Privacy/Security
Policy
NOTICE OF YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVACY RIGHTS
This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the words “you” and “your” we
mean the following types of customers:
All of our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship with us, such
as:
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• Deposit Account
• Loan Account
• Credit Card
• Safe Deposit Box
• Retail Installment contract we hold and service
• Home Mortgage Brokerage |
We will tell you the sources for nonpublic
personal information we collect on our customers. We will tell you
what measures we take to secure that information.
DEFINED TERMS:
WE, OUR, and US means the
Bank.
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.
An AFFILIATE is a company we own or control, a company that
owns or controls us, and 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 company that is not an affiliate
of ours.
THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT:
We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:
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• 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 |
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal
information about you to anyone, except as authorized 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
information.
NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION AND NONAFFILIATED THIRD PARTIES:
Since we value our customer relationship with you, we will not disclose your
nonpublic personal information to nonaffiliated third parties, except as permitted
by law.
NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION AND FORMER CUSTOMERS:
We do not disclose nonpublic personal information about former customers.
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SOVEREIGN BANK
Member FDIC |
Services offered only within the state of Texas.
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