Privacy Policy
Privacy Notice
Last revised: September 2025
WHAT DOES ADVISORSHARES (“AdvisorShares”) DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
At AdvisorShares (“we,” “our,” “us”), your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal data.
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information may include:
- Name
- Firm Name
- Contact Information (Phone, Email, etc.)
- Title/Role
- Website Visit Information as described in the “Website” section below
All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons AdvisorShares chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
| REASONS WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION | Does AdvisorShares share? | Can you limit this sharing? |
| For AdvisorShares Trust marketing purposes – to offer our products and services to you | Yes | No |
| For AdvisorShares Trust joint marketing with other financial companies | Yes | No |
| For Affiliates except the AdvisorShares Trust to market to you | No | We don’t share |
| For nonaffiliates to market to you | No | We don’t share |
| WHAT WE DO | |
| How does AdvisorShares protect my personal information? | Protecting your personal data is a top priority. To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards, secured files and buildings. |
| How does AdvisorShares collect my personal information? |
We collect your personal information, for example, when you ● Email/Contact Us ● Request our emails or materials ● Register for events ● Attend conferences We also collect your information from other companies. |
| Why can’t I limit all sharing? |
Federal law gives you the right to limit only ● sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness ● affiliates from using your information to market to you ● sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing. |
| Marketing Communications | We, our affiliates, and our third-party advertising partners may collect and use personal information to send you AdvisorShares Trust-related direct marketing communications as permitted by law, including by email. You may opt out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of marketing communications section below. |
| Opt-out of marketing communications | You may opt out of marketing-related emails and other communications by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions in the communications you receive from us. Additionally, you may send an email to icteam@advisorshares.com with a request to unsubscribe. After unsubscribing, you may continue to receive services-related and other non-marketing emails. |
| Website |
We use tracking technologies such as cookies and non-cookie technologies, to gather information to improve your experience and deliver relevant content. When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain personal data, including your IP address, browser type and version, device information, and details about your browsing behavior on our site. This data is gathered using technologies like third-party cookies, which are small text files stored on your device, and non-cookie technologies such as tracking pixels or device identifiers. The data we collect helps us analyze website performance, improve user experience, and deliver content and advertisements tailored to your interests. It also allows us to monitor and prevent fraudulent or unauthorized activity, ensuring the safety and reliability of our services. Email information collected may be used for direct marketing purposes. You have the right to manage how your personal data is collected through these tracking technologies. To limit or decline data collection via third-party cookies, you can adjust your browser’s settings to block or disable third-party cookies entirely. On mobile devices, you can reset the advertiser identifier through the privacy settings to reduce or eliminate personalized tracking. Please note that disabling certain tracking technologies may affect the functionality and features of our website. (NAI consumer opt-out information can be found here.) We may share your personal data with trusted third parties, such as advertising partners, to deliver relevant ads, and analytics providers, to help us understand website usage patterns. These third parties operate under their own privacy policies, and we recommend reviewing their practices to understand how they handle your data. We may use your information for our own marketing purposes. Our advertising Partner, NextRoll, Inc., performs a hash of your email address in order to serve targeted advertising to other devices connected to you (via cross-device tracking). By submitting this form, you acknowledge NextRoll, Inc.’s hashing and cross-device activity. For more information, please see NextRoll’s Privacy Notice. Depending on your location, you may have specific rights concerning your personal data. These rights may include accessing, correcting, or deleting your data, objecting to its use for marketing purposes, or requesting detailed information about the data we collect and process. California residents can learn more here. |
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DEFINITIONS |
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| Affiliates |
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. ● AdvisorShares Investments, LLC ● The AdvisorShares Trust |
| Nonaffiliates | Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. |
| Joint marketing | A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you. |
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Notice to reflect changes in our data practices or comply with legal requirements. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the information practices of this site, please contact us at 1.877.843.3831.