NOTICE TO ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS

Dear Eligible Participant:

Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) has been engaged to provide financial wellness services to you through this program. We expect that you will find EY’s services to be valuable, but we think it is also important that you understand the scope of these services. The following explains what financial wellness services can and cannot do for you, particularly with regard to investment planning.

General Financial Planning Considerations
Here are points to understand regarding your personal financial planning and your participation in financial wellness services:

  • EY has prepared certain financial planning materials and is providing other services for your personal use as an eligible participant; such materials may not be shared publicly.
  • The financial education program includes historical financial information and well-accepted financial planning strategies. It may also include information on Social Security benefits and your sponsoring organizations benefit plans. This information is based on sources that EY believes to be reliable. However, EY cannot guarantee its accuracy.
  • Past performance, which may be referenced in the program, is not a guarantee or even necessarily an indication of future results.
  • The financial planning materials you receive will not change or affect your rights under your sponsoring organization’s benefit plans. In all cases, the benefit plan documents will govern.
  • As you plan your financial future, you will need to make assumptions about future financial trends (such as inflation and rates of return), laws and regulations, and apply these to your particular circumstances. Your results can be significantly affected by even small changes in your assumptions, your individual circumstances or laws and regulations, as well as the extent to which your assumptions ultimately vary from actual financial conditions. You may need to reevaluate your financial planning strategy and your decisions from time to time to determine if any changes have occurred that would necessitate amendments to your assumptions or plan.
  • A financial education program provides only some of the resources for assisting you in preparing your financial planning strategies. Financial education does not provide accounting, tax or legal advice and does not involve recommendation of specific investments.
  • You need to decide on your own whether to consult with a financial advisor or other professional regarding your personal circumstances. If you do, please be aware, you may incur additional costs.
  • In providing financial education, EY may help you decide on your asset allocation or help you make informed assumptions about rates of return and other investment issues. While EY will help you understand what you need to do, you are responsible for making and acting on these decisions. EY cannot provide you with all information that may be relevant nor can any materials provided address every possible scenario in connection with such decisions.
  • Neither EY nor your employer will make any financial planning decisions for you or assume any responsibility for decisions you make.
  • EY may provide audit or other accounting services to the investments or service providers discussed. The provision of other services will not be a determining factor whether to discuss or recommend an investment or service provider.

Privacy of Information Provided to EY

In the event EY collects nonpublic personal information about you from you or other sources authorized by you, EY will not disclose such information to third parties, except as permitted by law or as otherwise authorized by you. EY maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information.

Further Considerations

All services are provided “as is,” and there are no warranties of any kind or nature, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use. In addition, neither EY nor its affiliates nor any of their partners, officers, directors or employees shall be liable to you for any services performed or omitted or for any errors of judgment, or for consequential, incidental, indirect, punitive or special damages in connection with providing the services described above. Federal securities laws impose liabilities under certain circumstances on certain persons, even those who act in good faith, and therefore nothing in this notice constitutes a waiver or limitation of any rights that you may have under these laws.

If you should have any kind of claim or dispute with EY as a result of this program, these will be resolved in accordance with EY’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures (“Procedures”) in effect on the date of this notice. You may receive a copy of the Procedures by requesting them from the Compliance officer of EY, at the following address:

200 Plaza Drive
Suite 2222
Secaucus, NJ 07094

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If, after considering the issues discussed above, you do not want to participate in financial education and counseling in conjunction with this program, please contact your sponsoring organization, as soon as possible.