Our Privacy Policy Statement

Side‐By‐Side Financial Planning, LLC respects the privacy of all clients and prospective clients; both past and present (collectively termed “customers” per federal guidelines). It is recognized that you have entrusted our firm with nonpublic personal information and it is important that both access persons and customers are aware of firm policy concerning what may be done with that information.
 

The firm collects personal information about customers from the following sources:

• Information customers provide to complete their financial plan or investment recommendation;

• Information customers provide in engagement agreements; and

• Information customers provide verbally

The firm does not disclose nonpublic personal information about our customers to anyone, except in the following circumstances:

• When required to provide services our customer has requested;

• When our customers have specifically authorized us to do so;

• When required during the course of a firm assessment (i.e., independent audit); or

• When permitted or required by law (i.e., periodic regulatory examination)

Within the firm, access to customer information is restricted to personnel that need to know that information. All access persons and service providers understand that everything handled in firm offices are confidential and they are instructed to not discuss customer information with someone else that may request information about an account unless they are specifically authorized in writing by the customer to do so. This includes, for example, providing information about a spouse’s IRA account or to adult children about parents’ accounts, etc.

To ensure security and confidentiality, the firm maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the privacy of customer information.

The firm will provide you with its privacy policy on an annual basis per federal law and at any time, in advance, if firm privacy policies are expected to change.