Privacy Policy

The Royce Funds, Royce & Associates, LLC and its affiliates consider your privacy our utmost concern.  

In order to provide you with individualized service, we collect certain non-public personal information about you from information you provide on applications or other forms (such as your address and social security number), and information about your account transactions with us (such as purchases, sales and account investments and balances).  We may also collect such information through your account inquiries by mail, email or telephone, and if you visit our website we may collect, via a web server, information often referred to as a “cookies”.  Cookies indicate where on our site a visitor has been and what the visitor has viewed.

We do not sell any information we obtain from you to anyone.  We do not disclose any non-public personal information about you to anyone, except as described below.  Specifically, so that we may continue to offer you Royce products and services that best meet your investing needs, and to effect transactions that you request or authorize, we may disclose the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform administrative or marketing services on our behalf, such as transfer agents or printers and mailers that assist us in the distribution of investor materials.  These companies are required/instructed by us to use this information only for the services for which we hired them, and are not permitted to use or share this information for any other purpose.

On occasion, laws and regulations may require us to provide information about you and your transactions to government agencies or regulators.  In addition, federal and state laws give people involved in lawsuits or other legal proceedings the right to obtain records and information from us.  We share only the information that we are required or authorized to share. 

If you decide at some point either to close your account(s) or to become an inactive customer, we will continue to adhere to the privacy policies and practices described in this notice.

Our internal security procedures are designed to restrict access to your personal and account information to those of our employees who need to know that information to service your account.  We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that we believe will protect your non-public personal information.

For questions about our policy or for additional copies of this notice, please go to www.roycefunds.com, or contact The Royce Funds, at 1414 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, or 800-221-4268.