1st Ed 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 non-public information from us as we conduct the business of the credit union.

Information We Collect and Disclose About You

We collect non-public personal information about you from the following sources:

• Information we receive from you on applications and other forms;
• Information about your transactions with us or our affiliate(s)
• Information about your transactions with other parties
• Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency;
• Information obtained when verifying the information you provide on an application or on 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 non-public personal information about you to the following types of third parties:

• Financial service providers, such as insurance companies.
• Non-financial companies, such as consumer reporting agencies, data processors, check/share draft printers, financial statement publishers/printers, plastic card processors, government agencies, and mail houses.

We will not disclose information about you to anyone except as disclosed in this policy or as permitted by law. Examples of this might include disclosures necessary to service your account or prevent unauthorized transactions.

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 non-affiliated 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 non-public 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 the 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 non-public personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.

What Members Can Do to Help

The 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, PINs (personal identification numbers) or passwords. Never keep your PIN with your card, which can provide 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 you 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 account, we will attempt to contact you immediately.

USA Patriot Act

The USA Patriot Act has paved the way for financial institutions to help prevent fraud, identity theft, terrorism and money laundering. It requires financial institutions to obtain more information from an individual or legal entity to help establish identity.

Your cooperation is needed when you open a new account, withdraw funds, or request a loan. You may be asked more questions to establish and confirm your identity. Information that we are required to obtain includes your name, mailing and residential address, tax identification number, date of birth and a copy of a government issued photo ID. Additional data may be gathered depending on the type of account opened. Data on existing members will be gathered as new or additional services are used. Confidentiality of the information gathered by the credit union will be maintained as required under the Privacy Act.

Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation. We verify identification to help protect you from all forms of fraud.