PRIVACY POLICY OF FIRST TRUST PORTFOLIOS L.P. AND FIRST TRUST ADVISORS L.P. ("FIRST TRUST")

First Trust values its relationship with you and considers your privacy a priority in maintaining that relationship. We are committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of your personal information while providing you with the products/services you request or authorize.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

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

Information we receive from you, or from your broker-dealer, investment professional or financial representative on your behalf through interviews, applications, agreements or other documentation;
Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or other third-parties;
Information we receive from your inquiries by mail, e-mail or telephone; and
Information we collect on our website through the use of "cookies". For example, we may identify the pages on our website that your browser requests or visits.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

The type of NPPI we collect may include your name, address, social security number, age, financial status, assets, income, tax information, retirement and estate plan information, transaction history, account balance, investment objectives, marital status, family relationships and other NPPI.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We do not disclose NPPI about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law. In addition to using this information to verify your identity (as required under law), the permitted uses may also include the disclosure of such information to unaffiliated companies for the following reasons:

In order to provide you with products and services and to effect transactions that you request or authorize, we may disclose your NPPI as described above to unaffiliated service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as transfer agents, custodians, accountants and trustees, or that assist us in the distribution of investor materials such as trustees, banks, financial representatives, proxy services, solicitors and printers.
We may release NPPI we have about you if you direct us to do so.
We may be required by law to share your NPPI or may need to do so in other legally limited circumstances. For example, First Trust may need to share your NPPI to protect your account from fraud.

In addition, in order to alert you to our other financial products and services, we may share your NPPI within First Trust.

USE OF WEBSITE ANALYTICS

We currently use third party analytics tools, Google Analytics and Matomo to gather information for purposes of improving First Trust's website and marketing our products and services to you. These tools employ cookies, which are small pieces of text stored in a file by your web browser and sent to websites that you visit, to collect information, track website usage and viewing trends such as the number of hits, pages visited, videos and PDFs viewed and the length of user sessions in order to evaluate website performance and enhance navigation of the website. We may also collect other anonymous information, which is generally limited to technical and web navigation information such as the IP address of your device, internet browser type and operating system for purposes of analyzing the data to make First Trust's website better and more useful to our users. The information collected does not include any NPPI unless you voluntarily provide that information through the website for us to contact you in order to answer your questions or respond to your requests. You should not provide NPPI on our website if you do not want your information to be used by these services. To find out how to opt-out of these services click on: Google Analytics and Matomo Analytics Platform.

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

With regard to our internal security procedures, First Trust restricts access to your NPPI to only those First Trust employees who need to know such information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your NPPI.

POLICY UPDATES AND INQUIRIES

As required by federal law, we will notify you of our privacy policy annually. We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time, however, if we do change it, we will tell you promptly. For questions about our policy, or for additional copies of this notice, please go to www.ftportfolios.com, or contact us at 1-800-621-1675 (First Trust Portfolios L.P.) or 1-800-222-6822 (First Trust Advisors L.P.).

March 2025