Privacy Policy

Fondas Financial Group (collectively referred to herein as the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is steadfastly committed to maintaining the security, confidentiality, and privacy rights of its clients, website visitors, and other users (collectively, “Users” or “you”). This Website Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) has been executed and published to manifest our adherence to fair information practices, consumer protection principles, and applicable data privacy regulations. The provisions set forth below govern the Company’s practices regarding the collection, use, maintenance, protection, and disclosure of information processed through this website.

WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: June 12, 2026

1. Scope of Application and Exclusions

This Website Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) governs the data collection, processing, and disclosure practices for the internet domain located at (https://www.fondasfinancialgroup.com) (collectively, with all subpages, graphics, and digital assets contained therein, the “Site”), which is operated by Fondas Financial Group (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

1.1 Explicit Exclusions From Scope

The scope of this Policy is strictly confined to information transacted, transmitted, or otherwise captured electronically via the Site. This Policy does not extend to, and the Company hereby expressly disclaims liability and responsibility for:

Any offline data collection practices, telephonic communications, physical correspondence, or alternative non-digital data ingestion methods executed by the Company.
Any separate, independent, or unassociated digital platforms, websites, applications, or subsites operated by the Company’s corporate affiliates, parent entities, subsidiaries, or joint venture partners.
Any third-party websites, plug-ins, digital services, embedded media, or hyperlink destinations that may be hosted on, accessible from, or interconnected with the Site.

2. Purpose and Core Disclosures

This Policy is promulgated to provide Users with legally sufficient notice regarding the parameters of the Company’s data practices. Specifically, this instrument delineates:

The typologies and classifications of Personal Information (as defined herein) collected, utilized, and maintained by the Company;
The operational purposes and legal bases for the disclosure and dissemination of such Personal Information to third parties;
The statutory, regulatory, and discretionary privacy options, rights, and choices available to the User concerning their personal data; and
The formal mechanism and legal channels through which a User may submit inquiries or demands regarding the Company’s privacy posture.

3. Affirmative Consent, Assent, and Iterative Modifications

3.1 Condition Precedent to Use

PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY PRIOR TO INTERACTING WITH THE SITE. Your access to, browsing of, or interaction with the Site constitutes an explicit, unequivocal, and legally binding assent to the collection, aggregation, storage, use, and disclosure of your information in strict conformity with the terms stipulated in this Policy.

3.2 Reservation of Rights to Amend

The Company reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to alter, modify, amend, supplement, or delete portions of this Policy at any time and without prior individualized notice. All amendments are effective immediately upon their publication to the Site.

3.3 Deemed Acceptance

Your continued utilization of the Site subsequent to the posting of any revised, amended, or modified Policy shall be conclusively deemed an unconditioned, irrevocable acceptance of such changes. The User maintains an affirmative duty to periodically review this Policy to remain apprised of any updates.

MANDATORY LEGAL NOTICE

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH, ACQUIESCE TO, OR ACCEPT ALL OF THE PROVISIONS, COVENANTS, AND STIPULATIONS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DENIED RIGHT OF ACCESS TO THE SITE, AND YOU MUST CEASE ALL USE AND EXIT THE WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY.

4. Special Jurisdictional Cross-Border Disclosures (International Users)

The Site is hosted, controlled, and operated from within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States of America. If you access or interact with the Site from a jurisdiction external to the United States (including, without limitation, the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Canada), you acknowledge and agree that:

Data Transference: Any and all information acquired by the Company through the Site will be transferred to, processed within, and securely archived upon servers located within the United States.
Divergence of Statutory Protections: The data protection, statutory safeguards, and consumer privacy laws of the United States may vary significantly from, or offer fewer procedural protections than, the corresponding laws, regulations, and directives of your country of residence or citizenship.
Express Consent to Transfer: By initiating transmission of data or maintaining an active session on the Website, you explicitly authorize and consent to the cross-border transfer, processing, and localized storage of your personal and technical data within the facilities of the Company and its authorized third-party vendors situated in the United States.

5. Taxonomy of Information Collected

5.1 Automated Collection of Usage Information

Upon the initiation of a network connection to the Site, the User’s web browser automatically transmits, and the Company or its designated telemetry partners automatically captures, specific telemetry and tracking data. This data is classified collectively as “Usage Information.” Usage Information includes, but is not limited to, the following distinct data points:

Data Category	Specific Telemetry & Identifiers Collected
Preferences & System Settings	Local time zone adjustments, localized language configurations, character encoding schemas, and display text size parameters.
Unique Digital Identifiers	Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, unique mobile device identifiers (UDID), and international mobile equipment identities (IMEI).
Technical & Environment Data	Device hardware classification, host operating system matrix (e.g., macOS, Windows, Linux), software platform, browser type, software version, and rendering engine data.
Connectivity & Network Telemetry	Originating Internet Service Provider (ISP), mobile network carrier identification, network connection latency, connection speed, and transmission media type (e.g., cellular, broadband).
Referral & Exit Routing	Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the immediate preceding web page visited prior to accessing the Site, and the designated exit page routing.
Behavioral Session Diagnostics	Date and time-stamped transaction logs, sequential pages viewed, temporal duration spent on discrete subpages, hyperlink click-through metrics, clickstream analysis, user queries, internal search history, interactive comments, and search result selection logic.
Concrete Geolocation Data	General geographic localization data extrapolated from network routing and IP address allocation tables.

6. Methods of Automated Data Ingestion (Tracking Technologies)

The Company and its authorized third-party service providers, analytics vendors, and digital advertising partners may deploy a variety of tracking mechanisms, telemetry scripts, and data-gathering technologies (collectively, “Tracking Technologies”) to monitor, log, and analyze User interactions with the Site over time and across disparate online platforms.

6.1 Classification of Tracking Technologies

The Tracking Technologies utilized on or via the Site encompass, without limitation, the following methodologies:

Cookies (Persistent and Session-Based): Small alphanumeric text files provisioned onto a User’s local storage drive. Session Cookies are temporary operational mechanisms that facilitate platform navigation and terminate concurrently with the closure of the User’s web browser. Tracking and Persistent Cookies endure within the device’s hard drive for an extended duration to capture historical user preferences, habits, and authentication states.
- Local Shared Objects: The Site may utilize non-browser localized architectures, including Adobe Flash cookies and HTML5 local storage schemas, to cache user states. These local storage mechanics bypass traditional browser clearing sequences and are immune to native browser management console settings.
Web Beacons / Clear GIFs: Microscopic, transparent graphical pixel arrays (also denominated as “Internet tags” or “tracking pixels”) integrated within the Site’s codebase or electronic mail communications. These elements systematically calculate traffic volume, log content view metrics, and trace specific User routing configurations without rendering active alerts to the User.
Embedded Scripts: Temporary programmatic code sequences transferred to the User’s local browser application from the Company’s primary server or designated third-party environments. Embedded scripts are active exclusively during an un-severed web session and are engineered to monitor discrete interface interactions before being systematically deactivated or purged upon session termination.
Location-Identifying Software: Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, IP address triangulation, geo-filtering variables, and adjacent location-aware technologies deployed to identify, deduce, or verify the User’s precise or approximate geographical coordinates. This data serves as a strict condition precedent for content verification, compliance routing, and spatial asset optimization.
Device Fingerprinting: The systematic harvesting, parsing, and analytical processing of native hardware configuration parameters, including host operating system metrics, active application plug-ins, system font catalogs, and hardware serial markers, to construct a unique, persistent cryptographic identifier for tracking distinct user sessions.
Cross-Device Recognition Frameworks: Statistical probability matrices and deterministic data mapping schemas engineered to link disparate hardware endpoints (e.g., mobile devices, tablets, desktop workstations) to a single, unified consumer profile or collective household entity, utilizing common unique external parameters (e.g., social media or account federated identifiers).
In-Application (In-App) Telemetry: Specialized non-browser software tracking SDKs and application programming interfaces integrated into mobile platforms that circumvent standard browser cookies. These rely upon permanent or resettable hardware identifiers, such as Mobile Advertising IDs (e.g., IDFA, AAID), to map user navigation continuously across third-party software applications.

7. Affirmatively Disclosed and Professionally Transmitted Information

7.1 Voluntary Submission Matrices

The User may, at their sole discretion, elect to affirmatively transmit Personal Information to the Company via the electronic submission vectors embedded within the Site. Such operational vectors include, but are not limited to, newsletter subscriptions, digital seminar or conference registrations, direct electronic mail inquiries, proposal solicitations, and secured portal account credentialing interfaces.

7.2 Typologies of Voluntarily Provided Data

The Personal Information legally harvested under this Section includes the following classifications of declared data:

Legal names, corporate aliases, and corporate affiliations;
Primary electronic mail addresses, telephonic numbers, and facsimile lines;
Geographic data, including municipal locations and state jurisdictions; and
Professional resumes, educational histories, employment background data, and any adjacent records voluntarily disclosed via web intake forms.

7.3 Functional Mandates for Data Provision

Certain interactive features, diagnostic tools, and secured portal environments made accessible via the Site require the processing of specific Personal Information (such as secure authentication passwords or verification fields) as an absolute operational condition precedent. While the User maintains an absolute right to withhold such data, doing so may explicitly invalidate, restrict, or entirely preclude access to those respective features.

8. Secondary Data Acquisition (Information from External Sources)

The Company reserves the right to acquire data regarding the User from alternative, external, and independent third-party sources. These sources include, without limitation, publicly accessible records and statutory databases, commercial data clearinghouses, specialized service providers, collaborative marketing syndicates, and third-party social media networks.

Any data ingested via these secondary vectors shall be processed and governed in accordance with the terms of this Policy. The Company assumes no responsibility, liability, or accountability for the absolute accuracy of information provided by external third parties, nor for the autonomous data governance policies or legal practices maintained by such external entities.

9. Permitted Uses and Functional Processing of Personal Information

Except as otherwise expressly stipulated within this Policy, the Company does not sell, trade, lease, rent, or otherwise distribute your Personal Information to external third parties for autonomous direct-marketing initiatives. The Company utilizes, processes, and stores the collected data strictly for the following enumerated operational and legal mandates:

Service Delivery: Executing administrative services, optimizing web performance, and managing secured internal portal accounts.
Inquiry Resolution: Responding to formalized requests, feedback, information demands, and technical assistance requests submitted through the Site.
Corporate Communication: Distributing digital publications, professional insights, regulatory updates, or marketing alerts aligned with the User’s specified or inferred communication preferences.
Event Coordination: Validating registrations, managing logistics, and executing marketing for web-based seminars, symposia, and corporate events.
User Interface Optimization: Tailoring digital content arrays, accelerating online transactional throughput, and customizing interface layouts.
Targeted Outreach: Constructing and placing digital advertising materials across the Site and third-party media syndicates.
Corporate Governance: Conducting rigorous structural data auditing, performance tracking, diagnostic assessments, and platform health operations.
Loss Prevention and Risk Mitigation: Identifying, intercepting, and legally prosecuting fraudulent actions, system breaches, policy violations, or explicit threats to the physical or digital security of any entity.
Statutory Compliance: Adhering to federal, state, and local regulatory reporting obligations, administrative mandates, and compliance decrees.
De-Identified Data Exploitation: Generating completely anonymized, aggregated, or de-identified data profiles for any analytical or commercial purpose permitted under applicable statutory frameworks.

10. Dissemination, Sharing, and Disclosure Matrix

The Company may disclose or transfer collected Personal Information to specific entities under the following circumscribed legal circumstances:

10.1 Service Providers and Operational Partners

Data may be transferred to vetted third-party vendors, structural contractors, web hosts, cloud storage entities, and administrative agents acting directly on behalf of the Company. These service providers are legally restricted via contractual data processing addenda from utilizing or disclosing your Personal Information for any secondary purpose independent of the explicit services outsourced by the Company.

10.2 Core Corporate Affiliates

The Company may share Personal Information with its corporate parents, subsidiaries, and allied corporate affiliates (including insurance brokerages, consulting firms, and financial entities under common ownership or control) for integrated cross-platform operations, legal service execution, and unified corporate strategies.

10.3 Third-Party Analytics Infrastructure

The Site embeds automated diagnostic applications, including Google Analytics, which leverage independent Tracking Technologies to aggregate, process, and compile user traffic diagnostics. This telemetry data is transmitted directly to external vendor servers to evaluate site health and generate structural activity reporting.

10.4 Structural Corporate Transitions

In the event of an executed or contemplated corporate reorganization, merger, asset divestiture, equity sale, joint venture formation, asset transfer, bankruptcy proceeding, or wholesale corporate dissolution involving Fondas Financial Group or its affiliates, all collected Personal Information constitutes a transferable corporate asset and may be disclosed to successor entities.

10.5 Compulsory Disclosures and Legal Mandates

The Company reserves an absolute right to disclose User data if it holds a good faith belief that such action is required by law or judicial process. This encompasses:

Compliance with facially valid judicial subpoenas, search warrants, administrative decrees, or federal, state, and international regulatory mandates.
The protection and defense of the legal rights, intellectual property, personal safety, and physical assets of Fondas Financial Group, its personnel, and its corporate affiliates.
Cooperation with law enforcement or regulatory agencies in the investigation and prevention of fraud, systemic cyberattacks, or illicit conduct.

11. Statistical, Aggregated, and Non-Identifiable Information

The Company dynamically compiles and aggregates abstract behavioral metrics to evaluate traffic patterns and interface efficiency. This aggregated or anonymized analytical data does not contain any attributes that could reasonably identify an individual User. The Company may freely provide this non-identifiable statistical metadata to external strategic consultants, financial advisers, or research entities for optimization purposes.

12. Protection of Minors and Underage Jurisdictional Notice

12.1 Absolute General Exclusion

The Site is not structured for, directed to, or marketed toward individuals who have not attained thirteen (13) years of age. The Company does not knowingly or intentionally solicit or collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13.

If you are under 13, you are strictly prohibited from utilizing the Site, establishing portal credentials, transmitting inquiries, or interacting with any public comment vector. If the Company discovers it has inadvertently harvested data from a child under 13 without verifiable parental authorization, it will systematically expunge that record from its production servers. If you maintain a reasonable belief that such an inadvertent collection event has occurred, notify the Company immediately at mfondas@fondasfinancialgroup.com.

12.2 Expanded Minor Jurisdictions

Pursuant to the statutes of specific states (including California), residents under the age of sixteen (16) may possess expanded statutory protections against the collection and commercial distribution of their data. For further information, review the separate California Resident Privacy Policy Addendum.

13. External Hyperlinks and Third-Party Digital Ecosystems

The Site contains structural links and interactive widgets pointing to autonomous, external digital platforms. These third-party sites maintain completely independent data-harvesting practices and independent tracking schemas.

The Company explicitly disclaims all liability, legal exposure, or regulatory responsibility for the data security, privacy declarations, content accuracy, or operational conduct of any third-party digital ecosystem. Users are strongly urged to independently analyze the respective privacy statements of each external web domain they access upon exiting the Site.

14. Information Security Architecture and Absolute Data Warranties

14.1 Technical and Administrative Safeguards

The Company deploys commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures—including industry-standard cryptographic protocols, data encryption, and access control matrices—designed to shield Personal Information from unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or unlawful disclosure.

14.2 Systematic Exclusions and Security Disclaimers

NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, NO DIGITAL TRANSMISSION VECTOR OVER THE INTERNET OR SYSTEM OF ELECTRONIC STORAGE CAN BE WARRANTED AS ENTIRELY INVULNERABLE. Consequently, the Company cannot and does not guarantee, covenant, or warrant the absolute, impenetrable security of any data transmitted via the open internet.

14.3 Sensitive Ingestion Prohibition

The Site is not engineered to capture, and you are explicitly instructed NOT to transmit, highly sensitive financial or government identifiers—such as Social Security Numbers, individual bank routing numbers, or unencrypted credit card data—directly through standard contact or request modules on the Site. Financial transactions executed via the Site are processed exclusively through secure, detached third-party payment gateways.

15. User Rights, Opt-Out Protocols, and Choice Mandates

15.1 Marketing and Electronic Communication Opt-Out

If you wish to terminate the receipt of marketing correspondence or promotional electronic mail from the Company, you may execute an opt-out action by clicking the designated “Unsubscribe” hyperlink embedded within those transmissions, or by forwarding a formal request to the address specified in Section 16. The Company will process such demands within statutory timeframes. Administrative and transactional notices regarding active accounts or pending service requests shall remain unaffected by marketing opt-out elections.

15.2 Access, Rectification, and Suppression Rights

Users maintain the right to inspect, amend, modify, restrict, or request the deletion of verifiable Personal Information held within the active repositories of the Company. To initiate this process, contact the Company using the channel detailed below. For protective verification, the Company reserves the right to demand formal identity verification prior to executing any data amendment or disclosure request. The Company may deny or assess administrative processing fees for requests that are deemed repetitive, excessive, or legally unfounded.

15.3 Browser-Level Tracking Management

Standard Internet cookies can generally be modified, minimized, or permanently blocked via the native configuration panels of commercial web browsers. Detailed administrative instruction sets are accessible via centralized directories such as [https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/](https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/). Disabling these tracking tools may impair, degrade, or completely deactivate specific interactive features of the Site.

15.4 Response Posture to “Do Not Track” (DNT) Protocols

Certain web browsers emit automated “Do Not Track” (DNT) headers to online services. Because there is currently no formalized industry consensus, uniform technical standard, or regulatory mandate regarding how web platforms must interpret these signals, the Site does not alter its data collection, logging, or telemetry practices upon the receipt of a browser-initiated DNT signal.

16. Iterative Modifications and Amendments to the Policy

The Company explicitly reserves the right to modify, amend, rewrite, or update this Policy at any time to reflect operational changes, shifts in service offerings, or evolving data privacy statutes. Material modifications will be signaled by posting the amended policy directly to this page alongside a revised “Effective Date.” The User’s continued use of the platform after an update is posted constitutes definitive, legally binding acceptance of the amended terms.

17. Formal Channels for Regulatory and Legal Inquiries

To submit a formalized inquiry, exercise a statutory data right, or file a notice concerning the privacy practices outlined in this Policy, please direct all official communications to:

Fondas Financial Group

Attn: Owner

Email: [mfondas@fondasfinancial.com]

Mailing Address: [195 Commonwealth Ave, North Attleboro, MA 02763]

18. Response Temporalities and Communication Security Disclaimers

18.1 Statutory Response Timelines and Administrative Processing

The Company shall deploy commercially reasonable efforts to evaluate, verify, and substantively respond to any formalized data subject request or regulatory inquiry within a target window of thirty (30) calendar days from the date of confirmed receipt. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company explicitly reserves the right to extend such processing windows or adjust its response milestones in strict conformity with the maximum deadlines, tolling provisions, and extensions authorized under applicable state, federal, or jurisdictional data protection statutes.

18.2 Inherent Insecurity of Electronic Mail (e-mail) Transmissions

USERS ARE HEREBY COMMUNICATED A FORMAL LEGAL WARNING THAT STANDARD ELECTRONIC MAIL (E-MAIL) TRANSMISSIONS DO NOT CONSTITUTE A SECURE, ENCRYPTED, OR PROTECTED COMMUNICATION MEDIUM. Transmission vectors across public and private mail networks are vulnerable to interception, data corruption, and unauthorized third-party exfiltration.

Consequently, you are explicitly instructed and legally advised NOT to embed, append, or otherwise disclose any confidential, proprietary, or highly sensitive personal indicators—including, but not limited to, Social Security numbers, financial account credentials, routing numbers, passwords, biometric records, or health data—within any standard unencrypted e-mail correspondence addressed to the Company or its personnel. The Company disclaims all liability and legal exposure for any data breaches, losses, or damages resulting from your voluntary transmission of sensitive metadata via unencrypted e-mail.

18.3 Processing Latency for Non-Electronic (Postal) Communications

While the User maintains the right to submit inquiries, demands, or statutory privacy requests via physical postal media, please be advised that paper-based correspondence requires manual intake, physical routing, and localized security sorting at the Company’s physical facilities.

Accordingly, you acknowledge and agree that the internal routing, processing, and ultimate resolution of physical paper correspondence may incur significantly protracted latency periods relative to the streamlined processing timelines achieved via native electronic transmission vectors.