Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 1, 2021

FundVantage Trust Inc. (“FundVantage,” “we,” “us” or “our”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our online visitors who wish to be business partners. It is our intent to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using information received from and about you with your reasonable expectations of privacy in the operation of your fund. The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is the way we handle information learned about you from your visits to our website available at fundvantagetrust.com (the “Site”).

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. When you submit information to or through the Site, you consent to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms & Conditions and consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Visitors from Outside the United States

FundVantage is based in the United States, and the information we collect is governed by U.S. law. If you are accessing the Site from outside of the United States, please be aware that information collected through the Site, including personal information that you provide to us as outlined below (“Personal Information”), may be transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States. Data protection laws in the United States may be different from those of your country of residence. Your use of the Site, or provision of any information to us via email or the Site, constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of your information, including Personal Information, in the United States as stated in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information Collected

FundVantage collects personally identifiable information from you, which may include information you provide voluntarily to us, information we collect automatically and information that may be provided from third-party sources.

Information You Voluntarily Provide To Us

In the course of using our Site, you may provide the following categories of information voluntarily to us:

Contact Data, including your first and last name, email address, postal address, and phone number.
Content, including content within any messages you send to us (such as feedback and questions to customer support).
Business Information, including your company’s name and address.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect certain information automatically from you when you use our Site. This information may include the following:

Device Data, including data about the type of device or browser you use, your device’s operating software, your internet service provider, your device’s regional and language settings, and device identifiers such as IP address.
Location Data, including imprecise location data (such as location derived from an IP address or data that indicates a city or postal code level).

We use tracking technologies to automatically collect information when you use the Site, including the following:

Log Files, which are files that record events that occur in connection with your use of the Site.
Cookies, which are small data files stored on your device that act as a unique tag to identify your browser. We use strictly-necessary first-party session cookies to facilitate the functionality of our Site.
Pixels (also known as web beacons), which is code embedded in a website, video, email, or advertisement that sends information about your use to a server. There are various types of pixels, including image pixels (which are small graphic images) and JavaScript pixels (which contains JavaScript code). When you access a website, video, email, or advertisement that contains a pixel, the pixel may permit us or a separate entity to drop or read cookies on your browser. Pixels are used in combination with cookies to track activity by a particular browser on a particular device. We may incorporate pixels from separate entities that allow us to track our communications, bring you advertising both on and off the Site.

Information from Third-Party Sources.

We also collect information from third-party sources. The following are the categories of sources we collect information from:

Data brokers from which we purchase data to supplement the data we collect.
Partners that offer co-branded services, sell or distribute our products, or engage in joint marketing activities.
Publicly-available sources, including data in the public domain.

How Information is Used

We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:

to communicate with you;
to provide the Site to you and to improve the Site;
to operate, improve, and personalize the products and services we offer;
to provide you with information about products and services that we provide that we think may be of interest to you;
for our own research and analysis purposes;
to fulfil your requests, such as those made on our “Contact Us” page; and
for customer service, security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site.

Sharing of Information

With Third-Party Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf. We share your personal information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site or assist us in providing functionality on the Site.
With Our Business Partners. We share your information with other businesses with whom we have a relationship so that they can provide you with information about products and services that may be of interest to you.
For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose personal information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share personal information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
Changes of Control. We may transfer information, including your personal information, in connection with a change of ownership or control by or of us or any affiliated entity (in each case whether in whole or in part).

FundVantage does not share your personal information with non-affiliated third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

Your Rights and Choices.

Tracking Technology Choices.

Cookies and Pixels. Most browsers accept cookies by default. You can instruct your browser, by changing its settings, to decline or delete cookies. If you use multiple browsers on your device, you will need to instruct each browser separately. Your ability to limit cookies is subject to your browser settings and limitations.
Do Not Track. Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to online services you visit. Note, however, there is no industry consensus as to what site and app operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, we do not monitor or take action with respect to “Do Not Track” signals. For more information on “Do Not Track,” visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Please be aware that if you disable or remove tracking technologies some parts of the Service may not function correctly.

Communications.

E-mails. You can opt-out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in each message. Please note that you cannot opt-out of non-promotional emails, such as those about your investments.
Calls. You can opt-out of receiving calls to your phone number at any time by requesting opt-out during any call you receive from us or contacting us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below and specifying you want to opt-out of calls.

Please note that your opt-out is limited to the email address and phone number used.

Security Used & Retention of Personal Information

FundVantage uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information; however, we will not be responsible for loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse of personal information that you provide through the Site that is stored by us, or for any damages resulting from such loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse. We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulation.

Links to External Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. Your access to and use of such websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy, but is instead governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites

Additional Privacy Rights for California Residents

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents with whom we have an established business relationship are entitled to request and receive, free of charge, once per calendar year, information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses in the previous calendar year. To request a copy, please contact us at admin@fundvantagetrust.com. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” law requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.

Locations of Processing

Your personal information may be stored or processed in the United States where we and/or our third-party service providers maintain servers and facilities. We take steps, including through contracts, intended to ensure that the information continues to be protected wherever it is located in a manner consistent with the standards of protection required under applicable law.

Do Not Track

Our Site does not currently take any action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.

Children

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of thirteen. No parts of our Site are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of thirteen.

Please contact us at admin@fundvantagetrust.com with any requests or inquiries related to this Privacy Policy.

Notification of Changes

Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Accordingly, please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently as it may change.