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Welcome! Please read the following this Terms of Use Agreement before using this website as it is a binding contract between you and Franklin Templeton Investments. It governs your use of this website and all products, services, content, tools and information available through the website. By using or accessing this website, you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. Franklin Templeton may periodically modify these Terms of Use, and any such modifications will be effective immediately upon posting.

This Site is provided by Franklin Templeton Investments. Franklin Templeton may modify, suspend, discontinue or restrict the use and availability of any portion or all of this Site at any time, without notice or liability. Your use of this Site may be monitored by Franklin Templeton for any purpose, without liability.

These Terms were last amended as of: September 24, 2014

  • Acceptance of the Terms of Use and any Amendments
  • Site Sponsor
  • Global Use
  • Authorized Use and Users
  • License Grant
  • Means of Access and Prohibited Uses
  • User Produced Content and License Grant to Franklin Templeton
  • RSS and Sharing Site Content
  • Linking Permission
  • Trademarks, Copyright Policy, Notice and Claim Information
  • Third Party Content
  • DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
  • Limitation of Liability
  • Indemnification
  • Termination

Acceptance of the Terms of Use and any Amendments

This Terms of Use Agreement (the “Terms of Use”) states the terms and conditions under which you may use this website and all products, services, content, tools, and information available through the website (referred to collectively as the “Site”). Please read the Terms of Use carefully. By accessing, browsing or otherwise using this Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be legally bound by the Terms of Use. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of the Terms of Use Agreement, you may not access or otherwise use this website.

These Terms of Use are in addition to, and not intended to modify or amend, any other agreements between you and us, including any customer or account agreements, with regard to matters other than your use of the Site.

Your use of this Site is governed by the Terms of Use in effect on the date this Site is accessed by you. We reserve the right to change the Site and the Terms of Use at any time, without notice. If you use the Site after the amended Terms of Use have been posted, you will be deemed to have agreed to the Terms of Use, as amended.

 
Site Sponsor

This Site is provided as a service, and for informational purposes only, by Franklin Templeton Investments (collectively, “Franklin Templeton” or “Franklin Templeton Investments” or “we” or “us”). It is not provided by the Franklin Templeton investment companies.

Franklin Resources, Inc. [NYSE: BEN] is a global investment organization operating as Franklin Templeton Investments. Through various Franklin Templeton entities, Franklin Templeton Investments provides global and U.S. investment, shareholder and distribution services to the Franklin, Templeton and Mutual Series Funds (“Funds”) and institutional accounts, as well as separate account management services.

 
Global Use

Site Content may refer to products or services that may not be available in your country. Consult your local Franklin Templeton office for more information. You should not construe anything on the Site as a promotion or solicitation for any product or for the use of any product that is not authorized by the laws and regulations of the country in which you are located.

Access to the Site and the Site Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries , and you access the Site at your own initiative and risk. Franklin Templeton makes no representation that the Site Content or the Site is appropriate or available for use in your country and access to the Site from countries where the Site contents are illegal, is prohibited.

Because of the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules with respect to your online conduct, including all laws, rules, codes and regulations of the country in which you reside and the country from which you access this Site, including without limitation, all laws, rules, codes, regulations, decrees, acts, orders, directives, legislation, bills and statutes pertaining to tax, contracts, intellectual property, securities, e-commerce, banking, technology, computers, fraud and privacy. In addition, you agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules, codes and regulations regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States.

 
Authorized Use, Users

Authorized Use. Except as otherwise permitted in these Terms of Use, this Site is intended only for your personal, noncommercial use unless (1) you are a broker/dealer, bank or other financial services firm that has entered into a valid distribution agreement (“Distribution Agreement”) with Franklin Templeton, or you are an authorized representative of such firm and (2) it is for your reasonable and fair business use for the purpose of providing services under such Distribution Agreement.  Any other exceptions must be expressly authorized by Franklin Templeton in writing.

No solicitations. Nothing on this Site shall be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell, or a recommendation for, a security, or any other product or service.

No investment recommendations or professional advice; use of tools. This Site is not intended to provide any tax, legal, insurance or investment advice, and nothing on the Site should be construed as a recommendation, by us or any third party, to acquire or dispose of any investment or security, or to engage in any investment strategy or transaction. If there are certain tools available on the Site that provide general investment or financial analyses based upon your personalized input, such results are not to be construed as our providing investment recommendations or advice. Unless otherwise specified, you alone are solely responsible for determining whether any investment, security or strategy or any other product or service, is appropriate or suitable for you based on your investment objectives and personal and financial situation. You should consult an attorney or tax professional regarding your specific legal or tax situation.

 
License Grant

In accordance herewith, Franklin Templeton grants to you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to view, download, store, bookmark and print the pages within this Site. You may also copy, distribute, post, and display the pages within this Site provided that you identify both Franklin Templeton and the Site as the source and place such source attribution in close proximity to the copied, distributed, posted or displayed pages.

 

Means of Access and Prohibited Uses

The Site is generally intended to be viewed by a conventional web browser with a screen resolution of 640 by 480 pixels or greater. Although you may use other means to access the Site, be aware that the Site may not appear accurately through other access methods, and you use them only at your own risk. You are responsible for setting the cache settings on your browser to ensure that you are receiving the most recent data. Except for RSS feeds, you should not access the Site through devices or services that are designed to provide high-speed, automated, repeated access, unless such devices are approved by Franklin Templeton in writing.

Because all servers have limited capacity and are used by many people, you may not use the Site in any manner that could damage or overburden any Franklin Templeton server, or any network connected to any Franklin Templeton server. You may not use the Site in any manner that would interfere with any other party’s use of the Site.

Except as otherwise stated in these Terms of Use or as expressly authorized by Franklin Templeton in writing, you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, post, display, perform, reproduce, publish, broadcast, license, create derivative works from, transfer, sell or exploit any reports, data, information, content, software, electronic feeds such as RSS feeds, products, services or other materials on, generated by or obtained from this Site, whether through links or otherwise (collectively, “Site Content”).

You also may not probe, scan, test the vulnerability or attempt to gain unauthorized access to Site, Site Content or services, systems, networks or servers connected or associated with this Site through hacking, data mining, or any other means.

User Produced Content and License Grant to Franklin Templeton

This Site may contain user produced content, including but not limited to comments, quotations, photographs, graphics, images, logos, user names, illustrations, videos, messages, information, documents and any other materials (collectively ”User Content”) that you submit, upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available via the Site (all methods of making material available to or via the Site shall herein be incorporated in the terms “Submit,” “Submitting” or “Submission”).

You should not Submit to the Site personal identifying information about yourself, employees of Franklin Templeton or any other person including, but not limited to such identifying information as account numbers and social security or tax id numbers.

Except as may be limited by your local jurisdiction’s privacy laws none of the User Content that you Submit via the Site shall be subject to any confidentiality obligations by Franklin Templeton and its affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors and vendors. Except as may be provided by securities laws, Franklin Templeton shall not be liable in any way for any User Content or for the use or disclosure of any User Content, including identifying personal information.

By Submitting User Content via the Site, you grant Franklin Templeton and its affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors, assigns and vendors a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, nonexclusive, paid-up, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable license to copy, broadcast, perform, distribute, store, modify, adapt, translate, publish, sell, create derivative works from or otherwise use any User Content, in any manner, in any medium now known or later developed. Such use includes but is not limited to use of know-how, ideas, trade secrets or inventions disclosed or derived from the User Content. You acknowledge that Franklin Templeton may use your User content in any manner without attribution or liability to you or any third party. Franklin Templeton shall exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to any derivative works or inventions created by or on behalf of Franklin Templeton that incorporate or otherwise make use of any User Content, without compensation or notice, and without liability or attribution, to you or any third party.

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Franklin Templeton does not control and is not responsible for the User Content Submitted to or via the Site and Franklin Templeton neither guarantees the accuracy, quality or appropriateness of nor endorses any User Content Submitted to the Site. Franklin Templeton does not claim ownership of any User Content you Submit to the Site. You acknowledge that Franklin Templeton and/or its vendors may or may not (but are not obligated to) monitor User Content, but that Franklin Templeton shall have the right in its sole discretion to monitor, post, move, edit, refuse, or remove any User Content, in whole or in part, for any reason whatsoever, without notice and without liability.

Except for the authorized Franklin Templeton bloggers, Franklin Templeton employees and contractors may not Submit User Content to the Site.

 

 

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The Site Feeds may be used in connection with personal and commercial websites provided:

  • The material from the Site Feeds is used in its entirety, including any caveats and disclaimers embedded in the Site Feeds materials without alteration
  • No fee may be charged to allow access to the Site Feeds from your website

This Site may include widgets which access third party websites for delivery of the Site Feeds or Site Content. Franklin Templeton does not control or endorse these third party websites and the widgets are provided solely for your convenience. You should exercise caution when using these widgets and third party websites and only access the widgets and third party website with which you are familiar.

Franklin Templeton reserves the right to discontinue providing all or part of any or all of the Site Feeds to you at any time and require you to cease displaying, distributing or otherwise using any or all of the Site Feeds for any reason including, without limitation, your violation of any provision of these Terms of Use. Franklin Templeton assumes no liability for any of your activities in connection with the Site Feeds or for your use of the Site Feeds in connection with your websites or webpages. You must use the Site Feeds as provided by Franklin Templeton and you may not edit or modify the text, content or links supplied by Franklin Templeton. You agree not to associate any of the Site Feeds with any content that might harm the reputation of Franklin Templeton, its affiliated companies, directors or its employees. You may not use or display the Site Feeds in any manner that suggests that Franklin Templeton promotes or endorses any third party causes, ideas, Web sites, products or services.

Franklin Templeton retains all ownership and other rights in the Site Feeds, Site Content, and any and all Franklin Templeton logos and trademarks used in connection with the Site Feeds. You agree to provide proper attribution to Franklin Templeton as the source of the Site Feeds in reasonable proximity to your use thereof, and you agree that you will not modify the format or branding of the headlines, digests and other information provided in the Site Feeds. The Site Feeds may not be disassembled or otherwise redistributed by third-party RSS providers without our express prior written consent.

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In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Franklin Templeton designates as its agent to receive notifications of claimed copyright infringement as follows:

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Indemnification

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Governing Law, Forum, Severability

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Termination

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