DATA COLLECTION
You can visit our website, www.sandhillecon.com, to read more about our company, our products, and our services without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information.

When registering for access to our research papers and reports, we collect non-public confidential information about you in a number of ways:

• We may collect information from you on forms, on documents, by telephone, by personal discussions, or otherwise when you register for Sand Hill’s services.  This information may include your name, address, phone number, email address, as well as information about your investments or other information.
• We collect information from you when you visit our website.  Our website may use Internet browser tools, such as “cookies,” which enable us to recognize you when you navigate through our website or utilize our services.  These cookies allow you to access certain functionalities and services on our website.

ACCESS AND SECURITY
We limit access to non-public confidential information about you (such as your name, address, and email address) only to our employees, and designated agents and third-parties that require such access.  We may also disclose information about you to companies that service, maintain, or process for us your information.  We require that all parties who we grant access to your non-public information agree to keep your information secure and confidential.  We will also review these companies’ privacy policies to ensure that your information is securely maintained and not misappropriated or used in a manner that is contrary to our policies.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards over your information that meet industry standards, including the use of encryption technologies to protect your confidential information.  We protect your account information by placing it in the secure portion of our web site, using firewall and other security technologies such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect your information and our network systems from intrusion or attacks from outside parties.

In certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose non-public confidential information about you to a court of law, law enforcement authority, or federal or state regulatory agency as part of a court order, subpoena, or regulatory review of our business records.

USES OF INFORMATION
We may aggregate the data you provide to us and incorporate such data into our business offerings in order to provide you with improved products and services.  This aggregated data will not include any individually identifiable non-public confidential information.

Periodically, we may wish to share your information with certain third-parties, such as vendors with which we engage for marketing services.

We do not sell any of the information you provide us to third-party marketers or to any other entity for any purpose.

CORRESPONDENCE AND OPTING-OUT
Email is an important medium for Sand Hill to maintain communications with its clients.  We may wish to utilize email to contact you about important information regarding your registration with us.  We may also use email to communicate to you information about our promotions, products, and services we think may be of interest to you.

As a registrant to our web site, you are consenting to receive email correspondence from us which may include offers for our products and services. If at some future date you do not wish to receive such correspondence from us, you can always request to "opt-out" of receiving such emails by emailing us at privacy@sandhillecon.com with "Unsubscribe" in the subject heading.

At no time will our email correspondence request that you reply to the email to provide your personal mailing address, date of birth, credit card number, or social security number.  If you receive any such email requests, immediately forward the email to privacy@sandhillecon.com so that we can pursue the matter, and then delete it from your inbox.

DATA ACCURACY
We are committed to keeping accurate and up-to-date records to help ensure the integrity of your information we maintain.  When we become aware of apparent discrepancies or inconsistencies, we may contact you via email to correct and confirm the accuracy of your data.  When you become aware of inaccurate information you may contact us at privacy@sandhillecon.com and request that your information be updated.

CHANGES AND REVISIONS
In the event that these policies are revised, updated, and changed, we will notify you and provide you with a copy of these changes and allow you a reasonably sufficient time to review and respond to these changes.

CONTACTING US
You can also send a written request to privacy@sandhillecon.com if you have questions or concerns regarding our privacy policies.  Alternatively, you can send a written request via the postal service to Sand Hill Econometrics, Attn: Privacy, 115 Everett Ave., Palo Alto, CA  94301.