Privacy Notice

Privacy Notice

FACTS WHAT DOES FIRSTHAND TECHNOLOGY VALUE FUND, INC. DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Why? Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
What? The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

  • Social Security number
  • Banking information
  • Account transactions
  • Retirement assets
How? All financial companies need to share customers' personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers' personal information; the reasons Firsthand Capital Management, Inc. chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
Reasons we can share your personal information Does Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. share? Can you limit this sharing?
For our everyday business purposes—such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations Yes No
For our marketing purposes—to offer our products and services to you No N/A
For joint marketing with other financial companies No N/A
For our affiliates' everyday business purposes—information about your transactions and experiences No N/A
For our affiliates' everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness No N/A
For our affiliates to market to you No N/A
For nonaffiliates to market to you No N/A
Who we are
Who is providing this notice? Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. is a publically traded venture capital fund, with shares quoted on the OTCQB market, that is a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
What we do
How does Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. protect my personal information? To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.
How does Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. collect my personal information? We collect your personal information, for example, when you

  • open an account or deposit money
Why can't I limit all sharing? Federal law gives you the right to limit only

  • sharing for affiliates' everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness
  • affiliates from using your information to market to you
  • sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
Definitions
Affiliates Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

  • Firsthand Capital Management, Inc. and Firsthand Funds
Nonaffiliates Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

  • BNY Mellon Investment Servicing (U.S.) Inc. (Transfer Agent for Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. and Firsthand Funds)
Joint marketing A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
Other important information
This notice applies to individual consumers who are customers or former customers. This notice replaces all previous notices of our consumer privacy policy, and may be amended at any time. We will keep you informed of changes or amendments as required by law.