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Risk Disclosure
Certain transactions, including those involving futures, options, and high-yield securities, give rise to substantial risk and are not suitable for all investors.
Many of the products described on this website involve significant risks, and you should not enter into any transactions unless you have fully understood all such risks and have independently determined that such transactions are appropriate for you.
Any discussion of the risks contained herein with respect to any product should not be considered to be a disclosure of all risks or complete discussion of the risks which are mentioned.
You should neither construe any of the material contained herein as business, financial, investment, hedging, trading, legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting advice nor make this service the primary basis for any investment decisions made by or on behalf of you, your accountants, or your managed or fiduciary accounts, and you may want to consult your business advisor, attorney, and tax and accounting advisors concerning any contemplated transactions.
Customer Disclosure Statement
Drexel Hamilton, LLC, plans to quickly recover and resume business operations after a significant business disruption (SBD) and respond by safeguarding our employees and property, making a financial and operational assessment, protecting the firm’s books and records, and allowing our customers to transact business. In short, our company’s business continuity plan (BCP) is designed to permit us to resume operations as quickly as possible, given the scope and severity of the SBD.
The BCP addresses: data back-up and recovery; all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact; regulatory reporting; and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities if we are unable to continue our business.
Our firm backs up our important records in a geographically separate area. While every emergency situation poses unique problems based on external factors, such as time of day and the severity of the disruption, we have been advised by our clearing firm that its objective is to restore its own operations and be able to complete existing transactions and accept new transactions and payments within the amount of time described in their Business Continuity Plan. Your orders and requests for funds and securities could be delayed during this period.
Significant Business Disruptions: The Company’s plan takes into account two kinds of Significant Business Disruptions: internal and external. Internal SBDs affect only the Company’s ability to communicate and do business, such as a fire or loss electrical power in the office or building.
External SBDs prevent the operation of the securities markets or a number of firms, such as a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, or another event that causes a wide-scale, regional disruption in essential services.
Internal SBDs: Our employees are now currently working with full, secure remote capabilities. At this point, any disruption in services due to an internal SBD will affect a minority of employees. Employees are now on in separate geographies, with separate electrical grids, on separate communications networks. Should there be a disruption, such as a fire or issue with an electrical shortage, its effects will be contained to minimal employees, and operations should resume as soon as the company is aware of the disruption to affected employees.
External SBDs: In the event of a disruption in the Company’s business operations due to an external SBD, the Company will attempt to continue to conduct business as usual by moving its affected operations to an alternative location outside the affected area, if possible, or by providing customers with alternative communication arrangements, as indicated below, to conduct business or to access their funds and securities.
The Company will attempt to resume business within 24-48 hours and to keep its customers informed regarding relevant events to the best of its ability based on the circumstances.
In all cases, the Company will resume normal business operations as soon as it is able to do so, based on the type and the extent of the disrupting event.
If the significant business disruption is so severe that it prevents us from remaining in business, we will assure our customer’s prompt access to their funds and securities.
Communications: In the event you are unable to reach the Company at our main number, please proceed as follows:
1. Access the Company’s website, www.drexelhamilton.com, for status updates and the best method to reach the Company.
2. Contact the Company at one of the following alternate telephone numbers:
(518) 415-9667 (Edward Sanok)
(201) 446-8363 (John Martinko)
3. Access the clearing firm website for more information on contacting this entity and their business continuity plans. The website address can generally be found on your statement or offering documents.
o http://www.rbccorrespondentservices.com/
4. Contact FINRA’s District Office at the following telephone number for more information on the company’s status and additional instructions:
(212) 858-4000
Contact information: Any questions regarding the Company’s Business Continuity Plans should be addressed to:
Edward W. Sanok, CCO
77 Water Street, Suite 201
New York City, NY 10005
Privacy Policy
Our Pledge to You: At Drexel Hamilton, LLC, one of our top priorities is making sure that the information we have about you is protected and secure. We value our relationship with you and work hard to preserve your privacy and ensure that your preferences are honored. At the same time, the very nature of our relationship may result in us collecting or sharing certain types of information about you. We explain how we use customer information in this privacy policy statement.
Information We Collect: Information we collect from you comes primarily from account applications and or other forms supplied during the account opening process. Also, depending on the products or services you require we may obtain additional information about you from consumer reporting agencies.
How We Share Information: We share information with our affiliates (members of our corporate family) or companies outside our corporate family that perform services on our behalf. We share information to process transactions, respond to your inquiries, or provide information about the products or services that we offer. We share data provided by customers, purchase/account data, and verifying data. We do not share information about you with non-affiliates (companies outside our organization) for them to contact you for their own marketing purposes.
The law permits us to share information about our current and former customers with government agencies or authorized third parties under certain circumstances. For example, we may be required to share such information in response to subpoenas or to comply with certain laws.
How We Protect Information: We strive to protect your data and safeguard it from those not authorized to see it.
Former Customers: We share information about our former customers with members of our corporate family or companies outside our corporate family that perform services on our behalf. We share data provided by customers, purchase/account data, and verifying data. We do not share information about our former customers with companies outside our organization for them to contact you for their own marketing purposes.
SEC Rule 606
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