Privcy Statement

We, our and us, when used in this notice, means BANKWEST.

Notice of Your Financial Privacy Rights

This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the words "you" and "your" we mean the following types of customers:
Our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding financial products or services such as a (n):

  • Deposit account
  • Loan account
  • Safe deposit box
  • Self-directed Individual Retirement Account

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 will tell you what information we share about you with other entitles. We will explain what your rights are, and how you can exercise them. If you share an account relationship with someone else, such as a joint account holder or co-borrower, we suggest that you share this information with such persons to ensure that each of you is aware of our policy and your options.

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."

Opt out means a choice you can make to prevent certain sharing of information. We will explain how you can exercise this choice.

The Information That We Collect

We collect information about you from the following sources:

  • Information we receive from you on applications or other forms
  • Information about your transactions with us
  • Information about your transactions with other parties
  • Information from a consumer reporting agency
  • Information we receive through our Customer Identification Program

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 may disclose information to other parties. Here are the kinds of information we disclose to these other parties:

  • Public information you give us on an application or other forms, such as:
  • Name
  • Address
  • Home phone number
  • Non-Public information you give us on an application or other forms, such as
  • Business phone number
  • Cell phone number
  • E-mail address
  • Date of birth

You may opt out of the disclosure of the information listed above.

Types of Other Parties

We may disclose information about you to the following types of other parties:

  • Financial service providers, such as:
    • Freedom Solutions

We may also disclose information about you to other parties as permitted by law.

Reasons For Disclosing

We may disclose information about you to other parties to provide you with information about additional products and services.

Information about Former Customers

We do not disclose information about former customers, except as permitted by law.

You Have The Right To Choose

In this notice, we have explained our policy about the disclosure of certain information.
Other Parties. We have explained the kinds of information we may disclose to other parties. We have also explained the kinds of other parties with whom we may disclose the information. If you prefer that we do not disclose information to these other parties, you may opt out of those disclosures, that is, you may direct us not to make those disclosures (other than the disclosures permitted by law).

Your decision to block the disclosure of your information will apply to the information collected from all products and services you receive from us. If you have obtained one or more products and services jointly, an opt out instruction by any party will be effective for all that party's information we have collected in conjunction with the product or service for all other joint parties. If one of you chooses to opt out, no information we have collected about you will be shared, nor will we share information about any other joint party collected in conjunction with the product or service.

If you wish to opt out of the disclosure of your information, you may do so by printing this page out and checking the appropriate space below and returning this form to us at this address:

BANKWEST PO Box 219 Rockford, MN 55373

     Do not share my information with nonaffiliated third parties.

                                                                                                   
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