you withdraw money before the end of a term. See “Full and Partial Withdrawals.”
Cybersecurity Breaches, Systems Failure and Other Business Disruptions Risk: With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet and the dependence on computer systems to perform necessary business functions, investment products such as the certificates and ACC’s service providers may be prone to operational and information security risks resulting from cyber-attacks. In general, cyber-attacks result from deliberate attacks but unintentional events or activity may have effects similar to those caused by cyber-attacks. Cyber-attacks include, among other behaviors, stealing or corrupting data maintained online or digitally, denial-of-service attacks on websites, hacking, phishing scams, unauthorized payment requests and other social engineering techniques aimed at personnel or systems, unauthorized release of confidential information and causing operational disruption. The increased use of mobile and cloud technologies and remote work heighten these and other operational risks. Successful cyber-attacks against, or security breakdowns of, ACC or its investment manager, distributor, custodian, transfer agent, administrator and/or other third-party service providers may adversely impact a certificate or its investors. For instance, cyber-attacks may interfere with the processing of investor transactions, cause the release of private shareholder information or confidential certificate information, impede trading, cause reputational damage, and subject the certificate to regulatory fines, penalties or financial losses, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs. The third-party trading systems relied upon by ACC (and generally much of the asset management and related industries) are vital to our everyday operations, and despite our and our trading system vendor’s business continuity and recovery plans, such trading systems may fail or be disrupted, which could cause significant harm to ACC and investors. ACC may also incur substantial costs for cybersecurity risk management in order to prevent any cyber incidents in the future. A certificate and its investors could be negatively impacted as a result. While ACC or its service providers have established business continuity plans and systems designed to prevent cyber-attacks, there are inherent limitations in such plans and systems including the possibility that certain risks have not been identified. In addition to cyber-attacks, the systems and personnel that ACC relies upon may also be vulnerable to systems malfunctions, user error, misconduct of or arising from personnel, systems remote access (particularly important given the increased use of technologies such as the internet to conduct business). In addition, other events or circumstances – whether foreseeable, unforeseeable, or beyond our control, such as acts of war, other conflicts, terrorism, natural disaster, widespread disease, pandemic or other public health crises may result in, among other things, quarantines and travel restrictions, workforce displacement and loss or reduction in personnel and other resources. In the above circumstances, ACC’s and its service providers’ operations may be significantly impacted, or even temporarily halted. Similar types of cybersecurity, systems