumstances under which we may share it.
Why We Collect and How We Use Information: We limit the collection and use of Information that we require to deliver superior service to you. Such service includes maintaining your account(s) with us, processing transactions requested by you and administering our business.
How We Gather Information: CapLink may request and collect information from you on a voluntary basis, either offline or through this website, for various purposes including but not limited to: (1) providing you any financial information or other information that you may request from us: (2) providing any of our products or services to you; (3) considering you for employment with our company; (4) creating an account or profile for you and/or your company; (5) sending you any newsletters, email updates and other information about our company; (6) improving the content of our website and the products and services we provide; or (7) notifying you of any updates. We may verify this Information or get additional Information from consumer reporting agencies or public sources. This Information may relate to your finances, employment, avocations or other personal characteristics, as well as transactions and interactions. The requested Information may include any information that you may provide to us that can be used to identify you individually, including but not limited to your name, email address, home address, telephone or fax numbers, driver’s license number, state identification card number, bank account number, credit card or debit card number, passport number, alien registration number, as well as any account number that we assign to you (the “Personal Information”).
How We Protect Information: We are committed to ensuring that your Personal Information is secure. It is our policy to protect your Personal Information by doing the following:
(a) Safeguarding any data, computer files and documents containing your personal information from any misuse by third parties;
(b) Destroying, erasing or making unreadable any data, computer files and documents containing your personal information prior to their disposal;
(c) Protecting the confidentiality of your personal information;
(d) Prohibiting the unlawful disclosure of your personal information;
(e) Limiting and/or restricting the access to your personal information to other third parties except in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy; and
(f) Limiting the access of your personal information only to our employees who need access to your personal information in order to allow us to provide services and for other valid purposes set forth herein and limiting the access of these employees to extent that it is needed.
In the event that there is ever any breach of data or security which may place your Personal Information at risk of being stolen or disclosed to unauthorized parties, we intend to comply with applicable state and federal law requirements regarding the notification and disclosure to you and to the appropriate authorities of the circumstances surrounding the breach.
Use or Disclosure of Information: Any Personal Information you provide to us may be accessed, stored or retained by us or used by us for any of the purposes expressed above. We may also use anonymous information about you, which will not contain any Personal Information, for the purpose of: (i) creating content, products, services and advertisements that are personalized to you and/or your business; or (ii) to create aggregated reports regarding our clients, our website users, the use of our Website and/or any information that has been provided to us. We do not sell or make available to any third party any of the Personal Information we collect on this website, unless you have expressly permitted us to do so.
Former Customers: Even if you are no longer a customer of the Firm, our Privacy Policy will continue to apply to you.
Further Information: We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy. The examples contained within this Privacy Policy are illustrations and they are not intended to be exclusive.
Cookies and Other Website Information: We may collect the domain name and IP address of the users of our website. We may also collect aggregate tracking information derived mainly from tallying page views throughout the Website. We do not currently use cookie files (or cookies) although we reserve the right to use them in the future without notice to you. If we use cookies in the future and you have enabled cookies in your website browser, you may receive a cookie file that will only store a unique, random session identification descriptor that is maintained throughout the session to track the pages you have visited. This would allow us to provide the users of our Website with certain conveniences such as delivering unique content. We may also use cookies in the future to track the path of users through the Website and to keep track of where they came from (for example, if they arrive via a search engine).
Links to other Websites: Our website may contain links to enable you to easily visit other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our website, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy or other similar policies applicable to the website in question.
Request for Details Regarding Your Personal Information: You may request details of any Personal Information which we are holding about you. If you would like a copy of the Personal Information held on you please do not hesitate to contact us at:
CapLink Securities, Inc.
The Compliance Department
200 Pier Avenue, Suite 123
Hermosa Beach, California 90254
Tel: 310.952.0987
If you believe that any of the Personal Information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to us at the above-listed address. We will promptly correct any Personal Information that is determined to be incorrect or incomplete.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy: By using the Website, you are accepting the practices and consenting to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy, then you should immediately discontinue your use of and access to this Website.