Internet Privacy Statement

Updated: April 2007

Our Privacy Statement explains how we protect the privacy of your customer information and manage it carefully to provide financial products and services to you. Due to the unique nature of the Internet, there is some additional information you may wish to know when you visit EvergreenInvestments.com. This section describes the Internet-specific privacy practices governing EvergreenInvestments.com and supplements our corporate Privacy Statement.

How we gather and manage information online

When you use our online (Internet) products and services, we may collect application and/or service offering, site navigation, customer contact, optional survey and other information. We use this information to respond to your requests, personalize our online services and improve our site to make it more responsive to your needs. Refer to the topics below for more detail on the tools we use to serve you better.

When you visit our site, you do so anonymously unless you specifically choose to provide us with information that identifies you personally, for example through emails, requests for site access or by accessing your online account information. If you do provide us with information that identifies you personally, your information is protected by the security measures we have taken to provide for the confidentiality and security of your transactions and personally identifiable information. Visit our corporate Privacy Statement for more information on how we keep your information secure.


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Internet cookies

An Internet cookie is a small file that stores bits of information. It is unique to the computer you are using and can only be read by the website that gave it to you. Cookies are a basic way to identify the computer you happen to be using at the time, and do not identify you personally. They cannot be used to obtain data from your hard drive, your email address or personal information stored on your computer. Cookies do not contain viruses.


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How cookies are used

We use cookies for various reasons – these are specified below:

  • To facilitate online transactions, we use session cookies. Session cookies are necessary if you want to login to our online services, navigate between the different services, and transact using online services. Session cookies do not remain active after you log off the service which requires their use. Session cookies are also automatically deleted whenever you close all open Web browser windows
  • We also use session cookies to help you navigate and interact with the content on our site more efficiently. These cookies may save you from having to enter the same information twice during an online session, for example. These cookies also help us keep track of how you arrived at certain content, so that we can adapt the presentation of subsequent content to ensure it is relevant to your situation.
  • To personalize your website experience, we may create cookies that help our site remember your preferences when you return at a later time. Unlike session cookies, which do not remain active after you log off a site, these cookies remain on your computer after you log off. You can delete these cookies from your computer at any time.
  • To evaluate our website, we may use cookies to facilitate online surveys or to track how visitors use our site, such as which pages are viewed the most or identify the most common navigation paths. This information is used to improve the content, usability and functionality of our website. Although these cookies remain on your computer after you log off, you may delete them from your computer at any time.

 

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Cookies - we want you to know

Although we do not collect any personally identifiable information from, or store personal information in cookies, Evergreen will still treat the information supplied through cookies with the security and privacy protections as we do with other customer information we receive. We may contract with other companies to assist us in setting cookies or tracking technology for the purposes described above, and compiling and analyzing anonymous ad or website response information. These companies are prohibited by legal agreement from using the information they gather for their own purposes or from sharing this information with others.


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Do you have to accept cookies?

No, you can disallow cookies by making the appropriate selection from your browser options to inform you when cookies are set or to prevent cookies from being set. You should understand, however, that cookies are required to login and navigate within the Online Services area. Therefore, if you set your browser options to disallow cookies, you may limit the functionality we can provide when you visit our site.


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Children’s information

We respect the privacy of your children, and we comply with the practices established under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. We do not knowingly collect or retain personally identifiable information from consumers under the age of thirteen.


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Email from other sources

Evergreen takes your email marketing preference seriously and will not send marketing messages if you tell us you do not want to receive them. Additionally, we will send you email servicing messages only when necessary or at your initiation to quickly deliver important product enrollment, account or service information potentially requiring action on your part. Rest assured, when you receive such messages, they will be clearly marked as coming from Evergreen and will not request confidential information such as a social security number, permanent login name, and/or access code to be provided and sent back through unsecured email.


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IP addresses

When you enter EvergreenInvestments.com, you pass through a "firewall" we use for security purposes. As you pass through it, we may identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the device you are using, such as a personal computer or handheld device. The IP address does not identify you personally, but it may allow us to identify the device you're using. We store IP addresses in case we ever need to track a connection to its point of origin for security reasons.


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Third-party content

By clicking on links to third-party Web sites, you will leave the Evergreen Investments Web site and enter a privately owned Web site that is not affiliated with Evergreen Investments or its affiliates. The information and opinions found on third-party Web sites have not been verified by our Firm, nor do we make any representations as to its accuracy and completeness. By linking to this Web site, Evergreen Investments is not endorsing the third-party's products and services, or its privacy and security policies, which may differ from Evergreen Investments and/or its affiliates. We recommend that you review the third-party's policies and terms and conditions to fully understand what information may be collected and maintained as a result of your visit to this Web site.


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