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Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp.

  At Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp., we are committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal and financial information. The measures we take to keep your personal information private and secure are outlined below.

How We Protect Confidentiality

  Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp. uses procedural safeguards to store and secure information about you in compliance with federal standards. These safeguards protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, and destruction. Access is permitted only to those individuals within our organizations who need the information to perform their job responsibilities.

  When Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp. enters into agreements with other companies to provide services or to make products and services available to you, we include a confidentiality clause. Under such an agreement, these companies may receive information about you, but they may only use it for the intended purpose - to benefit you.

Persons Covered by the Privacy Policy/Opt Out

  The Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp. Privacy Policy applies to anyone who is a current or former broker-age client or who registers with one of our services or promotional offers. A copy of this policy is provided when you open an account, and we send you annual notifications thereafter. If a change of policy occurs regarding the sharing of information, you will be notified in advance and given the opportunity to "opt out" of such disclosure.

  Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp. employees use information about you to respond to your needs and to provide you with information about specific products in which you may have an interest. We instruct our employees to use strict standards of care in handling the personal, confidential information of customers and remind them on a regular basis of their obligations with regard to the confidentiality of customer information.

Option to Opt Out and Change Notices

  If for any reason at any time in the future, we find it necessary to disclose any of your personal information in a way that is inconsistent with this policy, we will give you advance notice of the proposed change and the opportunity to opt out of such disclosure.

  For your reference, this policy has been posted to our Web site at www.okstocks.com. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us via e-mail at info@okstocks.com.

How We Obtain Information About You

  In the normal course of business, we collect, retain and use information about you to serve your financial needs, administer your account(s) and inform you of products and services that may be of interest. This data, known as non-public personal information, may be collected from several sources, including: applications and other forms you file with us (i.e.,name,assets, income), records of transactions with us, our affiliates, non-affiliated third parties and others (i.e., credit report). Because we strive to provide you with the best possible service, the accuracy and completeness of your personal information is important to us. To ensure that information is correct, please contact Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp. or OKstocks.com directly if you need to correct or update your personal information.

Sharing Information - With Whom and Why

   Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp. does not sell your personal information to anyone. We restrict the types of entities with whom we share it. The primary reason for sharing information about you is to increase your convenience in transacting business with us and to give you more financial service choices.

  Personal information to non-affiliated third parties is not disclosed unless one of the following exceptions applies:

  Personal information is disclosed to service providers that assist us in processing your transactions or servicing your account(s). An example would be the company that prints and mails your account statement.
We disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances when we believe in good faith that disclosure is required or permitted under law. For example, we would provide information in cooperation with securities regulators or law enforcement authorities, to resolve consumer disputes, or to perform credit evaluations and authenticate checks.

Internet Security

  We do not retrieve account or personal information from visitors who browse the public (pre-logon) areas of our Web sites. Clients who have the ability to access their accounts online are required to log on with their user name and individually selected password. Your password is known solely to you, the client, and should never be shared with anyone. The password may be changed as often as you wish.

  When you access your account online, it is through a Secure Socket Layer-encrypted session between your browser and our clearing agent's browser (Southwest Securities, Inc. - SWS). To ensure the highest level of security, SWS has installed Verisign Global ID's on each server. Security procedures will continue to be enhanced as new technologies become available. Each time you access your account please don't forget to log off when you are finished. This will prevent someone else from accessing your account if you leave your computer and your session has not automatically shut down.

Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp.’s Business Continuity Planning

Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp. has developed a Business Continuity Plan on how we will respond to events that significantly disrupt our business. Since the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions is unpredictable, we will have to be flexible in responding to actual events as they occur. With that in mind, we are providing you with this information on our business continuity plan.

Contacting Us – If after a significant business disruption you cannot contact us as you usually do at 918-665-0100, you should go to our website www.okstocks.com. If you cannot access us through either of those means, you should contact our clearing firm, Southwest Securities, Inc, at 214-859-1800 for instructions on how it may provide services to you, the customer, in the event of a significant business disruption; for example, providing prompt access to funds and securities, entering orders and processing other trade-related, cash, and security transfer transactions..

Our Business Continuity Plan – We plan to quickly recover and resume business operations after a significant business disruption 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 business continuity plan is designed to permit our firm to resume operations as quickly as possible, given the scope and severity of the significant business disruption.

Our business continuity plan addresses (through the clearing firm): 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 clearing firm, Southwest Securities, Inc 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 a reasonable period of time, depending on the situation. Your orders and requests for funds and securities could be delayed during this period.

Varying Disruptions – Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as only our firm, a single building housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region. Within each of these areas, the severity of the disruption can also vary from minimal to severe. In a disruption to only our firm or a building housing our firm or a disruption affecting our business district, city, or region, we plan to continue in business, transfer operations to our clearing firm if necessary, and notify you through our web site www.okstocks.com as to how to contact us. 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.

For more information – If you have questions about our business continuity planning, you can contact us at 918-665-0100.

Wisconsin Discount Securities Corp.
7020 N. Port Washington Rd.
Suite 200
Milwaukee, WI 53217

www.okstocks.com
918-665-0100

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