Privacy Policy

Facts

What does Appleton Partners, Inc. (“Appleton”) do with your personal information?

Why?

Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law provides consumers the right to limit some, but not all, sharing. Federal law also requires Appleton to tell you how our firm collects, shares, and protects your personal information. Please read this notice more carefully to further your understanding.

What?

The types of personal information Appleton collects and shares depends on the product or service you have with our firm. This information may include:

· Social Security numbers and identifying information, including date of birth, address, phone numbers, and e-mail;

· Custodial accounts and account holdings, balances, family composition, and background; and

· Security transactions and investment objectives, net worth, income, and payment history.

When you are no longer an Appleton customer, we continue to share your information as described within this notice.

How?

All financial companies need to share client personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their client personal information, the reasons Appleton chooses to share this personal information, and whether you can limit our firm’s ability to share.

Reasons Appleton May Share Your Personal Information

Does Appleton Share?

Can You Limit This Sharing?

For our everyday business purposes—

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

YES

NO

For our marketing purposes—

to offer our products and services to you

YES

NO

For joint marketing with other financial companies

NO

N/A

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes—

information about your transactions and experiences

N/A

N/A

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes—

information about your creditworthiness

N/A

N/A

For non-affiliates to market to you

NO

N/A

Questions

Call (617) 338-0700 or please visit www.appletonpartners.com

Who We Are

Who is providing this notice?

APPLETON PARTNERS, INC. (“APPLETON”)

What We Do

How does Appleton protect my personal information?

To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, our firm utilizes security measures which comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.  

Appleton restricts access to your non-public personal information only to those employees who need to know that information to service your account.

How does Appleton collect my personal information?

Our firm collects your personal information, for example, when you:

· Sign an Appleton investment management agreement or open a brokerage/custodial account;

· Communicate with our firm or purchase or sell securities;

· Deposit or withdraw funds, provide or update your investment profile; and/or

· Instruct your broker, custodian, or bank to forward your statements to Appleton or grant our firm access to your statements.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?

Federal law grants you the right to limit only:

· Sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes— information about your credit worthiness;

· Affiliates from using your information to market to you; and

· Sharing for non-affiliates to market to you.

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

Definitions

Affiliates

Companies related by common ownership or control. They may be financial and non-financial companies.

Appleton has no affiliates.

Non-Affiliates

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies

Appleton will not share client information with any non-affiliates unless such sharing is necessary to service a client account or is required by law.

Joint Marketing

A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

Appleton has not entered any joint marketing agreements.