CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware. (i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. (ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement. 10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations. 10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Capital Group Equity ETF Trust I), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Capital Group Fixed Income ETF Trust), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Capital Group Conservative Equity ETF)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Fund. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Fund.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Sprott ETF Trust), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (American Century Etf Trust), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (OWLshares Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by or on behalf of a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) ), whether in written, electronic or oral form, including, without limitation, information regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and business, operations shall be treated as confidential or finances (“Confidential Information”)) shall be treated as confidential. For the avoidance of doubt, all portfolio holdings and trading information of the Corporation shall constitute Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the TrustCorporation. The Receiving Party shall keep confidential and protect from unauthorized disclosure or misuse the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information with the same degree of care as it would employ with respect to its own information of like importance which it does not desire to have published or disseminated, any Personal Informationbut in no event less than a reasonable degree of care. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, and legal and regulatory compliance and client service managementcompliance. In addition, The Receiving Party shall not use any Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party for the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its Party’s own proprietary purposes, including marketing, customer research, or market analytics, whether or not on an anonymized or aggregate basis. The Transfer Agent shall not use any Confidential Information that of the Corporation for any investment or trading purpose and shall maintain policies, procedures and other measures, including a code of ethics or similar policy, consistent with industry best practices, to ensure compliance with all applicable securities laws by it desires not and any other entity or individual with access to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of careportfolio holdings or trading information. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent Custodian or its Affiliates affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business business, operations and operations records shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios a Company and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between a Company and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between a Company and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Company, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Company otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Company. Each Company agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Company.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by lawapplicable laws, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, rules and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Partyregulations.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Partners Group Private Equity (Master Fund), LLC), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Partners Group Private Equity (TEI), LLC), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Partners Group Private Equity, LLC)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Company and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Company and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Company or the Portfolios (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Company and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Company to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Company, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Company acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, has and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (New Mountain Guardian IV Income Fund, L.L.C.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (New Mountain Guardian IV Unlevered BDC, L.L.C.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (New Mountain Guardian IV BDC, L.L.C.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by or on behalf of a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) ), whether in written, electronic or oral form, including, without limitation, information regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and business, operations shall be treated as confidential or finances (“Confidential Information”)) shall be treated as confidential. For the avoidance of doubt, all portfolio holdings and trading information of the Corporation shall constitute Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such informationCorporation. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify keep confidential and protect from unauthorized disclosure or misuse the Disclosing Party in writing Party’s Confidential Information with the same degree of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.care as it would employ with
(i) 10.2 In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust Corporation or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Corporation and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and internal client service managementmanagement purposes of the Transfer Agent and its affiliates.
(ii) 10.3 Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by or on behalf of a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) ), whether in written, electronic or oral form, including, without limitation, information regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and business, operations shall be treated as confidential or finances (“Confidential Information”)) shall be treated as confidential. For the avoidance of doubt, all portfolio holdings and trading information of the Corporation shall constitute Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the TrustCorporation. The Receiving Party shall keep confidential and protect from unauthorized disclosure or misuse the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information with the same degree of care as it would employ with respect to its own information of like importance which it does not desire to have published or disseminated, any Personal Informationbut in no event less than a reasonable degree of care. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, and legal and regulatory compliance and client service managementcompliance. In addition, The Receiving Party shall not use any Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party for the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its Party’s own proprietary purposes, including marketing, customer research, or market analytics, whether or not on an anonymized or aggregate basis. The Transfer Agent shall not use any Confidential Information that of the Corporation for any investment or trading purpose and shall maintain policies, procedures and other measures, including a code of ethics or similar policy, consistent with industry best practices, to ensure compliance with all applicable securities laws by it desires not and any other entity or individual with access to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of careportfolio holdings or trading information. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent Custodian or its Affiliates affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) 1.2 In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust Corporation or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Corporation and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and internal client service managementmanagement purposes of the Transfer Agent and its affiliates.
(ii) 1.3 Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by or on behalf of a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) ), whether in written, electronic or oral form, including, without limitation, information regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and business, operations shall be treated as confidential or finances (“Confidential Information”)) shall be treated as confidential. For the avoidance of doubt, all portfolio holdings and trading information of the Corporation shall constitute Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the TrustCorporation. The Receiving Party shall keep confidential and protect from unauthorized disclosure or misuse the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information with the same degree of care as it would employ with respect to its own information of like importance which it does not desire to have published or disseminated, any Personal Informationbut in no event less than a reasonable degree of care. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, and legal and regulatory compliance and client service managementcompliance. In addition, The Receiving Party shall not use any Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party for the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its Party’s own proprietary purposes, including marketing, customer research, or market analytics, whether or not on an anonymized or aggregate basis. The Transfer Agent shall not use any Confidential Information that of the Corporation for any investment or trading purpose and shall maintain policies, procedures and other measures, including a code of ethics or similar policy, consistent with industry best practices, to ensure compliance with all applicable securities laws by it desires not and any other entity or individual with access to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of careportfolio holdings or trading information. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent Custodian or its Affiliates affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) 10.2 In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust Corporation or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Corporation and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and internal client service managementmanagement purposes of the Transfer Agent and its affiliates.
(ii) 10.3 Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates With respect to any disclosure by the Transfer Agent pursuant to (cd) in above, the foregoingTransfer shall make reasonable efforts to provide the Trust with reasonable notice prior to any such disclosure unless prohibited from doing so by law, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach rule, regulation or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes awareregulatory authority.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Portfolio and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Clayton Street Trust), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Janus Detroit Street Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iv) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Trust (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Trust, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(iii) The Trust acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators
(iv) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Natixis ETF Trust), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Natixis ETF Trust II)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party Party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party Party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Client and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Client and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Client or the Portfolios (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Client and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Client to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Client, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Client acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, has and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Partners Group Growth, LLC), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Partners Group Next Generation Infrastructure LLC)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents agents, delegates or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below)Affiliates, including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, or (c) that is disclosed where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Receiving Party shall be permitted to disclose any confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party (i) to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, process or (dii) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law provided that the Receiving Party shall promptly notify take reasonable steps to otherwise maintain the Disclosing Party confidential nature of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
9.2 (i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios any Fund (“Fund Information”) and share such information Fund Information with its Affiliates, agents agents, delegates and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out the internal management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service managementcompliance.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (BlackRock Funds III), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (BlackRock ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Trust or Portfolios (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Trust, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Trust acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Northern Lights Fund Trust IV), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Texas Capital Funds Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates In the event of any disclosure of confidential information by a Receiving Party pursuant to clause (c) in or (d) of the foregoingpreceding sentence, unless otherwise (i) provided that the Receiving Party is not prohibited by law from providing notice to the Disclosing Party, the Receiving Party shall promptly notify provide notice to the Disclosing Party Party, if reasonably practicable, prior to making such disclosure or, if not, then within a reasonably prompt period of time following such disclosure; and (ii) the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party continue to treat such information as confidential in writing of any breach or suspected breach of accordance with this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware9.1 with respect to any subsequent disclosure.
9.2 (i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the each Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (John Hancock GA Senior Loan Trust), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (John Hancock GA Mortgage Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
9.2 (i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and solely to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement, Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Guardian Variable Products Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to Information Classification: Limited Access
9.2 (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Coller Secondaries Private Equity Opportunities Fund), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Coller Secondaries Private Equity Opportunities Fund)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential. All confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below)affiliates, including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Natixis ETF Trust II), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Natixis ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by or on behalf of a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) ), whether in written, electronic or oral form, including, without limitation, information regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and business, operations shall be treated as confidential or finances (“Confidential Information”)) shall be treated as confidential. For the avoidance of doubt, all portfolio holdings and trading information of the Corporation shall constitute Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the TrustCorporation. The Receiving Party shall keep confidential and protect from unauthorized disclosure or misuse the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information with the same degree of care as it would employ with respect to its own information of like importance which it does not desire to have published or disseminated, any Personal Informationbut in no event less than a reasonable degree of care. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, and legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such informationcompliance. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify not use any Confidential Information of the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which for the Receiving Party becomes aware.Party’s own purposes, including marketing,
(i) 1.2 In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust Corporation or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Corporation and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and internal client service managementmanagement purposes of the Transfer Agent and its affiliates.
(ii) 1.3 Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (T. Rowe Price Exchange-Traded Funds, Inc.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and solely to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Fund, and such use will be designed to prevent identification of the Trust, any Fund, or any beneficial interests in a Fund. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Fund.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 (iv) Upon written request from the Trust, the Transfer Agent shall promptly return or destroy any non-public portfolio holdings information relating to the Trust, except the Transfer Agent may keep copies of the information for the purpose of maintaining appropriate business records or as may be required by law or any regulatory authority.
9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Guardian Variable Products Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by or on behalf of a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”)) shall be treated as confidential. The Receiving Party shall keep confidential the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include with the same degree of care as it would employ with respect to its own confidential information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, but in the case no event less than a reasonable degree of the Trust, any Personal Informationcare. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service managementmanagement purposes of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Trust or Portfolios (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Trust, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Trust acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Harbor ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is Information Classification: Limited Access disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trustee and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trustee and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trustee otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust. The Trustee agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.. Information Classification: Limited Access
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average Etf Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Portfolio, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Portfolio. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Portfolio.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (AltShares Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
9.2 (ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Cotwo Advisors Physical European Carbon Allowance Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 (a) All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 the paragraphs below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent Bank or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ib) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent Bank (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Funds and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Funds and the Bank or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(c) Subject to paragraph (e) below, the Bank and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Funds (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Funds and the Bank or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Funds to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Bank and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Funds, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Bank publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(d) The Funds acknowledge that the Bank may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(e) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent Bank and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent Bank shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.” Information Classification: Limited Access
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.B. A new section 12 is hereby added as follows:
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CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential. The Receiving Party shall maintain policies and procedures reasonably designed to keep confidential (“Confidential Information”)information confidential and safeguard it from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, The Transfer Agent agrees that it will maintain and enforce policies that prohibit the Transfer Agent and its employees from engaging in securities transactions based on knowledge of the portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case holdings of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services service contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(iib) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (MFS Active Exchange Traded Funds Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement (“Confidential Information”) by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As Further, each Party agrees and represents that in no case would information it relates provides under this Agreement be used against it in a manner that is adverse to its interests (c) including its interests in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes awarecompetitive businesses).
(10.2 i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios a Portfolio and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Franklin Templeton ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business business, operations and operations records shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Company and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Company and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Company and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Company, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Company otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Company. The Company agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Company.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by lawapplicable laws, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, rules and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Partyregulations.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Partners Group Private Income Opportunities, LLC)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “"Disclosing Party”") to the other party (the “"Receiving Party”") regarding the Disclosing Party’s 's business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s 's other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose State Street: Limited Access 11 has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“"Affiliates”")) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information ("Data") obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Portfolio, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed that does not include attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Portfolio. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent's compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Portfolio.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.. State Street: Limited Access 12 Form of
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (USAA ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by the Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services provided hereunder and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below)) solely as it relates to their providing the services and discharging their obligations under this Agreement, including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), (e) that is disclosed pursuant to a request from a regulatory authority who has jurisdiction during the course of a regulatory review, or (ef) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) 9.2 In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios a Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (“Service Providers”) solely (i) to carry out the for use in connection with their provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, if related to financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit provided such confidential information is disclosed under obligations of confidentiality that are no less restrictive than the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to contained in this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 Information Classification: Limited Access
9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents agents, delegates or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below)Affiliates, including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, or (c) that is disclosed where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Receiving Party shall be permitted to disclose any confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party (i) to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, process or (dii) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law provided that the Receiving Party shall promptly notify take reasonable steps to otherwise maintain the Disclosing Party confidential nature of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
9.2 (i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios any Fund (“Fund Information”) and share such information Fund Information with its Affiliates, agents agents, delegates and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out the internal management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service managementcompliance.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (BlackRock Private Investments Fund)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (ed) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in Notwithstanding the foregoingabove provisions of this Section 9.1, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify may disclose confidential information of the Disclosing Party to its regulatory authorities or if such disclosure is otherwise required to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, or as required by operation of the demand to disclose such informationlaw or regulation. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify shall, unless prohibited from doing so, endeavor to provide the Disclosing Party in writing with notice of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which such disclosure as soon as reasonably practicable so that the Receiving Disclosing Party becomes awaremay seek an appropriate protective order, and shall reasonably cooperate with the Disclosing Party, at the Disclosing Party’s expense, if it decides to seek a protective order.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust Fund or the Portfolios Portfolio and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Fund and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Fund and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Fund/Portfolio, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Fund otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Fund/Portfolio. The Fund agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Fund/Portfolio.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Ohio National Fund Inc)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates A Receiving Party shall protect confidential information of a Disclosing Party at least to (c) the same degree as the Receiving Party protects its own confidential information. All confidential information, provided by a Disclosing Party shall remain the property of such Disclosing Party. All confidential information, together with any copies thereof, in whatever form, shall, upon the foregoingDisclosing Party’s written request, unless otherwise prohibited by law be returned to the Disclosing Party or destroyed, at the Receiving Party’s election; provided, that the Receiving Party shall promptly notify be permitted to retain all or any portion of the confidential information, in accordance with the confidentiality obligations specified in this Agreement, to the extent required by applicable law or regulatory authority or to the extent required by the Receiving Party’s internal policies and in accordance with its customary practices for backup and storage. If a Receiving Party is required to disclose confidential information as a result of a court order, subpoena or similar legal duress, then that party may disclose such confidential information, provided that the Receiving Party, if not prohibited from doing so, shall undertake reasonable efforts to give the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing prompt prior written notice upon its receipt of any breach such order or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes awaresubpoena and provided further that failure to provide such notice shall not give rise to any liability.
9.2 (ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliatewill not, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout without the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor prior agreement of the Receiving PartyTrust or Portfolio, provide access to Trust or Portfolio data to third parties for their commercial use.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Neuberger Berman ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Company and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Company and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(iib) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Company or the Portfolios (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Company and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Company to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments or commercialize the Data (collectively, the “Indicators”). The initial use of Data by the Transfer Agent is publication of research that quantifies the flow of investment funds into various markets or investments. Before using Data in any other services or reports, the Transfer Agent will notify the Company of such proposed service or report and provide the Company thirty (30) days in which to evaluate the proposed use of Data. Such other services may not require the aggregation of data but any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Company and its investment adviser. If within such thirty (30) day period the Company notifies the Transfer Agent that it objects to the use of Data in such product or service, this consent will not apply to use of Data in such product or service unless and until the Company otherwise advises the Transfer Agent.
(c) The Company acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, has and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Varagon Capital Corp.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “"Disclosing Party”") to the other party (the “"Receiving Party”") regarding the Disclosing Party’s 's business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s 's other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“"Affiliates”")) may collect and store information regarding the Trust Company or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Company and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Company or Portfolios ("Data") obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Company and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Company to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior "indicators" or "indices" that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the "Indicators"), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Company, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Company acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (AB Active ETFs, Inc.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving State Street: Limited Access Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.. State Street: Limited Access
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Calvert Management Series)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1. All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Fund. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Fund.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3. The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (PFM Multi-Manager Series Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (iA) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (iiB) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Eaton Vance NextShares Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(iib) Except Subject to paragraph (e) below (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management), the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Trust or the Portfolios (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit (i) the confidentiality and data-protection obligations Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Trust, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and its Affiliates (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement and applicable lawAgreement. For the avoidance of doubt, such information shall not include Personal Information (as defined below).
(c) The Trust acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(d) The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliateimplement and maintain a comprehensive written information security program that contains appropriate security measures to safeguard the Personal Information of the Trust’s shareholders, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The employees, directors and/or officers that the Transfer Agent affirms receives, stores, maintains, processes or otherwise accesses in connection with the provision of services hereunder. For these purposes, “Personal Information” shall mean (i) an individual’s name (first initial and last name or first name and last name), address or telephone number plus (a) social security number, (b) driver’s license number, (c) state identification card number, (d) debit or credit card number, (e) financial account number or (f) personal identification number or password that it haswould permit access to a person’s account or (ii) any combination of the foregoing that would allow a person to log onto or access an individual’s account. Notwithstanding the foregoing “personal information” shall not include information that is lawfully obtained from publicly available information, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreementor from federal, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information state or local government records lawfully made available to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulationsgeneral public.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Pershing Square USA, Ltd.)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/, customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Ubs Relationship Funds)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “"Disclosing Party”") to the other party (the “"Receiving Party”") regarding the Disclosing Party’s 's business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s 's other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.State Street: Limited Access
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“"Affiliates”")) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information ("Data") obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Portfolio, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed that does not include attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Portfolio. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent's compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Portfolio.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.. State Street: Limited Access Execution Copy
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (USAA ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information Information Classification: Limited Access provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Fund. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Fund.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with Information Classification: Limited Access confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Syntax Etf Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
9.2 (ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Portfolio and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Financial Investors Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Fund. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Fund.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.”
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion (b) The first sentence of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor Section 11 of the Receiving PartyAgreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following: “This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect for an initial term ending January 1, 2018 (the “Initial Term”).”
(c) Schedule A attached hereto shall replace in its entirety any prior Schedule A.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Mercer Funds)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
9.2 (i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (BMO LGM Frontier Markets Equity Fund)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential. A Receiving Party shall keep confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include the confidential information traditionally recognized of a Disclosing Party at least to the same degree as confidential, such as financial the Receiving Party protects its own confidential information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
9.2 (ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (DriveWealth ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Company and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Company and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Company (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Company and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Company to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Company, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Company acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, has and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Lord Abbett Private Credit Fund)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Eaton Vance NextShares Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.Information Classification: Limited Access
10.2 (i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Syntax Etf Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Elevation Series Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
9.2 (ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (X-Square Series Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All The parties hereto agree that each shall treat confidentially all information provided under this Agreement by a each party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s its business and operations operations. All confidential information provided by a party hereto shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, used by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, other party hereto solely for the purpose of performing rendering or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the pursuant to this Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (and, except as defined may be reasonably required in Section 10.2 below)carrying out this Agreement, including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires shall not to be disclosed to any third party. Neither party will use or disclose confidential information for purposes other than the activities contemplated by this Agreement or except as required by law, court process or pursuant to the lawful requirement of a third governmental agency, or if the party is advised by counsel that it may incur liability for failure to make a disclosure, or except at the request or with the written consent of the other party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each party acknowledges that the other party may provide access to and use of confidential information relating to the other party to the disclosing party’s employees, contractors, agents, professional advisors, auditors or persons performing similar functions. but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of careonly to the extent necessary for the disclosing party to discharge its responsibilities under this Agreement. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party a party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party other party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party Trust or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) The undertakings and obligations contained in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party this section 10.1 shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach survive termination or suspected breach expiration of this Section 10.1 Agreement for a period of which the Receiving Party becomes awarethree (3) years.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Principal Exchange-Traded Funds)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Trust (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of theft services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Trust, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Trust acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, has and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules rales and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (VanEck Bitcoin Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations operations, including all information, data and records provided by the Fund to the Transfer Agent, shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product subject to Section 9.2 and business proposals, business plans, to the exclusions and the like, and, limitation set forth in the case of the Trust, any Personal Informationthis Section. Subject to this Section 10.2 and to Section 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party and all derivative information that is identifiable to the Disclosing Party, or persons, affiliates, or accounts associated with the Disclosing Party shall be usedsolely and exclusively owned by the Disclosing Party, including disclosure to third parties, and shall be used by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including internal use for financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, of the Receiving Party, regulatory compliance, and external reporting of aggregated data that is not identifiable to the Disclosing Party will exercise at least or any person, affiliate or account of the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of careDisclosing Party. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, provided that in each instance the Receiving Party notifies and cooperates with the Disclosing Party’s efforts, at Disclosing Party’s expense, to obtain protective orders, confidential filing status, or other available protections, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and solely to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement provided that in each instance any agent, Affiliate or service provider is under obligation in material conformity with those imposed on the Transfer Agent to protect the confidential status of such information and (ii) to carry out management maintain the security of its businessessuch information against improper access, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service managementdisclosure or use.
(iib) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data confidential information of the Fund pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 (c) Upon written request from the Fund, the Transfer Agent shall promptly return or destroy any non-public portfolio holdings information relating to the Fund, except the Transfer Agent may keep copies of the information for the purpose of maintaining appropriate business records or as may be required by law or any regulatory authority.
9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, has and will continue to have and implement throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (MassMutual Access Pine Point Fund)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “"Disclosing Party”") to the other party (the “"Receiving Party”") regarding the Disclosing Party’s 's business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s 's other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“"Affiliates”")) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the the Fund or the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information ("Data") obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Fund or the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust. the Fund agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent's compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Fund or the Trust.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Principal Exchange-Traded Funds)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “"Disclosing Party”") to the other party (the “"Receiving Party”") regarding the Disclosing Party’s 's business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s 's other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“"Affiliates”")) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information ("Data") obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Fund. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent's compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Fund.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Davis Fundamental ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates In the event of any disclosure of confidential information by a Receiving Party pursuant to clause (c) in or (d) of the foregoingpreceding sentence, unless otherwise (i) provided that the Receiving Party is not prohibited by law from providing notice to the Disclosing Party, the Receiving Party shall promptly notify provide notice to the Disclosing Party Party, if reasonably practicable, prior to making such disclosure or, if not, then within a reasonably prompt period of time following such disclosure; and (ii) the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party continue to treat such information as confidential in writing of any breach or suspected breach of accordance with this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware9.1 with respect to any subsequent disclosure.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the each Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(iib) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (John Hancock Asset-Based Lending Fund)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with With respect to maintaining the confidentiality Trust and the Sponsor, confidential information includes, without limitation, private keys and the related security infrastructure of its own proprietary the Custodian, information concerning the Trust and the Sponsor’s operations, markets, products, product specifications, designs, documentation, technical data, trade secrets, processes, computer programs (in object or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but source code form), know-how, techniques, sketches, ideas, schematics, drawings, apparatus, equipment, concepts, works in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree process, technology, models, inventions, material data, business methods, business policies, business plans, research and development, financial condition, results of careoperations, strategies, and contracts. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.State Street: Limited Access
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (ia) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (iib) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this AgreementAgreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the confidentiality Trust/Fund, and data-protection obligations publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (a) other customers of the Transfer Agent and and/or its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.(b)
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (VanEck Vectors ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Fund. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Fund.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Weiss Strategic Interval Fund)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As The Transfer Agent has implemented and will maintain a written information security program that contains appropriate security measures to safeguard the confidential information provided to it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of under this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes awareAgreement.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Portfolio and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Portfolio, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Portfolio. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Portfolio.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Ivy NextShares)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential. A Receiving Party shall keep confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include the confidential information traditionally recognized of a Disclosing Party at least to the same degree as confidential, such as financial the Receiving Party protects its own confidential information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Trust or Portfolios (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Trust, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Trust acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (2023 ETF Series Trust II)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents agents, delegates or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below)Affiliates, including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, or (c) that is disclosed where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Receiving Party shall be permitted to disclose any confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party (i) to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, process or (dii) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law provided that the Receiving Party shall promptly notify take reasonable steps to otherwise maintain the Disclosing Party confidential nature of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Company (“Company Information”) and share such information the Company Information with its Affiliates, agents agents, delegates and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Company and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out the internal management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service managementcompliance.
(ii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 9.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 Section 9.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 9.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Master Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (BlackRock Private Credit Fund)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(b) Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Trust (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust to develop, publish or otherwise distribute to third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or “indices” that represent broad trends in the flow of investment funds into various markets, sectors or investment instruments (collectively, the “Indicators”), but only so long as (i) the Data is combined or aggregated with (A) information of other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or (B) information derived from other sources, in each case such that the Indicators do not allow for attribution or identification of such Data with the Trust, (ii) the Data represents less than a statistically meaningful portion of all of the data used to create the Indicators and (iii) the Transfer Agent publishes or otherwise distributes to third parties only the Indicators and under no circumstance publishes, makes available, distributes or otherwise discloses any of the Data to any third party, whether aggregated, anonymized or otherwise, except as expressly permitted under this Agreement.
(c) The Trust acknowledges that the Transfer Agent may seek to realize economic benefit from the publication or distribution of the Indicators.
(d) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section Section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, has and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (VanEck Ethereum Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trustee and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trustee and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trustee otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust. The Trustee agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (SPDR S&p 500 Etf Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 9.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 9.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 9.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(ia) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 9.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(iib) Except as expressly contemplated by this AgreementSubject to paragraph (d) below, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and and/or its Affiliates may use any Confidential Information of the Trust or Portfolios (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and applicable law. The the Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliateor one of its Affiliates, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed including Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality regarding transactions and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information portfolio holdings relating to the extent required by applicable lawsTrust to develop, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees publish or otherwise distribute to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, third parties certain investor behavior “indicators” or contractor of the Receiving Party.“indices” that represent broad trends in the
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Putnam ETF Trust)
CONFIDENTIALITY AND USE OF DATA. 10.1 All information provided under this Agreement by a party (the “Disclosing Party”) to the other party (the “Receiving Party”) regarding the Disclosing Party’s business and operations shall be treated as confidential (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information for purposes hereof shall include information traditionally recognized as confidential, such as financial information, strategies, security practices, portfolio holdings, portfolio trades, product and business proposals, business plans, and the like, and, in the case of the Trust, any Personal Information. Subject to Section 10.2 below, all Confidential Information confidential information provided under this Agreement by Disclosing Party shall be used, including disclosure to third parties, by the Receiving Party, or its agents or service providers, solely for the purpose of performing or receiving the services and discharging the Receiving Party’s other obligations under the Agreement or managing the business of the Receiving Party and its Affiliates (as defined in Section 10.2 below), including financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management. In addition, the Receiving Party will exercise at least the degree of care that the Receiving Party exercises with respect to maintaining the confidentiality of its own proprietary or Confidential Information that it desires not to be disclosed to a third party but in no event less than a commercially reasonable degree of care. The foregoing shall not be applicable to any information (a) that is publicly available when provided or thereafter becomes publicly available, other than through a breach of this Agreement, (b) that is independently derived by the Receiving Party without the use of any information provided by the Disclosing Party in connection with this Agreement, (c) that is disclosed to comply with any legal or regulatory proceeding, investigation, audit, examination, subpoena, civil investigative demand or other similar process, (d) that is disclosed as required by operation of law or regulation or as required to comply with the requirements of any market infrastructure that the Disclosing Party or its agents direct the Transfer Agent or its Affiliates to employ (or which is required in connection with the holding or settlement of instruments included in the assets subject to this Agreement), or (e) where the party seeking to disclose has received the prior written consent of the party providing the information, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. As it relates to (c) in the foregoing, unless otherwise prohibited by law the Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party of the demand to disclose such information. The Receiving Party shall promptly notify the Disclosing Party in writing of any breach or suspected breach of this Section 10.1 of which the Receiving Party becomes aware.
(i) In connection with the provision of the services and the discharge of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Transfer Agent (which term for purposes of this Section 10.2 includes each of its parent company, branches and affiliates (“Affiliates”)) may collect and store information regarding the Trust or the Portfolios Fund and share such information with its Affiliates, agents and service providers who have a need to know such information in order and to the extent reasonably necessary (i) to carry out the provision of services contemplated under this Agreement and other agreements between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or any of its Affiliates and (ii) to carry out management of its businesses, including, but not limited to, financial and operational management and reporting, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance and client service management.
(ii) Subject to paragraph (iii) below, the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates (except those Affiliates or business divisions principally engaged in the business of asset management) may use any data or other information (“Data”) obtained by such entities in the performance of their services under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Trust and the Transfer Agent or one of its Affiliates, including Data regarding transactions and portfolio holdings relating to the Trust/Fund, and publish, sell, distribute or otherwise commercialize the Data; provided that, unless the Trust otherwise consents, Data is combined or aggregated with information relating to (i) other customers of the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates or (ii) information derived from other sources, in each case such that any published information will be displayed in a manner designed to prevent attribution to or identification of such Data with the Trust/Fund. The Trust agrees that the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates may seek to profit and realize economic benefit from the commercialization and use of the Data, that such benefit will constitute part of the Transfer Agent’s compensation for services under this Agreement or such other agreement, and the Transfer Agent and/or its Affiliates shall be entitled to retain and not be required to disclose the amount of such economic benefit and profit to the Trust/Fund.
(iii) Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, nothing in this Section 10.2 shall limit the confidentiality and data-protection obligations of the Transfer Agent and its Affiliates under this Agreement and applicable law. The Transfer Agent shall cause any Affiliate, agent or service provider to which it has disclosed Data pursuant to this section 10.2 to comply at all times with confidentiality and data-protection obligations as if it were a party to this Agreement.. Information Classification: Limited Access
10.3 The Transfer Agent affirms that it has, and will continue to have throughout the term of this Agreement, procedures in place that are reasonably designed to protect the privacy of non-public personal consumer/customer financial information to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.
10.4 As required by law, the Receiving Party agrees to delete from its records any Personal Information disclosed to it by the Disclosing Party, and to ensure the deletion of such information from the records of any employee, agent, affiliate, or contractor of the Receiving Party.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Aberdeen Standard Investments ETFs)