MoneyGuide, Inc. ("MG"), the developer of MoneyGuidePro® and moneyguidepro.com, is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your information on our website.
Our Privacy Policy has three key elements.
When you register, we will ask you for your name, email address, and contact information, and you will be asked to select a password. You may also be asked to select a user name.
We use your name to personalize your reports generated by the system. We use your email address to confirm your subscription, user name and password, and to provide customer service. As a registered user, when you select the option to create or access your financial plans, we will recognize you by your user name and password (or e-mail address, as applicable). We may also use the contact information we collect to notify you about any new functions included in our software or new services offered by our website.
To use our software, you or your financial advisor must input personal financial data for you and, if applicable, your co-client. The personal financial data required may include annual income, current values of and annual additions to investment assets, anticipated retirement expenses, and expected values of future assets such as lump sum distributions from pensions or inheritances. In many instances, these entries are optional. This personal financial information will be used by your financial advisor, in conjunction with our software, to develop financial, asset allocation, and income plan(s) or analyses for you.
"Cookies" are small files used by websites to store information on your computer. For moneyguidepro.com to work properly, your browser must be enabled to accept cookies. Our cookies contain information that identifies you during a session and allows the software to function. This information is not for sale or distribution.
When you access your financial data, we use a state-of-the-art secure server to keep all your personal information as secure as possible. The transport layer security (TLS) encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us, and all data we collect is protected against unauthorized access. This approach helps ensure that your personal and financial information remains safe and private.
By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of the information described above by moneyguidepro.com. Should we make any changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and your continued use of our website is your consent to those changes.
You also acknowledge that MG may aggregate data from its users and subscribers for the purpose of better understanding its user base and/or to research potential changes in content and services. MG may use this collective information for product research or marketing demographics, but we do not disclose, sell, or distribute any information to a third party where such information could indicate directly or indirectly any individual's financial information.
This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in MG's privacy policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers" or "you"). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Our website collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device ("personal information"). In particular, MG has collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
Category | Examples | Collected |
---|---|---|
A. Identifiers. | A real name, date of birth, and state of residence. | YES |
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e)). | A name, date of birth, state of residence, and employment status. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES |
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Age, marital status, and gender. | YES |
D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property and products owned. | YES |
E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | NO |
G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. | NO |
H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | NO |
I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | NO |
Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO |
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person's behavior (for example, a person's risk tolerance related to investment strategies). | NO |
Personal information does not include:
MG obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
MG may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:
In the preceding twelve (12) months, has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Category D: Commercial information.
Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.
We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:
MG does not sell, and in the preceding twelve (12) months has not sold, personal information.
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
You have the right to request that MG disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:
You have the right to request that MG delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 45 additional days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance, specifically PDF. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information's value and contain written terms that describe the program's material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
MG reserves the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the website and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which MG collects and uses your information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Phone: 1-800-743-7092
Website: www.moneyguidepro.com
Email: support@moneyguide.com
Effective Date: January 1, 2020
Last Reviewed on: December 5, 2019