Hall Financial Services, Inc (“HFS”) Privacy Policy

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Investment advisers are required by law to inform their clients of their policies regarding privacy of client information. We are bound by professional standards of confidentiality that are even more stringent than those required by law. Federal law gives the customer the right to limit some but not all sharing of personal information. It also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information.

We collect nonpublic personal information about you that is either provided to us by you or obtained by us with your authorization. This can include but is not limited to your Social Security Number, Date of Birth, Banking Information, Financial Account Numbers and/or Balances, Sources of Income, and Credit Card Numbers or Information. When you are no longer our customer, we may continue to share your information only as described in this notice.

All Investment Advisers may need to share personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons that we may share your personal information. Our “everyday business” purposes vary, depending on the types of service we provide. For example, if we are managing assets for an HFS client, we will need to share information with the custodian the client has selected in order to process transactions and maintain the account. For Advice OnlyTM financial planning clients, though, we do not process any transactions and therefore do not share such information with third parties.

In all cases, we may share client information for our own legal, and regulatory purposes, such as to make sure we are meeting compliance obligations, to respond to regulatory requests, or to respond to court orders. In no event do we share information for marketing purposes.

Examples of “everyday business purposes”

to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations,

for our marketing – to offer our products and services to you;

HFS does not share information for joint marketing purposes.
HFS does not share information with affiliates.
HFS does not share information with non-affiliates specifically to market to you.
HFS on occasion (and with full client consent) will establish accounts with companies. In those cases, please carefully read that company’s privacy policy and “opt out” with them as appropriate.

If you are a new customer, we may begin sharing your information on the day you sign our agreement. When you are no longer our customer, we may continue to share your information as described in this notice. However, you can contact us at any time to limit our sharing.

To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use commercially appropriate security measures, including computer safeguards and secured files and physical space. When you are no longer a client, we will continue to protect your information as described in this policy.

Affiliates – companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. HFS has no affiliated entities, but HFS’s owner publishes content on financial planning concepts and also provides instruction in those concepts under the registered trade name Advice Only®; for privacy policy purposes we consider this an affiliate and do not share.
Non-affiliates – companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. Non-affiliated companies include Brinker Capital and Morningstar for managed assets.
Joint marketing – a formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

Please call if you have any questions. Your privacy, our professional ethics, and the ability to provide you with quality financial services are very important to us.