THE JAPAN FUND
GLOBAL EQUITY INCOME FUND
ASIA PACIFIC EX JAPAN FUND
GLOBAL EMERGING MARKETS FUND
INDIA FUND
INTERNATIONAL GROWTH EQUITY FUND
GREATER CHINA FUND
INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND
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FACTS
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WHAT DOES NOMURA PARTNERS FUNDS, INC. (THE "FUNDS") DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? |
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Why?
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Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
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What?
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The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:
- Social Security number and other information we receive from you on applications or other forms
- Information about your transactions with us and our service providers, or others
If you decide to close your account(s) or become an inactive customer, we will continue to adhere to the privacy polices and practices described in this notice.
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How?
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All financial companies need to share customers' personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers' personal information; the reasons the Funds choose to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
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Reasons we can share your personal information
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Do the Funds share?
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Can you limit this sharing?
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For our everyday business purposes— such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus
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Yes
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No
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For our marketing purposes— to offer our products and services to you
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Yes
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No
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For joint marketing with other financial companies
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No
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For our affiliates' everyday business purposes— information about your transactions and experiences
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Yes
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No
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For our affiliates' everyday business purposes— information about your creditworthiness
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No
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For our affiliates to market to you
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No
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For non-affiliates to market to you
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No
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Questions?
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Call 1-800-53-JAPAN (1-800-535-2726)
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Who we are
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Who is providing this notice?
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Nomura Partners Funds, Inc. (the "Funds")
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What we do
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How do the Funds protect my personal information?
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To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings. We also restrict access to your personal and account information to those persons who need to know it in order to provide services to you.
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How do the Funds collect my personal information?
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We collect your personal information, for example, when you:
- open an account
- purchase or sell shares
- exchange shares
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Why can't I limit all sharing?
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Federal law gives you the right to limit only:
- sharing for affiliates' everyday business purposes-information about your creditworthiness
- affiliates from using your information to market to you
- sharing for non-affiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
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Definitions
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Affiliates
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Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. The following companies may be considered Affiliates of the Funds:
- The term affiliate means the Funds' investment adviser, investment sub-advisers, and any entity controlling, controlled by and under common control with the investment adviser.
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Non-affiliates
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Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. The following companies provide services to the Funds and we may share your personal information as part of their everyday services to Funds.
- State Street Bank and Trust Company
- Boston Financial Data Services
- Foreside Financial Group, LLC
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Joint marketing
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A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
- The Funds do not have any joint marketing agreements.
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Other Important Information
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In the event that you hold shares of the Funds through a financial intermediary, including, but not limited to, a broker-dealer, bank or trust company, the privacy policy of your financial intermediary will govern how your nonpublic personal information will be shared with non-affiliated third parties by that entity.
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Effective Date: January 1, 2011
