You have accessed Artisan, LLC’s Internet Site (the "Site"). It is owned and operated by Artisan, LLC ("Artisan"). By using or accessing the Artisan Site, you agree to be legally bound and abide by the terms and conditions set forth below and elsewhere on this Site.  

I. GENERAL DISCLAIMERS.        
This Site is not intended for any use that would be contrary to local law or regulation. No portion of this Site is directed at you if Artisan is prohibited by any law of any jurisdiction from making the information on this Site available to you. No portion of this Site constitutes investment, legal or other advice nor is it to be relied upon in making an investment decision. No portion of this Site constitutes an offer or an invitation to make an offer to sell securities or to provide investment services of any description.             

By registering to use this Site you are agreeing that your personal data may be utilized by Artisan and each of its subsidiaries and affiliated entities (each, a "Artisan entity") and may be held and processed by any Artisan entity and disclosed to third parties, both electronically and manually, by any Artisan entity for the purposes of any Artisan entity's administration and/or management of its employees, its prospective employees and/or its business, and/or for compliance with applicable policies and procedures, laws and regulations.

E-mail messages may not be secure and may be intercepted by third parties. If you send us an e-mail containing confidential information about you, you agree that you do so at your own risk and that you hold each Artisan entity harmless from any loss that you may suffer as a result. 

II. TRADE NAMES           
“Artisan Investment Banking” is the trade name for Artisan, LLC and our subsidiaries and affiliates and all designations that comprise, include, or incorporate the term “Artisan” in any format and service marks are owned by Artisan, and all our rights are reserved. Trademarks, service marks, company names and logos appearing on this Site that are not the property of Artisan are the property of their respective owners.              

III. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS         
You acknowledge that this Site is the copyrighted property of Artisan, and you further acknowledge that it may contain information, data, software, photographs, graphs, videos, typefaces, graphics, music, sounds, and other material (collectively "Content") that are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights, and that these rights are valid and protected in all forms, media, modes of distribution, and technologies existing now or hereinafter developed. All Content is copyrighted individually or as a collective work under applicable copyright laws and treaties, and Artisan owns all copyrights in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of such Content and in databases pursuant to applicable laws and treaties. If no specific restrictions are displayed, you may make copies of selected portions of the Content, provided that the copies are made only for your personal use. Subject to specific restrictions that may govern specific portions of the Site, Artisan grants to you the right to download, copy, transmit and distribute selected portions of the Site (but not the entire Site) for your legitimate and legal business purposes, provided that you maintain all of the Artisan notices, such as all legal notices and disclaimers, copyright notices, trademark legends, or other proprietary rights notices. Except as provided in the preceding sentence or as permitted by the fair use privilege under applicable copyright laws or treaties, if any, you may not upload, post, reproduce, or distribute in any way Content protected by copyright, or other proprietary right, without obtaining permission of the owner of the copyright or other propriety right. In addition to the foregoing, use of any software Content shall be governed by the software license agreement applicable to such software. You may not modify, remove, delete, augment, add to, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part.            

IV. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY         
Artisan provides the Site only for your convenience. Neither Artisan, nor its affiliates, managing directors, partners, employees or other representatives, warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Site. The Site is provided without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.    

Neither Artisan nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or distributing the Site shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the Site, including but not limited to interruptions, deletion of files or email, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance, whether or not resulting from force majeure, communications failure, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to Artisan's records, programs, or services. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such jurisdictions, our liability is limited by the fullest extent permitted by law.              

V. USE OF LINKS              
Should you leave this Site via a link contained herein, and view content that is not provided by Artisan, you do so at your own risk. The content to which you link will not have been developed, checked for accuracy, or otherwise reviewed by Artisan. Artisan is not responsible for damages or losses caused by any delays, defects or omissions that may exist in the services, information or other content provided in such Site, whether actual, alleged, consequential or punitive. Artisan makes no guarantees or representations as to, and shall have no liability for, any electronic content delivered by any third party, including, without limitation, the accuracy, subject matter, quality or timeliness of any electronic content.

VI. PRIVACY POLICY     
Your profile information may be used to create personalized content, services, and advertising on or related to the Site. Artisan may also use your profile information to create aggregate reports. Such profile information is anonymous and does not contain any personally identifiable information.   

Artisan reserves the right to cooperate fully with local, state or national and international officials in any investigation relating to any Content (including personal or private electronic communication transmitted on the Site) or purported unlawful activities of anyone who accesses the Site.                

VII. CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM     
To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.                

What this means for you: When you open a new account, we will ask you for your name, date of birth (for an individual), address, which shall be: (i) for an individual, a residential or business street address; (ii) for a person other than an individual (such as a corporation, partnership or trust), a principal place of business local office or other physical location; and (iii) for a U.S. person, a taxpayer identification number (i.e. social security number or employer identification number). We may also ask to see your driver’s license or other identifying documents.      

VIII. PROHIBITED USE  
You represent and warrant to Artisan that you will not use this Site or any of its contents for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms and conditions. You may not use this Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair this Site or interfere with any person’s access to or use of this Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any software, materials, information or data through any means not intentionally made available or provided through this site.            

IX. TERMINATION OF USAGE     
Artisan may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Site, without notice, for any conduct that Artisan, in its sole discretion, believes is in violation of any applicable law or is harmful to the interests of another person, Artisan, or its affiliates, managing directors, partners, employees or other representatives.

X. GENERAL      
This Site is controlled and operated by Artisan from its offices in Pittsford, New York. These terms and conditions will be construed in accordance with the laws of New York with reference to any conflict of laws provisions. Any dispute arising by virtue of your use of this Site will be resolved exclusively by, and you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of, the state and federal courts in Rochester, New York. Use of this Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions. If any part of these terms and conditions are determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the original provision and the remainder of these terms and conditions will continue in full effect. These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between the user and Artisan with respect to this Site.

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