YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS TO US
We recognize the importance to you of
keeping your information secure and confidential. We will not
sell or share nonpublic personal information about you with
third parties either outside or within our corporate family
except as explained in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy
covers personally identifiable information about both current
and former customers who obtain financial products or services
from us primarily for personal, family or household purposes,
and is provided as required by the Federal Financial Privacy
Law.
COLLECTING INFORMATION
When you seek to obtain financial products
and services from us, we may collect nonpublic personal
information about you from the following sources:
- Applications and other forms, or through other
communication including information provided by mail,
telephone, in person or electronically. Such information may
include your name, address, employment, income, and other
identifying information.
- Your transactions with us, members of our corporate
family, or others. Such information may include, for example,
your account balance and payment history.
- Consumer reporting agencies or other companies, which may
include, for example, information regarding your
creditworthiness or credit history.
- Other sources which may include, for example, verification
of your employment history, credit balances, property
insurance coverage or other representations made by you.
SHARING INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF
OUR CORPORATE FAMILY
We may share all of the information
described above with our service providers, whose services may
include, for example, mailing account statements. Service
providers may include, for example, insurance companies, payment
processing companies, mail service companies, check printing
companies, and data processing companies. We may also share the
information described above with companies that perform
marketing services on our behalf. Such companies have agreed to
keep confidential the information that we provide to them and to
use the information only to carry out the functions we have
asked them to perform. We do not share your nonpublic personal
information with any company outside our corporate family for
the purpose of marketing that company?s products or services.
Finally, we may disclose all of the information above as
permitted by law.
SHARING INFORMATION WITH
AFFILIATED COMPANIES
We may also share information regarding
your transaction and account experience with us, including your
name and address and your payment history with us, among our
affiliated financial services companies, such as our mortgage
banking companies and insurance agency. By sharing that
information, we can better serve your financial needs and notify
you of financial products and services that might interest you.
PROTECTING CONFIDENTIALITY AND
SECURITY
We restrict access to nonpublic personal
information about you to only those employees whom we have
determined need to know that information in the course of their
job responsibilities. We maintain physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards that comply with applicable federal
standards to protect nonpublic personal information.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA
RESIDENTS
The information sharing practices described
above are designed in accordance with federal law. California
law places additional restrictions on sharing information about
California residents, so long as they remain California
residents. If you are a California resident, you have the right
to control whether we share some of your personal and financial
information with our affiliated companies and other companies we
do business with to provide financial products and services.