Donald Smith & Co. is a registered investment advisor with the SEC. We respect your right to privacy and are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of personal information that we receive. This Privacy Notice describes how we collect, receive, use, store, share, transfer, and process your personal information.
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‍Your Information and Identity
‍If you correspond with us by email, we retain the content of all email messages, your email address, and our responses. Any information you provide us within your email messages, including but not limited to, personally identifiable information, your public profile, social media profiles and the address of your company website, will be retained with the email message. Our website does not ask for or accept personal information from visitors. Donald Smith & Co. uses Google Analytics, which uses anonymous cookies to track site usage. The website does not use cookies or track users in any other way, and it does not contain any third-party integrations.
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‍Use of Your Information and Identity
‍We use the information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy. We use the personal information that clients and prospects submit to us for identity verification purposes and to comply with record-keeping requirements.
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‍How Your Personal Information is Shared
‍We do not sell or share your personal information with unrelated third parties. We do not disclose any non-public information, from current or former clients, except as required or permitted by law. Permitted disclosures include providing information to third parties that assist in processing client transactions or servicing accounts. Required disclosures would result from cooperation with regulatory or law enforcement authorities. In the future, if it is required of Donald Smith & Co., Inc. to disclose nonpublic information in a way that is inconsistent with this policy, we will provide you with advanced notice, with the opportunity to opt out of such a disclosure.
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‍EU Residents
‍If you are resident in the European Union, when you provide us with your personal information, it will be processed in the United States of America, which is outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and which may not provide the same level of data protection as in your jurisdiction. Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you and as necessary to perform our services. Regardless of where your personal information is located, we will adopt measures to protect it.
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‍How Your Personal Information Is Protected
‍We use email encryption to secure the transfer in and out of personally identifiable information. We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to only those employees who need to know such information to provide services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with industry standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.
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‍Retention of Personal Information
‍We retain personal information as long as we are legally required to do so and, in many cases, longer than we are legally required to do so.
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‍If Your Personal Information is Compromised
‍If personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, under the notification procedures outlined in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
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Changes to our Privacy Policy
‍We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, we will update the ‘last modified’ date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
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‍Contact Us
‍If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at compliance@donaldsmithandco.com.