Privacy Policy

Legg Mason Capital Management is committed to keeping nonpublic personal information about you secure and confidential. This notice is intended to help you understand how we fulfill this commitment.

From time to time, we may collect a variety of personal information about you, including:

  • Information we receive from you on applications and forms, via the telephone, and through our websites; and,
  • Information about your account with us, our affiliates, or others.

Legg Mason Capital Management will not sell your nonpublic information to anyone. Further, we do not disclose your nonpublic information, except as required or permitted by applicable law or regulation. For example, we may provide this information to companies that perform administrative services on our behalf, to securities industry regulators, or in response to a subpoena. We will require companies that we hire to protect the confidentiality of this information and to use it only to perform the services for which we hired them.

With respect to our internal security procedures, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your nonpublic information, and we restrict access to this information.

Legg Mason Capital Management will continue to adhere to these privacy policies and practices with respect to your nonpublic information even if you decide to end your relationship with us.

Online Privacy Practices

Our practices concerning information gathered during online sessions are explained below. These practices are consistent with and remain subject to our general Privacy Policy stated above.

Our web site utilizes a variety of technologies (such as cookies and web beacons) to collect, store, and aggregate data about usage and browsing patterns. These technologies help us analyze and tailor the site for all users and better understand how our site is used.

Except as noted herein, we do not have any personally identifiable information about you unless you choose to give us such information during an online session. If you do give us personal information during your session, we will collect that information and use it to service your request and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

If you are a registered user of our Web site who has enabled online access for your account(s), we collect all information that you submit through an online session, such as a transaction you've requested us to make. In this manner, your general usage patterns and other information noted above would be linked to you specifically.