Redwood Credit Union's privacy policy
| Facts | What do Redwood Credit Union and RCU Services Group do with Your Personal Information? |
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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. |
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What? |
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:
When you are no longer our Member, we continue to share your information as described in this notice. |
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How? |
All financial companies need to share Members’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their Members’ personal information; the reasons Redwood Credit Union (RCU) and RCU Services Group (RCUSG) choose to share; and whether you can limit this sharing. |
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Reasons we can share your personal information |
Do RCU and RCU Services Group share? |
Can you limit this sharing? |
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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 |
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For our marketing purposes – to offer our products and services to you. |
Yes |
No |
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For joint marketing with other financial companies. |
No |
We don’t share |
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For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your transactions and experiences. |
Yes |
No |
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For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness. |
No |
We don’t share |
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For our affiliates to market to you |
No |
We don’t share |
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For nonaffiliates to market to you |
No |
We don’t share |
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Questions? |
Call 1 (800) 479-7928 |
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Who we are |
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Who is providing this notice? |
Redwood Credit Union and RCU Services Group |
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What we do |
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How do Redwood Credit Union and RCU Services Group 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. |
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How do Redwood Credit Union and RCU Services Group collect my personal information? |
We collect your personal information, for example, when you:
We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies. |
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Why can’t I limit all sharing? |
Federal law gives you the right to limit only
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing. |
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Definitions |
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Affiliates |
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.
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Non-affiliates |
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.
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Joint marketing |
A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
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RCU Online Privacy Practices
How We Collect and Use Your Information
You may interact with us in a variety of ways online, including through a mobile device. We offer sites and applications that permit browsing and do not require registration. We also offer the ability to access your accounts online, which requires you to register and securely login. Information we may collect about you through online interaction includes information you input, such as your name, address, email address, other contact information; data resulting from your activity, such as transaction information; and location information. We may also gather additional information, such as the type of device and browser you are using, the IP address of your device, information about your device’s operating system, and additional information associated with your device. We may also gather information collected through cookies and other technologies, as described further below. This information allows us to better understand your needs, so we can serve you better.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the device you are using. We use cookies and information gathered through their use to make your experience with Redwood Credit Union more personalized based on the products, services, or other interactions you have with us and other sites. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the site, pages visited, language preferences, and your relationship with us. We use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, to personalize your experience while engaging with us, and to recognize your device to allow your use of our online banking products and services. We collect statistical information about the usage of the site in order to continually improve the design and functionality, to monitor responses to our advertisements and content, to understand how Members and visitors use the site, and to assist us with resolving questions regarding the site. We also utilize cookies for advertising purposes. Google Analytics is used to collect much of this information. For more information about Google Analytics, view Google’s Privacy Policy.
Cookie Settings and Do Not Track Signals
You can refuse to accept cookies and enable “Do Not Track” signals as most devices and web browsers offer their own privacy settings. You will need to manage your privacy settings for each device and browser you use. If you do not accept cookies, you may be unable to use many features of our site, including online products and services. For example, you will not be able to access our online banking services if all cookies are blocked. In addition, if you only block third-party cookies, you will not be able to access Bill Pay, Redwood Rewards, loan applications, Visa® online access, and eStatements within online or mobile banking. Our website does not honor “Do Not Track” signals and any use of tracking software does not result in the collection of personally identifiable information.
“Do Not Track” signals and cookie settings may vary among browsers and devices. We attempt to create a consistent experience for Members, but we may be unable to recognize all privacy settings due to the evolution of industry standards and technological advancement.
IP Address
Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the device that you are using by your Internet service provider (ISP). An IP address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits the site, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice on the Internet and is done automatically by many web sites. We use IP addresses for several purposes, such as calculating site usage levels, helping diagnose server problems, personalizing/tailoring your experience while engaging with us online and offline, for compliance and security purposes, for advertising, and for administering the site.
Remarketing Redwood Credit Union’s website uses Google AdWords and Google Analytics
Redwood Credit Union’s website uses the Google remarketing service to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to Redwood Credit Union’s website. Google is not used during access to online banking or during mobile application activity. Please be assured any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s Privacy Policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Preferences Page, and if you want to, you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin. You can also use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On to provide you the ability to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising initiative opt-out page.
Third-Party Widgets
We may allow certain widgets (e.g., social share buttons) on our site to provide Members with the ability to easily share information to another platform, usually social media platforms. These platforms may access your cookies and other information once you have logged on to their platform. Please note that third parties' use of cookies and information that you provide to them is subject to their own privacy policies, and not the RCU Online Privacy Practices.
Third-Party Disclosure
We do not disclose or sell personal information about you or our former Members to non-affiliated third parties, except as permitted or required by law or regulation or as specified above (See Google AdWords and Third-Party Widgets). We may disclose all of the information we collect to companies with whom we have a financial services agreement to offer financial products and services to you.
Children’s Privacy
Our site is not directed to individuals under the age of 13, and we request that these individuals do not provide personal information through the site. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 without parental consent. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) restricts the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information from and about children under the age of 13 on the Internet. For more information about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), visit the Federal Trade Commission website: http://www.ftc.gov/.
California Consumer Privacy Act
Redwood Credit Union collects personal information as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Under the CCPA, Californians have the right to know what personal information is collected or disclosed, the right to request deletion of personal information, and the right to non-discrimination for exercising these rights.
As a financial institution, RCU collects and discloses personal information to provide financial products and services to our Members. In the preceding 12 months, RCU has collected the following categories of personal information:
- Identifying information (real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers)
- Protected classifications required under state or federal law (name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information)
- Commercial information (records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies)
- Internet or similar network activity (browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement)
- Professional or employment-related information (current or past job history or performance evaluations)
RCU collects the personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from our Members or their agents. For example, from documents and forms RCU uses to open accounts, approve loans, or from other documentation used to offer a financial product or service to our Members.
- Indirectly from our Members. For example, through information collected in the course of providing a financial product or service services our Members.
- Directly and indirectly on from activity on our public website. For example, from website usage or from information input directly into our website.
- From third parties that interact with us in connection with the products or services we offer to our Members.
RCU uses this personal information to provide financial products and services, service loans, and complete transactions as requested by our Members. In order to do this, RCU must disclose our Members’ personal information to our third-party service providers and as allowed by applicable state and federal laws and regulations. While RCU may disclose our Members’ personal information, RCU does not and will not sell this information, and we take the utmost care to ensure the protection and security of our Members’ personal data.
RCU does not collect personal information subject to the right-to-know or the right-to-delete due to an exemption for personal information that is deidentified and an exemption for personal information that is subject to existing federal privacy laws, specifically the Gramm Leach Bliley Act. If you have further questions regarding these rights, please More About the CCPA & RCU or contact RCU by mail at PO Box 6104, Santa Rosa, CA 95406, or by phone at 1 (800) 479-7928.
Updates to these Privacy Practices
RCU Privacy Practices are subject to change and are reviewed periodically. Any changes will result in an updated revised date at the bottom of these practices and will be effective upon the date of posting on the site. Any use of the site equates to acceptance of the terms contained within these practices.
Last updated: 05/15/2023
Last reviewed: 05/15/2023