Notice for California residents
ProFunds, Access One Trust, ProFund Advisors LLC, ProShares Trust, ProShares Trust II, ProShare Advisors LLC ProFunds Distributors, Inc., and ProShare Capital Management LLC (collectively, "the Firm," “we,” or “us”) are committed to respecting the privacy of personal information you entrust to us in the course of doing business.
This Privacy Policy and Notice for California Residents has been adopted to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). The CCPA establishes additional privacy rights and protections than are required under federal privacy laws and therefore this policy applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (”consumers” or “you”). Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this policy
The information we collect about you
We may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (”personal information”). Personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
- Personal information maintained by financial services firms that is covered under certain exemptions described in the CCPA, such as the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
We obtain personal information from various sources, including directly and indirectly from you. For instance, mutual fund account applications may include name, address, and social security number. We also receive information from transactions in your accounts, including account balances, and from correspondence between you and us or third parties, such as our service providers. You may provide us your email address by registering to receive email updates and market commentary from us. In addition, our website uses "cookies" and other similar technology to help us measure and track visitors to the website and to collect certain technical and navigational information, such as browser type, internet protocol address, pages visited and time on site. We may also collect personal information from other publicly or commercially available sources.
This policy explains the types of personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, how we protect it, and your legal rights. In the table below, we summarize the categories of personal information we may collect and examples of data within each category.
Use of personal information
The business purposes for which we collect personal information include the provision of financial products and services (e.g. maintaining accounts, processing payments, servicing customers), sending marketing communications, surveys, and invitations, auditing consumer interactions and transactions, detecting security incidents and preventing fraud, identifying and repairing errors that impair functionality, activities to verify or enhance the quality of services, and other internal uses permitted under applicable laws.