Mobile & Online Banking Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the services, you agree to the collections and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Interpretation and Definitions – For the purposes of this privacy policy:
- Account – a unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service
- Affiliate – any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Patriot Federal Credit Union
- Application – software program provided by Patriot Federal Credit Union downloaded by you on an electronic device
- Company – refers to Patriot Federal Credit Union, 800 Wayne Avenue, Chambersburg, PA 17201
- Country – United States of America
- Device – any device that can access the services such as a computer, cellphone, or tablet
- Joint Marketing – a formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you, joint marketing partners include insurance companies
- Personal Data – any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual
- Services – refers to the application
- Service Provider – any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of Patriot Federal Credit Union. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by Patriot Federal Credit Union to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of Patriot Federal Credit Union, to perform services related to the service or to assist Patriot Federal Credit Union in analyzing how the service is used
- Usage data – refers to data collected automatically, either generated by using the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example: duration of a page visit)
- You – refers to the individual access or using the service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data – Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name
- Last name
- Phone number
- Address
- City
- State
- Zip code
Usage Data
Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.
Usage data may include information such as your device’s internet protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and day of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Information Collected While Using the Application
When using our application, to provide features of our application, we may collect, with your permission:
- Information regarding your location
- Pictures and or other information from your device’s camera and photo library
We use this information to provide features of our service, to improve and customize our service. The information may be uploaded to the company’s servers and/or service providers or it may simply be stored on your device.
You can enable or disable access to this information at any time through your device settings.
If you use our mobile banking application on your mobile device, we may collect and process information about your actual location. We use this opt-in data to provide relevant messaging, even when the app is not open on your screen, to tailor our products and services for you, and to occasionally offer you promotions of interest. You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through your device settings.
Use of Your Personal Data
The company may use personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our service, including to monitor usage.
- To manage your account, to manage your registration as a user of the service. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the server that are available to registered users.
- To contact you: to contact you by email, telephone, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as mobile application push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for implementation.
- To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you already have or inquired about.
- To manage your requests to us.
- For business transfers: we may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger or other sale or transfer.
- For other purposes: we may use your information for other purposes such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our service, products, marketing, and member experience.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service providers: We may share your information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service or to contact you.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of any merger or sale of company assets.
- With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include any subsidiaries or companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- For Joint Marketing with other financial companies: We may share your information with other financial companies pursuant to a joint marketing agreement to offer you certain products, services, or promotions, Patriot Federal Credit Union’s marketing partners include insurance companies.
Retention of Your Personal Data
Patriot Federal Credit Union will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Patriot Federal Credit Union will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including personal data, is processed at Patriot Federal Credit Union’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your location.
Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Patriot Federal Credit Union takes all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If Patriot Federal Credit Union is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, Patriot Federal Credit Union may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to a valid request by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Other Legal Requirements
Patriot Federal Credit Union may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights and property of Patriot Federal Credit Union
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
- Protect the personal safety of users, the service, or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute safety.
Links to Other Websites
Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Patriot Federal Credit Union. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to the third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for that content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party site or service.
Children’s Privacy
The Services are not directed towards individuals under the age of 18, and we do not, through the App, intentionally gather personal information about visitors who are under the age of 18. If a child under 18 submits personal information to us through the App and we learn that the personal information is the information of a child under 18, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible.
We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under the age of 13 who use our Sites without obtaining consent from a parent or legal guardian.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on our page or in our application.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last Updated” date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page or in-app.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us by calling (888) 777-9982 or by email at membersvc@patriotfcu.org.
FAQ
If you would like for your Online Banking/Mobile App account to be deleted or deactivated, please contact us by calling (888)777-9982.
Disclosures
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This credit union is federally insured by the National Credit Union Administration.
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Equal Housing Lender
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Policy Last Updated: 3/9/2023