Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation and Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation (both a part of Lincoln Financial Network or LFN) are committed to protecting your privacy. To provide the products and services you expect from a financial services leader, we must collect personal information about you. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We share your personal information with third parties as necessary to provide you with the products or services you request and to administer your business with us. This Notice describes our current privacy practices. While your relationship with us continues, we will update and send our Privacy Practices Notice as required by law. Even after that relationship ends, we will continue to protect your personal information. This Notice explains our information sharing arrangement and provides information on how to contact us if you have questions regarding our privacy practices.
We collect personal information about you to help us identify you as our customer or our former customer; to process your requests and transactions; to offer investment or insurance services to you; to pay your claim; to analyze in order to enhance our products and services; or to tell you about our products or services we believe you may want and use. The type of personal information we collect depends on the products or services you request and may include the following:
We may share your personal information within our companies and with certain service providers as allowed by law. They use this information to process transactions you have requested; provide customer service; to analyze in order to enhance our products and services; and inform you of products or services we offer that you may find useful. Our service providers may or may not be affiliated with us. They include financial service providers (for example, third party administrators; broker-dealers; insurance agents and brokers, registered representatives; reinsurers and other financial services companies with whom we have joint marketing agreements). Our service providers also include non- financial companies and individuals (for example, consultants; vendors; and companies that perform marketing services on our behalf). Information we obtain from a report prepared by a service provider may be kept by the service provider and shared with other persons; however, we require our service providers to protect your personal information and to use or disclose it only for the work they are performing for us, or as permitted by law.
When you apply for one of our products, we may share information about your application with credit bureaus. We also may provide information to group policy owners, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials and to others when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure. In the event of a sale of all or part of our businesses, we may share customer information as part of the sale. We do not sell or share your information with outside marketers who may want to offer you their own products and services; nor do we share information we receive about you from a consumer reporting agency. You do not need to take any action for this benefit.
We have an important responsibility to keep your information safe. We use safeguards to protect your information from unauthorized disclosure. Our employees are authorized to access your information only when they need it to provide you with products, services, or to maintain your accounts. Employees who have access to your personal information are required to keep it confidential. Employees are trained on the importance of data privacy.
Access: We want to make sure we have accurate information about you. Upon written request we will tell you, within 30 business days, what personal information we have about you. You may see a copy of your personal information in person or receive a copy by mail, whichever you prefer. We will share with you who provided the information. In some cases we may provide your medical information to your personal physician. We will not provide you with information we have collected in connection with, or in anticipation of, a claim or legal proceeding. If you request a copy of the information, we may charge you a fee for copying and mailing costs. In very limited circumstances, your request may be denied. You may then request that the denial be reviewed.
Accuracy of Information: If you feel the personal information we have about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you may ask us to amend the information. Your request must be in writing and must include the reason you are requesting the change. We will respond within 30 business days. If we make changes to your records as a result of your request, we will notify you in writing and we will send the updated information, at your request, to any person who may have received the information within the prior two years. We will also send the updated information to any insurance support organization that gave us the information, and any service provider that received the information within the prior 7 years. If your requested change is denied, we will provide you with reasons for the denial. You may write to request the denial be reviewed. A copy of your request will be kept on file with your personal information so anyone reviewing your information in the future will be aware of your request.
Accounting of Disclosures: If applicable, you may request an accounting of disclosures made of your medical information, except for disclosures:
To the individual who is the subject of the personal information or to that individual’s personal representative;
To persons involved in your health care;
For notification for disaster relief purposes;
For national security or intelligence purposes;
To law enforcement officials or correctional institutions; or
For which an authorization is required.
You may request an accounting of disclosures for a time period of less than two years from the date of your request. You may ask in writing for the specific reasons for an adverse underwriting decision. An adverse underwriting decision is where we decline your application for insurance, offer to insure you at a higher than standard rate, or terminate your coverage. Your state may provide for additional privacy protections under applicable laws. We will protect your information in accordance with these additional protections.
We understand that the relationship you have with your registered representative is important to you. If your registered representative’s affiliation with Lincoln Financial Network ends and he or she chooses to move to a different broker-dealer, or if your registered representative’s relationship with LFN is terminated, your LFN registered representative may be allowed to take with him or her copies of all client and account documentation (including but not limited to: account applications; customer statements; and other pertinent forms related to your account), so your registered representative is able to continue the relationship with you and service your account through his or her new firm. LFN will also retain copies of your client and account documentation. You do not need to take action if it is your choice to allow your LFN registered representative to keep copies of your confidential information should he or she leave our firm.
If you do not want your registered representative to keep copies of your confidential information should he or she decide to end the relationship with Lincoln Financial Network in the future, you have the right to opt out*. If your account with us is a joint account, we will treat the opt out request by a joint account owner as applying to all owners on the account. If you choose to opt out now; at any time in the future; or wish to withdraw your opt out request, contact us by phone at 800-248-2285. If it is your choice to opt out there will be a 30-day period before your opt out will take effect.
If you have questions about your personal information we have on file, your request should be directed to:
Lincoln Financial Network
Attn: Enterprise Compliance and Ethics
1300 S. Clinton St.
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Please include all account numbers you maintain with LFN with your correspondence.
* Lincoln adheres to all applicable state and federal privacy regulations. Residents of Arizona, California, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, and Virginia will be provided an opportunity to opt in for information sharing per applicable state law
**This information applies to the following Lincoln Financial Network companies:
Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation
Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation
JPSC Insurance Services, Inc.
LFA, Limited Liability Company