This website has been created to provide access to PFM Asset Management LLC (PFM) monthly statement for advisory clients and for participants in investment funds administered by PFM
to view account and program information and complete transactions with regard to accounts.
Providing a secure online environment for users of
this website is a high priority of PFM Asset Management LLC
which created and maintains this web site. Customers have the right to
expect privacy and security relating to information collected by financial
institutions and the PFM has devoted a great deal of resources to designing
systems and procedures to safeguard personal information.
Background
The purpose of privacy policies and procedures is to
provide administrative, technical and physical safeguards which assist
employees in maintaining the confidentiality of nonpublic personal information
collected from the consumers and customers of by an investment adviser.
All nonpublic information, whether relating to an adviser's 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. While the PFM’s clients are currently only
institutional and thus exempt from the provisions of SEC Regulation S-P, PFM
has adopted the following privacy policies and procedures to protect
any non-public personal information of its clients.
Policy
PFM has adopted policies and procedures to protect the “nonpublic
personal information” of customers and to disclose to such persons policies and
procedures for protecting that information. Nonpublic personal
information includes nonpublic “personally identifiable financial information”
plus any list, description or grouping of customers that is derived from
nonpublic 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,
and data or analyses derived from such nonpublic personal information.
Procedures
PFM has adopted various procedures to
implement the privacy policy and the Adviser reviews operating procedures to
monitor and insure the firm’s policy is observed.
The procedures are summarized as follows:
Non-Disclosure of Client Information. PFM
maintains safeguards to comply with federal and state standards to guard each
client’s nonpublic personal information. PFM does not share any
nonpublic personal information with any nonaffiliated third parties, except in
the following circumstances:
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As necessary to provide the service that the client has requested or
authorized, or to maintain and service the client’s account;
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As required by regulatory authorities or law enforcement officials who have
jurisdiction over the Administrator, or as otherwise required by any applicable law;
and
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To the extent reasonably necessary to prevent fraud and unauthorized
transactions.
Security of Client Information PFM restricts
access to nonpublic personal information to those employees who need to know
such information to provide services to our clients. Any employee who is
authorized to have access to nonpublic personal information is required to keep
such information in a secure compartment or receptacle on a daily basis as of
the close of business each day. All electronic or computer files
containing such information shall be password secured and firewall protected
from access by unauthorized persons.
What types of information does this
website collect and how is it used?
This website collects IP addresses or domain names
anytime a web page is requested from the website server. This information
is used in the aggregate to analyze site traffic. The URL of a referring
Web page also may be logged for the same purpose.
Information provided by site visitors is collected
to assist PFM in its delivery of services. If you
send an email to PFM, your email address will be displayed in the
message that we receive. We use this information to reply to your inquiry and
we may keep your email message for our records and future reference. It is the
privacy policy of PFM not to share that information with other
companies or organizations, unless we are required to do so by law, court order
or regulatory requirements.
The information that PFM collected from
website traffic is used to improve the content of our web pages and to notify
Internet consumers of items of interest. Collected information is not shared
with other organizations for commercial purposes.
Frequently, users may voluntarily provide nonpublic
personal information. If you give your mailing address
, then you may receive periodic mailings from us with information relating
to the business and services provided. Likewise, if you give your
telephone number, then you may receive telephone contact
from us with information relating to our business and services provided.
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