To Our Clients and Prospective Clients

At Banyan Partners LLC, we are proud of our privacy practices and want you to know how we protect your personal information and use it to establish and maintain your account.

First and foremost, we are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of your personal information. You benefit from this privacy protection automatically, whether you are an existing, prospective or former client. We are committed to providing you with superior service and in doing so, protecting the nonpublic information we have collected.

Please be aware that you do not have to contact us to benefit from our privacy protections; they apply automatically to all our clients.

Should you have any questions regarding the privacy of your personal information, please contact us at 800.422.6172.

Thank you for the trust you are placing in us.

Banyan Partners LLC

Privacy Notice

At Banyan Partners, LLC (“Banyan Partners,” “us” and “we”), our relationship with you is our most important asset. We are privileged that you have entrusted us with your financial affairs and committed to safeguarding the privacy of the information we collect. As an SEC-regulated financial institution, Banyan Partners is required to obtain certain personal, nonpublic information about you. The following Privacy Policy demonstrates our commitment to the privacy of your personal information.

How and Why We Obtain Personal Information

Banyan Partners may collect non-public, personal information about you in any of the following ways:

• New Account Application (i.e., Social Security number, date of birth, income and assets)
• Transaction activity (types of transactions, balances)
• Information about your transactions and account experience with us
• Information from consumer reporting agencies (for example, to verify your identity, to assess your creditworthiness)
• Information from other outside sources regarding your employment, credit, or other relationship with them
• Demographic and other general information we obtain that allows us to develop new products and services we can offer you, but that will not be used in any way to determine your eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or products and services that you request;

Banyan Partners limits the collection, use, and retention of your personal information to the extent of assisting us to properly administer our business, service your account and to continue to improve our services to you.

How Banyan Partners Protects the Collection of Your Information

Banyan Partners recognizes the importance of protecting your personal information and we take the responsibility of handling both your trust and personal information extremely seriously.

We do not sell client information to anyone. We also do not disclose any non-public, personal information about you to anyone, whether you are a current or former client, except as permitted by law or as authorized by you. We may share your personal information that we collect “on a strictly limited, confidential basis” with the following entities:

• Affiliates, such as service providers
• Unaffiliated third parties, such as the custodian and other entities that need to know that information to assist us in providing services to you
• Regulatory agencies such as the SEC along with federal and state law enforcement agencies
• Governmental agencies, such as the IRS
• Credit reporting and verification resources
• In connection with a subpoena or similar legal process, a fraud investigation, or an audit

Banyan Partners restricts access to your personal and account information to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you or to assist you with ongoing maintenance of your account. We maintain physical, electronic, contractual and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information.

Banyan Partners will keep you current on its privacy policy. We will provide you with a copy of our privacy policy annually, as long as you maintain an account with us. We reserve the right to make changes to this policy and in doing so, we will notify you in writing before we make changes that affect the way we collect or share your information.

If you are a former client of Banyan Partners, your information will be treated in the same manner as that of our current clients.

Our current Privacy Policy is available on our website at: www.banyanpartners.net.

Additionally, you can obtain a written copy by emailing us at info@banyanpartners.net or by calling us at 1.800.422.6172.

Website Privacy

The importance of protecting your personal information online is critical in today’s Internet environment. Therefore, along with all of the security measures described above, we employ the following online security measures:

We protect your personal account information by utilizing state-of-the-art security measures whereby all your personal account information is stored on a secure website maintained by the custodian of your assets. Access to view your account online is protected by a unique User ID and Personal Identification Number (PIN).

When you visit our website, a cookie may be transmitted to your computer. A cookie is simply an electronically transmitted file that holds small pieces of information that personalizes and enhances the performance of your experience at Banyan Partners. Furthermore, it enables us to determine which areas of our website are more popular than others and which of our advertisements on other sites have been visited, which enables us to make improvements to our site. It is important for you to know that your privacy is never compromised when you accept a cookie from our website. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, allowing you to decide whether or not to accept it.

You signify your acceptance of the terms of the Banyan Partners LLC Privacy Policy by using our website. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time.

Please check our website periodically to remain informed of any changes. Your continued use of the Banyan Partners website following the posting of changes to these terms will signify your acceptance of those changes.

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