Protecting Your Privacy

At Dakota Securities International Inc, protecting our clients' privacy is paramount. We recognize that an individual's financial matters are extremely private and sensitive in nature, and we have adopted policies that enable us to protect your privacy and, at the same time, provide you with a broad range of high quality financial products and services.

This notice will explain the types of information we collect about you, how we use and share that information both within and outside of the Dakota Securities umbrella.

Your Privacy Is Not for Sale: Under no circumstances whatsoever will Dakota Securities sell your personal information to anyone, for any reason, at any time.
How We Collect Information About You: We collect personal information about you in a number of ways.

• We collect information from you when you open an account or enroll in one of our services. We may also collect information from consumer reporting agencies to verify your identity in the account-opening process or if you apply for a margin account. The information we collect may include your name, address, phone number, email address, Social Security number and date of birth, as well as details about your interests, investments and investment experience.
  
  
• Once you have opened an account with us, we collect and maintain personal information about your account activity, including your transactions, balances, positions and history. This information allows us to administer your account and provide the services you have requested.
  
  
• We may collect information about you from information services and consumer reporting agencies to verify your identity, employment or creditworthiness, or to better understand your financial needs.

How We Share Information About You Outside of Dakota Securities:
We provide access to information about you to outside companies, affiliates, and other third parties in certain limited circumstances, including:

• to help us process transactions for your account;
  
  
• when we use another company to provide services for us, such as printing and mailing your account statements;
  
  
• when we believe that disclosure is required or permitted under law. For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with regulatory or law enforcement authorities, to resolve consumer disputes, to perform credit/authentication checks, or for risk control.