Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy

Maintaining the trust and confidence of our clients is a high priority. That is why we want you to understand how we protect your privacy when we collect and use information about you, and the steps we take to safeguard that information.

  • For our everyday business purposes – To process your transactions, maintain your account(s), and report to credit bureaus.
  • For our marketing purposes – To offer our products and services to you.
  • For joint marketing with other financial companies.
  • For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – Information about your transactions and experiences.

We will not disclose information regarding you or your account with us except under the following circumstances:

  • To establish or maintain an account with an unaffiliated third party, such as a trust company custodian or a clearing broker providing services to you.
  • To government entities or other third parties in response to subpoenas, court order, regulatory demand or other legal process as required by law.
  • As authorized by you – you may direct us, for example, to send account statements or other account information to a third party (tax preparers, attorneys, family members, etc.).

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

We also restrict access to non-public personal information about you to those employees who have a need to know such information

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

  • Open an account or provide account information
  • Apply for a loan or make deposits or withdrawals from your account
  • Seek advice about your investments
  • We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Federal law gives you the right to limit only:

  • Sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness
  • Affiliates from using your information to market to you
  • Sharing for nonaffiliates to market you


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

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial or nonfinancial companies. The following is a list of affiliated companies that this Privacy Policy applies to: Retirement Investment Advisors, Inc., Bowie, Thurman & Associates, LLC, and NFP, an Aon company.

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. RIA does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

We must notify you about our sharing practices when you engage our services and each year while you are a customer.

If we make any substantial changes in the way we use or disseminate confidential information, we will notify you.