Privacy Policy
Legg Mason Investment Counsel & Trust Company, N.A. and its subsidiaries are committed to keeping nonpublic personal information about you secure and confidential. This notice is intended to help you understand how we fulfill this commitment
From time to time, we may collect a variety of personal information about you, including:
- Information we receive from you on applications and forms, via the telephone, and through our websites;
- Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others (such as your purchases, sales, or account balances); and
- Information we receive from consumer reporting agencies.
To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. When you open an account, we will ask for your name, address, date of birth (if applicable), and other information that will allow us to identify you. We may also ask you for identifying documents.
Legg Mason Investment Counsel does not sell your nonpublic personal information to anyone. We do not disclose your nonpublic personal information, except as permitted by applicable law or regulation. For example, we may share this information with others in order to process your transactions. We may also provide this information to companies that perform operations or administrative services on our behalf, such as tax processing or printing and mailing. We require these companies to protect the confidentiality of this information and to use it only to perform the services for which we hired them.
With respect to our internal security procedures, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect and restrict access to your nonpublic personal information. These controls include: (1) securing office buildings; including security personnel and identification card key access to the building and individual floors; (2) placing security cameras at the building entrance; (3) maintaining client files in locked file room; and (4) providing annual employee training. As required by federal regulation, we will take reasonable measures to protect against access to or use of your nonpublic personal information by unauthorized persons when disposing of it.
If your account with us terminates, we will continue to adhere to our privacy policies and practices with respect to your nonpublic personal information.
Legg Mason Investment Counsel, L.L.C. is a registered investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Please contact the Compliance Officer toll free at 1-877-534-4627 to request a copy of our Firm’s Brochure, Form ADV Part II and Schedule F.