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At Stratford Financial, respecting the privacy and security of your personal information is important to us. We urge you to read this policy carefully, and make note of your rights under this policy. We've tried to provide easy-to-understand explanations of the most frequently used legal terms—terms we are required to use to ensure clarity and consistency. We want to make sure that your personal information is protected, and that you understand the policies that protect you. You'll find the same terms used in many companies' privacy policies.
This privacy policy describes the kinds of information we collect from our customers, how we use that information, and the limited circumstances under which we will share it with third parties.
Stratford Financial will only collect information about you that we reasonably believe will be necessary or useful in processing or administering products or services that you have requested from us. Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at privacy@stratfordfinancial.com.
We may share all the information that we collect, as described above, for the following purposes:
- To provide you with the products and services you requested.
- To offer you additional products and services, from us or from others, that may be of interest to you.
- To comply with reporting and other legal requirements.
- To otherwise conduct business.
We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to personal information including your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you. In connection with alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party. For example, some of our partners operate stores or provide services on our site, while others power offerings developed by us for your use. We also use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, our partners and other third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with business activities. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.
To provide better service and a more effective Web site, this site uses a feature of your browser called a "cookie" to assign a "User I.D." as part of our interaction with your browsers. A "cookie" is a small text file placed on your hard drive by our Web Page Server. Our cookies cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your e-mail address. Cookies are commonly used on Web sites and do not harm your system. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. Unless you specifically tell us who you are (for example by completing an lead form), if you are just browsing our site, we will never know who you are even though we assign you a cookie.
This site contains links to other sites. If you use a link to visit the site of another company, we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of that company or its site.
Access to our systems containing nonpublic personal information is only given to those employees who need it for the purpose of providing products or services to our customers. In addition, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that are designed to comply with federal guidelines concerning the security of nonpublic personal information.
We work hard to ensure your information is as accurate, current and complete as possible. If you ever find that our records are inaccurate or not current, please contact us.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, or if you wish to opt-out at any time, please send an email to privacy@stratfordfinancial.com or call us at (800) 727-6050.
Marketing Lists
You can reduce the amount of marketing material and credit applications you receive via mail, telephone or e-mail by writing the Direct Marketing Association at the addresses listed below. You must provide your name, address and telephone number with your request.
Mail Preference Service
c/o Direct Marketing Assn.
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
Telephone Preference Service
c/o Direct Marketing Assn.
P.O. Box 9014
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9014
E-mail Preference Service
www.e-mps.org
Identity Theft
Identity theft is a serious and growing problem. If someone has fraudulently used your identification to establish credit, report the incident as quickly as possible to each of the credit reporting agencies listed below and ask that a fraud report be placed on your file.
Experian 888-397-3742
Equifax 800-525-6285
Trans Union 800-680-7289
You may also check to see if any additional credit accounts have been opened without your consent or whether unauthorized charges were billed to your accounts. Contact these credit reporting agencies to obtain a copy of your credit report.
Experian 888-397-3742
Equifax 800-685-1111
Trans Union 800-916-8800
Please note that this contact information is being provided as a service to you. Stratford Financial is not affiliated with any of these services and cannot guarantee their effectiveness.
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