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Thank you for viewing Mechanics Cooperative
Bank's Privacy Statement.
Our company shall respect the privacy of
every individual who visits our web site,
conducts a transaction or sends us an
email. Our Privacy Policy shall delineate
the information we will collect and how we
will use that information. This Policy will
also instruct you, the customer, on what to
do if you do not want your personal
information collected or shared when you
visit our site or send us an email. We will
not collect personally identifiable
information about you unless you provide it
to us voluntarily. We believe in a policy
that permits you, the customer, to determine
how we use your information. It is our
philosophy that any good relationship must
be built on a foundation of trust.
We believe:
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Your information belongs to you.
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You will share your information with us only to the
extent that we give you value for what
you share.
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You have the right to choose what information you share.
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You have the right to know what will happen to that
information once you have shared it.
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You have the right to choose how your information is
used.
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Your information should be kept totally confidential.
We will never share personal information
without obtaining your consent. In
addition, the information we gather from our
web site and e-mail correspondence shall
only be used for enhancing the features and
content of our site. We will not collect
any personally identifiable information
about you unless you provide it to us
voluntarily. If you do provide us with
personally identifiable information, we may
use that information to: better understand
your needs; improve our products and
services; contact you with new promotions
and announcements; and contact you if we
have questions about your account. Your
personally identifiable information is kept
confidential. It will never be sold, rented,
or shared with anyone without your consent.
When we collect information, we will
explicitly notify you that we are doing so
and you will be given the opportunity to
have your information stored, used or shared
for any reasons other than follow-up
correspondence with you from us. We will
never use or share the personally
identifiable information provided to us
online in ways unrelated to the ones
described above without also providing you
an opportunity to “opt-out” or otherwise
prohibit such unrelated uses. A
confirmation request will be e-mailed to you
before any changes to these policies will be
made that has the potential of reducing your
privacy.
Security of your data is of the utmost
importance to us. To prevent unauthorized
access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure
the appropriate use of information, we have
put in place appropriate physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures to
safeguard and secure the information we
collect online.
We may collect information about you that is
not personally identifiable. We also may
store some information on your computer.
This information will be in the form of a
"cookie" and will be used to determine ways
to improve our Web sites, advertisements,
products or services. A "cookie" is simply
an identifying code the browser is
instructed to save in a specially named file
where all of the cookie information is
stored on your computer. Only our Web
server that sends the cookie can retrieve
the cookie. The cookie information is not
linked to any other information and is not
accessible by any other party. The cookie
does not allow us to see the other Internet
sites you have visited. The text in a
cookie, by itself, only tells us that you
have visited our site before. It does not
store any personal information such as your
e-mail address, street address or phone
number. The cookie will allow us to
automatically recognize your browser type
and computer domain name, but not your
e-mail address. We use this information to
improve the content or design of our Web
site by noting what visitors most want to
see and what seems to cause the visitors to
leave.
Protecting the privacy of children is
especially important to us. We will always
encourage children to seek the consent of
their parents before providing any
information about themselves or their
households to anyone on the Internet.
Moreover, we encourage parents to take an
active role to protect the privacy and
security of their children and to prevent
the inappropriate use of information about
their children.
You can access your personally identifiable
information at any time by mailing a signed
and written request. We require a signed
and written request to verify your identity
and better safeguard your information and
protect your privacy and security. You may
also correct factual errors in your
maintained personally identifiable
information by sending us a request that
credibly shows the error.
All of us her at Mechanics Cooperative Bank
are committed to protecting your privacy.
Issues and comments about this site should
be directed to:
Joseph T. Baptista, Jr.
President/Chief Executive Officer
jbaptista@mechanics-coop.com |