Effective: November 1, 2016
..Welcome to Newport Private Group. Please read this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use carefully before using or obtaining any content, products or services through this website. At Newport Private Group (“NPG” or “we”) we value the trust that our customers, business partners, and employees place in us to appropriately use and protect information shared with us. This Privacy Policy describes the principles and practices of how NPG collects personal information as well as how the personal information will be used. By using this site, you agree to be bound by these terms.
This Privacy Policy applies only to www.newportprivategroup.com. NPG affiliates and subsidiaries may have their own subdomains and websites that may not be subject to this Privacy Policy. NPG business partners, ad networks, and other third parties have their own websites and privacy practices. Please read the privacy notices of all websites you visit to understand their privacy practices and your options.
When you visit our site, we may collect the following personal information about you:
We may use the information collected to improve the content on our site and further develop our products and services to better serve our clients, communicate with you by responding to your inquiries and requests, send important notices, as well as market our products and services.
We use information collected through tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to improve the functionality and the content of our site.We track the popularity of features on the site to guide the development of new ones. We assess the ways in which users become aware of or access the site in order to gauge the quality and methods of our advertising.
If you choose to provide NPG with personally identifiable information, we will use that information for our internal business purposes only. For example:
We engage certain service providers for purposes of tracking and associating internet search and browsing behavior with our advertisements and to provide functionality on the site. We enable them to use tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, on or in conjunction with the site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to other websites, together with non-personally identifiable information about your purchases and interests from other online and offline sources, to provide ads about goods and services of interest to you. The use and collection of information by these service providers is governed by their respective privacy statements and thus is not covered by this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may share site usage information with these service providers to manage and target ads and for market research purposes. Finally, information obtained through these processes may be combined with personally identifiable information in order to analyze our marketing efforts.
Please note that there are circumstances where the use or disclosure of personal information may be justified or permitted, or where NPG may be obligated to disclose information without consent. Such circumstances may include:
We use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical and administrative industry safeguards to protect information from unauthorized access, use, loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. We will make reasonable efforts to protect personal information stored on the site’s servers from unauthorized access using commercially available computer security products (for example, firewalls), as well as carefully developed security procedures and practices. Notwithstanding our security safeguards, it is impossible to guarantee 100% security in all circumstances. If you have any questions about security on our site, you can contact our privacy office at webmaster@newportprivategroup.com.
Cookies and pixel tags
A cookie is a small text file that our computer sends to your computer, and that your computer sends back to us each time you make a request from www.newportprivategroup.com. A cookie contains a unique identification number that identifies the visitor's browser, but not necessarily the visitor. A pixel tag is a small graphic image similar to a cookie.When you access www.newportprivategroup.com, our computer may seek to place cookies or pixel tags on your computer to collect Session Data. Cookies and pixel tags are used to help us recognize you when you visit www.newportprivategroup.com again or to help us customize your online experience. Unless a visitor specifically informs us of his/her identity (e.g. by registering with us), we will not know who the individual visitor is.
Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or prompt you before accepting a cookie from the sites you visit. You can learn more about the use of cookies by visiting http://networkadvertising.org or http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
If you decide not to accept our cookies, you will be able to access those parts of www.newportprivategroup.com that are available to the general public, but you will not be able to access the Investor Portal.
Monitoring
Newport Private Group may from time to time monitor and review any information transmitted or received through www.newportprivategroup.com, or through telephone or e-mail communications, for quality assurance and other purposes. We reserve the right to censor, edit, remove or prohibit the transmission or receipt of any information that Newport Private Group deems inappropriate or in violation of our Terms and Conditions. During monitoring the information may be examined, recorded or copied.
Links
When you click on a third party’s link from www.newportprivategroup.com, or from an ad, you will entering that third party’s site, over which we have no control. We are not responsible for third party sites. You should carefully review the privacy statements of any other sites you visit, because those privacy statements will apply to your visit to such other sites and may be very different from this Privacy Policy.
Investor Portal
If you are an Investor, we store your investor information in the Investor Portal. You can access the Investor Portal by using the link on www.newportprivategroup.com and logging in. The Investor Portal contains your name, e-mail address, e-mail, and investment data.
Retention and Storage
We will retain your Personal Information in our databases in accordance with our Records Management Policy and applicable laws. This period may extend beyond the end of your relationship with us, but it will be only as long as it is necessary for us to have sufficient information to respond to any issues that may arise later. We may also need to retain certain information to prevent fraudulent activity; protect ourselves against liability, permit us to pursue available remedies or limit any damages that we may sustain; or if we believe in good faith that a law, regulation, rule or guideline requires it.
Newport Private Group employs physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help protect the confidentiality and integrity of Personal Information and to reduce the risk of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of Personal Information.
If you choose to contact Newport Private Group through www.newportprivategroup.com, you should be aware that any information transmitted electronically via the World Wide Web might not be secure. Newport Private Group assumes no liability for the loss of any information that you transmit to us via the World Wide Web.
In communicating with you, we may send e-mail as unencrypted plain text because we are aware that most Members and Guests cannot readily process encrypted e-mail. This is done for your convenience, but with the security concern that, if misrouted or intercepted, it could be read more easily than encrypted e-mail.
We endeavor to ensure that Personal Information is as accurate, complete and current as necessary for the purposes for which we use that information. We encourage you to visit Account Settings to review your Personal Information.
You can access your Personal Information in Account Settings and update it or delete inaccuracies, as necessary. For example, you can change at any time your e-mail address or your preferences.
If you wish to modify your Personal Information or close your account, you can do so by contacting us at ir@newportprivategroup.com. We will respond to such requests to information access within 30 days following receipt at the e-mail. If we receive your request at a different e-mail, we will respond within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed 150 days from the date received.
If you request that we close your account, we will promptly do so, to the extent possible. Once your account is closed, however, you will not be able to use many of the services available on www.newportprivategroup.com to Investors, unless you re-register.
Please remember that we may not be able to honor your request if we are legally obligated to retain information.
We may periodically update this Privacy Policy to describe new site features, products or services we offer and how it may affect our use of information about you and your controls. We will not apply changes to this Privacy Policy retroactively to personal information we have previously collected.
If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on our site or notify you directly. Regardless of our efforts, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy each time you visit the site.
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our information handling practices, or any other aspect of privacy and security of your personal information, please email us at webmaster@newportprivategroup.com.