“If you have applied for or opened a brokerage account with Public, then the personal information you provide to us may be covered by the GLBA and not your applicable state privacy laws.”
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The governing legal framework determines what privacy rights and protections apply; users who hold or applied for a brokerage account may not be able to rely on state privacy law protections.
If you have applied for or opened a brokerage account with Public.com, the privacy protections available to you may be those under the GLBA rather than your state's privacy laws.
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We use encryption to keep your data private while in transit
We work to protect the security of your personal information during transmission by using encryption protocols and software.
We implement reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect the information we hold, and we require our service providers to do the same.
"If you have applied for or opened a brokerage account with Public, then the personal information you provide to us may be covered by the GLBA and not your applicable state privacy laws.Excerpt from Public.com's Privacy Policy
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The governing legal framework determines what privacy rights and protections apply; users who hold or applied for a brokerage account may not be able to rely on state privacy law protections.
If you have applied for or opened a brokerage account with Public.com, the privacy protections available to you may be those under the GLBA rather than your state's privacy laws.
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