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YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE

You must not use this Website (or permit or procure others to use it) as follows:

for any unlawful, improper or illegal purpose or activity;
to communicate or receive information that is obscene, indecent, pornographic, sadistic, cruel, or racist in content, of a sexually explicit or graphic nature, which promotes or incites discrimination, hatred or racism or which might be legally actionable for any reason;
in a manner intended to threaten, harass, or intimidate;
to violate First Trust Portfolios L.P. and First Trust Advisors L.P. ("First Trust") or any third party's copyright, trademark, proprietary or other intellectual property rights;
to damage First Trust’s name or reputation or that of First Trust’s affiliated companies or any third parties;
to impersonate any of First Trust’s employees or other person or use a false name while using this Website or implying an association with First Trust;
to penetrate First Trust’s security measures or other entities' systems ("hacking");
to transmit unsolicited voluminous emails (for example, spamming) or to intercept, interfere with or redirect email intended for others using this Website;
to generate excessive amounts of internet traffic, to interfere with First Trust’s network or others' use of this Website or to engage in activities designed to, or having the effect of, degrading or denying service to other users of this Website or others;
to introduce viruses, worms, harmful code and/or Trojan horses onto the internet or into this Website or any other entity’s systems and it is your responsibility to ensure that whatever you download or select for your use from this Website is free from such items;
to post or transmit information that is defamatory, fraudulent or deceptive including, but not limited to, scams such as "make-money-fast" schemes or "pyramid/chain" letters; and/or
to transmit confidential or proprietary information, except solely at your own risk.

LIABILITY FOR USE OF THIS WEBSITE

Access to this Website is permitted on a temporary basis and First Trust reserves the right to withdraw or amend the service it provides on this Website without notice. First Trust does not accept any liability if, for any reason, this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Information and opinions contained on this Website have been compiled or arrived at by First Trust from sources believed to be reliable. Any opinions attributed to First Trust constitute its judgement as of the date of the relevant material and are subject to change without notice. However, to the extent permitted by law, First Trust, its affiliates and other third parties connected to First Trust hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties, representations and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity. First Trust, its affiliates and other third parties connected to First Trust further exclude, to the extent permitted by law, any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind incurred by any user of this Website in connection with this Website or in reliance on the information or opinions contained on it, or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of this Website or any websites linked to it or materials posted on it. First Trust disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed by any user of this Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of the information on this Website, on materials and information posted on this Website.

The information on this Website is provided “as is”. To the extent permitted by law, no guarantee or representation, express or implied, is made as to the accuracy, validity, timeliness, completeness or continued availability of any information made available. First Trust does not warrant the accuracy of the materials provided on this Website and any warranty of any kind is disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law or regulation. First Trust shall not have any responsibility to maintain the information made available on this Website or to supply any corrections, updates or releases in connection therewith. Availability of information is subject to change without notice.

The internet is not a completely reliable transmission medium and neither First Trust nor any of its affiliates accept any liability for any data transmission errors such as data loss or damage or alteration of any kind or for the security or confidentiality of information transmitted across the internet to or from First Trust or any of its affiliates. Any such transmission of information is entirely at your own risk. First Trust does not guarantee and First Trust accepts no liability for ensuring that this Website or its contents are free of viruses or any other damaging material.

Neither First Trust nor any of its directors, officers or employees, nor any other person will be liable or have any responsibility of any kind for any loss or damage that any user of this Website incurs in the event of any failure or interruption of this Website or resulting from the act or omission of any other party involved in making this Website or the information contained on it available to you, or from any other cause relating to a user of this Website’s access to, inability to access, or use this Website or this information, whether or not the circumstances giving rise to such cause may have been within the control of First Trust or of any third party providing software or support services.

In no event will First Trust or any such parties be liable to a user of this Website for any direct, special, indirect, consequential, incidental damages or any other damages of any kind even if First Trust or any other party has been advised of the possibility thereof. The above does not exclude or restrict any duty or liability that First Trust has by law.

USE OF WEBSITE ANALYTICS

We currently use third party analytics tools, Google Analytics and Matomo to gather information for purposes of improving First Trust's website and marketing our products and services to you. These tools employ cookies, which are small pieces of text stored in a file by your web browser and sent to websites that you visit, to collect information, track website usage and viewing trends such as the number of hits, pages visited, videos and PDFs viewed and the length of user sessions in order to evaluate website performance and enhance navigation of the website. We may also collect other anonymous information, which is generally limited to technical and web navigation information such as the IP address of your device, internet browser type and operating system for purposes of analyzing the data to make First Trust's website better and more useful to our users. The information collected does not include any NPPI unless you voluntarily provide that information through the website for us to contact you in order to answer your questions or respond to your requests. You should not provide NPPI on our website if you do not want your information to be used by these services. To find out how to opt-out of these services click on: Google Analytics and Matomo Analytics Platform.

We use reCAPTCHA on certain pages of our website to help protect against automated abuse, spam and fraudulent activity. reCAPTCHA works by collecting certain technical information from your browser, such as your IP address, cookies, browser type, device information, and interaction data, to determine whether a request is coming from a human user or an automated program. This information is processed by Google on our behalf solely for the purpose of security, fraud and abuse prevention, and is not used for advertising or any other related purpose.