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Privacy Policy

General 

Welcome to the website (“Carter Funds Website”) of Carter Funds, LLC and its related affiliates (“Carter Funds”). This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) only applies to information collection and use practices on the Carter Funds Website. This Privacy Policy is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use. 

Links 

There might be links from the Carter Funds Website or portals on the Carter Funds Website to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to the Carter Funds Website and not to websites of any other company or organization linked to or through the Carter Funds Website, which may have different policies. Carter Funds encourages you to review all policies, rules, terms and regulations, including the privacy policies, of each website that you visit. 

Gathering, Modifying and Removing Information 

Carter Funds may request and/or collect personal information on the Carter Funds Website that you might elect to provide to Carter Funds (“Personal Information”) when, via the Carter Funds Website, you: (a) contact Carter Funds; (b) use Carter Funds’ services; and/or (c) send requests for information, questions, inquires, or comments to Carter Funds. You are not required to provide Personal Information to access the Carter Funds Website. Personal Information may include: (a) contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number and email address); (b) information regarding certain of your preferences related to Carter Funds or the Carter Funds Website; and/or (c) information regarding how you became aware of the Carter Funds Website. 

If you would like to review, correct or remove your Personal Information, please contact Carter Funds at the address listed below under “Contact Carter Funds.” Carter Funds will then make all reasonable efforts to correct or remove your Personal Information from the Carter Funds active database. 

Gathering Anonymous Information 

Carter Funds might collect non-personal and aggregate information about your and other users’ use of the Carter Funds Website, such as page hits, number of visits, web pages viewed and the length of visits to the Carter Funds Website (collectively, “Non-Personal Information”). Carter Funds does not tie this Non-Personal Information to your Personal Information. 

Use and Disclosure of Information 

The Personal Information that you provide will be available to Carter Funds, our agents, representatives and service providers and contractors, as appropriate, to be used to respond to your inquiries or questions about Carter Funds and for the purposes indicated or which may reasonably be inferred by your voluntary provision of such Personal Information and otherwise in connection with the conduct of the Carter Funds business and operations. This use may include periodic telephone calls and postal and email mailings from Carter Funds about new products, services or upcoming events offered by Carter Funds. Carter Funds does not, however, sell or furnish Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties to use in advertising or promoting their products or services, without your permission. 

Carter Funds may also use your Personal Information, alone or in combination with the information submitted by other users, to improve Carter Funds Website’s navigation or infrastructure. Also, Carter Funds may use Non-Personal Information to improve your experience on the Carter Funds Website and to enhance the Carter Funds Website. 

Third party contractors or providers of services to Carter Funds that have access to your Personal Information are also expected to protect such Personal Information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and to use such Personal Information only to carry out the activities or services they are performing for you or for Carter Funds. 

Carter Funds might disclose Personal Information and Non-Personal Information, if in our opinion such disclosure is required: (a) by law; (b) to protect and/or defend Carter Funds’ rights; and/or (c) to protect the personal safety of any individual. In addition, in the event that all or substantially all of Carter Funds’ ownership and/or assets are transferred or sold to, or Carter Funds is merged with, another entity, or there is a change of control of Carter Funds, Carter Funds may transfer Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to the successor entity. 

Internet Communications 

Communications and submissions over the Internet might not be secure. Please consider this fact before communicating or submitting any personal or confidential information through the Carter Funds Website. 

Changes 

Carter Funds reserves the right to change, modify, amend and/or update this Privacy Policy at any time with or without prior notice at the sole and absolute discretion of Carter Funds. Your use of the Carter Funds Website following any such changes, modifications, amendments and/or updates constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by this Privacy Policy as so changed, modified, amended and/or updated. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy each time you use or access the Carter Funds Website. 

Contact Carter Funds 

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy and/or information handling, privacy or maintenance practices as it relates to the Carter Funds Website, please contact Carter Funds at the following address: 

Carter Funds 
4890 W. Kennedy Blvd. Suite 200 
Tampa, FL 33609 

CARTER FUNDS POLICY REGARDING SUBMISSIONS, POSTINGS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS 

Submissions 

All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated by you to Carter Funds through the Carter Funds Website (collectively, the “Submission”) will forever be the property of Carter Funds and you waive all of your rights, including but not limited to moral rights, therein if applicable, provided that you will continue to be responsible for the content of the Submission including, without limitation, any indemnification obligations related to such Submissions. Carter Funds will not be required to treat any Submissions as confidential (unless required by law or if Carter Funds has agreed to treat it as confidential in other documentation), and will not be liable for any ideas for its business (including without limitation, product or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future Carter Funds operations. Without limitation, Carter Funds will have exclusive ownership of all present and future existing rights to the Submission of every kind and nature everywhere and will be entitled to use the Submission for any commercial or other purpose whatsoever without compensation to you or any other person sending the Submission. Carter Funds retains the right to review, edit or delete from the Carter Funds Website any Submission which Carter Funds in its sole discretion considers illegal, offensive, in violation of a third party right or otherwise inappropriate. 

Email and Other Communications 

In connection with your use of the Carter Funds Website, you consent to Carter Funds recording any communication, electronic or otherwise, between you and Carter Funds and retaining any information and data you submit while using the Carter Funds Website. 

In using the Carter Funds Website, you may be permitted to communicate electronically with Carter Funds by sending electronic mail to Carter Funds; however, you acknowledge and agree that only general information or inquiries may be submitted to Carter Funds via electronic mail and any other submissions or communications on or through the Carter Funds Website (e.g., the placement of orders) may be submitted only in accordance with the express instructions set forth on the Carter Funds Website for such submissions or communications. Please do not send any time-sensitive communications to Carter Funds via e-mail as Carter Funds cannot be responsible for responding to any such communications. 

Investigations 

Carter Funds may seek to gather information from the user who is suspected of violating this Agreement, and from any other user. Carter Funds may suspend any users whose conduct or postings are under investigation and may remove such material from its servers as it deems appropriate and without notice. If Carter Funds believes, in its sole discretion, that a violation of this Agreement has occurred, it may edit or modify any submission, posting or e-mails, remove the material permanently, cancel postings, warn users, suspend users and passwords, terminate accounts or take other corrective action it deems appropriate. Carter Funds will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Carter Funds to disclose the identity of anyone posting any emails, or publishing or otherwise making available any materials that are believed to violate this Agreement. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS CARTER FUNDS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY CARTER FUNDS DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND/OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER CARTER FUNDS OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES. 

ONLINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT NOTIFICATION POLICY 

If you believe that the Carter Funds Website contains materials that constitute copyright infringement, please notify our Designated Agent, John P. Martin, in writing using the following contact information: 

Name of Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement: 
John P. Martin 

Full Address of Designated Agent to which Notification should be Sent: 
Carter Funds 
4890 W. Kennedy Blvd. Suite 200 
Tampa, FL 33609 

Telephone Number of Designated Agent: 
813.642.6987 

Under Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(3)(A), your notice of a claimed copyright infringement to our Designated Agent must be in the form of a written communication that includes the following information: 

  • Your address, telephone number and e-mail address; 
  • Identification of the copyrighted work (or works) that you claim has been infringed; 
  • A description of the material that you claim is infringing the copyrighted work; 
  • A clear description of where the infringing material is located on the Carter Funds Website, including its URL, so that Carter Funds can locate the material; 
  • A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; 
  • A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and 
  • An electronic or physical signature of the owner or of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest. 

The contents of this Website constitute neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any security which can be made only by prospectus, filed or registered agencies, and sold only by broker/dealers authorized to do so.