Privacy Statement

PRIVACY STATEMENT

When you use Nichols Investment Advisors as your investment adviser, you entrust us not only with your hard-earned assets but also with your personal and financial data.  We consider your data to be private and confidential, and we hold ourselves to the highest standards of trust and fiduciary duty in their safekeeping and use.

We collect nonpublic personal information about Nichols Investment Advisors clients such as you from the following sources:

• Information we receive from you on applications or other forms; and
• Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others.

As part of servicing or maintaining your account, and for other legally permitted or required purposes, we may disclose your nonpublic personal financial and health information, if applicable.  This may include providing such information to service providers working with us to complete a transaction you request and to your broker to service your contract or account.  Otherwise, we will not release information about our customers or former customers unless one of the following conditions is met:

•  We receive your prior written consent.
•  We believe the recipient to be you or your authorized representative.
•  We are required by law to release information to the recipient.

We will only use information about you and your account to help us better serve your investment needs or to suggest services or educational materials that may be of interest to you.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your personal account information.  We also restrict access to your personal and financial data to authorized Nichols Investment Advisors associates who have a need for these records. 

We do not provide your personally identifiable information to mailing list vendors or solicitors for any purpose.