Privacy Notice

Date last updated: March, 2010

Facts WHAT DOES FREMONT BANK'S FAMILY of COMPANIES DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Why

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.

What?

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
  • Income
  • Account balances
  • Payment history
  • Transaction history
  • Account transactions

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

How? All financial companies need to share customers' personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers' personal information; the reasons Fremont Bank's Family of Companies chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
Reasons we can share your personal information Does Fremont Bank's Family of Companies 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 marketing purposes -
to offer our products and services to you
Yes No
For joint marketing with other financial companies No

We don't share

For our affiliates' everyday business purposes -
information about your transactions and experiences
Yes No
For our affiliates' everyday business purposes -
information about your creditworthiness
No We don't share
For nonaffiliates to market to you No We don't share
Questions? Call 800-359-BANK (2265) or go to www.fremontbank.com/privacy-policy

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice? Fremont Bank, Fremont Bancorporation, Fremont Management Group, Fremont Mortgage, Community Bank Lending Exchange (CBLX), Home Mortgage Lending Exchange (HMLX), Investmark Inc.
What we do
How does Fremont Bank's Family of Companies 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 restrict access to personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you.

How does Fremont Bank's Family of Companies collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

  • Open an account
  • Apply for a loan
  • Make deposits or withdrawals from your account
  • Provide account information
  • Give us your contact information

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 give you the right to limit only

  • Sharing for affiliate's everyday business purposes - information about your creditworthiness
  • Affiliates from using your information to market to you
  • Sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

Definitions
Affiliates

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

  • Fremont Bank's Family of Companies does not share with our affiliates
Nonaffiliates

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

  • Fremont Bank's Family of Companies 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.

  • Fremont Bank's Family of Companies doesn't jointly market