Future standard
privacy policy

Future Standard (“we,” “our” or “us”) and its affiliates take measures to ensure that the use and disclosure of your private personal information is consistent with applicable law.

This Consumer Information Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) explains what non-public personal information we collect, why we collect it, how we protect your non-public personal information, and how and why, in certain cases, we share such information with our affiliates or with other parties.

This Privacy Policy applies to non-public personal information collected or used in connection with our investment offerings and services to individuals for personal, family or household purposes. This disclosure is made on behalf of Future Standard and its affiliates listed under the heading “Application of Privacy Policy to Future Standard and our affiliates” below.

By using this website, you acknowledge and accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent to our collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information as described on this site.

Visitors from Outside the USA

If you are visiting this website from outside the United States of America, including visitors who reside in the European Union, be aware that this site is hosted in the United States and may not be subject to similar laws of the European Union or other jurisdictions, and that you expressly consent to the processing of your information in accordance with the terms and conditions as detailed in this site.

For Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) AND United Kingdom (“UK”)

Unless otherwise defined below, terms in this section have the meaning given to them in the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and equivalent regulation in effect in the United Kingdom (GDPR).

Any personal data transmitted by you or third parties, on your behalf, through this website, or otherwise, will be processed in the United States, or other jurisdictions outside the EEA, and may not receive equivalent legal protections to those afforded under the EU (GDPR).

In addition to the personal data collection methods described in this Privacy Policy, we may collect personal data (including publicly available personal data) about you through:
  • Information provided directly to us by you, or another person on your behalf, through our website, email or post, or in person;
  • Information that we obtain in relation to any transactions between you and us;
  • The use of internet “cookies” as described below.
We may also, in some circumstances, receive personal information about you from third parties, such as service providers or trading counterparties, regulatory or law enforcement agencies, credit reference agencies and agencies conducting background checks. Personal information may also be obtained from publicly accessible sources of information, such as public databases, industry associations, social media and online professional networks.

Future Standard and its affiliates may collect and use your personal information for the purposes of administering the relationship between us, marketing our products and services to you or the businesses with which you are associated, monitoring and analyzing our activities, and complying with applicable legal or regulatory requirements.

We will use one of the permitted grounds under the applicable law to process your information. Such grounds include instances where you have given your consent and cases where your consent is not required under applicable law, such as where we are required to comply with a legal obligation, or where we, or a third party, determine that it is necessary for our legitimate interests to collect and use your personal information.

The legitimate interests to collect your personal information may include any of the purposes identified above and any other purpose where we or a third party have determined that you have a reasonable expectation for us or a third party to collect or use your personal information for such purpose. You have the right to object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

The types of personal data we may collect and use

The categories of personal data we may collect will depend on the nature of our relationship with you and the purpose for which information is being collected. Such personal data may include names, residential addresses or other contact details, signature, nationality, date and place of birth, national insurance or other tax identification number, photographs, copies of identification documents, bank account details, information about assets or net worth, credit history, criminal and administrative offences, source of funds details, or other sensitive information, such as certain special categories of personal data contained in relevant documents or materials (including, in some circumstances, information about a person’s ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or health).

Do we use automated decision-making processes?

No.

Do we share your personal information with third parties?

In addition to the above sources we may disclose personal data to, we may (to the extent relevant to the purpose for which we collect your information), share your personal data (including publicly available personal data) with third parties, such as:
  • our affiliates or other entities that are part of our group or with our clients;
  • any person to whom we have a right or obligation to disclose personal data, or where we determine that disclosure is necessary to protect or defend our rights or property, including with regulators, courts of law, governmental, regulatory or law enforcement agencies;
  • our internet, IT, telecommunications and other service providers;
  • service providers and trading counterparties to our clients;
  • credit reference agencies and other third parties conducting background checks in the context of employment or client, counterparty, or investment due diligence;
  • any person, as directed by you; or
  • any person to whom we transfer any of our rights or obligations under any agreement, or in connection with a sale, merger or consolidation of our business or other transfer of our assets, whether voluntarily or by operation of law, or who is otherwise deemed to be our successor or transferee.

International transfers of personal data

Due to the international nature of our business, your personal data may be transferred tocountries outside of the European Economic Area or United Kingdom (as applicable), such as to jurisdictions where we or our clients conduct business or have a service provider, including countries that may not have the same level of data protection as that afforded by the GDPR (including or other data protection rules applicable to us (collectively, “Data Protection Law”). In these circumstances, we take steps to ensure that the recipient agrees to keep your information confidential and that it is held securely in accordance with the requirements of Data Protection Law, such as by requesting appropriate contractual undertakings in our legal agreements with service providers.

For how long do we keep your personal information?

We will generally keep personal information about you for as long as necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was collected, or for such longer period if required under applicable law or necessary for the purposes of our other legitimate interests.

The applicable retention period will depend on various factors, such as any legal obligation to which we or our service providers are subject as well as on whether you decide to exercise your right to request the deletion of your information from our systems. As a minimum, information about you will be retained for the entire duration of any business relationship we may have with you, and for a minimum period of five years after the termination of any such relationship.

We will, from time to time, review the purpose for which we have collected information about you and decide whether to retain it, update it, or securely delete it, if the information is no longer required.

What are your rights?

You have certain rights under Data Protection Law in respect of the personal data we hold about you and which you may exercise. These rights are:
  • to request access to your information;
  • to request rectification of inaccurate or incomplete information;
  • to request erasure of your information (a “right to be forgotten”);
  • to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances;
  • to object to our use of your information, such as where we have considered such use to be necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. in the case of direct marketing activities);
  • where relevant, to request the portability of your information;
  • where you have given consent to the processing of your data, to withdraw your consent; and
  • to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Complaining to EU Supervisory Authority or UK Information Commissioner’s Office

You may make a complaint to the relevant supervisory authority of the country where you are resident. A complaint in respect of Future Standard and its affiliates may also be made to the Information Commissioner’s Office in the United Kingdom.

Updates to the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision, and if we make any material changes in the way we use your Personal Information, we will notify you by sending you an email to the last email address you provided to us and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on the Services and updating the effective date above.

Information that we collect and may disclose

We collect information from and about you in order to provide the level of service that you expect. Non-public personal information about you may include: your name, mailing address, email address, tax identification number, age, account information, investment amounts in our sponsored offerings, marital status, number of dependents, assets, debts, income, net worth, employment history, financial statements, beneficiary information, personal bank account information, credit history information, broker-dealer, financial professional, individual retirement account (“IRA”) custodian, account joint owners and other similar parties, the Future Standard investments and services you purchase, your Future Standard investment balance and transactional history, and the fact that you are or have been an investor in Future Standard investments and particulars related to any such investment.

Specific examples of personal information that we may collect and may disclose to affiliates and certain third parties include:
  • Information we receive from you on applications, subscription agreements or other forms. Examples include your name, mailing address and email address.
  • Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates and others, such as account balances, payment history, account activity and financial statements. If you visit our website, information you submit to us on our website forms and information we collect through ‘cookies.’ A cookie is a small file that is created to help visitors navigate a website, and is useful to track the traffic to and at a site and to personalize the website. You may refuse the cookies but certain services on a website may not then function properly.
  • If you create a login and password on our website to access your Future Standard investment, we will collect and use the login and password to verify your identity and for our internal use in maintaining your website account.
  • Information obtained from others, such as credit reports from consumer credit reporting agencies.

How we use and disclose information

Future Standard, its affiliates and its third-party service providers work together to provide a variety of investments and services and may need to share some or all of the non-public personal information collected about you to maintain an efficient and effective network of offerings and services. The responsible use and disclosure of the non-public personal information we collect is crucial to our ability to provide our clients with the types of products and services they expect and may occur under a variety of different circumstances.

For example, we may:
  • Use your personally identifiable information internally for the purposes of furthering our business, which may include analyzing your information, matching your information with the information of others, processing services, maintaining accounts, resolving disputes, preventing fraud and verifying your identity.
  • Disclose your personally identifiable information when required by law (e.g., in connection with judicial, administrative or investigative matters).
  • Use and disclose your personally identifiable information on an aggregate basis. This means that we may combine parts of your information with parts of the information from our other investors without including your name, complete telephone number, complete email address or your street address in the combination. Examples of how we use aggregate information include determining the most common ZIP Code among investors that use the website and disclosing that ZIP Code to other parties, or determining and disclosing demographic information such as the average income of investors in our sponsored investments.

Sharing with our affiliates

We may share your personally identifiable information with our affiliates engaged in investment or other related financial service activities. Examples might include customer-initiated service requests, establishing and managing your investment, completing your investor transactions and sharing information with parties acting at your request and on your account, such as your broker-dealer, financial professional, joint owners and IRA custodian.

Sharing with non-affiliated service providers

We may disclose your personal information to non-affiliated service providers who perform business functions on our behalf, which may include marketing of our own sponsored investments and services, check printing and data processing. Non-affiliated third-party service providers often aid us in the efficient and effective delivery of services, and there may be circumstances in which it is necessary to disclose non-public personal information we collect to such parties. However, before we disclose non-public personal information to a non-affiliated party, we require it to agree to keep our investor information confidential and secure and to use it only as authorized by us.

Also, we will only share your non-public information with non-affiliated third parties under circumstances not covered by state or federal law “opt-out” notice exceptions, such as servicing a financial product or service authorized by the customer, resolving consumer disputes and protecting against potential fraud or unauthorized transactions. Should this policy ever change in the future, you will be given adequate notice and the option to “opt-out” of such disclosure.

We may also disclose the following information to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements:
  • Information we receive from you on applications or other forms, such as your name, address, Social Security number, assets and income.
  • Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or others, such as your payment history and parties to the transactions.
  • Information we receive from a consumer-reporting agency, such as your creditworthiness and credit history.
We require all joint marketers to have written contracts with us that specify appropriate use of your personal information, require them to take steps to safeguard your personal information and prohibit them from making unauthorized or unlawful use of your personal information.

Future Standard and its affiliates do not share, sell or rent your personal, private information with outside marketers who may want to offer their own products and services to you.

How we protect your information

Future Standard and its affiliates maintain a comprehensive information security program designed to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information, protect against threats or hazards to the security of such information and prevent unauthorized access. This program includes:
  • Procedures and specifications for administrative, technical and physical safeguards.
  • Security procedures related to the processing, storage, retention and disposal of confidential information.
  • Programs to detect, prevent and, when necessary, respond to attacks, intrusions or unauthorized access to confidential information.
  • Restricting access of customer information to employees who need to know that information to provide products and services to you, and appointing specific employees to oversee our information security program.

Notification of changes to our Privacy Policy

Future Standard and its affiliates maintain a comprehensive information security program designed to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information, protect against threats or hazards to the security of such information and prevent unauthorized access. This program includes:

Change in control

If Future Standard or any of its affiliates experience a “change in control” (as defined below), then we may amend our information practices as described in this Privacy Policy. We will disclose your personally identifiable information to the company or other legal entity that succeeds us (subject to the change in control or the operation of the website). The privacy policy of the succeeding legal entity will then govern the personally identifiable information that Future Standard or its affiliates collected from you under this Privacy Policy or such successor entity’s privacy policy. However, if applicable law prohibits the succeeding legal entity’s privacy policy from governing your personally identifiable information, then this Privacy Policy shall continue to govern. “Change in control” means any of the following events:
  • A reorganization, merger, consolidation, acquisition or other restructuring involving all or substantially all of Future Standard or an affiliate’s voting securities and/or assets, by operation of law or otherwise.
  • Insolvency.
  • A general assignment for the benefit of creditors.
  • The appointment of a receiver.The filing of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
  • The liquidation of assets.

Application of Privacy Policy to Future Standard and our affiliates

This Privacy Policy applies to Future Standard and the following affiliated Future Standard companies: FS Investment Solutions, LLC; Future Standard Holdings, L.P. (d/b/a Future Standard); Franklin Square Holdings, G.P., LLC; any fund or other investment sponsored by Future Standard and their respective subsidiaries and investment advisers; and all other funds or entities created in the future that offer investment or services to individuals for personal, family or household purposes.
Questions about this Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and/or our personal information practices, please email us at PrivacyPolicy@­FutureStandard­­­­.­com.