Privacy & Security
Heartland Bank and its subsidiaries know and understand how important protecting your financial privacy is to you. Concerns for customer privacy and confidentiality are cornerstones of the financial industry. For these reasons, we have adopted the following privacy practices to assist you in understanding the measures we take to protect your personal and financial information.
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FACTS |
WHAT DOES HEARTLAND BANK DO |
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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: n Social Security number and income n account balances and payment history n credit history and credit score When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice. |
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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 Heartland Bank chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing. |
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Reasons we can share your personal information |
Does Heartland Bank share? |
Can you limit this sharing? |
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For our everyday business purposes— |
Yes |
No |
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For our marketing purposes— |
Yes |
No |
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For joint marketing with other financial companies |
No |
No |
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For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes— |
Yes |
No |
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For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes— |
No |
N/A |
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For our affiliates to market to you |
Yes |
Yes |
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For non affiliates to market to you |
No |
N/A |
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To limit |
n Call us at 314.512.8888 or toll free at 866.512.8501 n Contact us by mail at: Please note: If you are a new customer, we can begin sharing your information 30 days from the date we sent this notice. When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice. However, you can contact us at any time to limit our sharing. |
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Questions? |
Call 314.512.888 or toll free at 866.512.8501 |
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What we do |
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How does Heartland 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 restrict access to your nonpublic personal information to those employees who need to know that information to provide products and services to you. |
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How does Heartland Bank collect my personal information? |
We collect your personal information, for example, when you n open an account or deposit money n pay your bills or apply for a loan n use your credit or debit card |
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Why can’t I limit all sharing? |
Federal law gives you the right to limit only n sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness n affiliates from using your information to market to you n sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you |
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What happens when I limit sharing for an account I hold jointly with someone else? |
Your choices will apply to everyone on your account |
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Definitions |
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Affiliates |
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. n Our affiliates are the family of companies controlled by Heartland Bank. They include: Hallmark Financial Services Corp. d/b/a Heartland Bank Financial Security Group a wholly owned subsidiary of Heartland Bank – A financial services provider, and Heartland, Business Credit a wholly owned subsidiary of Heartland Bank – A business credit and leasing provider. |
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Nonaffiliates |
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. n Heartland Bank does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you |
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Joint marketing |
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you. n Heartland Bank does not jointly market |
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