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PRIVACY NOTICE AND DISCLOSURE

Important Account Information for Our Members

Revised: 01/2011

Facts

What does River Valley Credit Union do with your personal information?

Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

  • Social Security Number
  • Account Balances
  • Payment History
  • Credit History
  • Assets
  • Income

All financial companies need to share member’s personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their member’s personal information; the reasons River Valley Credit Union chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons we can share your personal information Does River Valley Share? Can you limit this sharing?
For our everyday business purposes:
such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus
Yes No
For our marketing purposes:
to offer our products and services to you
Yes No
For joint marketing with other financial companies Yes Yes
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes:
information about your transactions and experiences
Yes No
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes:
information about your creditworthiness
Yes Yes
For our affiliates to market to you Yes Yes
For nonaffiliates to market to you No We Do Not Share

To Limit Our Sharing

Call 800-798-0217 - our menu will prompt you through your choice(s)

Please note: If you are a new member, we can begin sharing your information 30 days from the date we sent this notice. When you are no longer our member, we continue to share your information as we described in this notice.

However, you can contact us at any time to limit our sharing.

Questions?

Call 800-798-0217

What We Do

How does River Valley protect my personal information?

To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.

We also restrict access to information about you to employees who need to know that information to provide products and services to you.

How does River Valley collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you:

  • Open an account
  • Deposit money
  • Pay your bills
  • Apply for a loan
  • Use your debit or credit card

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?

Federal law gives you the right to limit only:

  • Sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness
  • Affiliates from using your information to market to you
  • Sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you
What happens when I limit sharing for an account I hold jointly with someone else?

Your choices will apply to everyone on your account.

Definitions

Affiliates

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

Our affiliates include financial companies such as Co-operative Business Services (CBS), our business lending division and non-financial companies such as Xtend and CU* Answers, our data processor.

Nonaffiliates

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

River Valley does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint Marketing

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

Our joint marketing partners include insurance companies and financial planning companies.

Biometric Information Privacy Policy And Consent

Scope and Overview

This policy outlines how River Valley Credit Union, its vendors, and/or the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software processes biometric data collected from you for identity verification and fraud prevention purposes.

Biometric Data Defined

As used in this policy, biometric data includes “biometric identifiers” and “biometric information”. “Biometric identifier” means a retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry. As the term is used in this policy, the selfie photograph you upload to the software for use in the biometric algorithm is considered a "biometric identifier." “Biometric information” means any information, regardless of how it is captured, converted, stored, or shared, based on an individual’s biometric identifier used to identify an individual.

Disclosure and Authorization Policy

To the extent that River Valley Credit Union, its vendors, and/or the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software collect, capture, or otherwise obtain biometric data relating to a consumer, River Valley Credit Union must first:

  • Inform each consumer that River Valley Credit Union, its vendors, and/or the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software are collecting, capturing, or otherwise obtaining the employee’s biometric data, and that the River Valley Credit Union is providing such biometric data to its vendors and the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software;
  • Inform the consumer of the specific purpose and length of time for which the consumer’s biometric data is being collected, stored, and used; and
  • Receive consent by the consumer authorizing River Valley Credit Union, its vendors, and/or River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software to collect, store, and use the consumer’s biometric data for the specific purposes disclosed by the River Valley Credit Union, and for River Valley Credit Union to provide such biometric data to its vendors and the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software.
  • River Valley Credit Union, its vendors, and/or the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software will not sell, lease, trade, or otherwise profit from employees’ biometric data; provided, however, that the River Valley Credit Union’s vendors and the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software may be paid for products or services used by River Valley Credit Union that utilize such biometric data.

This policy is intended to comply with all federal, state, and local laws

Purpose for the Collection of Biometric Data

River Valley Credit Union, its vendors, and/or the licensor of River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software collect, store, and use biometric data solely for identity verification and fraud prevention purposes.

Disclosure

River Valley Credit Union will not disclose or disseminate any biometric data to anyone other than its vendors and the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software providing products and services using biometric data without/unless:

  • First obtaining consumer consent to such disclosure or dissemination;
  • The disclosed data completes a financial transaction requested or authorized by the consumer;
  • Disclosure is required by law or ordinance; or
  • Disclosure is required pursuant to a valid warrant or subpoena issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Security

River Valley Credit Union shall use a commercially reasonable standard of care to store, transmit and protect from disclosure any biometric data collected. Such storage, transmission, and protection from disclosure shall be performed in a manner that is the same as or more protective than the manner in which River Valley Credit Union stores, transmits and protects from disclosure other confidential and sensitive information, including personal information that can be used to uniquely identify an individual or an individual’s account or property, such as genetic markers, genetic testing information, account numbers, PINs, driver’s license numbers and social security numbers.

Retention

River Valley Credit Union shall retain consumer biometric data only until, and shall request that its vendors and the licensor of River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software permanently destroy such data when, the first of the following occurs:

  • The initial purpose for collecting or obtaining such biometric data has been satisfied, such as verification of consumer identity;
  • Request of consumer to destroy the biometric data; or
  • Within 30 days of consumer’s provisioning of biometric data.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about our use, storage, or security of your biometric data you can contact us at: rvopsupport@rivervalleycu.org.

Biometric Information Consumer Consent

As outlined in the “Biometric Information Privacy Policy”, I understand and consent to the collection, use, retention, storage, and/or disclosure or re-disclosure of data or images from biometric verification technology by River Valley Credit Union, its vendors, and/or the licensor of the River Valley Credit Union’s consumer verification software. I acknowledge that I have been given a copy of the Policy, or that the Policy has been made accessible to me, and I have had an opportunity to review it and request any additional information concerning the River Valley Credit Union’s procedures and safeguards for collecting, maintaining, using, disclosing, sharing, storing, and/or destroying this data.