Privacy Policy
Keeping Your Information Safe and Secure
Highlights Of Our Commitment To You

You have choices about how we share your information within our affiliated companies and how we contact you for marketing purposes. See inside for information about how to contact us and record your preferences.

This document includes the Privacy Policy, which describes how we use and protect your customer information. We believe that protecting your privacy is an integral part of the service we provide to you.

How We Protect and Use Customer Information
  1. We are committed to protecting the security and integrity of customer information through procedures and technology designed for this purpose.
  2. We collect and maintain customer information as part of servicing your account and your customer relationship.
    In the course of serving you, we collect information about you from a variety of sources, such as:
  3. The customer information we collect is used to service your accounts and meet your financial needs.
    Information may be used among our affiliate companies, as well as with authorized third parties (described in section 4), for a number of purposes, such as:
  4. We do not share customer information with outside parties who may wish to market their products to you.
    We may disclose the information we collect to non-affiliated third parties that are acting on our behalf, or as permitted or required by law, including:
  5. Your choices for information sharing and marketing.

    In addition to information sharing preferences, you may request that we not contact you for marketing purposes by telephone. For consumer accounts, this election will be effective while you are an active customer or a minimum of five years. For business accounts, this election will be effective for five years from the date the election is received. You may also request that we not contact you for marketing purposes by mail. For all accounts, this election will be effective for three years.

  6. State Laws, Trust Accounts.
    Some state laws may impose additional restrictions on disclosure of information on customers for certain purposes in those states.
Tips To Help You Protect Your Personal Information
Assistance to Victims of Identity Theft

You should also report the crime to your local law enforcement agency and to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). To speak with a trained FTC telephone counselor, call toll-free at 1-877-IDTHEFT (1-877-438-4338). To enter information about your complaint into a secure FTC online database, sign onto www.ftc.gov/idtheft. The site also provides links to numerous consumer education materials.

Unsolicited Credit Offers

If you want to reduce the number of credit offers you receive, contact the National Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies at 1-888-567-8688 (1-888-5-OPTOUT) or visit www.optoutprescreen.com for details.

Financial institutions and other companies provide information to the Credit Bureaus for credit verification, fraud control purposes, and prevention of identity theft. You may direct these agencies not to sell or share this information about you for marketing purposes.

This document applies to (1) consumers who have, or have had, a customer relationship or have made an inquiry or application, and (2) individuals who have provided personal information in connection with business accounts, loans, and leasing programs or individuals associated with dealers participating in sales finance programs; and where the consumer relationship, inquiry, application, or personal information is provided.

The policies and practices described in this disclosure are subject to change, but we will communicate any significant changes to you as required by law. The policies and practices described in this disclosure replace all previous notices or statements regarding this subject.

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