Committed to privacy and transparency
ARCHER's number one priority is your trust. We believe that it is the foundation of all the decisions we make, as well as how we collect, use and store any information we acquire from you. To that end, we've created this privacy policy to demonstrate our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your personal information.
Unless otherwise indicated, this Privacy Policy applies to both investors and prospective investors (individually referred to as "you"), who use or evaluate our Site, Products and/or Investment Services. By providing your Personal Information to ARCHER and its affiliates ("ARCHER," "we," "our" or "us"), you expressly agree to our disclosure of such information under the circumstances as described in this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information.
Personal information is information that ARCHER and its affiliates can use to identify you as an individual. ARCHER stores, processes, and maintains Personal Information for a variety of business reasons such as to respond to your inquiries or requests; process your transactions; maintain and protect your investment portfolio; fulfill our legal obligations; improve our financial products and services as well as for research and internal analysis.
Personal Information You Provide Us
When you apply for an ARCHER account, we may collect Personal Information under regulatory requirements, such as the specific information we collect about you on our account application form. (In addition, we may store any information you provide us at the time of an incomplete account application).
As you use your ARCHER account to perform financial transactions, we may also collect information in connection with each transaction as well as when you submit an inquiry or request for ARCHER materials.
Information from Other Sources
In addition to Personal Information you provide us, we may also have access to Personal Information about you from other parties you grant the right, power, and authority to transmit is information. ARCHER can also use Personal Information collected from non-affiliated third-party service providers to help verify your identity, prevent fraud, or provide products and services that may be of interest to you.
The types of Personal Information we may collect from other sources can include your full legal name, address, Social Security number, account balances, investment objectives, approximate net worth, tax information, date of birth, and any other information that is connected with your identity.
How we store your information
The information we collect from you will be transferred to, stored, and processed at our premises or at the premises of our service providers, which may within or outside the United States. Where this occurs, ARCHER will take steps to protect the security of your personal information as permitted by law and contract. We may correlate information about your use of ARCHER's website or mobile application with information gathered from third parties. This information may include Personal Information collected from ARCHER's website, email exchanges with ARCHER, or offline sources, such as when you interact with ARCHER customer service. Any information correlated with the Personal Information you provide ARCHER, will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
As a prospective investor, you may choose to provide your Personal Information to ARCHER, but if you choose not to provide such information, you will not be able to use the products and services of ARCHER.
How We Use your Personal Information
ARCHER does not share your Personal Information with unaffiliated companies for their marketing or everyday business purposes. However, ARCHER may share such information with unaffiliated third parties: (1) if you authorize it; (2) if your Personal Information is required to help complete a transaction for you; (3) for our general business purposes, including, among other things, to offer our products and services, or (4) as permitted by applicable law or otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Examples of instances when we use Personal Information include:
- ARCHER may share information about you to unaffiliated third-party companies, individuals, or vendors in connection with the completion of certain transactions and to support the account changes you authorize. For example, by choosing to transfer assets from other financial institutions to ARCHER, you expressly authorize and direct ARCHER, on your behalf, to provide institutions with information about you to facilitate such transfers.
- Subject in all cases to applicable law, we may disclose your Personal Information to our third-party affiliates who provide services in connection with ARCHER financial products and services. This includes exchanging information within ARCHER for our investment activities including, but not limited to, contacting you about new ARCHER funds, investment offerings, asset management and advice, brokerage as well as trust services.
- Only ARCHER and third-party contractors involved in delivery of ARCHER products and services will have access to your Personal Information. We do not share your Personal Information with ARCHER third-party contractors for their own marketing purposes. In all cases, we ensure that these contractors take appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure the privacy of your Personal Information.
- Lastly, we will release your Personal Information with your consent, at your direction, or as required by law or regulations, such as those relating to fraud or as required by law enforcement officials.
Cookies, web beacons, and online privacy
The information security as well as privacy of investors and prospective investors of ARCHER naturally extends to users of investor.ARCHER.com and our mobile application. ARCHER website and mobile application both employ some of the most secure forms of online communication, data encryption, transmission encryption, usernames and passwords protection, adaptive authentication techniques, back-end fraud and account monitoring. These firewalls and security technologies protect ARCHER website and mobile applications from external attacks when you access your account information, initiate online transactions, or enter sensitive information.
As further described below, ARCHER and its affiliates may use a variety of online tracking technologies, to automatically collect information regarding you and your activity, when you browse our site, use our mobile application, use our services, or read our emails or newsletters.
This information may include your Internet protocol ("IP") address, mobile network provider, user agent string, details about your browser, operating system version, location information (e.g., your city, state, or zip code), internet connection type, your search queries, pages you viewed, website that you visit before, during and after using ARCHER services.
Information collected from you may also be used to notify you on software compatibility issues, enhance security or resolve service and technical related issues. In some circumstances, ARCHER and its affiliates can also analyze this information to facilitate your use of our website and mobile application, enhance web design and functionality, or to deliver products or services targeted to your interests and preferences.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small amounts of data files stored on your computer or mobile device by a website for record-keeping purposes. While cookies are not considered personal information, they assign unique letters and numbers to your devices, which in turn enables ARCHER to recognize your devices and see how you use our services.
Keep in mind that cookies do not contain personal information unless you knowingly provide it. They are simply identifiers that distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us improve our services and allows us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website.
The cookies we use in connection with our service providers include:
Session cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies that link your browsing activities during a particular online session. They expire and are automatically erased whenever you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies usually have an expiration date in the distant future and remain on your device for an extended period of time. We use persistent cookies to better understand your browsing activities or preferences across multiple browser sessions.
If you prefer not to receive cookies through our services, then you can configure your web browser to reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent from ARCHER website. You can also check the Help menu of your internet browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you disable, delete or do not accept specific cookies from ARCHER websites on your browser, then you may experience some inconvenience in accessing the content and features of our website. Additional general information about cookies and how they work is available at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/External site.
Information on how to opt-out of the use of cookies for certain purposes (such as interest-based advertising) is further discussed below in the section titled "Website analytics and interest-based advertising."
Web beacons
Along with cookies, we may use "web beacons," in our website, mobile application or marketing email messages. Web beacons (also known as "pixel tags" or "clear gif"), are electronic images that usually consist of single-pixel images, embedded in a web page, mobile application page or an email to better understand usage and activity. In some cases, a web beacon may help deliver a persistent cookie to your computer or mobile device.
Specific sections of archerfund.com and the ARCHER investors mobile application offer customized features that require us to employ the use of web beacons to facilitate site and application performance as well as to enhance authentication.
Web beacons do not place information on your device but may work in conjunction with cookies to collect information used for web analytics and intelligence about our website and mobile application. This may include details of your visits to our site, webpage and traffic usage, how frequently users search for a particular term and the documents that they access and/or download.
However, the use of web beacons by ARCHER and its affiliates may be limited. We do not use them to view or collect data gathered by cookies or similar data files of other websites. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the information in web beacons and will not share them with third parties.
However, we may share them in circumstances that better helps us to serve your investment interests as covered by this privacy policy.
ARCHER and its affiliates may also use web beacons or other online tracking mechanisms to determine whether email messages have been opened, links clicked on, and conversion information. Similar in function to cookies, web beacons may also collect extra information about your device type, including the IP address of the computer you use to read emails from ARCHER, your email program, operating system, as well as the web browser you use to read emails from ARCHER.
Along with providing advertising targeted to your interests, web beacons also help to inform us on the promotional effectiveness, relevance, and value of our email communications as well as advertising campaigns.
As an ARCHER investor, once you have logged securely into your ARCHER portal, accessed our services from your device or provided us with information by conducting any account transaction, we may be able to identify you, and we may combine that with your user information to provide you with a better online experience.
Whenever you initiate a session on our website or mobile app, ARCHER will employ the use of online tracking technologies to collect aggregated information, identify your device as well as link this information to ARCHER ads that you may have viewed over time across third-party websites.
Aggregate information is information that we collect in general about your use or evaluation of our website and mobile app. We may use such information in many ways, including the evaluation of our website and App features, to measure ad effectiveness as well as to identify ARCHER products and services which we feel may interest you.
Please note that our website may, from time to time, contain links to other websites and information for your convenience that are not operated or controlled by ARCHER. Keep in mind these website and information are governed by their privacy policies, and ARCHER does not accept any liability for these policies.
We encourage you to review and understand the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such companies or websites before submitting your Personal Information.
Our website includes social sharing features that may allow you to share your actions, comments, content, and information directly with websites, online services, or social media platforms operated by third parties such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. Please be mindful of your personal privacy needs, as the use of these plug-in features enables third-parties to serve or access cookies on your device while also collecting information about you, such as your IP address and pages you view.
Keep in mind that ARCHER is not responsible for maintaining the confidentiality or security of information you choose to make public or share with third-party websites, applications, and services. The collection, use, and disclosure of such information through these third-party websites are subject to their separate privacy policy and not this privacy policy. This privacy policy applies only for the use of the ARCHER website and Mobile App.
Website analytics and Interest-based advertising
Our third-party web analytics affiliates employ software technologies such as cookies and web beacons to collect information that helps us better engage in the analysis, audit, research, compilation of reports about your online activities on ARCHER website and application.
We also partner with ad and other social networks who serve ads on behalf of ARCHER across unaffiliated websites. Some of these ads may be customized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on your online activities over time and across unaffiliated websites. This allows us to measure advertising and promotional effectiveness of ARCHER online advertising. We may also permit certain third parties to place cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies through website, ARCHER emails or services to provide us with better insights into the delivery of ads to you across other sites, as inferred from your browsing history. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and combine it with information about you across unaffiliated websites.
For example, our ad partners may deliver personalized ARCHER advertising to you across unaffiliated website based on the usage and visit patterns to our website.
Additionally, our advertising partners may analyze your usage information of ARCHER to help target non-ARCHER advertisements based on your online activities over time. We may also share demographic information (e.g., age) with certain business partners, advertisers, and third parties. However, we do not disclose your name or any other information that can identify you as an individual to any of our ad partners.
We may also use various third-party technologies to automatically to match your browsing activity across different devices (such as smartphones, tablets, and computers) you use to interact with ARCHER website or mobile application.
Some of these third-party technologies transmit the information which may be combined by ARCHER to personalize and improve contents and advertisement campaigns that match your interests or preferences.
Keeping your Personal Information secure
With regard to ARCHER internal security procedures, access to and use of your personal information is restricted to our employees who need to know this information to provide products and services to you. We maintain the use of reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards that are reasonably designed to protect your personal information under industry standards and practices. We also regularly re-evaluate these safeguards and adjust them as necessary in response to technological advancement.
What you can do
You can take steps as well to protect the security of your personal information. We strongly advise you not to share your account and password information with anyone. If you become aware of any suspicious activity associated with your account, please contact us immediately.
ARCHER provides all investors with continuous access via automated telephone services and our website, which contains information about your account statements, balances, and more.
You may request for information we hold about you by contacting us in writing or call via the specific telephone numbers, website and email addresses listed on your account statements. To protect your Personal Information, we may request identification from you to prove that you are the owner of the identified account before releasing the requested information. Questions, privacy concerns, and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to support@archerfund.com
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time as we deem necessary at our sole discretion. As required by federal law, we will notify you by email or through a notice on this site about any material changes we may make to this Privacy Policy.
Revised 9/2019