Our Commitment to Your Privacy:  Protecting clients’ privacy is of paramount importance to Benningfield Financial Advisors, LLC (the “Firm” or “Advisor”). It is BFA’S policy that no private client financial or personal information obtained by the Firm is sold or made available to third parties except that:

  • Third parties may be used by the Firm to assist in the management or maintenance of client accounts (such as a custodian, broker or bank).

  • Client information may be released to client’s accountancy, legal and other third party representatives at client’s direction;

  • Client information may be released in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

The Firm will not share non-public personal information about its clients with nonaffiliated third parties without prior client consent, except for specific purposes described below. This notice explains the Firm’s collection, use and safeguarding of client information.

How BFA Gathers Information:  In connection with providing clients with investment management services, the Firm may obtain information about its clients from the following sources:

  • Client agreements and other information that clients provide to the Firm, whether in writing, in person, by telephone, electronically or by any other means.  This information may include a client’s name, address, phone number, email address, social security number, employment information, income, investment experience, and credit references;

  • Personal tax returns provided by the client;

  • Transactions on a client’s behalf.  This information may include the client’s account balances, positions, investment interests and history;

  • Consumer reporting agencies.  This information may include account information and credit history; and

  • Public sources.

Sharing Information with Nonaffiliated Third Parties:  Advisor only discloses non-public client information to nonaffiliated third parties when it is believed necessary for the Firm’s provision of services to you or as required or permitted by law, such as:

  • If you request or authorize the disclosure of the information;

  • To provide client account services or account maintenance;

  • To respond to a subpoena or court order, judicial process, law enforcement or regulatory authorities;

  • To perform services for the Firm or on its behalf to develop or maintain proprietary trading or other software;

  • In connection with a proposed or actual sale, merger, or transfer of all or a portion of the Firm’s business or an operating unit;

  • To help prevent fraud;

  • With rating agencies, persons assessing compliance with industry standards, or to the attorneys, accountants and auditors of the Firm;

  • To comply with federal, state or local laws, rules and other applicable legal requirements; and

  • Pursuant to any other exceptions enumerated in the California Information Privacy Act.

BFA does not make any disclosure of client non-public personal information to other companies who may want to sell their products or services to you. For example, the Firm does not sell client lists and the Firm will not sell client names to catalogue companies.

Opt In – Opt Out Provision:  Since sharing under the circumstances noted above is necessary to service customer accounts or is mandated by law, there are no allowances made for clients to opt out.

If, at any time in the future, it is necessary to disclose any client personal information in a way that is inconsistent with this policy, BFA will give its clients advance notice of the proposed disclosure so that they will have the opportunity to either opt-in or opt-out of such disclosure, as required by applicable law.

Former Clients:  This Privacy Policy continues to apply to all former clients.

To Whom This Policy Applies:  This Privacy Policy applies to individuals who obtain or have obtained services from BFA used primarily for personal, family or household purposes.

Our Security Practices and Information Accuracy:  BFA takes steps to safeguard client information.  Access to the personal and account information of clients is restricted to its employees and agents for business purposes only. The Firm maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information.  Additionally, the Firm has internal controls to keep client information as accurate and complete as possible. If you believe that any information about you is not accurate, please contact the Firm.

Online Services

When you visit our online services, we and third parties we work with, may track and collect information from the computer or mobile device you used to access our online services through our website including the following:

1. Google Analytics: Data from our website may be  collected by Google Analytics and is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy. Please refer to this link to learn more about how Google Analytics collects, protects and shares data. If you would like to OPT OUT of your data being used by Google Analytics, please visit this link. 

2. Squarespace Analytics: Our website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies: Our website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.

Marketing Emails:  We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Other Information:  BFA reserves the right to change this Statement of Privacy Policy periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our data privacy practices. Your continued use of our online services after we have changed the Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised terms. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Milo M. Benningfield, Managing Member and Chief Compliance Officer at 415-561-6688.

Links to Other Websites: This site may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other websites or resources. Benningfield Financial Advisors, LLC has no control over such sites and resources, is not responsible for their availability, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from them. Benningfield Financial Advisors, LLC shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of such sites or resources. Your use of such sites or resources shall be subject to the terms and conditions set forth by them.

Benningfield Financial Advisors, LLC makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, timeliness, suitability, completeness, or relevance of any information prepared by any unaffiliated third party, whether linked to the Website or incorporated therein. All such information is provided solely for convenience and all users should be guided accordingly.