PRIVACY NOTICE SUPPLEMENT FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Date: January 2024

This notice supplements the Privacy Notice set forth on the Privacy Notice Page with respect to specific rights granted under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) to natural person California residents and provides information regarding how such California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA.  This supplement is only relevant to you if you are a resident of California as determined in accordance with the CCPA.  Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA regarding the collection of their personal information that is not set forth in this CCPA supplement is otherwise set forth above in the Privacy Notice. To the extent there is any conflict with the privacy requirements under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and/or Regulation S-P (“GLB Rights”), GLB Rights shall apply.

 

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

We have collected some or all of the following categories of personal information from individuals within the last twelve (12) months:

A. Identifiers

Examples: Name, contact details and address (including physical address, email address and Internet Protocol address), and other identification (including social security number, passport number and driver’s license or state identification card number).

Collected: Yes

B. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law

Examples: Date of birth, citizenship and birthplace.

Collected: Yes

C. Commercial information

Examples: Account data and other information contained in any document provided by investors to authorized service providers (whether directly or indirectly), risk tolerance, transaction history, investment experience and investment activity, information regarding a potential and/or actual investment in the applicable fund(s), including ownership percentage, capital investment, income and losses, source of funds used to make the investment in the applicable fund(s).

Collected: Yes

D. Biometric information

Examples: Imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns and voice recordings or keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contains identifying information.

Collected: No

E. Internet or other similar network activity

Examples: Use of our website, fund data room and investor reporting portal (e.g., cookies, browsing history and/or search history), as well as information you provide to us when you correspond with us in relation to inquiries

Collected: Yes

F. Professional or employment-related information

Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

Collected: No

G. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))

Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

Collected: No

H. Inferences drawn from other personal information

Examples: Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Collected: No

I. Sensitive Personal Information (see further information on use of sensitive personal information below)

Examples: Social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport numbers; account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; precise geolocation; racial or ethnic origin; religious or philosophical beliefs; union membership; genetic data; the contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless you are the intended recipient of the communication; biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer; and personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health, sex life, or sexual orientation.

Collected: YES, as to the following types of information: social security, driver’s license, state identification care, or passport numbers, account log-in, financial account in combination with any required security or access code password, or credentials allowing access to an account only.

 

We do not collect or use sensitive personal information other than

  • To perform services, or provide goods, as would reasonably be expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services;
  • As reasonably necessary and proportionate to detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information;
  • As reasonably necessary and proportionate to resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at us and to prosecute those responsible for such actions;
  • For short-term, transient use (but not in a manner that discloses such information to another third party or is used to build a profile of you or otherwise alter your experience outside of your current interaction with us);
  • To perform services on behalf of our business;
  • To verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or to improve, upgrade, or enhance such service or device;
  • To collect or process sensitive personal information where such collection or processing is not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer.

 

Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

We may collect or disclose the personal information we collect about you for one or more of the following business or commercial purposes:

  • performing services to you, including but not limited to:
    • the administrative processes (and related communication) in preparing for the admission of investors to the fund(s), including administering, managing and setting up an investor’s account(s) to allow such potential investor to purchase interests in the fund(s);
    • ongoing communication with potential investors, their representatives, advisors and agents (including the negotiation, preparation and signature of documentation) during the process of admitting potential investors to the fund and the execution of all relevant agreements;
    • the performance of obligations under the governing documents of the funds (and all applicable anti-money laundering, KYC and other related laws and regulations) in assessing suitability of potential investors in the applicable fund;
    • ongoing operations, administrative, accounting, reporting, account maintenance and other processes and communication required to operate the business of the funds in accordance with its governing documents and other documentation between the parties, including customer service, processing or fulfilling transactions, verifying personal information, processing contributions and distributions and financing;
    • keeping investors informed about the business of the general partner or managing member of the applicable fund and its affiliates generally, including offering opportunities to make investments other than to the applicable fund and related advertising;
    • facilitating the execution, continuation or termination of the contractual relationship between an investor and the general partner or managing member, the investment adviser and/or the fund(s);
    • facilitating the transfer of fund interests, and administering and facilitating any other transaction, between an investor, the general partner or managing member, the investment adviser and/or the fund(s);
  • auditing and verifications related to investor interactions, including but not limited to, verifying the quality and effectiveness of services and compliance;
  • maintaining the safety, security and integrity of our products and services, databases, technology assets and business, including detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity;
  • enabling any actual or proposed assignee or transfer of the fund(s), to evaluate proposed transactions;
  • facilitating business asset transactions involving the funds;
  • complying with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations.

 

We do not sell any of the personal information we collect about you to third parties.

Within the last twelve (12) months, we have disclosed personal information collected from you for a business purpose to the categories of third parties indicated below. We may also disclose your information to other parties as may be required by law or regulation, or in response to regulatory inquiries.

A. Identifiers

Category of Third-Party Recipients: Administrators, lenders, banks, auditors, law firms, governmental agencies or pursuant to legal process, self-regulatory organizations, consultants and placement agents.

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))

Category of Third-Party Recipients: Administrators, lenders, banks, auditors, law firms, governmental agencies or pursuant to legal process, self-regulatory organizations, consultants and placement agents.

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law

Category of Third-Party Recipients: Administrators, lenders, banks, auditors, law firms, governmental agencies or pursuant to legal process, self-regulatory organizations, consultants and placement agents.

D. Commercial information

Category of Third-Party Recipients: Administrators, lenders, banks, auditors, law firms, governmental agencies or pursuant to legal process, self-regulatory organizations, consultants and placement agents.

E. Biometric information

Category of Third-Party Recipients: N/A

F. Internet or other similar network activity

Category of Third-Party Recipients: Administrators, lenders, banks, auditors, law firms, governmental agencies or pursuant to legal process, self-regulatory organizations, consultants and placement agents.

G. Geolocation data

Category of Third-Party Recipients: N/A

H. Sensory data

Category of Third-Party Recipients: N/A

H. Sensory data

Category of Third-Party Recipients: N/A

I. Professional or employment-related information

Category of Third-Party Recipients: N/A

J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))

Category of Third-Party Recipients: N/A

K. Inferences drawn from other personal information

Category of Third-Party Recipients: N/A

L. Sensitive Personal Information

Category of Third-Party Recipients: Administrators, lenders, banks, auditors, law firms, governmental agencies or pursuant to legal process, self-regulatory organizations, consultants and placement agents.

 

Deletion Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we retain, subject to certain exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations. We will notify you in writing if we cannot comply with a specific request and provide an explanation of the reasons.

 

Disclosure and Access Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information regarding our collection, use, disclosure and sale of personal information specific to you over the last twelve (12) months. Such information includes:

  • The categories of personal information we collected about you;
  • The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting such personal information;
  • Categories of third parties with whom we disclose the personal information;
  • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
  • Whether we disclosed your personal information to a third party, and if so, the categories of personal information that each recipient obtained.

 

Correction Right

You have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies in the personal information that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations. We will notify you in writing if we cannot comply with a specific request and provide an explanation of the reasons.

 

No Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA, including by denying service, suggesting that you will receive, or charging, different rates for services or suggesting that you will receive, or providing, a different level or quality of service to you.

 

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, or to access this notice in an alternative format, please submit a request, including your phone number, by emailing us at [email protected] and we will call you at a time convenient for you.

We will contact you to confirm receipt of your request under the CCPA and request any additional information necessary to verify your request.  We verify requests by matching information provided in connection with your request to information contained in our records. Depending on the sensitivity of the request and the varying levels of risk in responding to such requests (for example, the risk of responding to fraudulent or malicious requests), we may request your investor portal access credentials in order to verify your request. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf, provided that you provide a signed agreement verifying such authorized agent’s authority to make requests on your behalf, and we may verify such authorized person’s identity using the procedures above.

Our goal is to respond to any verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of our receipt of such request. We will inform you in writing if we cannot meet that timeline.  Please contact the Chief Compliance Officer of Bernhard Capital at [email protected] with any questions or concerns about this Privacy Notice.