[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR160.1]

[Page 574-575]
 
              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER I--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
 
PART 160_PRIVACY OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  160.1  Purpose and scope.

    (a) Purpose. This part governs the treatment of nonpublic personal 
information about consumers by the financial institutions listed in 
paragraph (b) of this section. This part:
    (1) Requires a financial institution to provide notice to customers 
about its privacy policies and practices;
    (2) Describes the conditions under which a financial institution may 
disclose nonpublic personal information about consumers to nonaffiliated 
third parties; and
    (3) Provides a method for consumers to prevent a financial 
institution from disclosing nonpublic personal information to most 
nonaffiliated third parties by ``opting out'' of that disclosure, 
subject to the exceptions in Sec. Sec.  160.13, 160.14, and 160.15.
    (b) Scope. This part applies only to nonpublic personal information 
about individuals who obtain financial products or services primarily 
for personal, family, or household purposes from the institutions listed 
below. This part does not apply to information about companies or about 
individuals who obtain financial products or services primarily for 
business, commercial, or agricultural purposes. This part applies to all 
futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool 
operators and introducing brokers that are subject to the jurisdiction 
of the Commission, regardless whether they are required to register with 
the Commission. These entities are hereinafter referred to in this part 
as ``you.'' This part does not apply to foreign (non-resident) futures 
commission merchants, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool 
operators and introducing brokers that are not registered with the 
Commission. Nothing in this part modifies, limits or supercedes the 
standards governing individually identifiable health information 
promulgated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the

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authority of sections 262 and 264 of the Health Insurance Portability 
and Accountability Act of 1996, 42 U.S.C. 1320d-1320d-8.