Privacy Policy

Advisors Asset Management, Inc. (“AAM”), the sponsor of this website, and its employees are committed to protecting your privacy and to safeguarding that information. The following Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we may collect, use, and share information provided when you interact with this website.

Security of Personal Information

The security of your personal information is our priority. We protect this information by maintaining physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that meet applicable law. We train our employees in the proper handling of personal information. Additionally, we require any third-party company that we do business with to protect the confidentiality of any personal information they receive.

Information we collect

AAM may collect and store certain information about your Internet connection, such as the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We may also gather information about the browser used, how you accessed the website, and what type of operating system you have. This information helps us to provide you with the proper functionality that is consistent with your device and may be used to alert you to compatibility issues or to resolve technical or service problems. The information might also be used to improve our web design and performance.

Temporary cookies are used to help us accurately analyze how and when users navigate through the website. Cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active browser session. These cookies do not collect personal information on users and they are erased as soon as you close your web browser. No personal information about you is maintained. Please note that you can choose not to accept cookies by changing your browser settings.

If you choose to post a comment to the blog, AAM will ask for your user name and your business email address and will retain the information you provide. As such, if you submit content on the website, you are not anonymous to AAM. Unless voluntarily submitted, we do not obtain additional personal information. It is recommended that you do not include any personal, identifiable information in your published content, such as your real name, address, account number, or other contact information. If you publish any personal information on the website, you are giving AAM permission to use and store it consistent with this Policy.

How we handle your information

We do not sell information about our users to any third parties, except as set forth below.

Except for authorized AAM personnel, the opinions, comments and any other information you provide to AAM through this website are not available or visible to others. Records will be kept of comments published on the website and available for regulatory review, if required by a regulatory agency, or for other reasons required or permitted by law. We may also provide your published comments to your broker/dealer and/or compliance department for regulatory purposes upon request.

AAM may use non-personal information for website administration, analytics, market research, and advertising and promotional purposes, and we may share such information with various affiliated and unaffiliated entities for such purposes. We will only provide the third-party with the information necessary to carry out its assigned responsibilities, and only for that purpose. Additionally, we require our third-party affiliates to treat your private information with the same high degree of confidentiality that we do.

We may also release information about you if you direct us to do so, if we are compelled by law to do so, or in other legally limited circumstances to protect the legal rights or legitimate interests of AAM, our affiliates, and each of our respective investors, directors, officers, employees, agents and suppliers.

Safeguarding your information

The website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. These measures provide a high level of security and privacy when you furnish your opinions and comments.

Additionally, AAM restricts access to information about you to those employees who need to know the information in order to perform their jobs. To protect your personal information, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in keeping with industry standards and practices, and we review and adjust these safeguards regularly in response to advances in technology.

Revisions to the Privacy Policy

AAM may revise this Policy without notice to reflect industry updates, changes in the law, and changes to the website, or for other reasons. The date that the document was revised or materially changed is below. Please visit this page for updates and changes.

It is important to understand that by using or accessing any of AAM’s websites or web pages, whether or not you’re a customer, you are accepting this Privacy Policy. Do not use the website if you do not agree to these terms.

If you have questions or concerns regarding AAM’s Privacy Policy, you can submit them to eServices@aam.us.com.

Notice of Revisions

This document was last modified on November 1, 2010