Signet Healthcare Partners

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Your Privacy is Important to Us

We recognize the importance of protecting your privacy. We strive to maintain the privacy of such information while we help you achieve your financial objectives. The following disclosure explains what nonpublic personal information we collect about you, why we collect it, what we do with that information, and the steps we have put in place to protect the nonpublic personal information you have entrusted to us.

Information We Collect

To serve you better and manage our business, it is important that we collect and maintain accurate information about you. We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

Information we receive from you on applications or other forms;
Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others; and
Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.

Protecting Your Information

We restrict access to your nonpublic personal information to those employees and agents who need access to the information to perform their job functions or provide products or services to you. We protect your nonpublic personal information from access by third parties by maintaining physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards.

Information We Disclose to Third Parties

It is our policy not to disclose any of your nonpublic personal information to non-affiliated third parties without your consent except as required or permitted by law or unless those parties are providing services or support to us and have agreed to keep your nonpublic personal information confidential. Examples of these parties include the companies we use to clear our securities transactions, prepare and mail your account statements, or to perform our internal auditing. Even if you cease to transact business with us, we will continue to apply the same protections to your nonpublic personal information as we did when you were an active client.

The Sanders Morris Harris Group Family of Companies

Signet Healthcare Partners is part of a family of related companies that are owned in whole or in part by Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc. (Nasdaq: SMHG). These affiliated companies allow us to provide greater value to our customers, employees, and shareholders. To provide you with the products and services you request, to serve you better, to manage our business, and as otherwise permitted or required by law, we may disclose personal information we collect about you to other Sanders Morris Harris Group companies. They have agreed to hold your information in confidence and to comply with this privacy policy.