Slavic Investment Group's
Privacy Policy
Slavic Investment Group
Annual Notification of Availability of Form ADV, Part 2 and Annual Privacy Policy Notice to Our Valued Clients - 2007
Annual Notification of Availability of Form ADV, Part 2 Upon Request
Per regulatory guidelines, Form ADV, Part 2 is given at time of account opening, however, we will promptly submit an updated Form ADV, Part 2 upon your request. This can be done by calling our office at 800-356-3009 or writing to us at 1075 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 100, Boca Raton, FL 33487-3540.
Legal Requirement of This Notice
We are also required to notify you annually of our Privacy Policy. This notification is in response to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This notice describes Slavic Investment Group’s practices and policies concerning the handling of your personal information. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to insure the privacy of client information. It is our policy not to share any personal information with other non-affiliates for marketing purposes. The only information we do share is with the fund families where your accounts are setup.
Please take some time to review this Slavic Privacy Policy whether you are one of our direct clients or you have a connection with us through your firm or employer.
Our Privacy Commitment to You
The Slavic Investment Group is committed to maintaining the privacy of information, which is submitted to us when you become a client or a prospective client. We respect our clients and want to build long-term relationships. These relationships are built on trust. Part of building that trust is the confidential manner of handling personal information. In this age of high technology, it becomes even more important to protect our clients’ information.
The Slavic Investment Group
The Slavic Investment Group consists of the following companies:
· Slavic Mutual Funds, the Investment Advisor;
· Slavic Investment Corporation, the Broker/Dealer (Member FINRA & SIPC);
· Slavic Integrated Administration, the Third-Party Administrator; and
· Depository Services Inc., the Pension Plan/contribution conduit.
Our Privacy Policy
Slavic Investment Group may collect non-public personal information about you from any of the following sources:
· You or your representative,
· Applications, or
· Investor Questionnaire forms.
This information may include name, address, Social Security number, date of birth, assets and income, information gathered from transactional activity in your account or from interaction with our customer service staff, your data entry into our interactive web site, or from other sources with your consent or that of your representative, i.e. from other institutions for transfer of assets.
We may use this information to develop, offer and deliver new Slavic products or services, to process transactions in your account, to respond to inquiries from you or your representative, or to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements.
We do not share your non-public personal information except as necessary to administer and manage your investments. However, each fund company has its own privacy policy of which you need to be aware.
Internet Privacy
Internet privacy is just as important as our regular business. We, therefore, use the same safeguards as discussed above. Slavic also uses various means to protect and maintain security for our Internet users with the use of firewall barriers, user-authorization codes, cookies and similar files that may be on your hard drive for similar purposes. These are used to help in the navigation of our web site. From our web site, we may collect a variety of information concerning your computer and web services, as well as sites visited and time spent on our web site. This might be used to notify you of software or hardware compatibility issues or to analyze and improve our web system.
Slavic Investment Group • 1075 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 100 • Boca Raton, FL 33487-3540
561-241-9244 • 800-356-3009 • Fax: 561-241-1070 • www.slavic401k.com