Last updated Nov 4, 2021
Nvest, Inc. (dba SigFig) and its affiliates and subsidiaries, including SigFig Wealth Management LLC ("we", “our”, "us" or “SigFig”), are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") sets out our policies and procedures for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing information provided to us by you when you access or browse SigFig.com, other Nvest, Inc. owned and/or operated websites, and our portfolio tracking services on our partner sites (the "Partner Portfolio Trackers") (collectively, the "Sites").
This Privacy Policy describes the type of information that we may collect for our own purposes through the Sites, how we use, protect, and share that information, and the choices and rights that you have. In some circumstances, we may receive or process personal information on behalf of a client for whom we serve as a service provider. This Privacy Policy does not describe all the information we may collect on behalf of or receive from our clients as a service provider. It also does not describe how we use, protect, or share that information. In those situations, the privacy policy of the client will apply.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. This Privacy Policy governs your use of our services and by accessing or using our Sites you agree to this Privacy Policy and you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure and other uses described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Sites. For purposes of compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (the "GLB Act"), this Privacy Policy shall serve as both your initial and annual "privacy notice" as defined under the GLB Act.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us at [email protected]
We collect user-submitted information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, email address, and by which you may be contacted online or offline with notifications related to the use of the services offered by the Sites and other information you may provide, such as your age, income, liquid assets worth and risk tolerance. We maintain information you submit in your profile on the Sites. We collect information from you when you send us feedback as well. Some information collected is not explicitly submitted by the user. Examples of such information include (but are not limited to): browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp. See "Use of Cookies and IP Address" below. If you choose to use our portfolio tracker service, we also collect your external brokerage account login credentials provided by you and information about your holdings in those accounts for the purpose of providing the services.
In addition, we may collect information provided by users who chose to open an investment advisory account with us, including (but are not limited to):
(collectively, “personal information”).
Also, if you sync your brokerage account(s) and/or bank account(s) to our Sites, your financial institution may provide us with information about you and your account to facilitate our ability to provide our services to you and to reduce the amount of data you need to enter.
We keep records of our services, which may include but are not limited to, records of the advice that we provide to you, your use of our services, and your communications to us about our services.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
Your personal and investment information is maintained by us in order to provide you with customized investment and other services and to fulfill our legal and regulatory requirements. In addition, for users who elected to open a SigFig investment advisory account, we use the collected information to:
Data that does not include personal information may be used for research purposes. For instance, we may compile data, excluding personal information and aggregated, for purposes of demographic analysis and research.
We will send you service-related announcements on the rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
As you navigate through and interact with our Sites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including browser-type related information, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, timestamp data, and other information help us diagnose problems with our servers, administer the Sites, and otherwise provide the highest possible level of service to you. In addition, we use this non-personal information to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.
Like most websites, the Sites require cookies to function properly. Cookies are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify you as a unique user. We use cookies to refine our services and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of cookies allows registered users to enter our Sites without explicitly typing in their email address and password every time, and it allows us to personalize your experience on the Sites by, e.g., showing you your account balances. For these reasons we tie personal information such as your email address to our cookies. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies might be necessary to provide you certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on the Sites.
We use tracking utility companies that uses cookies and Web beacons on our Sites. We have no access to or control over these third party tracking utilities. For example, we use cookies in conjunction with Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting in order to better understand our visitors. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our Sites, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our Sites. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to maintain and improve our Sites. Google Analytics does not collect your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personal information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our Sites, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Sites are restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. As related to Google Analytics, visitors can choose to opt out using Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means including Google Analytics' opt out tool. Unlike Google Analytics, not all tracking utility companies allow users to opt-out. If you do disagree with our use of cookies as set forth in this section, your choice is to not use our Sites.
If you use the Partner Portfolio Trackers, we may share certain information about you with our partners, such as "top ticker" data and watchlist holdings, which allow the partners to personalize your experience on the site or their mobile apps. We may also share aggregate data with partners (without any of your personal information) to aid in monitoring the effectiveness of our product. Such data could include engagement and retention rates with our services, periodic usage metrics reports.
Unless we have your express permission, we will not share any personal information about you with any advertising companies or with the providers of the advertised goods and services, and these companies will not collect such information on our behalf. If you choose to use these separate goods and services, disclose information to the providers, or grant them permission to collection information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policies.
Some of the information you provide on our Sites is publicly exposed in an aggregated and/or anonymized manner unless otherwise noted. However, except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information. We do not share your personal information for a third parties' promotional use without your express consent. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of our ownership, such as a restructuring, an acquisition by or merger with another company. In such an event, we will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. For the users who chose to open an investment advisory account with us, the transfer of personal information in the event of a transfer of our ownership is governed by the Investment Advisory Agreement between us and such users.
We will notify you when information about you may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and you will have the option to prevent such information sharing.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. Our security measures include industry standard technology and equipment to help protect your personal information.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Sites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you to not share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Sites. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.
You hereby acknowledge that we are not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet or the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Sites, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to such interceptions of information or circumventions of our Sites.
We may also use your information to contact you about our services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please provide notice to us through one of the following ways:
Should you want to update your personal information, or to request assistance with accessing, correcting or deleting any personal information included in your account, please email [email protected] We will respond to your request promptly, but no later than within thirty (30) days of receipt of such request. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. We cannot delete individual personal information for you, but can do a wipe of all of a user's personal information upon request. Please note, however, that even if we close your account, we may retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. Please also note that there might be latency in deleting information from our servers and backed-up versions might exist after deletion.
Our Sites are not directed to children, and we do not knowingly solicit information from any child under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, do not use or provide any information on our Sites or on or through any of its features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any screen name or user name you may use. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal information without his or her consent, he or she should contact us at [email protected] Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to us, we will delete it as soon as possible.
In certain circumstances you may have the following rights in relation to the processing of your personal information:
You may exercise your rights at any time by using the details set out in the Contact section, To the extent permitted by applicable law or regulation we reserve the right to charge an appropriate fee in connection with you exercising your rights.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identify and ensure your right to access to the personal information requested, or to exercise any of your other rights. This is to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who does not have authority to receive it. We may also request further information in relation to your request to help us locate the personal information processed in relation to you, including, for example, the nature and location of your relationship with us.
We aim to respond to all legitimate requests within thirty (30) days of receipt of such requests. If we think it may take us longer (such as where your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests), we will notify you and keep you updated.
You will not be disadvantaged in any way by exercising your rights in relation to the processing of your personal information.
Our Sites may contain links to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. The links are provided on our Sites solely for your convenience and may assist you in locating other useful information on the Internet. Unless you expressly authorize us to do so, we will not share your personal information with such third party websites. These third party websites are not under our control. In using such third party websites please be aware that each third party website is subject to its own privacy policies and is not covered by our Privacy Policy. We make no representation or warranty regarding the accuracy of the information contained on such third party websites, and we disclaims all responsibility relating to or resulting from your use of such third party websites.
Our Sites utilize framing techniques to allow users to access content from our Sites, when the user is actually on a third party website. We do this so that you will have a more seamless experience on the third party site. Regardless of our framing techniques, the third party and its website will remain visible and fully accessible, and will be governed by the privacy policy of the third party site, which will appear on those pages.
Conversely, the Partner Portfolio Trackers appear on our partners' websites but are actually offered or hosted by us. The Partner Portfolio Trackers will be clearly marked with our name, and your use of them will be governed by this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If we make a change to this Privacy Policy that we believe materially reduces your rights, we will provide you with prominent notice on our Site’s home page. By continuing to use our services after those changes have become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the Page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Sites and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
If you wish to exercise any of your rights, or have questions, comments, concerns or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy or any other privacy or security concern, please send an email to [email protected]
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