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Privacy Policy
Online and General Privacy Statements for CUSAG, LLC May 1, 2007
ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT:
Please read this Statement carefully, as any use of the Site constitutes your
agreement to all of our Online Terms and
Conditions, including but not limited to this Statement. This Privacy
Statement is part of, and is incorporated into the our Online Terms and
Conditions.
When you visit our Site we may place a cookie on your hard drive, that is, a
piece of data that a Site can send to your browser, which is then stored on
your computer. We may use cookies to customize your Site experience. As you
visit our Site, our Web server also recognizes what browser you are using. We
currently collect aggregate information about the use of our Site that does not
personally identify you. Various parts of our Site allow you to submit
information to us via e-mail. We collect the e-mail addresses of those who send
us e-mail and the information provided in the e-mail.
Security and Attribution.
The information you send us is stored on computers that sit behind a firewall
to shield it from the Internet.
If you are ever uncomfortable with reaching us electronically, you may instead
use traditional methods of reaching us such as using the telephone, U.S.
mail or visiting any of our offices (as long as the service is available
through those methods).
E-mail Security
Regular Internet e-mail is not secure. Various parts of our site allow you to
submit information to us by e-mail. You should use them to provide information
that is non-sensitive and non-confidential. We ask that you do not provide
personal or account information through e-mail or request information from us
that is confidential or sensitive. If you do request sensitive or confidential
information from us via unsecured Internet e-mail, you need to understand that
our response to your request will be by insecure Internet e-mail and give us
permission to provide the information to you that way. As unsecured Internet
e-mail is not secure, you accept the risks that your messages sending us information
or our responses may be intercepted or altered. We strongly urge you not to use
this means of communications with us that is confidential or sensitive. You may
also contact us by phone, mail or by visiting any of our offices.
Children's Online Privacy
From our Site, we do not knowingly collect or use personal information from
children under 13, if we become aware that we have obtained it, we will delete
it.
Links to Other Sites
Our Site contains hyperlinks to sites operated by third parties. When you click
on the link, you will leave our Site and go to the linked site. We are not
responsible for the contents, use, or privacy and security practices, and their
terms and conditions apply. Please review the privacy and security policies of
each of the linked Web sites you visit before you provide any personally
identifiable information.
Honoring Your Preferences
CUSAG, LLC may send (or arrange for others to send) e-mails regarding surveys,
focus-groups, promotions, and products and services offered by CUSAG or third
parties which we believe might be of interest. You are not required to complete
online surveys or promotions. If you do
not want to receive those communications in the future, please contact us. Under
our Electronic Communications Statement we may also send disclosures and other
information periodically. Your consent to that Statement does not include an
opportunity to decline to receive information covered by that Statement.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Statement from time to time, however, so
you agree to check the Statement periodically to make sure you remain
comfortable with it. Nothing in this Privacy Statement affects our ability to
collect, combine, use, verify, retain, and report, including sharing with our
regulators, information submitted in connection with the provision of products
and services. We also reserve the right to do the same with information
obtained from public sources or third parties, and other information that does
not personally identify you, without reference to this Online Privacy
Statement.
GENERAL PRIVACY STATEMENT:
We greatly appreciate the trust that you have placed in us
and we will continue to honor that trust by continuing to protect the privacy
of all of our members and customers, including former members and customers. CUSAG
and our subsidiaries and affiliates shall each adopt the same general privacy
statement.
How We Collect and Disclose Information About You
In the course of providing you the very best service and the highest quality
products, we may collect information about you from the following sources:
- On applications, forms, or otherwise and from
your transactions with us or others;
- From your Internet usage if you visit our Web
site.
- From consumer reporting agencies;
- From other parties, such as those that provide
demographic information or other businesses transaction information and mailing
lists.
In order to offer you useful financial products and services and to allow us to
operate more efficiently, we may share nonpublic personal information we
collect, as described above, about you or our former members to our affiliates
and to nonaffiliated third parties as permitted by law. This may include
disclosure of information to the following third parties:
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Our affiliates;
- Financial service providers with whom we have
joint marketing and confidentiality agreements, such as those that provide
securities, insurance and mortgage services; and
- Non-financial companies, such as consumer
reporting agencies
In addition, we may disclose the information we collect, as described above, to
companies that perform marketing or other services on our behalf. These
companies may include financial service providers such as insurance companies
and payment processing companies; and non-financial companies such as check
printing and data processing companies. We require these companies to agree to
adhere to the same privacy standards, laws and regulations that apply to us. We
may also disclose this information when we are required by law to do so, for
example, in response to a court order, or in the process of protecting our
rights, such as when we take legal action in connection with a loan that is in
default.
We Respect Your Privacy
Because we respect your privacy and value your trust, we restrict access to
your personal and account information to those employees who need to know that
information to provide products or services to you. Furthermore, we maintain
physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations
to guard your nonpublic personal information and to assist us in preventing
unauthorized access to that information.
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