
Introduction
The Franklin Square Capital Partners family of companies (“we” or “Franklin Square”) takes measures to ensure that the use and disclosure of your private personal information is consistent with applicable law.
Our Consumer Information Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains what nonpublic personal information we collect, why we collect it, how we protect your nonpublic personal information, and how and why, in certain cases, we share such information among Franklin Square companies or with other parties. Our Privacy Policy is effective September 19, 2008, and may be amended from time to time.
Our Privacy Policy applies to nonpublic personal information collected or used when we offer investment products or services to individuals for personal, family, or household purposes. This disclosure is made on behalf of the Franklin Square companies listed in the “Application of Privacy Policy to the Franklin Square Companies” section below.
Our Privacy Policy applies only to individual Franklin Square investors (both current and former investors) who have a direct relationship with one of the Franklin Square companies. If you own Franklin Square investment products or receive Franklin Square services in the name of a third-party broker dealer, investment adviser, or other financial service provider, that third party’s privacy policies may apply to you.
Information That We Collect and May Disclose
We collect information from and about you in order to provide the superior level of service that you expect. Nonpublic personal information about you may include: your name, mailing address, e-mail address, tax identification number, age, account information, investment amounts in our companies, marital status, number of dependents, assets, debts, income, net worth, employment history, financial statements, beneficiary information, personal bank account information, credit history information, broker dealer, financial advisor, IRA custodian, account joint owners and other similar parties, the Franklin Square investment products and services you purchase, your Franklin Square account balance or transactional history, the fact that you are or have been an investor in a Franklin Square sponsored investment and particulars related to any such investment. Specific examples of personal information that we may collect and may disclose to affiliates and certain third parties include:
How We Use and Disclose Information
The Franklin Square network of affiliated companies and third-party service providers work together to provide a variety of investment products and services, and they may need to share some or all nonpublic personal information collected on you to maintain an efficient and effective network of products and services. We believe that by sharing information about you and your accounts among our companies and partners, we are better able to serve your investment needs and to suggest services or educational materials that may be of interest to you. The responsible use and disclosure of the nonpublic personal information we collect is crucial to our ability to provide our clients with the type of goods and services they expect, and may occur under a variety of different circumstances. For example, we may:
Sharing Among Franklin Square Affiliates and Nonaffiliated Service Providers
We may share your personally identifiable information among Franklin Square affiliates engaged in investment or other related financial service activities. Examples might include customer-initiated service requests, establishing and managing your investor accounts, completing your investor transactions, and sharing information with parties acting at your request and on your behalf, such as your broker-dealer, financial advisor, joint owners and IRA custodian.
Sharing With Nonaffiliated Service Providers
We may disclose your personal information to nonaffiliated service providers who perform business functions on our behalf, which may include marketing of our own investment products and services, check printing, and data processing. Nonaffiliated third party service providers often aid us in the efficient and effective delivery of services and there may be circumstances where it is necessary to disclose nonpublic personal information we collect to such parties. However, before we disclose nonpublic personal information to a nonaffiliated party, we require them to agree to keep our investor information confidential and secure and to use it only as authorized by us. Also, we will only share your nonpublic information with nonaffiliated third parties under circumstances not covered by state or federal law “opt-out” notice exceptions, such as servicing a financial product or service authorized by the customer, resolving consumer disputes, and protecting against potential fraud or unauthorized transactions. Should this policy ever change in the future, you will be given adequate notice and the option to “opt-out” of such disclosure. We may also disclose the following information to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements:
We require all joint marketers to have written contracts with us that specify appropriate use of your personal information, require them to take steps to safeguard your personal information, and prohibit them from making unauthorized or unlawful use of your personal information. Franklin Square does not share, sell, or rent your personal private information with outside marketers who may want to offer you their own products and services to you.
How We Protect Your Information
Franklin Square maintains a comprehensive information security program designed to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information, protect against threats or hazards to the security of such information, and prevent unauthorized access. This program includes:
Availability of Our Privacy Policy We will provide notice of our Privacy Policy annually, as long as you maintain an ongoing relationship with us. The most up-to-date Privacy Policy is posted on our websites or you may call our Privacy Policy Specialist at 1.866.450.9100.
Notification of Changes to Our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on the website so our users and investors are always aware of what information we collect, use and disclose. If at any point we decide to use or disclose your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you in writing. We will otherwise use and disclose a user’s or an investor’s personally identifiable information in accordance with the Privacy Policy that was in effect when such information was collected.
Change in Control
If any of the Franklin Square companies experiences a “change in control” (defined below), then we may amend our information practices as described in this Privacy Policy. We will disclose your personally identifiable information to the company or other legal entity that succeeds the company subject to the change in control or the operation of the website. The privacy policy of the succeeding legal entity will then govern the personally identifiable information that the applicable Franklin Square Company had collected from you under this Privacy Policy. However, if applicable law prohibits the succeeding legal entity’s privacy policy from governing your personally identifiable information, then this Privacy Policy shall continue to govern. “Change in control” means any of the following events:
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy and/or the personal information practices of our Website, please call our Privacy Policy Specialist at 1.866.450.9100
Application of Privacy Policy to the Franklin Square Companies
This Privacy Policy applies to the following Franklin Square companies: Franklin Square Holdings, LP; Franklin Square Holdings GP, LLC; FS2 Capital Partners, LLC; FB Income Advisor, LLC, FS Investment Corporation and their respective subsidiaries and all other funds or entities created in the future that offer investment products or services to individuals for personal, family, or household purposes.