 We
are required by law to provide you with this privacy notice
to explain how we collect, use and safeguard your personal
financial information. Great Falls Teachers FCU is a member
owned and operated financial service organization dedicated
to financial integrity. You can be assured your financial
privacy is a high priority of this credit union.
We are committed to providing you with competitive products
and services to meet your financial needs, which necessitates
that we share information about you to complete your transactions
and to provide you with certain financial opportunities.
In order to do so, we have entered into agreements with
other companies that either provide services to us or
additional financial products for you to consider.
Under these arrangements, we may disclose
all of the information we collect, as described below,
to companies that perform marketing or other services
on our behalf. To protect our members' privacy, we only
work with companies that agree to maintain strong confidentiality
protections and limit the use of information we provide.
We do not permit these companies to
sell to other third parties the information we provide
to them.
Information
We Collect and Disclose About You:
We collect and may disclose nonpublic personal information
about you from the following sources:
Information we receive from you on membership and loan
applications and other forms;
Information
about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or
others;
Information
we receive from a consumer-reporting agency;
Information
obtained when verifying the information you provide
on an application or other form, such as from your current
or past employers or from other institutions where you
conduct financial transactions.
We
may also disclose nonpublic personal information about
you to nonaffiliated third parties as permitted by law.
If you terminate your membership, we will continue to
adhere to the privacy policies and practices as described
in this notice.
How We Protect Your Information:
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information
about you to those employees and credit union officials
who have a specific business purpose in utilizing your
data. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard
your nonpublic personal information.
How We Protect Your Children's Information:
We do not knowingly solicit data from children, and
we do not knowingly market to children. The only use
we normally make of personal information is to respond
via email or phone to a question or request for information
from a member, which may include a child. We recognize
that protecting children's identities and privacy online
is important and that the responsibility to do so rests
with both the online industry and with parents.
When
You Visit Our Website:
In general, you can visit us on the World Wide Web without
disclosing to us who you are or revealing any information
about yourself. There are several areas, however, that
will collect certain information about you. This information
is used to measure the number of visitors to the various
pages on our site to better serve our membership.
If
you send an email to us, GFTFCU collects and stores
personally identifying information in order to process
your email, form, or application. This information is
not sold to any third parties. In addition, these messages
are deleted after they are answered or completed.
Links
to Other Websites:
Links to other websites from our website are provided
solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links,
you will leave the GFTFCU website. We do not have any
responsibility for, or control over, any of these sites,
their content or their privacy policies. We do not endorse
or make any representations about them, or any information,
products, or materials found there, or any results that
may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access
any of the linked third parties, you do so entirely
at your own risk.
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