TJM is committed to safeguarding the personal information that you provide to us. This Privacy notice describes our Privacy Policy and how we handle and protect personal information we collect about you, under what circumstances we may disclose the information to others, and how we safeguard your information in our possession.
Information We Collect
We collect personal information about you for business purposes, such as evaluating your financial needs, processing your requests and transactions, informing you about products and services that may be of interest to you, and providing customer service. The personal information we may collect about you includes:
• Information you provide to us on account agreements and other related documents and forms (such as your name, address, social security number, occupation, assets, risk tolerance and income);
• Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates and others (i.e., trading with us, history of meeting margin calls and your use of various products and services that we provide); and/or
• Information we receive from consumer reporting agencies (such as your credit history and creditworthiness) and other entities not affiliated with TJM.
Protecting Your Information
Our employees have limited access to your information. They have access only when it will help you do business with us or help us do business with you, including helping you accomplish your financial objectives, such as providing you with a broad range of products and services. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard customer information.
Disclosure to Nonaffiliated Third Parties
We may share the personal information described above for business purposes with the following companies not affiliated with us:
• Financial service institutions (such as securities brokers, clearing brokers and banks) with whom we have joint marketing agreements (such as agreements to market financial services or products that we jointly offer, endorse or sponsor); or
• Companies under contract to perform services for us or on our behalf (such as trading platforms, vendors providing data processing, computer software maintenance and development, transaction processing and marketing services).
We share personal information with non-affiliated companies only when they agree to uphold and maintain our privacy standards when handling a customer’s personal information.
Also, we may disclose personal information with affiliated companies and regulatory authorities as permitted by applicable law. For example, we may disclose personal information to cooperate with regulatory authorities and law enforcement agencies and as necessary to protect our rights or property.
Accessing and Revising Your Personal Information
We endeavor to keep our customer files complete and accurate. We will give you reasonable access to the information we have about you. Most of this information is contained in account statements that you receive from us and agreements that you submit to obtain our products and services. We encourage you to review this information and notify us if you believe any information should be corrected or updated. If you have a question or concern about your personal information or this privacy notice, please contact us at info@tjmbrokerage.com.
Website Cookies
TJM may collect anonymous user information through the delivery of cookies. Cookies allow the TJM website to be more efficient by allowing us to learn what information is important to our visitors, and what isn’t. A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard drive of your computer so that the site administrator may identify your computer and passively track its activities on the website. A cookie will not allow a website to learn any personal information unless you have previously disclosed that information to us. The use of cookies is an industry standard and is currently used on most major websites. Cookies allow websites to serve its customers better by providing measurement statistics on site usage, learn about areas of the site that are over or underutilized, and helps to ensure that you are logged into your account correctly. It is possible to adjust your web browser preferences to alert you when a cookie is sent to your hard drive, or to refuse cookies altogether. While TJM does not require you to accept cookies, certain services will not function properly if you do not use and accept cookies.