We may collect information about you when you apply for or use services offered by AIM.  Any such information would be entered into our data banks and used to provide you the product or service you are requesting, in our development of additional products and services and to manage our business. In addition, this information may be given to our employees, who may contact you to discuss products and services in which you may have an interest.

We may collect information about you when you visit our websites or when you apply for or use other services offered by AIM.  We may send cookies, graphic interchange format files, or other similar tools to automatically collect data about website usage to enable your web experience.  These tools enable us to recognize you when you return to our site, maintain your web session while you browse, as well as monitor usage and performance of our websites.

      
We use your personal information to enhance the quality of the products or services we wish to provide to our customers or in connection with your investments with or through us and to maintain contact details for those with whom we deal.

          
We restrict access to personal information about you to those employees, agents or other parties who need to know that information to provide products or services to you or in connection with your investments with or through us.

          
We do not disclose to any third party any personal information about our customers or former customers, except with such customer’s consent or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

 

            In cases where we believe that additional products and services may be of interest to you, we may share your personal information with affiliates of AIM to the extent permitted by applicable law. We may also disclose this information to firms that perform services on our behalf to the extent permitted by applicable law. These service providers are required to treat the information confidentially and use it only for the purpose for which it is provided. Certain jurisdictions may have more stringent privacy requirements that will prevent disclosure of your personal information to any other person or entity, including affiliates.

          
We may transfer information about you if AIM is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, AIM may notify you if your personal information becomes subject to a different privacy policy.