Privacy Policy of Equity Investment Corporation, Inc.

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Regulation S-P, “Privacy of Consumer Financial Information,” which requires Equity Investment Corporation, Inc. and other financial services firms to disclose their privacy policy regarding nonpublic personal information of customers and consumers. In accordance with this regulation, EIC has summarized our privacy policy below. Please take a moment to read our policy and rest assured that your privacy is of the utmost importance to us.

Collecting Your Information

We only collect information about you and our other clients as permitted and/or required by law to conduct our business properly and to service your accounts. We receive this information mostly from you via applications, contracts, agreements, etc.

Protecting Your Information

We treat all of your information with the highest amount of confidentiality. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your privacy and to ensure its confidentiality. Access to such information is restricted to those principals and employees whose business function requires them to have such information.

Sharing Information

We do not share your information with third parties. However, there are certain occasions when a third party would have access to information about your account, and they are:

	Audits conducted by federal and state regulators, auditors and legal advisors.
	Inquiries by your tax accountants whom you have authorized to obtain certain transactional information in conjunction with preparing your taxes.
	Trades for your account processed by your broker or your custodian.

Accurate Information

In an effort to provide our clients with superior service, we strive to keep all of our records accurate. We take prompt action to correct errors, and we ask that you point out any inaccuracies should you discover any.

The above policies for maintaining privacy of your confidential information provided to us remain in effect even after any termination of your account with us. Should you have any questions regarding our policy, please contact us:

Equity Investment Corporation
3007 Piedmont Road
Suite 200
Atlanta, GA 30305

Tel: 404.239.0111
Fax: 404.239.0280

jmichels@eicatlanta.com