We work diligently to safeguard the information
you give to us. In fact, we developed the following policies to ensure
your confidentiality and maintain your confidence in our institution.
These policies detail the strict standards we have in place. For
this reason we ask that you please read the following information
carefully.
NOTICE OF YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVACY RIGHTS
We, our, and us, when used in this notice, mean Northwest
Commercial Bank.
This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the words
you and your we mean the following types of customers:
- Our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship by
purchasing or holding financial products or services such as a:
- Deposit account
- Loan account
- Individual Retirement Account
- Safe deposit box
We will tell you the sources of the information we collect about you.
We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information.
We first define some terms:
Nonpublic personal information means 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. Hereafter, we will use the term
"information" to mean nonpublic personal information as defined in
this section.
An affiliate is 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.
A nonaffiliated third party is a person we do not employ
or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as
nonaffiliated third party, or simply an "other party."
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information about you from the following sources:
- Information you give us on applications or other forms
- Information about your transactions with us
- Information about your transactions with other parties
- Information from a consumer reporting agency
INFORMATION WE DISCLOSE ABOUT YOU
We do NOT disclose any information about you to anyone, except as
permitted by law. Examples of this might include disclosures
necessary to service your account or prevent unauthorized transactions.
THE CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY,
AND INTEGRITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We restrict access to 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 to protect this
information.
Northwest Commercial Bank Online uses 128-bit SSL strong encryption
during your online sessions to safeguard your data. Encryption
essentially is a way of scrambling your online information before it
leaves your computer, so that if intercepted it is completely
unreadable. We require that your web browser support 128-bit encryption
because it is approximately 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times
stronger than 40-bit encryption. While 40-bit encryption might be fine
for low-risk transactions,
security
professionals believe it might not be adequate for protecting financial
transactions. When you request information via Northwest Commercial Bank
Online on the Internet, your request is encrypted as it travels. We then
decode your request for information and send it back to you, again -
safely encrypted. When you receive it, your browser decodes the
information and displays it.
You can identify that your online information is encrypted in
Netscape if the small key or lock at the bottom left-hand corner of your
screen is unbroken. Users of Microsoft browsers will see a lock appear
during an encrypted session.
INFORMATION ABOUT FORMER CUSTOMERS
We do not disclose information about former customers, except as
permitted by law.
