INTRODUCTION
Respect for Your Privacy
The privacy of your personal information is important to us at Southern Equity Advisors LLC (“Southern Equity”). We have policies protecting the confidentiality and security of information we collect about you and we are committed to protecting the privacy of that information. At the same time, in order to provide you with services you have requested, it is necessary for us to possess some personal information of yours. Similarly, without some of that information, we cannot inform you about the services we have available or that you may request.
This privacy notice includes, but is not limited to, explanations of the types of personally identifiable Information (“PII”) (as defined below), that Southern Equity may collect about you, the purposes for collecting such PII, the circumstances under which the PII may be disclosed to third parties, your rights regarding your PII, and the way to contact us to exercise those rights. Note, the privacy of your PII may be protected by various government laws or regulations.
This privacy notice is provided to you to comply with the requirements of Data Protection Legislation (as defined below) including (without limitation) Regulation S-P, “Privacy of Consumer Financial Information,” issued by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) privacy regulations.
California residents also have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended (the “CCPA”) and this privacy notice provides the details you need to understand your rights under the CCPA, and to exercise those rights. This privacy notice also provides you with the contact information you need to take action regarding the privacy of your data. If you are a California resident, please refer to the section of this privacy notice titled “For California Residents Only” for a description of your rights under the CCPA or to exercise any of your CCPA rights.
To the extent that the GDPR applies to the processing of your PII by Authorized Entities (each as defined below), this privacy notice also provides the details you need to understand your rights under the GDPR, and to exercise those rights. This privacy notice also provides you with the contact information you need to take action regarding the privacy of your PII. Please refer to the section of this privacy notice titled “EU-UK Data Protection Notice”.
Additionally, for the purposes of this privacy notice, “Data Protection Legislation” means all applicable legislation and regulations relating to the protection of personal data in force from time to time in the U.S., the European Union (the “EU”), the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), the United Kingdom (the “UK”), or any other relevant jurisdiction, including (without limitation): (a) the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“EU GDPR”); (b) the EU GDPR as it forms part of the laws of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“UK GDPR”) (the EU GDPR and UK GDPR together shall be referred to as “GDPR”); (c) any other legislation which implements any other current or future legal act of the EU or the UK concerning the protection and processing of personal data and any national implementing or successor legislation; (d) the CCPA; and (e) any amendment or re-enactment of any of the foregoing. The terms “controller”, “processor”, “data subject”, “personal data”, “personal information”, and “processing” (and similar terms) in this privacy notice shall be interpreted in accordance with the applicable Data Protection Legislation. All references to “potential investor(s)” in this privacy notice shall be to such actual or potential investor(s) and, as applicable, any of such potential investor(s)’ partners, officers, directors, employees, shareholders, members, managers, ultimate beneficial owners and affiliates.
We reserve the right to change our privacy policies and this privacy notice at any time. In the event that we do so, we will make an updated version of this privacy notice available to you via the Southern Equity website. The examples contained within this notice are illustrations only and are not intended to be exclusive. This notice complies with the privacy provisions of Regulation S-P under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and certain privacy provisions of other laws. You may have additional rights under other foreign or domestic laws that apply to you, including as set forth in our additional privacy notices.