Your privacy is very important to us. Thank you for visiting the website of LSV Advisors, LLC, and its affiliates (together, “LSV”, “we” or “us”). This notice (the “Privacy Policy”) seeks to help you understand how we collect information about you when you visit the Website (as defined in the Terms of Use), and how we use such information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using this Website, you acknowledge (i) that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand the restrictions on the use and disclosure of our personal information and (ii) you have read, understand and accept the Terms of Use agreement including that it represents a binding agreement between you and LSV that governs your access and use of this Website.
Your visit to the Website is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. By visiting the Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, which may be updated by us at any time and any such changes will be effective upon posting. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Website.
This Privacy Policy is not applicable to any Internet websites controlled by third parties not affiliated with LSV that the LSV Website may link. Please review the terms, disclosures and privacy policies for those sites.
LSV Right to Change These Terms of Use or Content on this Website
LSV may add to, change, discontinue, revise, update, suspend, remove and/or otherwise change any portion of this Privacy Policy at any time without notice and without liability. Any changes to the Privacy Policy apply as soon as they are posted. By continuing to use this Website after any changes are posted, you are indicating your acceptance of those changes.
The Type of Information We Collect About You
LSV collects and maintains personal information about you in connection with your access to the Website including through information that you provide to us and information we collect through technology including through the use of “cookies” - small data files which we may send to your computer on the basis of the information that we have collected about your visit. Cookies are stored in your computer’s browser or on your hard disk and can then be retrieved by the Website. This information is used to improve Website performance and for our business purposes.
In order to obtain access to certain information or materials provided via the Website, you may provide information that allows us to relate it to you personally, including but not limited to your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, facsimile number and the type of investor you are. Additionally, we may collect and retain a record of all communications with you. Our website may also collect various other types of information from visitors, which may include, but is not limited to, date/time stamps and the length of time spent on this website, the pages accessed while visiting this website, internet protocol addresses, browser type, and internet service provider. The Website may also use technology to track and analyze the traffic patterns on the Website. These technical methods may involve the transmission of information to another third party authorized by us to collect such information.
How We Use Personal Information About You
LSV may store your personally identifiable information and share it with our affiliates. We may use or disclose this information for marketing, research and other business purposes, and we may associate your personally identifiable information with other information we collect about you, such as details about your usage patterns and interests, but we will not sell this information or disclose it to third parties other than as outlined below. We may use or disclose certain personally identifiable information we collect about you when you visit and browse the Website as part of our normal business operations, or to send you administrative communications either about your interactions with us or about features of the website.
We will use or disclose personally identifiable information when we believe that such disclosures are required by law, regulation, legal process, subpoena, document request or governmental request. We may also do so to help enforce our Terms of Use, protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you, or protect the safety and security of our websites, databases or third parties, including the safety and security of tangible or intangible property that belongs to us or to third parties.
We may disclose information about our non-investors, investors, prospective investors or former investors to affiliates (i.e., financial and non-financial companies related by common ownership or control) or non-affiliates (i.e., financial or non-financial companies not related by common ownership or control) for our everyday business purposes, such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s) or respond to court orders and legal investigations. Thus, it may be necessary, under anti-money laundering and similar laws, to disclose information about you in order to accept a subscriptions from you. We will also release information about you if you direct us to do so.
We may disclose your information for our own marketing purposes, such as to offer our products and services to you. We may also disclose information about your transactions and experiences with us to our affiliates for their everyday business purposes. You cannot limit these types of sharing.
We may also disclose information you provide to us to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf, such as any placement agent LSV has retained and with whom you have a relationship. You cannot limit this type of sharing, but if such a disclosure is made, we will require such third parties to treat your private information with confidentiality.
Rights Under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) for Citizens of the EU or the EEA and under the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) for Residents of California
Citizens of the EU or the EEA and residents of California have certain specific rights provided under the GDPR and CCPA, respectively. For personal data that we collect about you, we hereby notify you that you have the following rights: (i) you can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data unless otherwise restricted by law or regulation, (ii) you have the right to ask us to change, update or fix your personal data in certain cases, (iii) you can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data or to limit our use of it, (iv) you can ask us for a copy of your personal data, a copy of personal data you provided and personal data disclosed to a third party, (v) you may request your personal information up to 12 months preceding your request, (vi) you have the right not to be subject to discriminatory treatment from us as a result of the exercise of your privacy rights and (vii) you have the right to direct us to not disclose non-public information about you to nonaffiliated third parties if its disclosure is beyond rendering services to you (limiting our disclosure of such information may limit the services we are able to provide to you). To limit our sharing of your non-public information, please contact us at 212-378-3729 or ir@lsvfinancial.com
Further Information
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural controls in accordance with applicable data protection laws, regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and other pertinent regulatory bodies to safeguard personal information. These controls include computer safeguards and secured files and offices. However, the transmission of information and data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we make an effort to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information or data transmitted to or through our Website; any transmission of information or data by you or through this Website is at your sole risk.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at 212-378-3729 or ir@lsvfinancial.com