Allied Capital Corporation is committed to earning and maintaining your trust. This privacy notice explains our privacy policies, including how we use the information about you that we collect when you become a shareholder (“Customer Information”). This notice supersedes any other privacy notice you may have received from us, and its terms apply both to our current customers and to former customers.

What Kind of Information We Collect
Our goal is to limit the collection and use of Customer Information to the minimum required to administer our business. When you purchase shares of Allied Capital, our transfer agent collects personal information about you, such as your name, address, social security number or taxpayer identification number.

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How We Use this Information
We collect Customer Information so that we can send you annual reports, proxy statements, dividends and other information required by law, and to send you information we believe may be of interest to you, such as information about our dividend reinvestment plan.

Who Has Access to Customer Information
Except as described below, we do not share Customer Information with any person or organization not affiliated with us.

The People at Allied Capital. It is our policy that only authorized Allied Capital employees who need to know your personal information will have access to it. Allied Capital personnel who violate our privacy policy are subject to disciplinary action.

Service Providers. We may disclose Customer Information to companies that provide services on our behalf. These services might include record keeping or data processing. These companies are required to protect Customer Information and to use it only for the purposes for which they received it.

Courts and Government Officials. If required by law, we may disclose Customer Information in accordance with a court order or at the request of government regulators. Only that information required by law, subpoena, or court order will be disclosed.

How We Protect Your Customer Information
We will safeguard, according to strict standards of security and confidentiality, all Customer Information we collect about you. We will protect this information using physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal and state standards.

Updating Your Information
To help us keep your Customer Information up-to-date and accurate, please contact our transfer agent in writing at the address below if there is any change in your personal information.

American Stock Transfer & Trust
59 Maiden Lane, Plaza Level
New York, NY 10038