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General Policy

U.S. Global Investors, Inc., U.S. Global Investors Funds. United Shareholder Services, Inc., and U.S. Global Brokerage, Inc. have created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of your personal information. These are our information gathering and dissemination practices.

Information Collected and Disclosed

We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

Information we receive from you on applications or other forms;
Information about your transactions with us;
Information gathered from consumer reporting agencies;
Information gathered by affiliated companies; and
Information gathered through web site usage.

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to nonaffiliated parties, except as permitted or required by law. U.S. Global and its affiliates may use this information to service your account or provide you information about products or services that may be of interest to you. We may also disclose all of the information
we collect (except for consumer reports), as described above, to companies that perform marketing or other services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements to service or administer your account(s), transaction(s), or request(s).

If you decide to close your account(s) or become an inactive investor, we will adhere to the privacy policies and practices as described in this notice.

We restrict access to your nonpublic personal and account information to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information.

Further, we will properly dispose of consumer report information that may be gathered about you. Steps have been taken to ensure that consumer reports are protected against unauthorized access to or use of the information in connection with its disposal.

Internet Policy

We protect our users’ information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline with state-of-the-art technology. To access your account online, your computer’s web browser must support this technology. More detailed information is available on our website, www.usfunds.com. If you are just “surfing,” we collect and use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movements and gather broad demographic information. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Registration: If you want to buy or trade a mutual fund on our site, you must register by filling out an application form. The form asks for information such as name, e-mail address, address, gender and age. We use this information to send you materials about U.S. Global and products offered through our site, and to contact you when necessary. We are required under federal law to keep records of the information you provide to us.

When you register at our site, U.S. Global uses a cookie (a small data file stored on your computer’s hard drive) to store a unique, random user ID. We do not store passwords or any personal information about you. We use this ID to identify you anonymously in our database and to track information while you are on our site. Cookies also let you enter our site as a registered user without having to log on each time. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use our site. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser, but if you do, you may not be able to use certain features of our site.

Linked Sites: Our site may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. You should read the privacy statements of each website you visit that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information we collect on our site.

Children’s Privacy: Our site is not directed at children under the age of 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. If we learn that we have obtained personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our records.

E-mail: E-mail is not a secure means of transmitting sensitive information. We will never ask you to submit your investment or personal information via e-mail.

Changes to Privacy Policy

U.S. Global may occasionally change this privacy policy. If a revision is material, U.S. Global will mail a notice to all current shareholders and will post the revised policy on its website. The changes will take effect as soon as mailed and posted.

Net Asset Value
as of 09/02/2010

Global Resources Fund
PSPFX $8.72 +0.08
Gold and Precious Metals Fund
USERX $17.25 +0.18
World Precious Minerals Fund
UNWPX $19.21 +0.13
China Region Fund
USCOX $8.50 No Change
Eastern European Fund
EUROX $9.05 +0.03
Global Emerging Markets Fund
GEMFX $8.15 +0.01
Global MegaTrends Fund
MEGAX $7.67 +0.03
All American Equity Fund
GBTFX $19.86 +0.15
Holmes Growth Fund
ACBGX $15.79 +0.19
Tax Free Fund
USUTX $12.61 No Change
Near-Term Tax Free Fund
NEARX $2.27 No Change
U.S. Government Securities Savings Fund
UGSXX $1.00 No Change
U.S. Treasury Securities Cash Fund
USTXX $1.00 No Change

Please consider carefully a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. For this and other important information, obtain a fund prospectus by clicking here or by calling 1-800-US-FUNDS (1-800-873-8637). Read it carefully before investing. Distributed by U.S. Global Brokerage, Inc. With respect to the money market funds, an investment in a money market fund is neither insured nor guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Although money market funds seek to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in these funds.

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Tax-exempt income is federal income tax free. A portion of this income may be subject to state and local income taxes, and if applicable, may subject certain investors to the Alternative Minimum Tax as well. Each tax free fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in securities that pay taxable interest. Income or fund distributions attributable to capital gains are usually subject to both state and federal income taxes. Bond funds are subject to interest-rate risk; their value declines as interest rates rise. The tax free funds may be exposed to risks related to a concentration of investments in a particular state or geographic area. These investments present risks resulting from changes in economic conditions of the region or issuer.

Gold, precious metals, and precious minerals funds may be susceptible to adverse economic, political or regulatory developments due to concentrating in a single theme. The prices of gold, precious metals, and precious minerals are subject to substantial price fluctuations over short periods of time and may be affected by unpredicted international monetary and political policies. We suggest investing no more than 5% to 10% of your portfolio in these sectors.

Foreign and emerging market investing involves special risks such as currency fluctuation and less public disclosure, as well as economic and political risk. By investing in a specific geographic region, a regional fund’s returns and share price may be more volatile than those of a less concentrated portfolio.

The Eastern European Fund invests more than 25% of its investments in companies principally engaged in the oil & gas or banking industries. The risk of concentrating investments in this group of industries will make the fund more susceptible to risk in these industries than funds which do not concentrate their investments in an industry and may make the fund’s performance more volatile.

Because the Global Resources Fund concentrates its investments in a specific industry, the fund may be subject to greater risks and fluctuations than a portfolio representing a broader range of industries.

Morningstar Ratings are based on risk-adjusted return. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a fund is derived from a weighted-average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five- and ten-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. Past performance does not guarantee future results. For each fund with at least a three-year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating? based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a fund’s monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges, loads, and redemption fees), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of funds in each category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. (Each share class is counted as a fraction of one fund within this scale and rated separately, which may cause slight variations in the distribution percentages.)

Each of the mutual funds or services referred to in the U.S. Global Investors, Inc. website may be offered only to persons in the United States. This website should not be considered a solicitation or offering of any investment product or service to investors residing outside the United States.

Certain materials on the site may contain dated information. The information provided was current at the time of publication. For current information regarding any of the funds mentioned in such materials, please visit the fund performance page.

All opinions expressed and data provided are subject to change without notice. Some of these opinions may not be appropriate to every investor.

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