Privacy Statement

Aberdeen Funds appreciates the privacy concerns and expectations of our shareholders. We are committed to maintaining a high level of privacy and confidentiality when it comes to your personal information and we use that information only where permitted by law.

We provide this privacy notice to you so that you may understand our policy with regard to the collection and disclosure of nonpublic personal information (“Information”) pertaining to you.

Collection of Information

We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

• Information received from you on account applications, agreements, questionnaires or other forms (which may include your name, address, phone number, social security or taxpayer identification number, and birth date);
• Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others (which may include account balances and investment activity);
• Information received from you in written, telephonic or electronic communications with us, our affiliates or others

Disclosure of Information

We do not disclose any Information about our customers or former customers to third parties, except as permitted by law. We may disclose all of the Information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing arrangements.

Access to Information

We restrict access to your Information except to the extent necessary to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your Information.

Our privacy policy applies only to those individual investors who have a direct customer relationship with us. If you are an individual shareholder of record of an Aberdeen Fund, we consider you to be a customer of that Fund. Shareholders purchasing or owning shares of a Fund through their bank, broker or other financial institution should consult that financial institution’s privacy policies. If you own shares or receive investment services through a relationship with a third-party broker, bank, investment adviser or other financial service provider, that third-party’s privacy policies may apply to you and the Funds’ may not.