Privacy & Terms of Use
PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE
Last Updated: April 1, 2025
At Dauntless Advisory, LLC (“Dauntless,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), we consider your personal and financial information to be private and confidential. Protecting the integrity and confidentiality of that information is a top priority. We understand the value you place on your privacy and are committed to safeguarding the information you entrust to us.
To provide financial advisory services and manage your relationship, Dauntless may share your information internally and with authorized third parties, but only as permitted by law. This notice explains how we collect, use, protect, and share your information.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect non-public personal information about you to deliver personalized investment advisory services. This information may include:
– Information you provide to us directly, such as your name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, employment information, income, financial goals, estate planning details, and other data from applications, forms, or communications (via mail, phone, email, secure portals, or in-person).
– Information about your transactions with Dauntless or with others, including custodians, broker-dealers, or financial institutions where you’ve authorized data-sharing.
– Information from third parties, such as accountants, attorneys, consultants, or other professionals you’ve authorized to share data with us.
– Information about your family, assets, liabilities, sources and amounts of income, expenses, estate plans, gifts and other financial matters
Dauntless does not engage in behavioral tracking through its website, nor do we directly authorize third parties to collect personal information about your online activities across websites. We do not respond to “do not track” signals or similar mechanisms.
INFORMATION WE SHARE
We may share your information within Dauntless to manage your relationship, improve services, or identify investment opportunities suitable for you. We do not sell your personal information. Disclosures of non-public personal information are strictly limited to those permitted or required by law or with your consent, including:
– Authorized service providers who need this information to perform services for us in connection with your account and Dauntless’ financial products and services. These services include, but are not limited to, assembling and/or mailing client statements, aggregating client transactions from other financial providers, mailing mutual fund reports, and compiling income tax data for client tax returns
– Government agencies or regulators, as required by law or in response to subpoenas or legal investigations.
– Legal, technical and compliance consultants helping to maintain the integrity of our systems and ensure regulatory compliance.
– Litigation-related disclosures, such as participation in securities class actions, where applicable.
We do not share mobile information with affiliates or third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.
This is not a complete description of the disclosures that we are permitted to make by law but is meant to give you a general idea of situations in which Dauntless may disclose information about you or your transactions.
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
Access to your information is restricted to employees and service providers with a business need to know. We educate our personnel on the importance of maintaining client confidentiality and enforce strict security protocols, including physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards.
We do not disclose non-public personal information about former clients, except as permitted or required by law.
This notice replaces any previous privacy disclosures and may be amended periodically. When required, we will notify you of material changes. For the most current version of our privacy notice, please visit www.dauntlessadvisory.com.
If you have questions regarding this notice, please contact your Dauntless relationship manager or email us at privacy@dauntlessadvisory.com.
HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF
Although Dauntless employs strong cybersecurity and risk management practices, you also play an important role in protecting your personal data. Consider the following recommendations:
Stay Vigilant
– Be cautious of messages urging immediate action or requesting personal information.
– Never provide your confidential information such as Social Security Number, username and password, date of birth, account numbers or PIN numbers to someone unless you have initiated the contact to a known third-party.
– If you receive suspicious emails, texts, or calls, do not respond — instead, contact the appropriate institution using a trusted phone number or email. Do not use the phone number provided in the email correspondence or that the caller provides to you.
– Avoid clicking unknown links or downloading attachments from unverified sources.
If you receive a suspicious phone call, email or text message please take the time to call and ask us to validate the communication before taking any action requested. Remember, Dauntless will never:
– Call, email or text asking for your online passwords or other confidential information.
– Direct you to a website that asks you to update your personal account information.
– Email you computer software updates.
Secure Your Devices
– Regularly update your software and operating systems.
– Install and maintain reputable antivirus and security software.
– Use complex passwords or passphrases and enable multi-factor authentication.
– Do not write down or share your passwords.
– Protect your Wi-Fi network with encryption and strong access credentials.
RESOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION
– National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCSA)(https://staysafeonline.org) – Promoting online safety and security awareness. – Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)(https://apwg.org) – Combating phishing, fraud, and identity theft.
– FDIC: Identity Theft & Fraud Resources (https://www.fdic.gov/resources/consumers/privacy/index.html) – Federal guidance on identity protection and fraud prevention.
TERMS OF USE
Last Updated: April 1, 2025
The following Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of www.dauntlessadvisory.com and any affiliated domains or portals controlled by Dauntless Advisory, LLC (“Dauntless,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), including any content, functionality, and services offered through such websites (collectively, the “Website”), whether as a guest or a registered user.
Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the website. By accessing or using the Website, or by clicking to accept or agree to these Terms, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
Eligibility
This Website is intended for users who are at least 18 years old. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with Dauntless. If not, please do not use the Website.
Changes to Terms and Privacy Policy
Dauntless reserves the right to update these Terms or the Privacy Policy at any time at our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of the Website after such posting constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms and/or Privacy Policy.
The date the Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy were last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our website and this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Website Access and Account Security
We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the Website, or any part thereof, at our sole discretion without notice. We are not liable if the Website is unavailable for any reason. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the website, or the entire website, to users, including registered users of the secure section of the website.
You are responsible for:
– Ensuring that anyone accessing the Website via your internet connection complies with these Terms.
– Providing accurate, current, and complete information if you register on the Website.
– Keeping your user credentials confidential and notifying us immediately of any unauthorized access or use of your account.
You should use caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information.
We have the right to disable any username, password or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our opinion, you have violated any provision of these Terms of Use.
Dauntless implements robust security measures including encryption, firewalls, and session controls. However, security risks remain, and users should take appropriate precautions when accessing secure areas of the Website.
Intellectual Property Rights
The website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to, all information, software, text, displays, images, video and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof), are owned by the Company, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.
These Terms of Use permit you to use the website for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our website, except as follows:
– Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.
– You may store files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display enhancement purposes.
– You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the website for your own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication, or distribution.
– If we provide desktop, mobile, or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such applications.
– If we provide social media features with certain content, you may take such actions as are enabled by such features.
You must not:
– Modify copies of any materials from this site.
– Use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences, or any graphics separately from the accompanying text.
– Delete or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from this site.
You must not access or use for any commercial purposes any part of the website or any services or materials available through the website.
If you print, copy, modify, download, or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the website in breach of the Terms of Use, your right to use the website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title, or interest in or to the website or any content on the website is transferred to you and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the website not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark and other laws.
Trademarks
The Dauntless name, logo, and related marks are trademarks of Dauntless Advisory, LLC. You may not use these marks without our prior written approval. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans on this website are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Prohibited Uses
You may not use the Website:
– In violation of any applicable laws or regulations.
– To exploit or harm minors.
– To transmit spam, advertisements, or solicitations without our consent.
– To impersonate any person or entity.
– To interfere with the Website’s operation or any user’s experience.
– To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the website, or which, as determined by us, may harm the Company or users of the website or expose them to liability.
You also agree not to introduce malicious code, gain unauthorized access to our systems, or otherwise attempt to disrupt the integrity of the Website, including the following:
– Use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on the website or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior written consent.
– Use any device, software, or routine that interferes with the proper working of the website.
– Introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful.
– Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt any parts of the website, the server on which the website is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the website.
– Attack the website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
– Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the website.
Website Updates
Dauntless may update the content on the Website at any time. However, we are not obligated to ensure that all information is current or complete.
Information Collection and Privacy
Your use of the Website is subject to our Privacy Policy. By using the Website, you consent to our collection, use, and sharing of your information as described therein.
Linking and Third-Party Content
Dauntless offers links to other third-party websites that may be of interest to our website visitors. The links provided in our website are provided solely for your convenience and may assist you in locating other useful information on the Internet. When you click on these links you will leave Dauntless’ website and will be redirected to another site. These sites are not under the control of Dauntless.
Dauntless is not responsible for the content of linked third-party websites. We are not an agent for these third parties, nor do we endorse or guarantee their products. We make no representation or warranty regarding the accuracy of the information contained in the linked sites. We suggest that you always verify the information obtained from linked websites before acting upon this information.
You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part without our express written consent.
This website may provide certain social media features that enable you to:
– Link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on this website.
– Send e-mails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on this website.
– Cause limited portions of content on this website to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.
You may use these features solely as they are provided by us and solely with respect to the content they are displayed with and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features. Subject to the foregoing, you must not:
– Establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
– Cause the website or portions of it to be displayed, or appear to be displayed by, for example, framing, deep linking or in-line linking, on any other site.
– Link to any part of the website other than the homepage.
– Otherwise take any action with respect to the materials on this website that is inconsistent with any other provision of these Terms of Use.
The website from which you are linking, or on which you make certain content accessible, must comply in all respects with the provisions of these Terms of Use.
You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to cease. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice in our discretion.
Geographic Restrictions
The Website is intended for users located in the United States. We make no representation that content is appropriate or lawful outside the U.S. Accessing the Website from outside the U.S. is at your own risk and subject to local laws.
Disclaimers
You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or the website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES, OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR TO YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO IT.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT OUR SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS OR THAT THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS.
THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DAUNTLESS, ITS AFFILIATES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Use or your use of the website, including, but not limited to, your User Contributions, any use of the website’s content, services and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use or your use of any information obtained from the website.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms and any disputes relating to the Website are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to conflict of laws principles. Any legal action shall be brought exclusively in state or federal courts located in Annapolis, Maryland.
Limitation on Claims
ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE WEBSITE MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES, OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
Waiver and Severability
No waiver of any term shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
Contact Us
For questions regarding these Terms, please contact us at:
Dauntless Advisory, LLC
1101 Bay Ridge Avenue
Suite 211
Annapolis, MD 21403
info@dauntlessadvisory.com