STRATTON MANAGEMENT COMPANY
PRIVACY STATEMENT
When you hire Stratton Management Company as your investment adviser, you entrust
us not only with your hard-earned assets but also with your personal and financial
data. We consider your data to be private and confidential, and we hold ourselves
to the highest standards of trust and fiduciary duty in their safekeeping and use.
We collect nonpublic personal information about Stratton Management Company advisory
clients from the following sources:
- Information we receive from you on new business forms and financial statements;
- Personal information you share with us (name, address, tax id numbers);
- Information about your transactions with us or custodians.
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our clients or
former clients to anyone, except as permitted by law. Those exceptions allowed by
law include service providers such as securities brokers, transfer agents, and custodians.
Additionally, we have a relationship with Chicago Clearing Corporation to handle
all securities class action filings for the firm, and with Proxy Edge, an electronic
proxy voting service. Moreover, we will not release information about our
clients or former clients unless one of the following conditions is met:
- We receive your prior written consent;
- We believe the recipient to be you or your authorized representative;
- We are required by law to release information to the recipient.
We will only use information about you and your account to help us better serve
your investment needs or to suggest services that may be of interest to you. If
you decide to close your account, we will continue to adhere to the privacy policies
and practices described in this notice.
As an additional safeguard, we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards
to guard your personal account information. We maintain paper shredding machines
in our office, and our employees are trained to destroy nonpublic, personal client
information no longer needed for retention in our files. We also restrict access
to your personal and financial data to authorized Stratton Management Company employees
or any affiliates who have a need for these records.
Our e-mail system has the capability to send and receive messages in an encrypted
, protected format. If you wish to communicate with your manager or portfolio assistant
via e-mail, please notify them in writing of your preference.
Dated: August, 2010