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iQ Credit Union
Clark Financial Service, Inc.
Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Pledge. At
iQ Credit Union, we respect the privacy of our members.
We recognize the importance of maintaining the confidentiality
of your personal financial information. This notice
describes the privacy policy and practices followed
by iQ Credit Union and our affiliate, Clark Financial
Services, Inc. This notice explains what types of member
information we collect and under what circumstances
we may share it.
Member Information We Collect.
The Credit Union collects only relevant information
about members that is needed to establish and maintain
your account and services as the law allows or requires
us to collect. We may collect personal and financial
information about you (member information) which is
"nonpublic." The member information we collect varies
depending on the accounts and services you request and
use. We collect information about you from the following
sources:
Application Information. We retain personal
information we receive from you on any application
you provide a for membership, deposit account, EFT
services, loans, financial planning, securities brokerage,
insurance or other Credit Union services. This information
includes: name, address, e-mail address, social security
number, birth date, phone number, employment and financial
status, and credit history.
Your Transactions. Any time you make a transaction
on one of your accounts, including ATM or card transactions,
loan advances, transactions through the Online Banking , over the phone or at a branch we retain the
transaction information, including: your account number,
the date, amount, location of the transaction, and
other pertinent information.
Credit Reports. When we evaluate your application
for an account or service, we may request a credit
report about you from a consumer reporting agency.
We retain the personal and credit history information
about you and we may use it to evaluate future account
service requests.
Online. We obtain information online when
you visit our website, www.iQ Credit Union.com. This
includes retaining information you provide us on any
online application, Online Banking transaction
or information you send to us by e-mail.
Member Information We Share.
In order to provide financial services to you, we share
certain information about you with our affiliates and
third party service providers. However, we only share
information to the extent necessary to service your
account or offer new services to you. If we share your
information, it is with the goal of bringing you quality
services, more choices, and greater convenience. Information
we may have about former members is generally only shared
or disclosed if necessary to enforce or administer an
account or as required by law.
Sharing Information with Credit Union Affiliates.
Our wholly-owned affiliate, Clark Financial Services,
Inc. provides financial services, including financial
planning, securities brokerage and insurance products
and services. We may share personal information (such
as name address, account number) and account information
(such as type of accounts, account balances, transaction
history) with our affiliate so they can serve you
more efficiently: Our affiliate maintains the same
privacy standards as the Credit Union.
Sharing Information with Third Party Service Providers.
In order for us to conduct our operations, including
servicing your account or processing your transactions,
we need to share information with our service providers,
including: data processing companies, check, ATM and
other payment processing companies, payment networks,
loan service providers, insurance companies, collection
agencies, credit reporting agencies, financial planners,
securities brokerage, and insurance companies, and
financial service providers with whom we have joint
marketing agreements. These service providers act
on our behalf and have agreed in writing to keep the
member information we provide to them confidential.
We share the following categories of information to
third party service providers depending on the specific
services provided:
- Personal information (name, address, and account
number)
- Account information (type of accounts, account
balances, and transaction history)
- Transaction information (dates, amounts, locations,
and type of transaction)
We do not sell member information nor share your
account numbers with independent third party marketers
offering their products and services. While we may
assist in offering financial products and services
of our affiliate or other financial service providers,
we control the member information used to make such
offers.
Household Aggregation for Pricing - You May Opt Out.
We may provide special pricing on certain services
based on the total level of your deposit and loan
account balances. As an added benefit to you, we consider
all accounts maintained in the same household together
for the purposes of pricing discounts. This means
that children in a household benefit from the account
relationships maintained by their parents and vice
versa. For these purposes, we will never reveal specific
account balances or other account information to household
members who are not joint account owners or co-borrowers
with you. However, the very fact that someone in your
household receives special pricing for which they
would not qualify by themself will tell them that
one or more other household members have accounts
with us, with total balances sufficient to qualify
for the special pricing.
If you prefer that we do not base our account and
service pricing on all accounts in your household
together, you may tell us by (360) 695-3441 or 1-800-247-4364,
sending us an e-mail at phonebranch@iQcu.com,
or writing to us at iQ
Credit Union, P.O. Box 1739, Vancouver, WA 98668-1739.
If you choose to opt out of household pricing, we
will only consider your own account balances in setting
your account and service pricing. We will also not
use your account balances in setting account and service
pricing for other members of your household.
Sharing Information as Legally Required or Permitted.
We may share any member information of yours in response
to a lawful request issued by a court, government
agency, or regulatory authority or as permitted by
law in order to administer or enforce your account.
We may also share our experience information about
you with credit bureaus. Our reporting to credit bureaus
is governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which
affords you the right to make sure that your credit
bureau reports are accurate.
Our Confidentiality and Security
Safeguards. We maintain strict policies and security
controls to assure that member information in our computer
systems and files is protected. Our employees are permitted
access to member information that they may need to perform
their jobs and to provide service to you. Our employees
have access to such member information as necessary
to conduct a transaction or respond to your inquiries.
All employees are trained to respect member privacy.
No one except our employees has regular access to the
Credit Union computer system and records storage. The
Credit Union has established internal security controls,
including physical, electronic and procedural safeguards
to protect the information you provide us and the information
we collect about you. We will continue to review our
internal security controls to safeguard your member
information as we employ new technology in the future.
Online Privacy Protections. At
our website, www.iQcu.com,
you may apply for accounts and services and you may
communicate with us via e-mail. To protect the information
you provide us online, we use multiple levels of security.
The application information we accept online and our
Online Banking service relies on industry standard
"Secure Sockets Layer" (SSL) encryption to secure your
transaction information and communication. Generally,
our e-mails are not secure. However, if we ask you to
e-mail us information other than your name, address,
e-mail address and phone number, it will be obtained
using a secure (SSL encryption) e-mail form. When you
visit our website, you can access site information,
without revealing your personal identity. However, in
order to help us identify you for future site visits,
we use Acookies@ to track your visit. A cookie is a
piece of information that our web server stores on your
computer hard drive and retrieves later. The cookie
will not request, require or collect personal identity
information and you remain anonymous. Your member information
is not accessed by or stored within a cookie in any
way.
Protecting Children's Information
Privacy. Our online financial
services are not designed for or directed toward children.
We do not knowingly solicit or collect data from children
and we do not knowingly market to children online. We
recognize that protecting children's identities and
online privacy is important and that responsibility
rests with us and with parents.
Privacy Policy Inquiries. If
you have any questions about our privacy practices,
contact us by calling (360) 695-3441 or 1-800-247-4364,
using our Secure
Contact Form, or writing to us at iQ Credit Union,
P.O. Box 1739, Vancouver, WA 98668-1739.
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