Rydex SGI Privacy Policy
Rydex Funds, Rydex SGI Funds, Rydex Distributors, LLC, Security
Investors, LLC, and Security Distributors, Inc. (Collectively
"Rydex")
Our Commitment to You
When you become a Rydex SGI investor, you entrust us with not
only your hard-earned money but also with personal and financial
information about you. We recognize that your relationship with us
is based on trust and that you expect us to act responsibly and in
your best interests. Because we have access to this private
information about you, we hold ourselves to the highest standards
in its safekeeping and use. This means, most importantly, that we
do not sell client information to anyone-whether it is your
personal information or if you are a current or former Rydex SGI
client.
The Information We Collect About You
In the course of doing business with shareholders and investors,
we collect nonpublic personal information about you. You typically
provide personal information when you complete a Rydex SGI account
application or when you request a transaction that involves Rydex
and Rydex SGI funds or one of the Rydex SGI affiliated companies.
"Nonpublic personal information" is personally identifiable private
information about you. For example, it includes information
regarding your name and address, Social Security or taxpayer
identification number, assets, income, account balance, bank
account information and investment activity (e.g., purchase and
redemption history).
How We Handle Your Personal Information
As emphasized above, we do not sell information about current or
former clients or their accounts to third parties. Nor do we share
such information, except when necessary to complete transactions at
your request or to make you aware of related investment products
and services that we offer. Additional details about how we handle
your personal information are provided below. To complete certain
transactions or account changes that you direct, it may be
necessary to provide identifying information to companies,
individuals or groups that are not affiliated with Rydex SGI. For
example, if you ask to transfer assets from another financial
institution to Rydex SGI, we will need to provide certain
information about you to that company to complete the transaction.
To alert you to other Rydex SGI investment products and services,
we may share your information within the Rydex SGI family of
affiliated companies. This would include, for example, sharing your
information within Rydex SGI so we can make you aware of new Rydex
and Rydex SGI funds or the services offered through another Rydex
SGI affiliated company. In certain instances, we may contract with
nonaffiliated companies to perform services for us. Where
necessary, we will disclose information we have about you to these
third parties. In all such cases, we provide the third party with
only the information necessary to carry out its assigned
responsibilities and only for that purpose. And we require these
third parties to treat your private information with the same high
degree of confidentiality that we do. In certain instances, we may
share information with other financial institutions regarding
individuals and entities in response to the U.S.A. Patriot Act.
Finally, we will release information about you if you direct us to
do so, if we are compelled by law to do so or in other
circumstances permitted by law.
Opt Out Provisions
We do not sell your personal information to anyone. The law
allows you to "opt out" of only certain kinds of information
sharing with third parties. The firm does not share personal
information about you with any third parties that triggers this
opt-out right. This means YOU ARE ALREADY OPTED OUT
How We Protect Privacy Online
Our concern for the privacy of our shareholders also extends to
those who use our web site, www.rydex-sgi.com. Our web site uses
some of the most secure forms of online communication available,
including encryption technology, Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
protocol, firewalls and user names and passwords. These
technologies provide a high level of security and privacy when you
access your account information or initiate online transactions.
The Rydex SGI web site offers customized features that require our
use of "http cookies"-tiny pieces of information that we ask your
browser to store. However, we make very limited use of these
cookies. We only use cookies for session management and security
features on the Rydex SGI web site. We do not use them to pull data
from your hard drive, to learn your email address, or to view data
in cookies created by other web sites. We will not share the
information in our cookies or give others access to it. See the
legal information area on our web site for more details about web
site security and privacy features
How We Safeguard Your Personal Information
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about
shareholders to our employees and in some cases to third parties
(for example, the service providers described above) as permitted
by law. We maintain strict physical, electronic and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your
nonpublic personal information.
We'll Keep You Informed
As required by federal law, we will notify shareholders of our
privacy policy annually. We reserve the right to modify this policy
at any time, but rest assured that if we do change it, we will tell
you promptly. You will also be able to access our privacy policy
from our web site at www.rydex-sgi.com. Should you have any ques
tions regarding our privacy policy, contact us at 800.820.0888 or
301.296.5100.
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