Privacy Policy for:

 

 

Driehaus Capital Management LLC

Driehaus Capital Management (USVI) LLC

Driehaus Securities LLC

Driehaus Mutual Funds

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Our Privacy Policy.  In providing financial services and products to you, we collect certain nonpublic personal information about you. Our policy is to keep this information confidential and strictly safeguarded, and to use or disclose it only as needed to provide services to you, or as permitted by law. Protecting your privacy is important to us.

 

Information We Collect.   The nonpublic personal information we have about you includes what you give us when you open an account, buy shares of one of our mutual funds or communicate with us, such as your name, address, social security number, investment objectives and experience, financial circumstances, employment and your account and account transactions. We may also collect information through your use of our website.

 

Information We Disclose.We disclose nonpublic personal information about you only to our affiliates, to third parties that we hire to help us provide products and services to you, as specifically authorized by you, or as otherwise allowed or required by law.  We do not sell your personal information to anyone.

 

How We Safeguard Your Information.  We have physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in place that are designed to protect the security and confidentiality of your information.  These include confidentiality agreements with companies we hire to help us provides services to you, password-protected user access to our computer files and strict confidentiality policies that apply to all Driehaus personnel. 

 

Our privacy policy applies equally to our former customers, clients and fund shareholders.

 

To help you understand our privacy policy, we have prepared the following Q & A's below.  If you would like more information, please call us at 1-800- 688-8819.            

 

 

Questions and Answers

 

Who is giving me this Notice?

 

This Privacy Notice is from the Driehaus Mutual Funds, Driehaus Capital Management LLC, Driehaus Capital Management (USVI) LLC and Driehaus Securities LLC.

 

 

Why Am I Receiving This Notice?

 

We are sending this Privacy Notice to let you know how we treat personal nonpublic information about you, as a present or former Driehaus Funds shareholder or as a client or customer of one of the Driehaus companies named above.

 

 

What Types of Information About Me Do You Collect?

 

We gather various types of information about you when you inquire about our products or services, during the account opening process and throughout your on-going relationship with us. This may include your name, address and social security number and information about your other assets, finances, employment and bank account.  We also have records of your account transactions, including the dollar amounts you have invested or withdrawn, your account balances and our communications with you.  We may receive additional information about you from custodian banks, prime brokers, or others that service your account. 

 

 

How Is Information About Me Used?

 

We use information about you to provide our financial products and services to you, such as managing your investment account or servicing your brokerage or Driehaus Funds account.  We share this information among the Driehaus Funds and companies.  We also may disclose it, as permitted by law, to third parties that we use to provide our services to you, including outside broker-dealers, custodians, administrators, transfer agents, accountants or attorneys.   From time to time, we must give information about our business to regulatory authorities.  This may include personal information about you.

 

We do not sell personal non-public information about our clients, customers or fund shareholders to marketers.