Privacy Policy

FACTS

WHAT DOES GREENWICH MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES FEDERAL CREDIT UNION DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

WHY?

Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law givesconsumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tellyou how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this noticecarefully to understand what we do.

WHAT?

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or serviceyou have with us. This information can include:

  • Social Security Number and account balances
  • checking account information and credit history
  • payment history and transaction or loss history

When you are no longer our member, we continue to share your information as describedin this notice.

HOW?

All financial companies need to share members' personal information to run their everydaybusiness. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share theirmembers' personal information; the reasons Greenwich Municipal EmployeesFederal Credit Union chooses to share and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your personal information Does GMEFCU share? Can you limit this sharing?
For our everyday business purposes -
such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), to respond to court orders and legal investigations, or to 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 do not share
For our affiliates' everyday business purposes -
information about your creditworthiness
No We do not share
For our affiliates to market to you No We do not share
For nonaffiliates to market to you No We do not share

QUESTIONS?

Call 203-869-5280 or go to www.gmefcu.com

What We Do
How does Greenwich Municipal Employees Federal Credit Union 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.
How does Greenwich Municipal Employees Federal Credit Union collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

  • open an account or deposit money
  • apply for a loan or provide employment information
  • provide account information

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

Why can't I limit sharing?

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

  • sharing for affiliates' everyday business purposes - information aboutyour creditworthiness
  • affiliates from using your information to market to you
  • sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

State law and individual companies may give you additional rights tosharing.

Definitions
Affiliates

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can befinancial and nonfinancial companies.

  • Greenwich Municipal Employees Federal Credit Union has no affiliates
Nonaffiliates

Companies not related by common ownership or control They can befinancial and nonfinancial companies.

  • Nonaffiliates we share with can include insurance companies,government agencies, plastic card processors (debit/ATM),financial statement publishers or printers, consumerreporting agencies, data processors, and check/share draft printers.
Joint Marketing

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

  • Our joint marketing partners include CUNA Mutual's Tru Stage.

TouchBanking Privacy Notice

Last Updated: January 2024

TouchBanking – powered by Fiserv – helps you manage your money, view your transactions and accounts, making it easy to manage your finances on the go.

TouchBanking provides the Services to users on behalf of their financial institution (“Your Financial Institution”) as a service provider. This Privacy Notice, in combination with relevant privacy notices that Your Financial Institution provides to you (e.g., pursuant to financial privacy laws), informs you of the policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any personal information that TouchBanking collects from or about users in connection with our mobile application (the “Services”). The specific capabilities of the Services available to you vary depending on Your Financial Institution. You can find more information about Your Financial Institution’s privacy policies and your choices at your Financial Institution’s website or by contacting Your Financial Institution.

Depending on the services offered by Your Financial Institution TouchBanking may allow you to:

  • get real-time balances for your accounts
  • manage your money
  • view your transactions and statements
  • make transfers
  • pay your bills and manage billers
  • pay other people
  • deposit a check
  • manage cards
  • locate branches and ATMs
  • receive alerts
  • communicate with us via email or chat

THE TYPES OF INFORMATION TOUCHBANKING COLLECTS

TouchBanking may collect personal information from you in the following ways:

(a) Personal Information You or Your Financial Institution Provide to us.

  • TouchBanking may collect personal information from you or your financial institution, such as your first and last name, address, e-mail, User IDs, telephone number, and social security number when you open a new financial account or register for other financial services. Device images/videos may be accessed when you deposit a check or use a QR code to make peer to peer payments using Zelle or other payments functionality. Device contacts may be accessed when you to make peer to peer payments using Zelle or other payments functionality. Device location may be accessed to detect and prevent card transaction fraud, deposit fraud and also to provide branch and atm locations.
  • TouchBanking may collect the financial and transaction information necessary to provide you with the Services, including account numbers, payment card expiration date, payment card identification, verification numbers, and transaction and payment history.
  • If you provide feedback or contact TouchBanking via email, TouchBanking will collect your name, email address and any other content included in your email messages to us in order to send you a reply.
  •  TouchBanking also collects other types of personal information that you provide voluntarily, such as any information requested by TouchBanking if you contact TouchBanking via email regarding support for the Services.

(b) Personal Information Collected from Third Parties. TouchBanking may collect certain information from identity verification services and consumer reporting agencies, including credit bureaus, in order to provide some of our Services.

(c) Personal Information Collected Via Technology. We and our service providers may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with our Services, our communications and other online services, such as:

  • Device data, such as your computer’s or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers, language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., WiFi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.
  • Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, , navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and duration of access.
  • Cookies, which are text files that websites store on a visitor’s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, and helping us understand user activity and patterns.
  • Location Information. If you have enabled location services on your phone and agree to the collection of your location when prompted by the Services, TouchBanking will collect your location information when you use the Services; for example, to provide our fraud detection services. If you do not want TouchBanking to collect this information, you may decline the collection of your location when prompted or adjust the location services settings on your device.

HOW  TOUCHBANKING USES YOUR INFORMATION

(a) General Use. In general, TouchBanking uses your personal information to respond to your requests as submitted through the Services, to provide you the Services you request, and to help serve you better. TouchBanking uses your personal information in the following ways:

  • facilitate the creation of, secure and maintain your account;
  • identify you as a legitimate user in TouchBanking’s system;
  • provide improved administration of the Services;
  • provide the Services you request;
  • improve the quality of experience when you interact with the Services;
  • send you administrative e-mail and/or push notifications, such as security or support and maintenance advisories

(b) Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

  • comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
  • protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
  • audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies;
  • enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and
  • prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.

(d) Creation of Non-Identifiable Data. TouchBanking may create de-identified information records from personal information by excluding certain information (such as your name) that makes the information personally identifiable to you. TouchBanking may use this information in a form that does not personally identify you to analyze request patterns and usage patterns to enhance TouchBanking’s products and services. TouchBanking reserves the right to use and disclose non-identifiable information to third parties in its discretion.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

TouchBanking discloses your personal information as described below.

(a) At the Direction of Your Financial Institution. TouchBanking may share your information with Your Financial Institution or with third parties at the direction of Your Financial Institution. Other than as described in this Privacy Notice in connection with the Services, this Privacy Notice does not apply to the processing of your information by Your Financial Institution or third parties with whom TouchBanking shares information at Your Financial Institution’s direction.

(b) Third Party Service Providers. TouchBanking may share your personal information with third party or affiliated service providers that perform services for or on behalf of TouchBanking, for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, including: to provide you with the Services; to conduct quality assurance testing; to facilitate the creation of accounts; to optimize the performance of the Services; to provide technical support; and/or to provide other services to TouchBanking.

(c) Corporate Restructuring. TouchBanking may share some or all of your personal information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution transaction involving the sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of TouchBanking’s business or assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, personal information may also be transferred as a business asset. If TouchBanking’s company, business or assets is acquired by another company, that company will possess the personal information collected by TouchBanking and the company will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Privacy Notice.

(d) Authorities and Others. Regardless of any choices you make regarding your personal information, TouchBanking may disclose your personal information to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, for the compliance and protection services described above.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The Services may contain links to third party websites. When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave the Services and go to another site and another entity may collect personal and/or anonymous information from you. TouchBanking’s provision of a link to any other website or location is for your convenience and does not signify TouchBanking’s endorsement of such other website or location or its contents. TouchBanking has no control over, does not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Notice do not apply to these outside websites. We encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION

You have several choices regarding use of information on the Services. 

(a) How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals. Some web browsers transmit “do not track” signals to the websites and other online services with which your web browser communications. There is currently no standard that governs what, if anything, websites should do when they receive these signals. TouchBanking currently does not take action in response to these signals. If and when a standard is established, TouchBanking may revise its policy on responding to these signals.

(b) Access, Update, or Correct Your Information. You can access, update or correct your information by changing preferences in your account. To do so, you should contact Your Financial Institution. For additional requests, please contact Your Financial Institution on whose behalf we are providing the Services to you.

(c) Opting Out SMS Communications. If you provide your phone number through the Services, TouchBanking may send you notifications by SMS, such as provide a fraud alert. You may opt out of SMS communications by unlinking your mobile phone number through the Services.

(d) Opting Out of Location Tracking. If you initially consented to the collection of geo-location information through the Services, you can subsequently stop the collection of this information at any time by changing the preferences on your mobile device. Please note, however, that if you withdraw consent to TouchBanking’s collection of location information, you may no longer be able to use some features of the Services.

SAFEGUARDS AND RETENTION

We implement reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures in an effort to safeguard the information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

Federal laws and regulations require that US financial institutions retain original, active and historical records. Your personal and financial data will be retained for a period of five to ten years, depending on applicable laws, regulations and legitimate business needs.

A NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN

The Services are not directed towards individuals under the age of 18, and TouchBanking does not intentionally gather personal information about visitors who are under the age of 18. If a child under 18 submits personal information to TouchBanking and TouchBanking learns that the personal information is the information of a child under 18, TouchBanking will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible.

PRIVACY NOTICE UPDATES

This Privacy Notice is subject to occasional revision. Your Financial Institution or TouchBanking may notify you, in their sole discretion, of any material changes in TouchBanking’s collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information by posting a notice on the Services. Any material changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective thirty (30) calendar days following notice of the changes on the Services or immediately where no notice is given. These changes will be effective immediately for new users of the Services. If you object to any such changes, you must notify TouchBanking prior to the effective date of such changes that you wish to deactivate your account. Continued use of the Services following notice of any such changes (or use of the Services after any such changes) shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes.

CONTACT TOUCHBANKING

If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Notice or TouchBanking’s data collection or processing practices, or if you want to report any security violations to TouchBanking, please contact TouchBanking by at: dpo@fiserv.com; or by mail at:

Fiserv, Inc.
255 Fiserv Drive
Brookfield, WI 53045
PO Box 979
Brookfield, WI 53008-0979