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OnPoint Privacy Policy
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Our Privacy Pledge.
At OnPoint, we respect the privacy of our members.
We recognize the importance of our responsibility in
protecting our members’ information and will protect the
nonpublic personal and financial information that you have
entrusted to us. This notice describes the privacy policy and
practices followed by the Credit Union and our affiliate,
OnPoint Service Group, LLC.
Member Information We Collect.
The
Credit Union collects only relevant member information as the
law allows or requires us to collect in order to establish and
maintain your account and services. We may collect personal
information about you which is "nonpublic." The nonpublic
personal information we collect varies depending on the
accounts and services you request and use. We collect
information about you from the following sources:
Application Information. We retain personal information we receive
from you on any application you provide for a deposit account, EFT service, ATM Cash Cards and
Visa Check (debit) Cards, Visa Credit Cards, consumer and real estate loans. Application information includes: name, address, social security number, and credit history.
Your Transactions. Any time you
make a transaction on one of your accounts, including ATM or
card transactions, loan advances, transactions through
Online Banking, over the phone or at a branch we retain the
transaction information. This includes: your member/account number,
the date, amount, and location of the transaction.
Credit Reports. When we evaluate
your application for an account or service, we may request a
credit report about you from a consumer reporting agency. We
retain the personal and credit history information about you
and we may use it to evaluate future account service
requests.
Online. We obtain information
online when you visit our web site, www.onpointcu.com. This
includes retaining information you provide us on any online
application, Online Banking transaction or information you
send to us by e-mail.
Our Confidentiality and Security
Safeguards.
We maintain strict policies and security
controls to assure that your nonpublic personal information in
our computer systems and files is protected.
Employee Access. Credit Union
employees do have access to your information in order to
provide service to you. However, our employees’ access is
restricted to their need to know such information or as
necessary to conduct a transaction or respond to your
inquiries. All employees are trained to respect member
privacy. No one except our employees has access to the
Credit Union computer system and records storage.
Security Safeguards. OnPoint has established security controls and procedures to safeguard the information you provide us and the information we collect about you. Any information exchanged between OnPoint and our membership via the Internet relies on industry standard 128-bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption. If we ask you for information other than your name, address, email address, and phone number via theInternet, it will be obtained using 128-bit SSL encryption.
Electronic mail by itself is generally not a secure method of communication. Email correspondence is not encrypted.
Cookies. We also use cookies to provide additional security during home banking sessions. A cookie is a piece of information that our web server stores on your computer hard drive and retrieves later during your session or future sessions. A cookie may contain the following information, encrypted for protection: globally unique identifier, name, account number, home phone, work phone and email address. We use “strong” encryption (128 bit key length or higher) to protect the data within this cookie and we change the encryption keys regularly. This secure cookie is created when you log in and is deleted when you close your browser. The cookie is time sensitive and will expire after a prescribed period. Once expired, the cookie is no longer usable. We use these cookies to verify your identity, to protect against unauthorized access, and to enhance your online experience.
Our Sharing of Member Information.
In order to provide financial services to you, we share
certain information about you with our affiliates and third
party service providers. However, we limit any information
sharing to the extent necessary to service your account. If we
share your information, it is with the goal of bringing you
quality services, more choices, and greater convenience.
Information we may have about former members is generally only
shared or disclosed if required to enforce or administer an
account or as required by law.
Sharing Information with Credit Union
Affiliates. Our wholly owned affiliate, OnPoint Service Group, LLC, provides
financial services including insurance products. We may
share the following information with our affiliates so they
can serve you more efficiently:
- Member information (name, address,
member/account number)
- Account information (type of
accounts, account balances, transaction history)
Because we maintain management control
over our affiliate, you can expect our affiliate to maintain
the same privacy standards as the Credit Union.
Sharing Information with Third Party
Service Providers. In order for us to conduct our
operations, including servicing your account or processing
your transactions, we need to share information with our
service providers, including the following: data processing
companies, financial and marketing consultants, check, ATM
and other payment processing companies, payment networks,
loan service providers, insurance companies, collection
agencies, and credit reporting agencies. These service
providers act on our behalf and have agreed in writing to
keep the information we provide to them confidential. We
share the following categories of information to third party
service providers depending on the specific services
provided:
- Member information (name, address,
member/account number)
- Account information (type of
accounts, account balances, transaction history)
- Transaction information (dates,
amounts, locations and type of transaction)
The Credit Union does not sell or
share any member information with nonaffiliated third party
marketers offering their products and services. While we may
offer financial products and services of our affiliate(s) or
third parties, we control the member information used to
make such offers.
Sharing Information as Legally
Required or Permitted. We may share any nonpublic
personal information of yours in response to a lawful
request issued by a court, government agency, or regulatory
authority or as permitted by law in order to administer or
enforce your account. We may also share our experience
information about you with credit bureaus. Our reporting to
credit bureaus is governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act,
which affords you the right to make sure that your credit
bureau reports are accurate.
Protecting Children’s Information
Privacy.
The online financial services offered through
the Credit Union’s Web site are not designed for or
directed toward children under age 13. We do not knowingly
solicit or collect data from children and we do not knowingly
market to children online. We recognize that protecting children’s
identities and online privacy is important and that responsibility
rests with us and with parents.
We reserve the right to amend our Privacy
Policy in the future.
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