Western Asset iscommitted to keeping nonpublic information about our clients and potential clients secure and confidential.

From time to time, we may collect a variety of nonpublic information about you, including:

• Information we receive from you on applications and forms, via the telephone, and through our website
• Information about your account with us, our affiliates or others
• Information we receive from consumer reporting agencies
• Technical and navigational information, such as computer browser type, Internet Protocol address, pages visited, and time spent on the website

Western Asset will not sell your nonpublic information to anyone. Further, we do not disclose your nonpublic information, except as required or permitted by law. For example, we may provide this information to companies that perform administrative services on our behalf, to securities industry regulators, or in response to a subpoena. We will require companies that we hire to protect the confidentiality of this information and to use it only to perform the services for which we hired them.

We collect technical information to keep you informed about software compatibility issues and possible upgrades, and to educate our web design team to improve your web experience.

With respect to our internal security procedures, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your nonpublic information, and we restrict access to this information. For more details, please view our Online Security Policy.

Should you decide not to become a client of Western Asset, or should you decide at some point to become an inactive client, we will continue to adhere to these privacy policies and practices with respect to your nonpublic information.