Information We Collect
Greenwich Investment Management, Inc. must collect certain personally identifiable financial information about its customers to ensure that it offers the highest quality financial services and products. The personally identifiable financial information which we gather during the normal course of doing business with you may include:
1. information we receive from you on applications or other forms;
2. information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others;
3. information collected through an Internet “cookie” (an information collecting device from a web server);
4. information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.
This notice is being provided to you in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule regarding the privacy of consumer financial information (“Regulation S-P”). Please take the time to read and understand the privacy policies and procedures that we have implemented to safeguard your nonpublic personal information.
Information We Disclose
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law. In accordance with Section 248.13 of regulation S-P, we may disclose all the information we collect, as described above, to certain nonaffiliated third parties such as attorneys, accountants, auditors, and persons or entities that are assessing our compliance with industry standards. We enter into contractual agreements with all nonaffiliated third parties that prohibit such third parties from disclosing or using the information other than to carry out the purposes for which we disclose the information.
Confidentiality and Security
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide financial products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.
Privacy Policies of GIM Custodians
In addition to the Greenwich Investment Management Privacy Policy expressed here, clients of GIM should also be aware that their personal information is also subject to and protected by the Privacy Policy of the custodian with which their account is held.