Privacy Policy of Conscious Capital, Inc. and Conscious Giving, Inc.

This notice describes the privacy policy of Conscious Capital, Inc. and Conscious Giving, Inc., two legally independent entities in the United States (collectively referred to hereinafter as “Conscious Capital U.S. Entities”). Conscious Capital U.S. Entities are legally independent to Conscious Capital AG.

Conscious Capital U.S. Entities provide you with this notice, which outlines our business practices to protect your privacy as well as how we collect and share personal information about you.  This policy applies to both current and former clients of the Conscious Capital U.S. Entities.

We Respect Your Privacy

Conscious Capital U.S. Entities are committed to protecting your privacy. We depend on access to your personal financial information in order to provide you with relevant information regarding the products and services we offer as well as provide you with appropriate recommendations. We appreciate and understand that the personal financial information you have entrusted to us is sensitive and confidential and we have adopted policies and procedures which assist us in safeguarding the information you provide to us.

Personal Information We Collect About You

Conscious Capital U.S. Entities collects confidential client information from you in a number of ways including information provided by you through our new account applications and other forms we collect from you, information obtained through our website, as well as information obtained from other sources.

For example:

  • We may collect information such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, social security number, date of birth, net worth, income, financial objectives, investment experience, risk tolerance and investment objectives through applications and other forms you submit to us.
  • We may collect background information from and through third‐party vendors to verify representations you have made and to comply with various regulatory bodies.

State Privacy Laws

Some state laws grant additional privacy rights to their residents.  Certain residents of California, in addition to other rights described in this Privacy Policy, have the following rights:

  • To request that we disclose what personal information relating to you that we collect, share or sell.
  • To request that we delete certain personal information relating to you that we maintain.
  • To opt-out from the sale by a business of your personal information.
  • To make such a request relating to these California rights, please navigate to https://consciouscapital.us/ or email [email protected] or call +1-917-863-3311. We may need to obtain information about you or your specific request in order to verify and respond.

How We Share Your Personal Information

Conscious Capital U.S. Entities do not disclose nonpublic personal information.

Conscious Capital U.S. Entities do not share confidential information about our clients with unaffiliated third parties unless such disclosure is necessary to manage and service your account. For example, we provide access to information about you to unaffiliated third parties in certain limited circumstances, including:

  • to help us process transactions for your account(s)
  • to help us manage and service your account(s)
  • when we contract with third parties to provide account related services such as printing, mailing, and data processing services
  • when we believe that disclosure is required or permitted under law. For example, we may be required to disclose your personal information to cooperate with regulatory or law enforcement authorities, to report tax‐related information to federal and state governments, to resolve consumer disputes, to perform credit/authentication checks, or for risk

How We Protect Your Confidential Personal Information About You

We have internal policies and procedures which govern the handling of client information by employees. Third parties which provide account service and support on our behalf may also receive personal information about you, and we require them to adhere to appropriate security standards with respect to such information. Under no circumstances will Conscious Capital U.S. Entities sell confidential client information to anyone, for any reason, at any time.

Additional Information and Contacts: The European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and New Zealand

(This section applies only if your information is processed by Conscious Capital U.S. Entities in a Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia or New Zealand).

You are entitled to access any personal data about you held by Conscious Capital U.S. Entities by sending a written request to the applicable individual identified below. You may be required to supply a valid means of identification as a security precaution to assist us in preventing the unauthorized disclosure of your personal information. We will process your request within the time provided by applicable law. You are also entitled to have Conscious Capital U.S. Entities modify or delete any information that you believe is incorrect or out of date.

Conscious Capital U.S. Entities may occasionally contact you by post, telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, etc., with details of products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to be contacted in this way, if you wish to exercise your rights of correction and access, or if you require further information regarding our privacy policies and practices in the above-referenced regions, please reach out by email: [email protected]

Our Use of Cookies and Your Options

By using the Websites with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies you consent to our use of cookies and other tools to provide the products and services available on those sites. If you would like to modify your browser to notify you when you receive a new cookie or to disable cookies altogether, please refer to Managing Cookies below.

Cookies and How We Use Them

Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your Web browser when you visit the Websites or when you view advertisements we have placed on other Websites. Cookies allow your browser to remember some specific information which the Websites’ server can later retrieve and use.  When you quit your browser, some cookies are stored in your computer’s memory, while some expire or disappear.

Cookies are used primarily for administrative purposes, to improve your experience with the Websites. Examples of this would include the use of cookies:

  • To improve site security by “authenticating” you (i.e., verify that you are who you say you are) when you sign-in to our site.
  • To keep track of your specified preferences such as language, time zone and timeouts after periods of inactivity.
  • To allow you to navigate our sites more easily by “remembering” your identity so that you do not have to input your password multiple times as you move between pages or services.

In addition to administrative uses, we may also use cookies in one or more of the following ways, depending on the Websites you are using:

  • To conduct research and analytics to improve the Websites and our products and services. This includes compiling statistical information concerning, among other things, the frequency of your use of the Websites, the pages visited and the length of each visit.
  • To display Conscious Capital U.S. Entities advertisements when you visit Websites of third parties with whom we have marketing relationships and to help us gauge the effectiveness of our advertising efforts. These parties may gather information concerning your use of other websites and provide us with de-identified information about you (such as demographic information or the names of websites where you have been shown ads) which we may use to provide you with more relevant and useful advertising.

This paragraph applies only to the Conscious Capital U.S. Entities website, https://consciouscapital.us/. This site may use third parties to serve advertisements as described immediately above. To do so, these parties may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags) to gather information concerning your use of our that site and other Websites and, based on that information, serve advertisements that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn how to opt out of it on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy and Cookies Policy, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/. The Conscious Capital U.S. Entities website, https://consciouscapital.us/, adheres to the interest-based advertising principles of the Digital Advertising Alliance, available at http://www.aboutads.info/principles.

For more information on how we collect and use information that is identifiable to you, please email us at [email protected].

Managing Cookies

The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer. Some of our sites employ “functionality cookies” that help the site remember your settings and preferences for use when you visit the site in the future. This provides a more tailored and pleasant user experience. These cookies store information in multiple places. On those sites using functionality cookies, you will find a “Delete Cookies” feature on every page that will allow you to delete these cookies completely from your device. Please note that, if you decline to use cookies, you may experience reduced functionality and, for sites using authentication-related cookies, declining cookies may prevent you from using the Websites altogether. To learn more about what cookies are set on your computer as you browse the Web and how to manage or delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Contact Us with Questions 

If you have any questions or concerns, or if you identify any information that you believe is no longer accurate, you may contact Conscious Capital, Inc., Attn: Compliance Department, 405 Lexington Avenue, Floor 26, New York, NY 10174, or email [email protected] or Conscious Giving, Inc., Attn: Compliance Department, 2929 Arch Street, Suite 1700, Philadelphia, PA 19104, or email [email protected]

Disclaimer

Conscious Capital U.S. Entities are not registered broker-dealers and do not offer investment advice or advise on the raising of capital through securities offerings. Conscious Capital U.S. Entities do not recommend or otherwise suggest that any investor make an investment in a particular company, or that any company offer securities to a particular investor. Conscious Capital U.S. Entities take no part in the negotiation or execution of transactions for the purchase or sale of securities, and at no time has possession of funds or securities. No securities transactions are executed or negotiated on or through Conscious Capital U.S. Entities. Conscious Capital U.S. Entities receive no compensation in connection with the purchase or sale of securities.