We know that keeping your personal information private is important to you. That's why we want you to know how we protect the information you share with us. We have built our business on a foundation of integrity, honesty, and trust. These values are reflected in our longstanding commitment to protect your privacy.
We strive to provide you with comprehensive and dependable information about our financial products and services. Whether researching our products and services or accessing our educational content, you need provide no personal information whatsoever. You will, however, need to provide personal information for access to certain features, such as secure, online access to your account, personalization features, including watchlists and e-mail alerts, and requests for more information. Whenever you do supply personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address, it is kept secure and used solely to answer your inquiry, comply with your request, or supply you with information about new products and services to help you meet your needs.
Our Online Privacy Pledge
To meet our users' needs with financial products and services, we gather and maintain certain types of information. To preserve your privacy, we pledge to...
- Collect only the information we need to provide information about our products and services to you;
- Protect against unauthorized access to your information;
- Refuse to disclose personal information you provide to us online to third parties for marketing purposes;
- Require companies that help us service your account to protect your information in accordance with strict privacy standards;
- Refuse to sell your information to outside mailing list companies or telemarketers; and
- Maintain up-to-date privacy notices on our site.
If you need more information about our privacy policy, call us toll free at 1.800.MAINSTAY (1.800.624.6782).
This privacy policy is in effect as of October 15, 2004. You can always review the current privacy policy by clicking on Privacy Policy at the bottom of www.mainstayinvestments.com , or you can contact us for a copy by writing to: MainStay Funds, P.O. Box 8401, Boston, MA 02266-8401.
