On Your Privacy
National Financial Services LLC
2009
As you may know, your broker/dealer and National Financial Services LLC ("NFS") have an agreement in which NFS provides clearing and other related services for your account. In connection with these services, NFS is required to communicate its position as it pertains to the privacy of customer information. We are proud of our privacy and confidentiality practices, and we want you to know how we work with your broker/dealer to protect this information and use it to service your account. You do not have to contact your broker/dealer to benefit from these protections; they apply automatically to all customers. We review our privacy policy annually. Our printed and online notices are then updated to reflect any material changes.
Please take a moment to review our full privacy policy.
National Financial Services LLC Privacy Policy
How and Why We Obtain Information
To facilitate the servicing of your account, NFS may receive non-public personal information about you from your broker/dealer or from any of the following sources:How We Protect Information About You
NFS considers the protection of personal information to be a foundation of customer trust and a sound business practice. We employ physical, electronic, and procedural controls, and we regularly adapt these controls to respond to changing requirements and advances in technology. Within NFS, we restrict access to your information to those who require it to develop, support, offer, and deliver products and services to you.Within NFS, we restrict access to your information to those who require it to develop, support, offer and deliver products and services to you.
How We Share Information About You
We may share the personal information that we collect about our customers, prospects, or former customers with their broker/dealers or with:We use firewall barriers, encryption techniques and authentication procedures, among others, to maintain the security of your online session and to prevent unauthorized access to our computer networks. We may also place cookies and similar files on your hard drive for purposes such as security, to facilitate site navigation, and to personalize your experience on the site. Our cookies do not identify you by name as an individual or by account number.
When we conduct business online, we may collect technical and navigational information, such as computer browser type, Internet protocol address, pages visited, and average time spent on our Web sites. This information may be used, for example, to alert you to software compatibility issues; or it may be analyzed to improve our Web design and functionality.
You may access and, if necessary, correct your account information through a variety of media offered by your broker/dealer and NFS (e.g., statements or online services). Please contact your broker/dealer if you require any additional information.This privacy policy is provided to customers of correspondent broker/dealers on behalf of National Financial Services LLC.
NFS has been requested by the Fidelity Funds and by certain Fidelity Investments companies to distribute their privacy policies to shareholders of the Fidelity Funds and to NFS retirement customers. If you are a shareholder in one or more of these funds or maintain an NFS retirement account, please review the following policies. These privacy policies are reviewed annually. The printed and online notices are then updated to reflect any changes.
The following statement only applies to you if you buy Fidelity Funds through your broker/dealer or if you have an NFS retirement account through your broker/dealer
Protecting your personal information is an important priority for the Fidelity Funds. The Funds' privacy policy is designed to support this objective. The Funds collect non-public personal information concerning you in the following ways:
The Funds do not disclose any non-public personal information about you, except as permitted by law. For example, the Funds have entered into a number of arrangements with Fidelity Investments to provide for investment management, distribution, and servicing of the Funds.
If you decide to close your account, the Funds will continue to adhere to the privacy policies and practices as described in this notice.
Please read the Fidelity Funds Privacy Policy in conjunction with the Privacy Policy for the Fidelity Investments companies of which you are also a customer.
Fidelity Distributors Corporation and Fidelity Management Trust Company Privacy Policy
How and Why We Obtain Personal Information
Fidelity takes great care to protect personal information about you and when we use it, we do so with respect for your privacy. We may use personal information about you to service and maintain your account; process transactions in your account; respond to inquiries from you or your representative; develop, offer, and deliver products and services; or to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements. Fidelity may collect public and non-public personal information about you from any of the following sources:
How We Protect Information About You
Fidelity considers the protection of personal information to be a foundation of customer trust and a sound business practice. We employ physical, electronic, and procedural controls and we regularly adapt these controls to respond to changing requirements and advances in technology.
At Fidelity, we restrict access to personal information to those who require it to develop, support, offer and deliver products and services to you.
How We Share Information About You
We may share the personal information that we collect with the following entities:
Privacy Online
Privacy, security, and service in our online operations are just as critical as in the rest of our business. Fidelity employs all of the safeguards described previously, along with the following Internet-specific practices.
We use firewall barriers, encryption techniques, and authentication procedures, among others, to maintain the security of your online session and to prevent unauthorized access to our computer networks. We may also place cookies and similar files on your hard drive for purposes such as security, to facilitate site navigation, and to personalize your experience on our site. Our cookies do not identify you by name as an individual or by account number.
When you visit Fidelity's Internet sites, we may also collect technical and navigational information, such as computer browser type, Internet protocol address, pages visited, and average time spent on our Web sites. This information may be used, for example, to alert you to software compatibility issues, or it may be analyzed to improve our Web design and functionality.
We may use third party service providers to help us analyze certain online activities. For example, these service providers may help us measure the performance of our online advertising campaigns or analyze visitor activity on our Web sites. We may permit these service providers to use cookies and other technologies, such as Web beacons or pixel tags, to perform these services for Fidelity. We do not share personally identifiable information about our customers with these third-party service providers, and these service providers do not collect such information on our behalf.
Additional Information
If you are a former customer, your information is treated in the same manner as the information of current customers.
For your convenience, Fidelity offers several options for accessing and, if necessary, correcting your account information. You can review your information independently using your statements, or through our automated telephone or Internet services. You may also write or call us with your request for information. If we serve you through an investment professional, please contact them directly. Specific Internet addresses, mailing addresses, and telephone numbers are listed on your statements and other correspondence.
National Financial Services LLC, Member NYSE, SIPC
200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA 02210
509051.4
2009