TERMS AND CONDITIONS

INTENDED AUDIENCE
The information provided on this site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation, or which would subject GW Capital, Inc. to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction.

USE OF MAIL
The security of electronic mail sent through the Internet is not guaranteed. Please do not send sensitive or confidential information to us via electronic mail. Delivery, and timely delivery, of electronic mail is also not guaranteed. Therefore, GW Capital, Inc. recommends that you do not send time-sensitive or action-oriented messages to us via electronic mail. Such requests, orders, or instructions will not be processed until GW Capital, Inc. can confirm your instructions or obtain appropriate written documentation where necessary.

GOVERNING LAW
These Terms will be governed and construed under the laws of the state of Washington without regard to its conflicts of law principals, regardless of whether you reside in Washington or transact business with GW Capital, Inc. in Washington or elsewhere. Nothing in these Terms creates any rights or protections that you are not already entitled to by law. If any part of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be deemed modified as necessary to make it effective, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect.

DISCLAIMER
The investment choices and services in this site are provided as general information only and are not intended to provide investment or other advice. This material is not to be construed as a recommendation, or an offer to buy or sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any security, financial product or instrument or to participate in any particular trading strategy.

The fact that GW Capital, Inc. has made the investment choices and services provided herein available to the user does not constitute a representation that any product described herein is suitable or appropriate for the user. The user should not construe any of the material contained herein as business, financial, investment, trading, legal, regulatory, tax or accounting advice.

No permission is granted to copy, redistribute, reproduce, republish, in any form, any information contained herein. Unauthorized copying or modification of the contents of this website may be a violation of federal copyright laws and could subject the violator to legal action.

GW Capital, Inc. does not warrant that this website, or the functions contained in this website, will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the website, or the servers that make it available, are free from viruses or other harmful components. You assume the entire cost of any necessary servicing, repairing, or correcting of your property or operations as a result of using this website. You accept at your own risk that the Internet or other online communications may not perform as intended as a result of human, mechanical or other error.

In no event will GW Capital, Inc. or its directors, officers or employees be liable to you for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or incidental damages related in any way to your use of this website, even if: (a) such damages are reasonably foreseeable; or (b) GW Capital, Inc. or any other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

This site is only intended for clients and interested investors residing in states and countries in which GW Capital, Inc. is qualified to conduct investment advisory services.

GW Capital, Inc. is a registered investment advisor.  GW Capital, Inc. may only transact business in those states or countries in which it is registered, or qualifies for an exemption or exclusion from registration requirements.  For non-clients of the firm, GW Capital, Inc.'s web site is limited to the dissemination of general information pertaining to its investment advisory services.  Please contact GW Capital, Inc. at 425-455-4551 to find out if the investment adviser is qualified to provide investment advisory services in the state where you reside. 

PRIVACY POLICY
GW Capital, Inc. does not collect or maintain personal information on our clients, their representatives, employees' or other contacts. However, we consider the information we do collect and maintain pertaining to the accounts' we manage just as important and private and we protect this information in the same manner as non-public personal information. Following is our Privacy Policy outlining the information we do collect and under what circumstances we disclose that information.

Information Collected and Maintained
We collect and maintain information directly relating to the account(s) we manage including but not limited to; account tax ID(s), client contact name(s), titles, phone/fax numbers, address', custodian account number(s), contact name(s), phone/fax numbers and address', any pertinent consultant information such as contact name(s), title(s), phone/fax numbers and address'.

We also collect and maintain information necessary to the investment business we are in. This includes, but not limited to; account holdings reports, custodian monthly holdings and transactions reports, correspondence between us and the client, correspondence between us and the custodian, performance data for each individual account and consolidated groups.

Disclosure of Information Policy
We disclose to other clients our total assets under management. We may use an accounts' performance numbers and holdings list in the course of marketing our company and its' investment strategy; however we do not disclose the account name with this information.

We disclose account information to brokerages only when we instigate a trade with them. This information is in the form of delivery instructions provided to us by the custodian of the account(s) and any additional instructions provided by the client for the purpose of trading and reporting on the trade.

We disclose information of our account(s) for the purpose of obtaining Errors & Omissions Insurance.

We disclose information of our account(s) to the Securities and Exchange Commission or other Government or State agencies requiring such information from us by law.

We disclose information to the corporation(s) we hold securities of in our client account(s) when required by law, including but not limited to; number of shares held and market value of shares held.

Confidentiality and Security of Personal Information
Access to account information is allowed for business purposes only. GW Capital, Inc. maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect all information and records we collect and maintain.

Personal Information of Former Clients
GW Capital, Inc.'s information privacy policy also applies to its former clients.

Changes in our Privacy Policy
GW Capital, Inc. may choose to modify its privacy policy at any time. We will notify current clients of these changes when they take place.