Privacy Policy

EQT Exeter Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
Privacy Policy
(as of July 2023)

This Privacy Policy describes how EQT Exeter Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates “EQRT”, “us”, “we” or “our”) gathers and uses personal information about you when you communicate with us and visit our website (collectively, the “Website”); how we protect and share this information; and the rights you may have in relation to this personal information. Additional information practices are explained in separate notices such as our subscription materials. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, and consult our Terms of Use for more information about the general terms and conditions regarding your use of our Website. By using our Website, you agree and consent to the collection, use, disclosure and procedures that this Privacy Policy describes.

If you are a California resident, please also review our California Resident Privacy Notice for more information about the types of personal information we collect and disclose, as well as how to exercise your rights under California law.

Furthermore, we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Should we do so, we will post the changes to this page. We suggest that you periodically consult this Privacy Policy to review any changes. Your continued use of our Website after the effective date of any modification to the Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms. This Notice was last updated as of the date above.

The Types of Information We Collect and How We Collect It

When you visit and browse our Website or communicate with us through our Website, you may directly provide us with information, including personal information, and we will collect certain information automatically or through other sources.

Information You Provide to Us. In order to access certain services provided through our Website or to request certain information from EQRT via our Website, you may be required to provide certain personal information. Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect identifiers and similar information such as, name, state of residency, email address, online identifiers or other similar identifiers.

Information We Collect Automatically. We also collect information about you automatically, which may include personal information. For example, when you visit our Website, we collect your internet protocol (“IP”) address, your browser type, your operating system, the pages you view on our Website, the duration of your visit, the pages you view immediately before and after you access our Website, and the search terms you enter on our Website.

We generally collect this information using cookies and similar technologies (please see Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies below). If you communicate with our employees and other designees via email or other electronic channels, our information technology systems record details of those communications, sometimes including their content, for compliance and record-keeping purposes.

Additional Information Collection Practices. We may collect personal information about you from other sources such as our service providers or other vendors that assist with our business. Additionally, some of our external data sources may ask you to provide personal information on their websites and may share such personal information with us, as governed by their respective privacy policies.

The external data sources from which we receive personal information include web hosting providers. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us, such as your name, address and email address.

We will link the information that we collect automatically with the information you provide us, and we will combine the information we collect online with information we collect offline or that is collected by our service providers or external data sources.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to websites operated by third-parties, and your personal information may be collected by those third-parties when you use their websites. Should you choose to visit these third-party websites, you should review their privacy policies to ensure you understand and are comfortable with their practices concerning your personal information. We do not accept, and do disclaim, any responsibility for the privacy policies and information collection, use, and sharing practices of any third-party website (whether or not such site is linked on or to our Website). These links are provided to you for convenience purposes only, and you access them at your own risk.

Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies for a variety of purposes such as to better understand, customize and improve the user experience of our Website, services and offerings. Cookies are small files that a website sends to your computer or device while you are viewing a website, or other technical methods to track visitor usage, including web beacons, which are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of a website. For example, when you return to our Website after logging in, cookies provide information to our Website so that our Website will remember who you are. Cookies may also be used by our service providers to provide their services to us.

You can control cookies in various ways, including:

• Consent on our Website. Apart from the necessary cookies, you consent to the types of cookies that we may use on our Website. You may at any time change your cookie preferences on our Website. Necessary cookies are required for the basic functionality of our website to work. We also use necessary cookies to help with ensuring that you are given the option to accept or reject cookies, block non-necessary cookies from working until you give consent, and remember your cookie settings and choices. It's not necessary to accept nor possible to reject the use of necessary cookies as they are core for the functionality of our website.
• Internet Browser. You can also control cookies through most browsers by changing your cookie settings, which are typically found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser.
• Third Party Tools. You can visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ where you will find comprehensive information on cookie management and blocking which pertains to a wide variety of browsers. Please note that if you turn cookies off, you may not have access to many features that may improve your browsing and some of our services may not function properly.

How We Use the Information We Collect

Generally, we use information we collect about you primarily to provide services to and communicate with you, in accordance with any contract with you, and to manage and improve our services for you and our other investors, as permitted by applicable laws.

We may collect, use or process your personal information for the following business or commercial purposes, and the lawful bases for our processing include the following:

• respond to your requests for forms, literature, or information, on the basis that it is in our business interests to respond to your requests, and you have requested that we do this;
• manage and administer customer services, including but not limited to the administration of your customer account. In most cases we do this is to meet our contractual obligations to you. Where there is no such obligation, we have a business interest in keeping our records accurate and up to date, which will assist you when we provide our services;
• process transactions as necessary to meet our contractual obligations to you;
• provide you with the services you have requested. In many cases we will provide these services to comply with contractual obligations to you, but if these services are not governed by any contract, we will use your information in this way to meet our business interests in providing the best service possible;
• prepare investor disclosure materials. This is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to meet our interests in managing our business effectively, and for informing you and our other investors about how we are meeting your expectations;
• improve our Website and learn about how visitors use our Website. This is necessary for us to improve the services we offer through our Website, and benefits you as it helps us make our Website more usable and appealing;
• maintain security and prevent or detect crime and fraud. In many cases we are required to do this by applicable laws, but will otherwise do so to meet our legitimate interests in maintaining security and preventing crime;
• communicate with you about our products, services and marketing materials, including providing you with information about features on our Website and possible changes to our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use Policy. If required by applicable law, we will only send these direct marketing messages on the basis that you have consented, or otherwise it will be to meet our business interests in providing information to our investors about new products and features. You can opt out of receiving such marketing communications at any time by using the information in the Your Choices and Rights section;
• internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. This processing benefits investors by supporting our provision of services;
• with your consent (including explicit consent), as required under applicable law;
• to comply with our legal obligations; and
• protect our rights, your rights, and the rights of others, as this may be necessary to meet our own high standards of business practice, as well as establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

We may use information for any purpose if the information does not identify you and cannot be combined with other information accessible to us to identify you. For example, we may prepare aggregated reports about how visitors tend to interact with our Website for research about the use of our Website and how our Website could be improved, from which your interactions with our Website cannot be singled out.

How We Share the Personal Information We Collect

Please note that for purposes of this section, “sharing” does not include “sharing” as defined under the CCPA. For additional disclosures and information on our CCPA practices, please review our California Resident Privacy Notice.

1. Financial Institutions and Advisors

We may share information about you with your financial institutions and advisors, such as financial planners/advisors and broker-dealers that you use to acquire, manage, or sell our financial products and services. If you engage with us through such parties or otherwise direct us to communicate with such parties, we may share information about you with these parties.

We may disclose this information to such parties for the purposes and on the basis described above, for example, to process your transactions and to respond to your requests for information or communications from such parties about you.

2. Service Providers

Sometimes we engage companies that process information for us or act on our behalf in association with the operation of our Website and our services. For example, such companies may deliver products or services, improve the functionality of our Website, collect information about you, communicate with you, or store information for us. In some cases, these companies may need to access information about you to provide their services to us.

We may also disclose your information to service providers that provide products or services to us or to facilitate our business operations, including marketing, advertising and related services.

We share personal information with service providers on the basis that it is necessary to meet our legitimate interests in efficiently managing our business and for developing future business.

3. Analytics Providers

We may engage analytics providers to help us understand how users engage with our Website. These providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of our Website as well as information about your use of other websites over time. As described above, we share personal information with analytics providers on the basis that it is necessary to meet our legitimate interests in efficiently managing our business and for developing future business.

4. Additional Sharing Practices

We may share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries, or with our attorneys, banks, auditors, securities brokers and other service providers in connection with the purposes described above.

We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that such disclosures:

• are required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or in response to a law enforcement agency’s request;
• will help to protect our rights or enforce our Terms of Use Policy;
• will support our detection, prevention, or response to fraud or intellectual property infringement;
• at your direction or with your consent;
• will help protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and
• will protect the safety and security of our Website, databases, and/or third-parties, including the safety and security of tangible and/or intangible property that belongs to us or to third-parties.

We may also share information about you to the extent reasonably necessary to proceed with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a merger, reorganization, financing, or acquisition of our business, or a sale, liquidation, or transfer of some or all of our assets.

The above-described disclosures are provided on the basis that they are either necessary to comply with our legal obligations or they are necessary to meet our legitimate interests in managing our business efficiently and for developing future business.

Additionally, we reserve the right to share with third-parties information that does not identify you (and cannot be combined with other information accessible to us to identify you) for any purpose.

We do not sell your personal information and have not done so in the last 12 months from the effective date of this policy.

The Security Measures We Take to Safeguard Information

We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect the information that we collect or receive. Please be aware that, despite our ongoing efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

Updating Your Contact Information

You may update your contact information and/or modify your communication preferences by sending us an e-mail at [email protected]. Additionally, we may provide tools on our Website that facilitate such updates or modifications.

Children’s Information

Our Website is intended for use by those over 18, and minors under the age of 13 may not use our Website. We do not knowingly collect, maintain or use personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that, despite these measures, a child under the age of 13 has submitted personal information through our Website, we will take reasonable measures to delete such information from our records and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required by law). If you learn that a child has provided us with personal information in violation of this Privacy Policy, you may notify us at [email protected].

Do Not Track

Your browser and other mechanisms may permit you to send do-not-track signals or other similar signals to express your preferences regarding online tracking. We do not currently respond to such signals. Third-parties, such as our analytics providers, may collect data that relates to you on our Website, across time, and over other websites. We cannot control third-parties’ responses to do-not-track signals or other such mechanisms. Third-parties’ use of data relating to you and responsiveness to do-not-track signals is governed by their respective privacy policies.

Your Choices and Rights

Subject to local law, you may have certain additional rights regarding your personal information. These may include the following rights to: (i) access your personal information ; (ii) rectify, correct, or update the personal information we hold about you; (iii) erase your personal information (subject to applicable exceptions); (iv) restrict our use of your personal information ; (v) object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, including where we process personal information for direct marketing purposes or where we have processed such data on the basis of our legitimate interests; (vi) withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information (where applicable); (vii) receive your personal information in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third-party (also known as the right of data portability); and (viii) lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

If you are a California Resident, please review our California Resident Privacy Policy for a description of your California-specific rights regarding your personal information.

If you would like to discuss or exercise the rights you may have, contact us at [email protected]. We will review your request and respond accordingly. We will process your request based upon the personal information in our records that is linked or reasonably linkable to the information provided in your request. In some cases, we may request additional information in order to verify your request or where necessary to process your request. The rights described herein are not absolute and we reserve all of our rights available to us at law in this regard. We will process your request within the time provided by applicable law.

Where Is Information Processed?

Our services are hosted in the United States and our Website is intended for visitors located within the United States. If you choose to use our Website from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. Also, we may transfer your data from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating our Website. Where required by applicable privacy laws, we may transfer your personal information on the basis of: (i) an adequacy decision; (ii) model contract clauses; or (iii) other valid transfer mechanisms. By providing any information, including personal information, on or through our Website, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing (where such consent is legally required). For more information about the safeguards applied to international transfers, please contact [email protected].

How Long Is Information Retained?

We retain your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you and for a period after our relationship with you has ended. When deciding how long to keep your personal information after our relationship with you has ended, we take into account how long we need to retain the information to fulfill the purposes described above and to comply with our legal obligations, including obligations to financial services regulators. We may also retain personal information to investigate or defend against potential legal claims in accordance with the limitation periods of jurisdictions where legal action may be brought.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this policy or our privacy or data protection practices, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].