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Your Financial Security, Your Satisfaction and Your Privacy
Connex Credit Union, your member-owned financial institution, is committed to providing you with competitive products and services to meet your financial needs and help you reach your goals. We are equally committed to protecting the privacy of our members. Under federal law, we are required to give you this privacy notice. It describes our credit union’s privacy policy and practices concerning the personal information we collect and disclose about our members. It also includes information about the parties who receive personal and sometimes nonpublic information from us as we conduct the business of the Credit Union.
If after reading this notice you have questions, please contact us at: (800) 278-6466 or write to: Connex Credit Union P.O. Box 477 North Haven, CT 06473
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU —
We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:
- Information we receive from you on applications and other forms.
- Information about your transactions with us.
- Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.
- Information obtained when verifying the information you provide on an application or other forms; this may be obtained from your current or past employers, or from other institutions where you conduct financial transactions.
We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, as permitted by law.
PARTIES WHO RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM US —
We may disclose nonpublic personal information about you to the following types of third parties:
- Financial service providers,such as insurance companies, mortgage service companies and securities broker-dealers
- Non-financial companies, such as consumer reporting agencies, data processors, check/share draft printers, financial
statement publishers/printers, plastic card processors, government agencies and mailhouses
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO PARTIES THAT PROVIDE SERVICES TO US —
In order for us to conduct the business of the Credit Union, we may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements, to other companies that perform marketing services on our
behalf, or to nonaffiliated third parties for the purposes of processing and servicing transactions that you request or authorize, so that we may provide members competitive products and services.
We may also disclose nonpublic personal information about you under circumstances as permitted or required by law. These disclosures typically include information to process transactions on your behalf, conduct the operations of our credit union, follow your instructions as you authorize, or protect the security of our financial records. To protect our members’ privacy, we only work with companies that agree to maintain strong confidentiality protections and limit the use of information we provide. We do not permit these companies to sell the information we provide to other third parties.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION ABOUT FORMER MEMBERS —
If you terminate your membership with Connex Credit Union, we will not share information we have collected about you, except as may be permitted or required by law.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR 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, or procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.
WHAT MEMBERS CAN DO TO HELP —
Connex Credit Union is committed to protecting the privacy of its members. Members can help by following these simple guidelines:
- Protect your account numbers, plastic card numbers, personal identification numbers (PINs) or passwords. Never keep your PIN with your card. The PIN can provide free access to your accounts if your card is lost or stolen.
- Use caution when disclosing your account numbers, social security numbers, etc. to other persons. If someone calls you explaining the call is on behalf of the Credit Union and asks for your account number, you should beware. Official credit union staff will have access to your information and will not need to ask for it.
- Keep your information with us current. If your address or phone number changes, please let us know. It is important that we have current information on how to reach you. If we detect potentially fraudulent or unauthorized activity or use of an account, we will attempt to contact you immediately.
Let us know if you have questions. Please do not hesitate to call us — we are here to serve you!
Your Choice to Limit Marketing
Connex Credit Union and its affiliates – MEMBERS Financial Services, CUNA Mutual, Liberty Mutual and FIA Card Services – are providing this notice.
Federal Law gives you the right to limit some but not all marketing from the above named affiliates of Connex Credit Union. Federal Law also requires us to give you this notice to tell you about your choice to limit marketing from the above companies.
You may limit the above companies from marketing their products or services to you based on your personal information that they receive from other companies. This information includes your address, account history and your credit score.
Your choice to limit marketing offers from the above companies will apply until you tell us to change your choice.
To limit marketing offers, contact us at 1-800-CR-UNION.
If you begin receiving marketing from the above named affiliates, or companies that become affiliates after you opt out, please contact us again.
Notice on Unlawful Internet Gambling
Unlawful Internet gambling transactions are prohibited by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and cannot be processed through members’ accounts. The regulation applies to all debit and credit card transactions and credit unions are required to block transactions using merchant category codes associated with unlawful Internet gambling.
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