PRIVACY POLICY DISCLOSURE
(Protection of the Privacy of Personal Non-Public Information)
Respecting and protecting customer privacy is vital to our business. By
explaining our Privacy Policy to you, we
trust that you will better understand how we keep our customer
information private and secure while using it to serve
you better. Keeping customer information secure is a top priority, and
we are disclosing our policies to help you
understand how we handle the personal information about you that we
collect and disclose. This notice explains how
you can limit our disclosing of personal information about you. The
provisions of this notice will apply to former customers
as well as current customers unless we state otherwise.
The Privacy Policy explains the Following:
Protecting the confidentiality of our customer information.
Who is covered by the Privacy Policy.
How we gather information.
The types of information we share, why, and with whom.
Opting Out - how to instruct us not to share certain information about
you or not to contact you.
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Protecting the Confidentiality of Customer Information:
We take our responsibility to protect the privacy and confidentiality
of customer information very seriously.
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply
with federal standards to store
and secure information about you from unauthorized access, alteration,
and destruction. Our control policies,
for example, authorize access to customer information only by
individuals who need access to do their work.
From time to time, we enter into agreements with other companies to
provide services to us or make products
and services available to you. Under these agreements, the companies
may receive information about you
but they must safeguard this information, and they may not use it for
any other purposes.
Who is Covered by the Privacy Policy:
We provide our Privacy Policy to customers when they conduct business
with our company. If we change our
privacy policies to permit us to share additional information we have
about you, as described below, or to permit
disclosures to additional types of parties, you will be notified in
advance. This Privacy Policy applies to consumers
who are current customers or former customers.
How We Gather Information:
Applications, forms, and other information that you provide to us,
whether in writing, in person, by telephone,
electronically, or by any other means. This information may include
your name, address,
Your transaction with us, our affiliates, or others. This information
may include your account usage;
Consumer reporting agencies. This information may include account
information and information about your
credit worthiness;
Public sources. This information may include real estate records,
employment records, telephone numbers, etc.
In addition, we may provide information about you to our service
providers to help us process your applications
or service your accounts. Our service providers may include billing
service providers, mail and telephone service
companies.
We may also provide information about you to our service providers to
help us perform marketing services. This
information provided to these service providers may include the
categories of information described above under
"How We Gather Information" limited to only that which we deem
appropriate for these service providers to carry
out their functions.
We do not provide non-public information about you to any company whose
products and services are being
marketed unless you authorize us to do so. These companies are not
allowed to use this information for purposes
beyond your specific authorization.
Opting Out
We also may share information about you within our corporate family of
office(s). We may share all of the
categories of information we gather about you, including identification
information (such as your name and
address)
By sharing this information we can better understand your financial
needs. We can then send you notification
of new products and special promotional offers that you may not
otherwise know about. For example, if you
originally obtained a mortgage loan with us, we would know that you are
a homeowner and may be interested
in hearing how a home equity loan may be a better option than an auto
loan to finance the purchase of a new car.
You may prohibit the sharing of application and third-party
credit-related information within our company or any
third-party company at any time. If you would like to limit disclosures
of personal information about you as
described in this notice, just check the appropriate box or boxes to
indicate your privacy choices.
Please do not share personal information about me with non-affilliated
third-parties.
Please do not share personal information about me with any of your
affiliates except as necessary to
effect, administer, process, service or enforce a transaction requested
or authorized by myself.
Please do not contact me with offers of products or services by mail.
Please do not contact me with offers of products or services by
telephone.
Note for Joint Accounts: Your Opt Out choices will also apply to other
individuals who are joint account holders.
If these individuals have separate accounts, your Opt Out will not
apply to those separate accounts.