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of Washington fully acknowledges and respects your right
as a customer to financial privacy. You may rest
assured, we have no intentions of selling personal
information about our customers to third party businesses.
We are proud to make that commitment to you because your
trust is the foundation of our business. The
following privacy policy explains how we use and protect
the information about our customers. We ask that
you read it carefully.
This
is our privacy notice for the following types of our
customers:
- Deposit
account
- Loan
account
- Safe
deposit box
- Retail
installment contract we hold and service
- Self
directed Individual Retirement Account where we
act as custodian or trustee
Some
key terms are defined below:
- Customer:
A customer is a consumer with whom a bank has a
continuing relationship.
- Nonpublic
personal information: Information about
you that we collect in connection with providing
a financial product or service to you.
Nonpublic personal information does not include
information that is available from public
sources, such as telephone directories or
government records.
- Affiliate:
A company we own or control, a company that owns
or controls us, or a company that is owned or
controlled by the same company that owns or
controls us. Ownership does not mean
complete ownership, but means owning enough to
have control.
- Nonaffiliated
Third Party: A company that is not an
affiliate of ours.
This
Privacy Policy contains the sources for nonpublic
personal information we collect on our customers, and the
measures in place to protect that information.
Information
that we Collect
We
collect nonpublic personal information about you from the
following sources:
- Information
we receive from you on applications or other
forms
- Information
about your transactions with us
- Information
about your transactions with nonaffiliated third
parties
- Information
from a consumer reporting agency
Information
we Disclose About You
We do
NOT disclose any nonpublic personal information about you
to anyone, except as permitted by law.
The
Confidentiality, Security and Integrity of your Nonpublic
Personal Information
We
restrict access to nonpublic personal information about
you to those employees who need to know that information
to provide products or services to you. We maintain
physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that
comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic
personal information.
Nonpublic
Personal Information and Former Customers
We do
not disclose nonpublic personal information about former
customers, except as permitted by law.
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