Colonial Savings, F.A. Online Privacy Policy

CONSUMER PRIVACY POLICY

COLONIAL PRIVACY NOTICE​

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS​​​

 

Your privacy is important to us. This Online Privacy Policy explains how we collect, share, use, and protect information when you visit or use this online service and any other online services offered by Colonial Savings, F.A. (Colonial) that link to or reference this policy (collectively, our “online services”). This policy covers Colonial’s online services, including websites, mobile applications, and Colonial-branded social media sites or pages, as well as any interactions you may have while viewing content provided through one of Colonial’s digital advertising campaigns.

As you review this Online Privacy Policy, here are a few general principles to keep in mind:

• Our online services linking to this notice are intended for a U.S audience. If you visit or use one of these online services, your information will be transferred or processed in the United States.
• Our online services are not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent.
• If you are a U.S. consumer and have a financial product or service with us, we will use and share any information that we collect from or about you in accordance with our Privacy Notice.
• If you are a California resident, you may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
• Colonial mobile and social media sites or pages may have additional terms from this policy about the privacy of your information. Please review the privacy policy for the specific online service you are using. 

Information We Collect

Personal Information

When you visit or use our online services, we may collect personal information from or about you including your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number(s), account numbers, limited location information, user name and password. We may also collect payment card information, tax identification numbers, driver’s license numbers (or comparable) when you provide such information while using our online services and where we believe it is reasonably required for ordinary business purposes.

Usage and Other Information

In addition to the personal information described above, we may collect certain information about your use of our online services. For example, we may capture the IP address of the device you use to connect to the online service, the type of operating system and browser you use, and information about the site you came from, the parts of our online service you access.  We or our third-party partners may also use cookies, web beacons or other technologies to collect and store other information about your visit to, or use of, our online services. In addition, we may later associate the usage and other information we collect online with personal information about you.

Colonial Mobile

For your convenience, Colonial offers you the ability to access some of our products and services through mobile applications and mobile-optimized websites (“Colonial Mobile”). When you interact with us through Colonial Mobile, we may collect information such as unique device identifiers for your mobile device, your screen resolution and other device settings, information about your location, and analytical information about how you use your mobile device. We may ask your permission before collecting certain information (such as precise geo-location information) through Colonial Mobile.

Additional Sources of Information

We may also collect information about you from additional online and offline sources including from co-branded partner sites or commercially available third- party sources, such as credit reporting agencies. We may combine this information with the personal and other information we have collected about you under this Online Privacy Policy.

Use of Information

We use the information discussed above in the following ways:

• Processing applications and transactions;
• Verifying your identity (such as when you access your account information);
• Preventing fraud and enhancing the security of your account or our online services;
• Responding to your requests and communicating with you;
• Managing your preferences;
• Performing analytics concerning your use of our online services, including your responses to our emails and the pages and advertisements you view;
• Providing you tailored content and marketing messages; operating, evaluating and improving our business (including developing new products and services; improving existing products and services; performing data analytics; and performing accounting, auditing and other internal functions);
• Complying with and enforcing applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, contractual obligations and our policies; and
• For any other purposes that we may specifically disclose at the time you provide or we collect your information.

We may also use data that we collect on an aggregate or anonymous basis (such that it does not identify any individual customers) for various business purposes, where permissible under applicable laws and regulations.

Disclosure of Information

We may share the information we collect from and about you with other third parties as described below. In particular, we may share your information with:

• Colonial third-party service providers;
• Other companies to bring you co-branded services, products or programs that you have requested;
• Third parties or affiliates in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a sale, consolidation or merger of Colonial businesses; and
• Other third parties to comply with legal requirements such as the demands of applicable subpoenas and court orders; to verify or enforce our terms of use, our other rights, or other applicable policies; to address fraud, security or technical issues; to respond to an emergency; or otherwise to protect the rights, property or security of our customers or third parties.

We do not share information with affiliates or nonaffiliates and do not share information for joint marketing purposes.  

We may share anonymous or aggregated information with third parties to help deliver products, services, and content that are better tailored to the users of our online services and for other purposes.

Understanding Cookies, Web Beacons and Other Tracking Technologies

 

 

We, or our service providers, and other companies we work with may deploy and use cookies, web beacons, local shared objects and other tracking technologies for the following purposes: fraud prevention and monitoring our advertising and marketing campaign performance. Some of these tracking tools may detect characteristics or settings of the specific device you use to access our online services.

• “Cookies” are small amounts of data a website can send to a visitor’s web browser. They are often stored on the device you are using to help track your areas of interest. Cookies may also enable us or our service providers and other companies we work with to relate your use of our online services over time to customize your experience. Most web browsers allow you to adjust your browser settings to decline or delete cookies, but doing so may degrade your experience with our online services.
• Clear GIFs, pixel tags or web beacons—which are typically one-pixel, transparent images located on a webpage or in an email or other message— or similar technologies may be used on our sites and in some of our digital communications (such as email or other marketing messages). They may also be used when you are served advertisements or you otherwise interact with advertisements outside of our online services. These are principally used to help recognize users, assess traffic patterns and measure site or campaign engagement.
• Local Shared Objects, sometimes referred to as “flash cookies” may be stored on your hard drive using a media player or other software installed on your device. Local Shared Objects are similar to cookies in terms of their operation, but may not be managed in your browser in the same way.

Online advertising

You may see advertisements when you use many of our online services. These advertisements may be for our own products or services.  Which advertisements you see is often determined using the information we have about you, including information about your relationships with us (e.g., types of accounts held, transactional information, location of banking activity). Please refer to the Information We Collect section and Use of Information section to learn how we may share your information with others.

Online behavioral advertising (also known as “OBA” or “interest-based advertising”) refers to the practice of collecting information from a computer or device regarding a visitor’s web-browsing activities across non-affiliated websites over time in order to deliver advertisements that may be of interest to that visitor based on their browsing history. Through OBA, we hope to deliver advertisements that are most likely to be of interest to you using information about your other web-browsing activities (e.g., the web pages you visit, search terms you enter, and the way you move through our online services on your computer or device) or your personal profile (e.g., demographic or location information). Certain companies we work with may set cookies and use related tracking technologies, such as the clear GIFs discussed above, throughout our online services or in our communications to support these OBA efforts. If you do not want your information collected and used by the companies we work with for OBA purposes, you can opt out of this form of OBA by following the instructions in the next section.

Opting Out of "Online Behavioral Advertising" (OBA)

There are two (2) ways that you can opt out of OBA from certain Colonial ads on third-party websites. One way is through the cross-industry Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising  managed by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). To opt out of OBA, please click on the following link and follow the instructions: https://youradchoices.com. Another way to opt out of OBA is by clicking on the Advertising Options Icon featured on certain Colonial ads on third-party websites. When clicked it (i) describes the collection and uses of data gathered at the relevant third-party website and (ii) provides a way for you to opt out of data collection and use by the third parties listed for the purposes of OBA. If you choose to opt out, our service provider will communicate your opt out election to the relevant third-party advertising partners and a cookie will be placed on your browser indicating your decision to opt out.

Bear in mind that because cookies are stored by your browser, if you use different browsers on your computer, or multiple computers and devices that have browsers and you do not wish to have cookies collect information for OBA purposes, you will need to opt out of OBA from each browser on each of the computers and devices that you use. Please note that even if you opt out of OBA, you may still receive advertisements from us; however, they won’t be customized based on your web-browsing activities on third-party websites.

Linking to Third-Party Websites

Colonial may provide links to websites that are owned or operated by other companies ("third-party websites"). When you use a link online to visit a third-party website, you will be subject to that website’s privacy and security practices, which may differ from ours. You should familiarize yourself with the privacy policy, terms of use and security practices of the linked third-party website before providing any information on that website.

Security

 

We use reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with legal and regulatory standards to protect and limit access to personal information. This includes device safeguards and secured files and buildings.

Please note that information you send to us electronically may not be secure when it is transmitted to us. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information (such as your tax identification number) to us.

Updating Your Information