Disclosures

Important Disclosures

Echelon Virtual Family Office, LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor ("RIA") located in the State of Florida. Echelon Virtual Family Office, LLC (Echelon Office) provides investment advisory and related services for clients in Florida and other states. Echelon Office will maintain all applicable registration and licenses as required by the various states in which Echelon Office conducts business, as applicable. Echelon Office renders individualized responses to persons in a particular state only after complying with all regulatory requirements, or pursuant to an applicable state exemption or exclusion.

Echelon Wealth, LLC provides informational, educational, and insurance products and services. Investment advisory and related services are provided through it’s affiliate, Echelon Virtual Family Office, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor ("RIA") located in the State of Florida and captioned above.

Echelon Wealth, LLC provides non-advisory (“non-RIA”) educational services. 

Echelon Resource Teams, LLC provides informational, educational, and business consulting services. Investment advisory and related services are provided through it’s affiliate, Echelon Virtual Family Office, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor ("RIA") located in the State of Florida and captioned above.

Echelon Resource Teams, LLC provides non-advisory (“non-RIA”) educational services. 

 

Fiduciary Status

As a registered investment advisor, Echelon Office and its Advisory Persons are “fiduciaries” to all Clients. This means that Echelon Office and its Advisory Persons have an obligation to act in the best interests of Clients. Echelon Office seeks to avoid engaging in any activity that could create a conflict of interest with any Client; however, if a conflict of interest does arise, Echelon Office will make full disclosure of that conflict to the Client[s]. Mr. Wade is also a licensed insurance professional. The Advisor’s fiduciary duty extends solely to investment advisory advice and does not extend to advice relating to insurance product sales, including annuities, life insurance, and long-term care insurance.

 

Terms of Use

Please read these terms and conditions of use (the “Terms”) carefully before using this Website located at https://echelonoffice.com (the “Website”) or any of the information or services provided by Echelon Office in connection with the Website. By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms and accept to be legally bound by them. If you do not accept and agree to these Terms, you are not an authorized user of the Website or any of the information or services provided by Echelon Office in connection with the Website and should promptly terminate all use thereof. The terms “you” and “your” mean you and any entity you may represent in connection with the use of the Website. You may use your browser to download or print a copy of these Terms for your records.

Echelon Office reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms at any time for any reason. We suggest that you review these Terms periodically for changes. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting. You acknowledge that by accessing our Website after we have posted changes to these Terms, you are agreeing to these Terms as modified.

These Terms were last updated on November 22, 2023.

 

Risk Disclosures

Different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk. Therefore, it should not be assumed that future performance of any specific investment or investment strategy will be profitable.

Asset allocation may be used in an effort to manage risk and enhance returns. It does not, however, guarantee a profit or protect against loss. Performance of the asset allocation strategies depends on the underlying investments.

This Website is intended to provide general information about Echelon Office and its services. It is not intended to offer or deliver investment advice in any way. Information regarding investment services are provided solely to gain an understanding of our investment philosophy, our strategies and to be able to contact us for further information. 

Market data, articles and other content on this Website are based on generally available information and are believed to be reliable. Echelon Office does not guarantee the accuracy of the information contained in this Website. The information is of a general nature and should not be construed as investment advice. 

Information provided is not intended as tax or legal advice and should not be relied on as such. You are encouraged to seek tax or legal advice from an independent professional. Echelon Office is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other government agency. The information and opinions contained herein are provided by third parties and have been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, however, we make no representation as to its completeness or accuracy.

Please remember that it remains your responsibility to advise Echelon Office in writing, if there are any changes in your personal/financial situation or investment objectives for the purpose of reviewing/evaluating/revising our previous recommendations and/or services, if you would like to impose, add, or to modify any reasonable restrictions to our investment advisory services. 

Echelon Office will provide all prospective clients with a copy of our current Form ADV, Part 2A ("Disclosure Brochure") and Form ADV Part 2B (“Brochure Supplement”). You may obtain a copy of these disclosures on the SEC Website at http://adviserinfo.sec.gov or you may contact us at info@echelonoffice.com to request a free copy via .pdf or hardcopy. 

 

Privacy Disclosures

Echelon Office is committed to safeguarding the use of personal information of our clients (also referred to as “you” and “your”) that we obtain as your Investment Advisor, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Echelon Office does not collect personal non-public information through this Website; however, the Advisor may collect information from you on application forms, agreements, profile or investment policy statements, and other documents received or processed in relation to services we provide. We also may collect information from other sources.

We do not respond to "do not track" requests because we do not track you over time or across third party Websites to provide targeted advertising. We may track you across our Website to help us improve our content.

We may use "cookies" and similar online technologies to keep, and sometimes track, information about you regarding your usage of our Website. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your browser or related software from a Web server and stored on your device. Cookies help us to collect information about your usage of our Website, including date and time of visits, pages viewed, amount of time spent on our sites, or general information about the device used to access the site, such as the browser used. You can refuse to store or delete cookies by configuring your web browser settings. Most browsers and mobile devices have their own settings to manage cookies. If you refuse a cookie when on our Website, or if you delete cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Website, such as having to re-configure preferences.

When you are on this Website you may have the opportunity to click-through to other Websites, including Websites operated by unaffiliated third parties. These sites may collect nonpublic personal Information about you. We do not control sites operated by these entities and are not responsible for the information practices of these sites. This Privacy Policy does not address the information practices of other Websites. The privacy policies of Websites operated third parties are located on those sites.

For a copy of the Echelon Office, LLC Privacy Policy, please click here info@echelonoffice.com.

 

Email Disclosures

Echelon Office often communicates with its clients and prospective clients through electronic mail (“email”) and other electronic means. Your privacy and security are very important to us. Echelon Office makes every effort to ensure that email communications do not contain sensitive information. We remind our clients and others not to send Echelon Office private information over email. If you have sensitive data to deliver, we can provide secure means for such delivery. 

Please note: Echelon Office does not accept trading or money movement instructions via email.

As a registered investment advisor, Echelon Office emails may be subject to inspection by the Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”) of Echelon Office or the securities regulators. 

If you have received an email from Echelon Office in error, we ask that you contact the sender and destroy the email and its contents. 

If you have any questions regarding our email policies, please contact us at info@echelonoffice.com.

 

Social Websites

Echelon Office may utilize third-party Websites, including social media Websites, blogs and other interactive content. Echelon Office considers all interactions with clients, prospective clients and the general public on these sites to be advertisements under the securities regulations. As such, Echelon Office generally retains copies of information that Echelon Office or third-parties may contribute to such sites. This information is subject to review and inspection by the CCO of Echelon Office or the securities regulators. 

Information provided on these sites is for informational and/or educational purposes only and is not, in any way, to be considered investment advice nor a recommendation of any investment product. Advice may only be provided by Echelon Office’s advisory persons after entering into an advisory agreement and provided Echelon Office with all requested background and account information.

If you have any questions regarding our policies, please info@echelonoffice.com.