This website should not be considered a solicitation or offering of shares of any of the Firsthand Funds to investors residing outside the United States. The Firsthand Funds are offered by prospectus only. The prospectus contains more complete information on any of the Firsthand Funds, including management fees, risks and expenses. Read it carefully before investing or sending money. If you have any questions, please contact us at 1.888.884.2675 or send an e-mail to investing@firsthandfunds.com.

The information in this website is for U.S. residents only. The Firsthand Funds described in this website are registered only in the U.S. and the information on this website does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any of the Funds to persons outside of the United States.

Firsthand Funds are distributed by ALPS Distributors, Inc.

We at Firsthand are committed to protecting the privacy of the shareholders of Firsthand Funds. This notice describes our privacy policy.

To administer and service your account, we collect nonpublic personal information about you from account applications and other related forms. We also keep records of your transactions.

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law. To process your requests and transactions, the law permits us to disclose nonpublic personal information about you to our service providers (such as Firsthand Funds' transfer agent and distributor). We prohibit our service providers from using the information that they receive from us for any purpose other than servicing your Firsthand Funds account.

We designed our privacy policy to protect your personal information. We restrict access to your nonpublic personal information to authorized employees and service providers (as described above). We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.

For more information on how Firsthand protects the confidentiality of your personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.

In order to reduce the volume of mail sent to shareholders, the law allows mutual fund companies to send a single copy of prospectuses and shareholder reports to households containing multiple shareholders. This process is known as “householding.” Firsthand Funds will begin householding starting July 1, 2002. Therefore, unless you instruct us otherwise, we will only send single copies of prospectuses and shareholder reports to shareholders in the same household.

If you prefer to continue receiving separate prospectuses and shareholder reports for each shareholder living in your household now or at any time in the future, please call Shareholder Services at 1.888.884.2675, option 4. In this case, we will begin mailing separate regulatory documents to you within 30 days of your request.

Please note that regardless of whether you consent to householding or not, you may continue to receive multiple mailings if you or others in your household invest in Firsthand Funds through a broker or other financial institution.

Beginning October 1, 2003, federal law began requiring all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. When you open an account, we will ask for your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow us to identify you. This information will be verified to ensure the identity of all individuals opening a mutual fund account.

Revised applications reflecting these new requirements are posted below and are the only applications that will be accepted on or after October 1, 2003. Old account applications received after September 30 will be returned and will not be processed.

Firsthand has adopted the policy of releasing the holdings for each of our funds on a quarterly basis with a 45-day delay. It is Firsthand's policy to include only public companies in listings of top 10 holdings. A complete list of each of our funds' holdings is also provided quarterly, after a 45-day delay.

We adopted this policy after careful consideration and with the best interests of our shareholders in mind. We believe it will help ensure that it is our shareholders who benefit most from our proprietary investment ideas, not the rest of the market. It can take several weeks to buy enough shares of a company's stock to make up a meaningful position in a fund. During the time we are taking action on a stock, we ideally don't want others to know what a portfolio manager is buying or selling because it may motivate them to take a similar action, which could negatively impact the market price of a stock from the funds' perspective. We believe our shareholders pay us for our stock selection and for the care we take in protecting our investment ideas.

The contents of the Firsthand Funds sites on the Internet are protected by applicable copyright laws. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, modify, post or frame any text, graphics, video, audio, software code, or user interface design or logos without express written consent.

ALL INFORMATION AND CONTENT ON THE FIRSTHAND FUNDS WEBSITES ARE SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE STATUTES AND REGULATIONS, FURNISHED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.