Thursday, July 29, 2010

Privacy Policy

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.

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:

As part of providing you with financial products or services, we may obtain information about you from the following
sources:

  • 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, employmentinformation, income, and credit references;
  • Your transaction with us, our affiliates, or others. This information may include your account balances,payment history, and account usage;
  • Consumer reporting agencies. This information may include account information and information about yourcredit worthiness;
  • Public sources. This information may include real estate records, employment records, telephone numbers, etc.

Information We Share:

We may disclose information we have about you as permitted by law. We are required to or we may provide
information about you to third-parties without your consent, as permitted by law, such as:

  • To regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials.
  • To protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims, or other liability.
  • To report account activity to credit bureaus.
  • To consumer reporting agencies.
  • To respond to a subpoena or court order, judicial process or regulatory authorities.
  • In connection with a proposed or actual sale, merger, or transfer of all or a portion of a business or an operating unit, 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, lenders, investors, title and escrow companies, appraisal companies, etc.

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), credit reports (such as your credit history), application information (such as your income or credit
references), your account transactions and experiences with us (such as your payment history), and information
from other third parties (such as your employment history).

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 use the information on the Contact Us section of our website to inform of us of your decision.

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.

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