Privacy Policy

Facts

Rev. 11/2023

What does Amalgamated Bank

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 • Payment history • Overdraft history

  • Account balances • Transaction history • Account transactions

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

 

How?

All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information, the reasons Amalgamated Bank chooses to share, and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

 

Reasons we can share your personal information

Does Amalgamated Bank share?

Can you limit this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes —

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations or report 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 don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes —

information about your creditworthiness

 

No

 

We don’t share

For nonaffiliates to market to you

No

We don’t share

 

Questions?

Call toll-free 1-800-332-2693.

 

 

 

What we do

 

How does Amalgamated Bank 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 and secured files and buildings.

We also maintain other physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect this information, and we limit access to information to those employees for whom access is appropriate.

How does Amalgamated Bank collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you:

  • Open an account • Make deposits or withdrawals from

  • Apply for a loan your account

  • Use your credit or debit card • Give us your contact information

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus 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 non-financial companies.

  • Amalgamated Bank does not share with our affiliates.

Nonaffiliates

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

  • Amalgamated Bank does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint Marketing

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

  • Our joint marketing partners include credit card companies.

 

Your State Law Privacy Rights

As a Bank, our personal information processing practices are subject to federal law. However, to the extent we process personal information that is not subject to federal law, you may have rights relating to your personal information under the law of the state in which you live. For more information about the rights you may have and how to exercise them, please visit our Online Privacy Policy.

Other important information

Our Website: Through the use of our website, we strive to provide valuable information to you about how we may serve you. We are also committed to protecting your privacy in the strictest manner possible. When visiting our website, you do so without revealing who you are or revealing any nonpublic personal information. When performing online banking transactions, the privacy of your information is ensured using encryption.

However, if you choose to utilize the email feature on our website to contact us, you are sending us your email address and perhaps other information that typically may include your name, mailing address and other information. Unless otherwise indicated, your email transmission, and our response are not secure and may be subject to interception. We ask that you do not send confidential information to us via email. If you want to send us nonpublic personal information, such as account or Social Security Numbers, you can call us, send it by regular mail or visit your local branch office.

 

 

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