We Collect When you visit the Site and during our ordinary business activities, the Firm may collect or ask you to provide certain nonpublic personal information (“Personal Information”) in order to help us manage our relationship with you and serve your investment needs. The categories of Personal Information we may collect will depend on the nature of our relationship with you and the purpose for which information is being collected. The Personal Information we may collect from you may include personally identifiable information, including names, residential or business addresses, or other contact details, signature, nationality, tax identification or passport number, date of birth, place of birth, photographs, copies of identification documents, bank account details, information about assets or net worth, information on investment activities or other personal information. We may carry out background checks in the context of pre-employment screening or in connection with customer due diligence checks that we are required to undertake in compliance with our anti-money laundering and financial sanctions compliance obligations and obtain information on your credit history, criminal and administrative offences, or other special categories of personal data (including ethnic origin, health and disability) that may be contained in relevant documents or materials.

Sources of Personal Information

• Your communications with us;
• Your transactions with us;
• Service providers;
• Affiliates;
• Nonprofit organizations;
• Publicly available information (including publications and social media);
• Government entities.

We use Personal Information for the following business purposes:

• To communicate with you;
• To improve the Site;
• To protect the security and integrity of the Site;
• To prevent or investigate fraud or other unlawful activity, and detect security incidents;
• To comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements.

Merus does not disclose any Personal Information to nonaffiliated third parties. We do not sell any Personal Information.

Merus seeks to carefully safeguard Personal Information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that Personal Information is kept secure and safe from any loss or unauthorized disclosure or use.