Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation® Privacy Practices Notice
Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation® Privacy Practices Notice
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. 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. You do not need to take any action because of this Notice, but you do have certain rights as described below.
We are committed to the responsible use of information and protecting individual privacy rights. As such, we look to leading data protection standards to guide our privacy program. These standards include collecting data through fair and lawful means, such as obtaining your consent when appropriate.
Information we may collect and use
We collect personal information about you to help us identify you as a consumer, our customer or our former customer; to process your requests and transactions; to provide customer service; to offer and provide investments, financial planning and insurance products and services to you; to pay your claim; to analyze in order to enhance our products and services; to tell you about our products or services we believe you may want and use; and as otherwise permitted by law. The type of personal information we collect depends on your relationship and on the products or services you request and may include the following:
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Information from you: When you submit your application or other forms, you give us information such as you name; address; Social Security number; and your financial; health; and employment history; and if applicable, financial and other information about your business. We may also collect voice recordings or biometric data for use in accordance with applicable law.
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Information about your transactions: We keep information about your transactions with us, such as the products you buy from us and the services you engage us to provide; the amount you paid for those products and services; your account balances; payment details and your payment history.
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Information from outside our family of companies: If you are applying for or purchasing insurance products, we may collect information from consumer reporting agencies such as your credit history; credit scores; and driving and employment records. With your authorization, we may also collect information, such as medical information, from other individuals or businesses.
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Information from your employer: If your employer applies for or purchases group products from us, we may obtain information about you from your employer or group representative in order to enroll you in the plan.
How we use your personal information
We may share your personal information within our companies and with certain service providers. They use this information to process transactions you, your employer, or your group representative have requested; to provide customer service; to assist us in offering and providing investments, financial planning, and insurance products and services; to analyze in order to evaluate or enhance our products and services; to gain customer insight; to provide education and training to our workforce and customers; and to 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, financial professionals; 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. We may execute agreements with our service providers that permit the service provider to process your personal information outside of the United States, when not prohibited by our contracts and permitted by applicable 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, or their designees (for example, to your employer for employer-sponsored plans and their authorized service providers), 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 release your information to outside marketers who may want to offer you their own products and services unless we receive your express consent; nor do we release information we receive about you from a consumer reporting agency. You do not need to take any action for this benefit.
Security of information
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 perform their job responsibilities. Employees who have access to your personal information are required to keep it confidential. Employees are required to complete privacy training annually.
Your rights regarding your personal information
This Privacy Notice describes how you can exercise your rights regarding your personal information. Lincoln complies with all applicable laws and regulations regarding the provision of personal information. The rights provided to you in this Privacy Notice will be administered in accordance with your state’s specific laws and regulations.
Access to Personal Information: You must submit a written request to receive a copy of your personal information. You may see your personal information in person, or you may ask us to send you a copy of your personal information by mail or electronically, whichever you prefer. We will need to verify your identity before we process the request. Within 30 business days of receiving your request, we will, depending on the specific request you make, (1) inform you of the nature and substance of the recorded personal information we have about you; (2) permit you to obtain a copy of your personal information; and (3) provide the identity (if recorded) of persons to whom we disclosed your personal information within two years prior to the request(If this information is not recorded, we will provide you with the names of those insurance institutions, agents, insurance support organizations or other persons to whom such information is normally disclosed). If you request a copy of your information by mail, we may charge you a fee for copying and mailing costs.
Changes to Personal Information: If you believe that your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, you may ask us to correct, amend, or delete 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 from the date we receive your request.
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 your personal information within the past two years. We will also send the updated information to any insurance support organization that gave us the information and any insurance support organization that systematically received personal information from us within the prior 7 years, unless that support organization no longer maintains your personal information.
If we deny your request to correct, amend or delete your information, we will provide you with the reasons for the denial. You may write to us and concisely describe what you believe our records should say and why you disagree with our denial of your request to correct, amend or delete that information. We will file this communication from you with the disputed information, identify the disputed information if it is disclosed, and provide notice of the disagreement to the persons and in the manner described in the paragraph above.
Basis for Adverse Underwriting Decision: 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.
If you would like to act upon your rights regarding your personal information , please provide your full name, address and telephone number and either email your inquiry to our Data Subject Access Request Team at DSAR@lfg.com or mail to: Lincoln Financial Group, Attn: Corporate Privacy Office, 1301 S. Harrison St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802. The DSAR@lfg.com email address should only be used for inquiries related to this Privacy Notice. For general account service requests or inquiries, please call 1-877-ASK-LINC.
When financial professionals leave Lincoln Financial Network
We understand that the relationship you have with your financial professional is important to you. If your financial professional's affiliation with LFN ends and they choose to move to a different broker-dealer, or if your financial professional’s relationship with LFN is terminated, your LFN financial professional may be allowed to take with them 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 financial professional is able to continue the relationship with you and service your account through their new firm. LFN will also retain copies of your client and account documentation. You do not need to take action if you choose to allow your LFN financial professional to keep copies of your confidential information should they leave LFN.
If you do not want your financial professional to keep copies of your confidential information should they decide to end the relationship with LFN 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, or at any time in the future, or wish to withdraw your opt out request, contact us by phone at 1-800-248-2285. If you choose to opt out there will be a 30-day period before your opt out will take effect.
*Lincoln adheres to all applicable state and federal privacy regulations. Residents of Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, and Virginia will be provided an opportunity to opt in for information sharing per applicable state law. If you reside in one of these states, written authorization must be provided to your financial professional in order for them to take your information when they leave LFN.
