Effective Date: July 23, 2026

This Cookie Notice explains how SES ESOP Strategies (“SES,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, how you can manage your preferences and the choices available to you.

This Cookie Notice should be read together with our Privacy Policy (link).

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your browser, computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies help websites operate efficiently, remember preferences, improve functionality, maintain security and, where permitted, collect information about website usage.

In addition to cookies, websites may utilize similar technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage objects and other tools that perform comparable functions.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

• Maintaining website functionality and security
• Remembering user preferences
• Protecting against malicious activity
• Measuring website performance
• Understanding aggregate website usage patterns
• Improving content and user experience
• Evaluating the effectiveness of communications and marketing initiatives when permitted by user consent

Cookie Categories

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies are essential to the operation of the website and cannot be disabled through our preference management tools.

These cookies may be used to:

• Maintain login sessions
• Preserve cookie preference selections
• Enable security features
• Prevent fraud and abuse
• Balance network traffic and improve site stability
• Support basic website functionality

Because these cookies are necessary for operation of the website, they remain active regardless of consent selections.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics Cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website, including:

• Which pages are visited
• How visitors navigate the website
• Website performance and reliability
• Aggregate usage trends

Analytics information helps us improve website content, organization and functionality. Analytics Cookies are only activated when permitted by the visitor’s consent preferences.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Advertising and Marketing Cookies may be used to evaluate the effectiveness of communications and marketing efforts and to better understand audience engagement. These technologies are activated only when permitted by the visitor’s consent selections.

Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a Cookie Consent Banner that allows you to select your cookie preferences.

You may choose:

• Accept all available cookie categories;
• Accept selected categories; or
• Choose “Strictly Necessary” cookies only.

What Happens When “Strictly Necessary” Is Selected?

If a visitor chooses Strictly Necessary Cookies Only, the website is configured so that consent-dependent technologies remain inactive.

As a result:

• Website functionality remains available
• Essential operational cookies continue to function
• Website users may browse and use the website normally
• Analytics and performance measurement technologies are not activated
• Advertising and marketing technologies are not activated
• Session replay, heat-mapping and user behavior observation technologies are not activated
• Consent-dependent third-party tracking technologies remain inactive until consent is provided

The website owner may consequently receive less information regarding aggregate website usage and performance from those visitors.

Third-Party Technologies

Depending on a visitor’s consent selections, third-party technologies may be used to support:

• Website analytics
• Performance measurement
• Marketing effectiveness analysis
• Website improvement initiatives

Where consent is required, such technologies will not be activated until appropriate consent has been provided through the cookie preference tool.

Managing Cookie Preferences

Visitors may modify their cookie preferences at any time through the Cookie Settings link available on the website. Updated preferences will apply prospectively from the time the revised selection is submitted.

Consent Records

Our cookie preference platform records and manages visitor cookie selections through the functionality currently enabled on the website. Where consent records are maintained by the applicable consent-management platform configuration, such records may be used to demonstrate user consent choices and preference changes.

Browser Controls

Most web browsers permit users to manage or delete cookies through browser settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• Delete cookies;
• Block certain cookies;
• Receive notifications before cookies are placed; or
• Disable cookies entirely.

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Changes to This Cookie Notice

We may update this Cookie Notice from time to time to reflect changes in law, technology, website practices or business operations. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated Effective Date.

Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this Cookie Notice or our website’s privacy practices, please contact:

The Stevens & Lee Companies
Attention: General Counsel
111 North Sixth Street
Reading, PA 19601