Hartford Funds values your trust and is committed to the responsible management, use and protection of personal information. This Online Privacy Policy is applicable to all the personal information collected by, from or about you during your use of our website https://www.hartfordfunds.com, (the "Website") and its affiliate sites, our mobile applications and any other online connected tools. We will refer to these websites and online connected tools collectively as the "Services" or the "Hartford Funds Services" throughout this Online Privacy Policy.

This Online Privacy Policy supplements, but does not replace, other applicable policies, practices and privacy notices that may relate to specific jurisdictions or business relationships you have with Hartford Funds or to certain products or services, as described in the applicable privacy notice. At the start of our business relationship with you as a shareholder, we will give you a copy of our Privacy Notice that applies to that relationship, if applicable. In the event of a conflict between this Online Privacy Policy and a privacy notice for a specific product or service, the specific product or service privacy notice shall govern.

Information We Collect

We collect various types of personal information provided by users of the Services. This may include such information as:

• Contact and Identifying Information: We may collect contact and identifying information, such as names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and in some instances Social Security numbers (see “SSN Protection Policy” section below for more information) and other application information.
• Account Information: If you create, register, or connect an online account in connection with our Services, we may store your username, password (and password hint information) and other basic account information that you may provide or that may be associated with that account.
  
• Job Application: If you apply for a job with us, we may collect information about your work and educational history, and other information that you choose to provide us in connection with your application.
  
• Information collected using Cookies, Pixels or Other Tracking Technologies: We and third-party online advertising and analytics companies may use cookies, pixels/web beacons, or similar tracking technologies to automatically collect information about your online activity, browser and device as well as to collect information when you interact with the Services. In addition to the information above collected generally by the Services, unique device IDs, mobile phone numbers, geo-location data, or call logs may be collected through our mobile applications. See the “Cookies” and “Your Choices” section below for more information on these technologies and your choices.
  
• Online Activity Information: We and third-party online advertising and analytics companies may collect personal information relating to users of our Services over time and across different websites.
• Log Information: We also collect log information when you use the Services, which may include, information about how you have used the services, device information, access times, IP addresses, app usage data, general geolocation, demographic information, and information regarding your use and navigation of our Services. In some cases, we may use technologies such as session replay to record your interactions with the Services, including mouse movements, clicks on pages, page views, time spent on pages, scrolling, text entered and other actions taken while using our Services or behavioral data, as well as related browsing information.
• Personal data entered in calculators: When you use calculators and planning tools on the site, you may need to enter information such as your age or even certain dollar amounts like how much you save each month. We don’t collect or store this kind of information. It’s only used to perform the calculation you’re asking for.

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How We Use Information

We may use personal information provided by individuals who use our Services to fulfill the purpose for which the user provided the information and for other purposes as required or permitted by law, such as:

• Providing you with the Services that you request, such as by completing transactions
• Communicating with you, for example to respond to inquiries and provide customer support
• Providing you with information, including communications and interest-based advertisements on the Website and other websites you visit, and in marketing communications
• Informing you of job opportunities and evaluating your suitability for a job
• Completing a survey
• Developing, operating, delivering, maintaining, troubleshooting, improving, enhancing, and protecting the Website and the Services, and personalizing your experience when using the Website and the Services 
• Monitoring, analysis, and research, including of trends, and usage, and advertising-related services
• Enhancing the safety and security of the Services, detecting and preventing fraud, and protecting our or our customers’ rights or property
• Enforcing applicable terms and conditions and other applicable policies
• Other purposes specifically disclosed at the time the information is requested

We may also combine information collected through the Services with other information about you we have collected off-line.

We may de-identify information collected by removing identifiers, such as your name, or by aggregating information about multiple users. We may work with third parties to aggregate such information on our behalf. Aggregate information may be used for the purposes described above and shared with third parties as permitted by law.

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How We Share Information

Sharing Among our Affiliates

If we share your information among our affiliates for marketing purposes, in certain circumstances as required by applicable laws, we will inform you and provide you with an opt-out option, and upon request, we will provide to you a list of all third parties with whom personal information has been shared.

Sharing with Third Parties

We work with third parties that provide services to us and partner with third parties to develop, operate, deliver, maintain, improve, enhance, and protect the Services and in connection with other Hartford Fund offerings and operations. We may share your information with such third parties. Those parties can include but are not limited to:

• Website hosting or information technology consulting service providers
• Marketing and promotion service providers
• Data analysis service providers
• Legal service providers
• Accounting service providers
• Administrative service providers
• Security service providers
• Application service providers
• Any other service providers that support Hartford Funds

We may also share information about users and customers with nonaffiliated companies with whom we have a marketing or other business relationship, including nonaffiliated financial services providers with whom we jointly market products.

Other Disclosures

Subject to applicable law, we may also disclose your personal information to:

1. Comply with applicable laws
2. Respond to governmental inquiries or requests
3. Comply with valid legal processes
4. Protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of https://www.hartfordfunds.com visitors, shareholders and the public
5. Permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain
6. Enforce our Terms of Service

Hartford Funds Management Company, LLC (“HFMC”), the mutual funds’ investment adviser, is an indirect subsidiary of The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc. (“The Hartford”). In the event there is a change or contemplated change in the corporate structure of HFMC, such as a merger, consolidation, sale, liquidation or transfer of substantial assets, HFMC or its affiliates may disclose your information and may, in its sole discretion, transfer, sell or assign information collected on and through these Services, including your personal information, to one or more affiliated or nonaffiliated third parties.

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Links to Other Online Services

The Services contain links to other online services. The operators of those other online services may collect information about you, including through cookies or other technologies. If you click on a link to an external online service, you will leave Hartford Funds Services and this Online Privacy Policy will not apply to your use of and activity on those other online services.

If you provide information through any other online services, your transaction will occur on that online service (not Hartford Funds Services) and the information you provide will be collected by, and controlled by, the privacy policy of the operator of that online service. Links on the Services to other online services are provided only as a convenience, and the inclusion of such links does not imply endorsement of the linked content. We encourage you to read the legal notice posted on those online services, including their privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability for your access or use of, and the data collection and use practices of, other online services.

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Children's Privacy

Hartford Funds' Services are not directed to or intended for children. Hartford Funds does not knowingly collect or post information from children under the age of 13 (or such other age as may be directed by applicable law), in compliance with laws protecting the privacy of children. You can visit the Federal Trade Commission's website to learn more about the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

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Social Media

Hartford Funds maintains profiles and/or pages on various social media sites including LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly called Twitter). If you choose to “Follow” Hartford Funds on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and/or X or take any similar action on another social media site, you are providing your consent to receive information updates, including solicitations, from Hartford Funds. To stop receiving this information from Hartford Funds on a social media site, you must follow the procedure established by the site. For example, on Facebook, you must click “Unlike” on Hartford Funds’ page, and, on LinkedIn and X, you must click “Unfollow” on Hartford Fund’s profile.

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How We Protect Information

The protection and security of your information is important to us. We work to adopt reasonable physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect the personal information transmitted between users and the Services and the personal information stored on our servers, and we require third parties with whom we share personal information to use reasonable precautions to safeguard such information. Unfortunately, no method of transmitting or storing data can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, although we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us through, or in connection with, the Services. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), you must immediately notify us by contacting us at the contact information listed below. In the event that we believe the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your email address, we may notify you by email.

Security tip: If you receive an email or other correspondence requesting that you provide any sensitive information (including your password or social security number) via email or to a website that does not seem to be affiliated with the Services, or that otherwise seems suspicious to you, please do not provide such information. Report such requests to us at the contact information listed below. 

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Where Hartford Funds Stores and Maintains Information

This Online Privacy Policy applies to Hartford Funds, which has operations only in the United States. We maintain the Services in the United States. Hartford Funds does not represent or warrant that the Services, or any part thereof, are appropriate or available for use in any particular jurisdiction. Those who choose to access the Services, do so on their own initiative and at their own risk. Regardless of where you are located, by using the Services, you consent to the transfer and processing of your information collected on the Services to any of our operations, which may be located both within and outside of the United States. You are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations when you use our Services.

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Cookies and Similar Technologies

We or third-party online data advertising and analytics companies may use tools and services to gather, analyze, and store information about users, including for statistical purposes, fraud prevention, security monitoring, session replay, reporting, attribution, analytics, market research, interest-based advertising, ad delivery, personalization, and other purposes described in this Privacy Policy. These cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts, session replay technologies, and similar technologies are used to help analyze how you use online services or to collect or receive information from your websites and elsewhere on the Internet and may use the information to provide measurement services and target ads. Generally speaking, cookies are small text files that are placed on your browser that can be used to identify you across web pages and sessions. Web beacons are small pieces of code that can communicate information about your device or browser to a server. Session replay technologies can record your interactions with our Services, including mouse movements, clicks, scrolling, and text entered to help us troubleshoot issues, analyze usage patterns, and improve performance. For example, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Please use the following link to understand how Google Analytics collects and processes data: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To prevent the storage and processing of this data (including your IP address) by Google, you can download and install the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

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