Privacy Policy Summary

Facts

What does Icon do with your Personal Information?

Why?

Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

What?

The types of personal information we collect and share can include: – Social Security number – Account balances – Transaction history – Account transactions – Bank account information – Net Worth When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

How?

All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons Icon chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

What does Icon do with your Personal Information?

Do we share?

Can you limit this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s) and to respond to court orders & legal investigations

Yes

No

For our marketing purposes to offer our products and services to you

Yes

No

For joint marketing with other companies

Yes

No

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes

Yes

No

For our non-affiliates to market to you

No

N/A

For our affiliates to market to you

No

No

Who we are

Who is providing this Privacy Policy?

This privacy notice is provided by Icon Savings Plan (“Icon”) and Icon Financial Services LLC (“Icon Financial”).

What we do

How does Icon protect my personal information?

To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured file servers.

How does Icon collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you:

  • Open an account or deposit money;
  • Provide account information or give us your contact information; or
  • Show your government issued ID

Icon Privacy Policy

Protecting your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy applies to The Icon Savings Corporation (d.b.a Icon Savings Plan) Inc., and its affiliates Icon Financial Services, LLC (our registered investment adviser). In this Privacy Policy, we refer to The Icon Savings Corporation, Inc. and its affiliates as “Icon”.

We want our customers to understand what information we collect and how we use it. We will continue to adhere to the privacy policies and practices described in this notice even after your account is closed or becomes inactive.

We treat Nonpublic Personal Information (“NPI”) with respect and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We collect personal information from clients and prospective clients in order to open accounts and to provide them with Record-keeping Services, Custodial Services, and Investment Advisory Services (the “Services”) in our online software (the “Platform”). In addition, we may collect limited personal information from consumers visiting our website in order to allow us to provide them with additional information about the services that we offer. We do not sell personal information to anyone. We use reasonable efforts to protect the security and confidentiality of the personal information we collect. We do not share your information for marketing purposes.

In order to conduct our regular business and/or to market our products and services, we may collect non-public personal information such as:

  • Your name, alias, date of birth, Tax ID number, citizenship and passport number, visa information, home address, telephone number, email address, social security number, bank account number, bank routing number, bank account login credentials, bank name, employer name, employment status, and job position.
  • Whether you are a “politically exposed person,” whether you are a “control person” (pursuant to FINRA Rule 3210), annual income range, total net worth range, and other information as appropriate for our legitimate business needs.
  • We may collect information derived or resulting from voluntary surveys.
  • We may record any customer service calls or correspondence and maintain such recordings to better improve our Services.
  • We may also collect Personal Information when you voluntarily provide us with Personal Information as a Visitor.

As a registered investment adviser, we must comply with SEC Regulation S-P, which requires registered advisers to adopt policies and procedures to protect the “non-public personal information” of natural person consumers and customers and to disclose to such persons policies and procedures for protecting that information. The purpose of these regulatory requirements and privacy policies and procedures is to provide administrative, technical, and physical safeguards which assist our employees in maintaining the confidentiality of NPI collected from clients of the Icon.

All NPI, whether relating to our current or former clients, is subject to these privacy policies and procedures. Any doubts about the confidentiality of client information must be resolved in favor of confidentiality. For these purposes, NPI includes non-public “personally identifiable financial information” plus any list, description or grouping of clients that is derived from non-public personally identifiable financial information. Such information may include personal financial and account information, information relating to services performed for or transactions entered into on behalf of clients, advice provided by Icon to clients, and data or analyses derived from such NPI.

We will not disclose any non-public personal information about a client or prospective client to any third parties, other than its service providers, agents, representatives, and/or affiliates, or as permitted or required by law. We may disclose client or prospective client information for our everyday business purposes such as those listed below, and to process transactions, maintain accounts, respond to court orders and legal investigations, or as otherwise permitted by law.

Among other things, the law permits us as it may be necessary in the course of managing client accounts, to disclose such information for purposes of engaging in securities transactions or account maintenance on behalf of clients, complying with anti-money laundering laws, preparing statements and reports for clients, and determining whether a client meets the regulatory, suitability, or other requirements to make a particular investment. We will only give client or prospective client non-public personal information to third parties as permitted by law, such as, for example:

  • To retirement and investment product administrators, custodians, and other service providers as needed to engage in securities transactions in client accounts;
  • To other service providers as directed by clients or prospective clients, such as accountants, lawyers, etc.;
  • To service providers who may operate on our behalf, or assist us in the technical operation of, information technology systems, including our website, network, or databases;
  • To specified family members and/or representatives (as authorized by law and/or the client); and
  • To third-party software providers, consultants or other service providers as needed to provide requested services.

Privacy Policy Notifications

We provide our Privacy Policy at the start of the client relationship. We also send a Privacy Policy notice to current clients each year. If you are no longer a client, we will follow our then current Privacy Policy, but we will not send you further notices.

Change in Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes, we will provide current clients with a revised notice describing our new policy as soon as reasonably possible.

Online Policy

In addition to the Privacy Policy outlined above, the following privacy principles apply when you visit us on our web sites or communicate with us electronically.

  • Online Information and Collection: You can visit our public website without telling us who you are and without revealing anything about yourself, including your email address. However, web servers collect the name of the domain you used to access the Internet. We also collect the web site you came from and measure the number of visits, average time spent and other data about visitors to our web site. We use this data to monitor site performance and to make the site easier and more convenient to use.
  • Cookies: Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your computer. We use cookies to measure website usage and enhance the performance of our website. You can configure your computer’s Internet browser to notify you when your computer receives a cookie. You can also prevent your computer from receiving cookies. If you set your browser to not accept cookies, you will limit functionality we can provide you when you visit our website.
  • Links to other Web Sites: We are not responsible for the information collected by other web sites if you link to them from our web site. We cannot guarantee how those sites use cookies or whether they place cookies on your computer that may identify you. You should carefully review the privacy policies of each web site you visit to understand how it collects and uses information.
  • Email Communications: If you provide your email address to us on our site, we may send you email communications that may be useful to you, including information about our products, services or third parties. You will be given the option to not receive such email messages.
  • Security: The security of your Personal Information is of utmost importance to us. Icon handles sensitive financial customer data, so we’ve taken steps to secure critical systems and information. For example, we use encryption to protect and secure all of your information, from personal data (like your social security number) to your transaction history. We take commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
  • Visitors and Registered Users: As a visitor to our website, you may have access to certain features without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our website includes the option to provide your contact information to us. If you provide personal information to us, it will be used to provide communication to you regarding our services. We may require you to become a registered user in order to gain access to and use features of our websites. Once you become a registered user, we may collect personal information when you use our website.

Client Records

Client records will be retained by us for at least 5 years after the year in which the record was produced, or as otherwise required by law. With respect to disposal of non-public personal information, we will take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of such information in connection with its disposal.

We takes the privacy and confidentiality of all its clients and personnel very seriously. It will continue to make, and document, any changes needed to promote the security of client information.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Effective January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) allows California residents, upon a verifiable consumer request and subject to applicable exemptions, to request that we give you access, in a portable and (if technically feasible) readily usable form, to the specific pieces and categories of personal information that we have collected about you, the categories of sources for that information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information was shared. California residents also have the right to submit a request for the deletion of the information under certain circumstances. Consistent with California law, Icon will not discriminate against those who exercise their rights. Specifically, if you exercise your rights, we will not deny you services, charge you different prices for services or provide you a different level or quality of services. To submit a data request, please contact us by following the instructions in the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that you must verify your identity and request before further action is taken. As a part of this process, government identification may be required. Consistent with California law, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester’s valid government-issued identification, and the authorized agent’s valid government-issued identification.

We do not sell Personal Information to third parties. We do allow third parties to collect personal information through our Service and share personal information with third parties for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including without limitation advertising and marketing on our Service and elsewhere based on users’ online activities over time and across different sites, services, and devices.

California law permits consumers who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their Personal Information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of Personal Information disclosed to those third parties. Icon does not share Personal Information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your prior consent. Accordingly, you can prevent disclosure of your Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes by withholding consent.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact Icon Customer Service at:

support@iconsavingsplan.com

 

Icon Savings Plan

1631 NE Broadway St., #815

Portland, OR 97232

 

`Revision June 1, 2020

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