PIMCO Australia Pty Ltd ABN 54 084 280 508 is bound by the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and the National Privacy Principles and considers customer privacy to be a fundamental aspect of our relationship with clients. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of our current, prospective and former clients' personal information. We have developed policies designed to protect this confidentiality, while allowing client needs to be served. In certain circumstances our acts and practices relating to records of our own employees are not regulated by the Act.

In the course of providing you with products and services, we may obtain non-public personal information about you. This information may come from sources such as account applications and other forms, from other written, electronic or verbal correspondence, from your transactions, from your brokerage or financial advisory firm, financial adviser or consultant, and/or from information captured on our internet web sites. If this information is not provided we may not be able to provide our services effectively or at all.

We do not disclose any personal or account information you provide or we collect to non-affiliated third parties, except as required or permitted by law. We may delegate investment management and administrative service responsibilities to our affiliates and may share information with them to the extent necessary to accomplish these limited purposes. We may delegate back office services to State Street Investment Manager Solutions, LLC and its affiliates and may share information with them to the extent necessary to accomplish these limited purposes. As is common in the industry, we may use non-affiliated companies from time to time to provide certain services, such as preparing and mailing prospectuses, reports, account statements and other information, conducting research on client satisfaction, and gathering shareholder proxies. We may also retain non-affiliated companies to market our products and enter into joint marketing agreements with other companies. These companies may have access to your personal and account information, but are permitted to use the information solely to provide the specific service or as otherwise permitted by law. We may also provide your personal and account information to your brokerage or financial advisory firm and/or to your financial adviser or consultant.

We reserve the right to disclose or report personal or account information to non-affiliated third parties in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under law, to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to protect our rights or property, or upon reasonable request by any investment fund in which you have chosen to invest. In addition, we may disclose information about you or your accounts to a non-affiliated third party at your request or if you consent in writing to the disclosure.

We may share personal or account information with our affiliates in connection with servicing your account or to provide you with information about products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. The information we share may include, for example, your participation in our investment funds or other investment programs, your ownership of certain types of accounts, or other data about your accounts. Our affiliates, in turn, are not permitted to share your information with non-affiliated entities, except as required or permitted by law.

We take seriously the obligation to safeguard your non-public personal information. To guard your non-public personal information, physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards are in place.

If you would like to access the personal information we hold about you, or obtain more information about the way we manage this information, you can do so by contacting our Compliance Officer at PIMCO Australia Pty Ltd, Level 19, 363 George Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, ph 02 9279 1771, fax 02 9279 2580.  You can also correct this information if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date.