Privacy Policy

What does Bank of the West do with your personal information?

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.

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
• Transaction history
• Account Balances
• Account transactions
• Payment history
• Checking account information

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

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 Bank of the West chooses to share, and whether you can 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

No

We don't share

For joint marketing with other financial companies

No

We don't share

For our affiliates' everyday business purposes

No

We don't share

For our affiliates' everyday business purposes - information about your creditworthiness

No

We don't share

For non-affiliates to market to you

No

We don't share

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 collect your personal information, for example, when you

• Open an account
• Provide account information
• Apply for a loan
• Give us your contact information
• Make deposits or withdrawals from your account

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

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 non-affiliates 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.

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

Bank of the West does not share with our affiliates.

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

Bank of the West does not share with non-affiliates so they can market to you.

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

Bank of the West doesn't jointly market.