Notice of Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how we maintain certain information private and secure while using that information to serve you better.
This Privacy Policy explains the following:
Protecting the Confidentiality and Security of Consumer Information
We are very serious about protecting the personal information of our clients – called "Consumer Information" in this notice. Our privacy policy protects consumer information by granting select access to only those staff members who need access to it to do their work. Our affiliated companies only get access to consumer data, if needed to do their work. We also implement – as required by applicable federal regulations – physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information.
Who is Covered by the Privacy Policy:
Our privacy policy applies to individuals (and their legal representatives) who are our customers of or customers in connection with our financial services; primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, such as lease 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 provided by the companies. Individuals and third parties 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. However, 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 is one of the following five types:
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 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 or 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've 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, insurance companies and payment processing 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 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.
