At Wasatch, we understand that our relationship with you and all of our shareholders is one of trust. As such, we go to great lengths to protect the information we collect about you or your accounts.
The personal information we collect or disclose is handled with the utmost respect for your privacy and is motivated by our desire to serve you better.
Most of the personal information we collect comes directly from you. The ways we gather it may include:
Personal information collected from any source may include, among other things, your name and address, Social Security or taxpayer identification number, date of birth, assets, income, account balances, investment activity, and accounts at other institutions. The information we collect about you may be transferred to or stored by Wasatch or our service providers in the United States or elsewhere, as permitted by law.
We may combine the information collected on our website with information collected from or about you in other contexts. This may include information collected online, such as through our email exchanges with you, or from offline sources, such as information that we collect when you establish your account with us or call customer service. We will treat such combined information in accordance with this policy. If you do not wish to provide information to Wasatch, we may be unable to provide certain products or services to you.
We may disclose information about our current and former shareholders to parties outside of Wasatch for the following purposes:
Our concern for the privacy of our shareholders naturally extends to those who use our website, wasatchglobal.com. Our website uses some of the most secure forms of online communication available, including data encryption, transmission encryption, user names and passwords, and back-end fraud and account monitoring. These technologies provide a high level of security and privacy when you access your account information, initiate online transactions, or send secure messages.
We use or may use a variety of online technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, and similar mechanisms, as described further below, to collect information that helps us understand how our website are used. Specifically, when you visit Wasatch’s website, we or our third-party service providers may automatically collect a variety of technical and navigational information about you via these technologies, including, as applicable: your computer or device type; operating system version; browser type and version; user agent string; internet connection type; mobile network provider; date and time of your visit; time since your last visit; pages you view; links you click; searches you conduct; the internet protocol (IP) address used to access our website; your general geographic location (e.g., your city, state, or zip code); and the website visited before our site. We also may use similar tracking technologies in emails that we or third parties send to you, as further described below. This information may be used, for example, to alert you to software compatibility issues or to resolve technical or service problems. We also may analyze this information, with the assistance of our service providers, to improve our website design and functionality, to enhance our ability to serve you and your accounts, and to tailor our communications to you regarding our products and services.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Wasatch may use cookies to help Wasatch identify and track visitors, their usage of the Wasatch website and digital products and their website and digital products preferences. Wasatch visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Wasatch’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Wasatch’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Our website and the emails that you receive from Wasatch may use an application known as a web beacon (also known as a pixel tag or clear gif). A web beacon is an electronic file that usually consists of a single-pixel image, embedded in a web or mobile application page or an email to measure usage and activity. In some cases, a web beacon triggers the placement of a persistent cookie on your device.
Wasatchglobal.com may offer customized features that require our use of cookies and web beacons. Certain sections of our website may require cookies to be enabled to support site performance and provide enhanced authentication. For example, cookies enable us to personalize and improve your user experience and help enhance navigation. Cookies also help us to understand how people use our online services so that we can improve their structure, functionality, and content. Web beacons allow us, directly or through our third-party service providers, to collect information used for website analytics, such as how many users have visited particular pages or downloaded documents, or how frequently users search for a particular term. However, our use of these cookies and web beacons is limited. We do not use them to pull other data from your hard drive or to view data in cookies or other similar data files created by other websites. We will not share the information in these data files or give others access to it—except to help us better serve your investment needs and as described in this privacy policy.
We and our service providers may use web beacons and cookies to determine whether and when you receive and open our emails; these beacons and cookies may also capture information such as the type of device, operating system, email program, and web browser used to view the email, the IP address from which you opened the email, and whether you click any links in the email. These technologies enable us to gauge the effectiveness, relevance, and value of our email communications, as well as to target relevant advertising to you and to measure the impact of that advertising on your Wasatch relationships.
If you are a Wasatch shareholder who has registered for secure online access to your Wasatch account, we are able to combine the information we collect about your usage of our website during a secure (logged-on) session with other information we know about you, such as any account transactions you conduct during your session. We can also identify your computer or device on each online visit to Wasatch, even if you do not log on, and link information about that visit to you. We may use this combined information to assess the appeal and usefulness of the information and tools offered on our website and the effectiveness of our online advertising, as well as to identify Wasatch products and services that may be of interest to you.
Our website may include links to third-party sites or information that we think may be of interest to you. When you click these links and leave our website, our site’s terms of use and privacy policy no longer apply. You are responsible for complying with the third-party site’s terms of use and understanding its privacy policy, both of which you should review carefully.
We may partner with third parties to collect the information discussed above to engage in analysis, auditing, research, and reporting. These third parties may set and access cookies on your computer or other device and may use web beacons to collect information about your activity on our website. In particular, our website may use third-party analytics services to help collect and analyze certain information for the purposes discussed above. The information generated about your use of our online services may be transmitted to and stored by servers of third-party analytics services outside your country of residence.
We may also partner with third-party service providers, including social networks, to provide targeted advertising services that are customized based on your online activities over time and across unaffiliated websites (Interest-Based Advertising) and to help us measure brand awareness and the effectiveness of our online advertising. These service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to collect information about your activity on our website, and they may combine it with information about your activity on other, unaffiliated websites. We and our service providers may use data collected on our website or when you open emails from Wasatch, together with other information we have about you and your Wasatch relationships, to serve Wasatch ads to you on other sites as you browse the web. For example, third parties may use the fact that you visited our site to target ads for Wasatch products and services to you on non-Wasatch websites. In addition, our third-party advertising providers might use information about your use of our online services to help target non-Wasatch advertisements based on your online activity in general. While we may share demographic information (e.g., age) with certain providers; we do not provide your name or otherwise identify you to any of these service providers.
We may use third-party service providers’ technologies that enable us to establish connections among related devices (such as smartphones, tablets, and computers). This means that information about your interactions with our online services and online advertising through different devices may be combined. By making these connections, we may be able to better understand the relevance of our content and the impact of our advertising and to customize that content and advertising for you.
For your protection, you should not provide your account information, user name, or password to anyone. If you become aware of any suspicious activity relating to your account, it is your responsibility to contact us immediately. If you have any questions relating to this privacy policy or concerns about the way in which we have handled information about you, please send us a detailed message to shareholderservice@wasatchfunds.com or Wasatch Funds, P.O. Box 2172, Milwaukee, WI 53201-2172. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Wasatch may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Wasatch’s sole discretion. Wasatch encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this website after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.