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Notice
of Privacy Policy
By
explaining our privacy policy to you we trust that this notice
will allow you to better understand how we keep certain information
private and secure while using it to serve you better. This notice
is provided to you as required by the Federal Privacy Law and
refers to our policies and practices effective on and after July1,
2001.
The
notice explains the following:
- Protecting the Confidentiality and Security of Consumer Information
- Who is Covered by the Privacy Policy; Revisions to the Policy
- The Types of Information We Have About You and Where it Comes
From
- Sharing Information with Affiliated Companies
- Sharing Information for Legal, Business, and Joint Marketing
Purposes
PROTECTING CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
OF CONSUMER INFORMATION
We
take seriously our responsibility to respect the confidentiality
and security of nonpublic personal information - called "Consumer
Information" in this notice. Our policy calls for safeguards
to protect Consumer Information only by those who need access
to do their work. The same holds true for our affiliated companies,
which are companies that, now or in the future, we own (or control),
or are owned (or controlled) by, or are under common ownership
(or control) with. We also may maintain, as required by applicable
federal regulations, physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
to guard your nonpublic personal information.
WHO
IS COVERED BY THE PRIVACY POLICY:
REVISIONS TO THE POLICY
Our
privacy policy applies to individuals (and their legal representatives)
who are our consumers or customers in connection with financial
services primarily for personal, family, or household purposes,
such as leases installment purchases of vehicles, and insurance.
It covers both current and former customers and treats them the
same.
This notice also describes the privacy policy of our affiliated
companies, except as stated in separate notices they give you.
Consumers who transact financial services business with us but
who do not seek financial services from us are not covered by
our privacy policy or this notice. We reserve the option of revising
this notice and our privacy policy from time to time, but we will
give you notice of the revised policy before disclosing Consumer
Information about you other than as described in this notice.
Information
We Collect
We
collect and use information about you from various sources. The
amount and nature of the information collected and used varies
from transaction to transaction, but the information described
in the following five types:
1. Information from you. Information you provide to us on applications,
other forms, and by other means, such as your name, address, social
security number, assets, income, and debt;
2. Information from our experience and our affiliated companies'
experiences. Information about your transactions and account experience
with us or our affiliated companies, such as parties to transactions,
contract or lease balances, payment history, and communications
and correspondence;
3. Information from the experience of other parties. Information
from other outside sources regarding their employment, credit
or other relationships, account experience, or transactions with
you, or verifying representations made by you, such as your employment
history, credit balances, or your property or liability insurance
coverage.
4. Information from credit reports. Information supplied by consumer
reporting agencies, such as information regarding your creditworthiness
or credit history;
5. Other general information. Other general information we obtain
about you (such as demographic information) that is not assembled
for the purpose of determining your eligibility for credit, insurance,
employment or other products or services.
SHARING INFORMATION WITH AFFILIATED COMPANIES
We may disclose to our affiliated companies all of the information
we collect about you as described in each of the five categories
above. Our affiliated companies can be financial service providers
such as leasing companies, insurance companies and payment processing
companies and non-financial companies such as automotive repair
facilities and data processing companies. This sharing permits
us to give you superior service, make a wider range of products
available, and operate our business more effectively. We do not
share information with nonaffiliated third parties, other than
described below under "Sharing Information for Legal and
Routine Business Reasons and for Joint Marketing." Where
they apply, we reserve limits and restrictions set by law as to
sharing certain kinds of information with our affiliates. For
example, unless you authorize the sharing, we do not disclosure
credit worthiness information about you from credit reports.
SHARING
INFORMATION FOR LEGAL AND GENERAL BUSINESS REASONS AND FOR JOINT
MARKETING.
We
may disclose any of the above five types of Consumer Information
to credit bureaus and similar organizations, and otherwise when
permitted by law. For example, this may include a disclosure in
connection with a subpoena of similar legal process, a fraud investigation,
recording motor vehicle registration and other documents in public
records, an audit or examination, or the sale of your account
to another financial institution. We may also share any of the
above five types of Consumer Information outside of our affiliated
companies if we have your consent, such as when you're requested
to be contacted by other companies we work with.
We
may also share all five types of Consumer Information above with
companies that work for us, possibly including some of our own
affiliated companies, to perform services or functions on our
behalf. These companies may include financial service providers
such as banks, finance companies, and non-financial companies
such as automobile manufacturers and data processing companies,
and other organizations, such as nonprofit organizations that
might provide educational, training, or certification services
to businesses such as ours. We may also share the five types of
Consumer Information above with companies that work for us to
provide marketing and other services of with financial institutions
with whom we have joint marketing agreements, such as banks or
financing divisions of motor vehicle manufacturers. These companies
act on our behalf and, within the time required by law, will be
required by law, will be required by our policy to be contractually
obligated to keep the information that we provide to them confidential
and to use the information that we provide to them confidential
and to use the information only to provide the services we've
asked them to perform for us.
Thank
you for reading this notice and
Learning about our policy.
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