What Does Georgia Heritage Federal Credit Union Do With Your Personal Information?
Why?
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
What?
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:
- Social Security number and income
- Account balances and payment history
- Credit history and credit scores
When you are no longer our member, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
How?
All financial companies must share members’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons Georgia Heritage FCU can share your personal information, whether we share this information, and whether you can limit this sharing.
| Reasons we can share your personal information | Does Georgia Heritage FCU share? | Can you limit this sharing? |
|---|---|---|
| For our everyday business purposes— such as processing your transactions, maintaining your account(s), responding to court orders and legal investigations, or reporting to credit bureaus | Yes | No |
| For our marketing purposes— to offer our products and services to you | Yes | No |
| For joint marketing with other financial companies | Yes | No |
| For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes— information about your transactions and experiences | No | We do not share |
| For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes— information about your creditworthiness | No | We do not share |
| For our affiliates to market to you | No | We do not share |
| For nonaffiliates to market to you | Yes | Yes |
Questions?
Call 912-236-4400 or 800-442-8877 or visit our contact page.
What We Do?
How Does Georgia Heritage FCU Protect My Personal Information?
To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards, secured files, and buildings.
We protect your personal, non-public information by ensuring that only employees who have a business reason for knowing your information have access to it.
How Does Georgia Heritage FCU Collect My Personal Information?
We collect your personal information, for example, when you
- Open an account or deposit money
- Pay your bills or apply for a loan
- Use your credit or debit card
We also collect information about you from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.
Why Can’t I Limit All Sharing?
Federal law gives you the right to limit only
- Sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness
- Affiliates from using your information to market to you
- Sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing. See below for more on your rights under state law.
Definitions
Affiliates
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
- Georgia Heritage FCU has no affiliates.
Nonaffiliates
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
- Nonaffiliates we share with can include companies such as mortgage companies, insurance companies, direct marketing companies, and nonprofit organizations.
Joint Marketing
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
- Our joint marketing partners include TruStage™
Other Important Information
Notices and “Joint Relationships”
We will provide notices to the member listed first on any application or agreement with us. The notice will be mailed to the address noted for said person on the account. If the member has agreed to receive notices and disclosures electronically, then we can send all such notices to the e-mail address provided by the member; or post or give notice by providing a link or using other electronic methods authorized under applicable laws or regulations. All joint owners, borrowers, and guarantors agree to the receipt of any notice sent according to this paragraph.
Modification
The Credit Union reserves the right to modify, change, or amend this Privacy Policy and Agreement at any time without notice other than as expressly required by applicable law.
What Members Can Do to Help
Protect your account numbers, card numbers, PINs, and passwords. Never keep your PIN with your debit or credit card. Use caution in revealing account information to other persons. If a caller tells you he/she is calling you on behalf of the credit union and asks for your account number, you should beware. Credit union staff already has access to that information. If we detect fraudulent use of your account we will attempt to contact you. If your address or phone number changes, please notify us.
Protecting Children
We do not knowingly solicit or collect data from children and we do not knowingly market to children online. We recognize that protecting children’s identities and online privacy is important and that responsibility rests with us and with parents.
For Alaska, California, Illinois, Maryland, and North Dakota Members
We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing – without your authorization.
For Massachusetts, Mississippi, and New Jersey Members
We will not share personal information from deposit or share relationships with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing – without your authorization.
For Vermont Members
We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing without your authorization, and we will not share personal information with affiliates about your creditworthiness without your authorization.