We, our, and us,
when used in this notice, mean Baylake Bank.
This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the
words "you" and "your" we mean the following types of
customers:
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Our consumer customers who have a
continuing relationship by purchasing or holding
financial products or services such as a(n):
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Deposit account
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Loan account
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Safe deposit box
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Self-directed Individual Retirement Account
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Financial, investment, or economic advisory
services
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Mortgage brokerage services
We will tell you the sources of the information we collect
about you. We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information.
We first define some terms.
Nonpublic personal information means
information about you that we collect in connection with providing a financial
product or
service to you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information
that is available from public sources, such as telephone directories or
government records. Hereafter, we will use the term "information" to
mean nonpublic personal information as defined in this section.
An affiliate is a company we
own or control, a company that owns or controls us, or a company that is owned
or controlled by the same company that owns or controls us. Ownership does not
mean complete ownership, but means owning enough to have control.
A nonaffiliated third party is
a person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This
is also known as nonaffiliated third party, or simply, an "other party."
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information about you from the following sources:
THE CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY, AND
INTEGRITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We restrict access to 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 to protect this information.
YOUR INFORMATION AND OTHER PARTIES
We will not disclose information about you to anyone except as disclosed in
this policy or as permitted by law. This might include disclosures necessary
to service your account, perform joint marketing or prevent unauthorized
transactions.
INFORMATION ABOUT FORMER CUSTOMERS
We do not disclose information about former customers, except
as permitted by law.
AUTHORIZED SHARING - JOINT MARKETING
We may disclose the following information to other financial institutions
with whom we have joint marketing agreements:
- Information you give us on an application or
other forms, such as:
We disclose the information listed above with other financial institutions
with whom we have joint marketing agreements. You do not have a right to opt
out of the disclosure of this information.
Types of Businesses
We may disclose information pursuant to joint marketing agreements to the
following types of businesses:
- Financial service providers, such as:
- Securities broker-dealers
Reasons For Disclosing
We may disclose information about you to other financial institutions with
whom we have joint marketing agreements to provide you with information about
additional products and
services.
YOUR INFORMATION AND AFFILIATES -
FUTURE CHANGES
In the future, we may disclose information about you to affiliates, even
though we are not doing so now.
Here are the kinds of information we may disclose to our affiliates:
Transaction and experience information from our
account records:
Federal law allows us to disclose the information
listed above with our affiliates. You do not have a right to opt out of the
disclosure of this information.
Types Of Affiliates We may disclose information about you in the future to
the following types of affiliates:
- Financial service providers, such as:
- Securities broker-dealers
- Insurance agents
Reasons For Disclosure
We may disclose information about you in the future to our affiliates:
- to provide you with information about additional products and services
- to evaluate our total relationship with you and our family of companies
and give you the best price that relationship deserves.
BAYLAKE BANKS INTERNET
PRIVACY PRACTICES
At Baylake Bank, we recognize that the privacy and security of
personal financial information are an important concern to our customers. Your privacy is
considered in all aspects of our business. Our employees are trained about their
responsibility to protect confidential customer information. We have taken care to
establish detailed practices and procedures to protect your nonpublic personal
information.
Baylake Bank receives and retains information about its customers
through many sources. However, we carefully limit the collection and use of this
information solely to maintain and deliver our banking products and services and offer new
products and services that may be of benefit to our customers. Baylake Bank is committed
to protect the confidentiality of customer information by fully complying with all federal
and state laws and regulations, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Right to
Financial Privacy Act.
Confidentiality of eBanc information. In connection with your use of
eBanc, Baylake Bank continues to monitor and review the privacy measures that it has in
place to protect your customer information. Baylake Bank has implemented procedures that
are designed to protect your nonpublic personal information as carefully as possible.
These measures will continue to be updated to keep pace with new technology and additional
products and services offered to our customers.
Privacy concerns about children. In order to protect the privacy of
children, we will not knowingly solicit any on-line information from children and will not
market to children over our eBanc website. We recognize that protecting childrens
identities and privacy online is important and that the responsibility for doing so rests
with our industry as well as with parents.
Concerns about your privacy. We use the same standards of care for
your Internet activity as we do for your transactions with us made in person or through
other forms of communication. If you have questions at any time about the privacy of your
personal and account information, we urge you to contact
us now or during any banking business
day by calling us at 920-743-5551. We will answer your
questions and take any actions necessary to assist you in maintaining the confidentiality
of your personal and account information related to your use of eBanc.
User ID and password. Baylake Bank has established a User ID and
password to assure the privacy of all of the information available to you at eBanc. Your
password is solely for your personal use and prevents others from having access to your
personal and confidential information available to you on this site. We also allow you to
change your password at any time and encourage you to periodically change your password in
order to help ensure the privacy of all information available on this site.
Baylake Bank Security Policy. The security of our Baylake Bank eBanc
Internet site is handled in several ways. First, we control the security of our customer
information as it is sent from the customer's PC to the Web server and then to our bank.
Second, we protect the security of the environment of our Internet banking server and
customer information database. Third, we implement special security measures to prevent
unauthorized users from attempting to access customer information through the online
banking section of our eBanc Web site. Please review our Security Policy for detailed information about our
security procedures.