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Privacy Disclosure

AT AZTECAMERICA, YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US

You provide important information about yourself to a variety of businesses and organizations. The same is true when you do business with our financial institution. You are asked to provide us with certain personal information that helps us give you better service and complete your transactions more effectively. We work diligently to safeguard the information you give to us. In fact, we developed the following policies to ensure you confidentiality and maintain your confidence in our institution. These policies detail the strict standards we have in place. For this reason we ask that you please read the following information carefully.

NOTICE OF YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVACY RIGHTS

We, our, and us, when used in this notice, mean AZTECAMERICA BANCORP, INC., AZTECAMERICA BANK and AZTECAMERICA FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the words "you" and "your" we mean the following types of customers:
  • Our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding financial products or services such as a (n):

  • o Deposit account
    o Loan account
    o Retail installment contract we hold and service
    o Financial, investment or economic advisory services
    o Mortgage brokerage services
    We will tell you the sources of the information we collect about you. We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information. We will tell you what information we share about you with other entities. We will explain what your rights are, and how you can exercise them. If you share an account relationship with someone else, such as a joint account holder or co-borrower, we suggest that you share this information with such persons to ensure that each of you is aware of our policy and your options. We first define some terms.

  • Nonpublic personal information means information about you that we collect in connection with providing a financial product or service to you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information that is available from public sources, such as telephone directories or government records. Hereafter, we will use the term "information" to mean nonpublic personal information as defined in this section.

  • An affiliate is a company we own or control, a company that owns or controls us, or a company that is owned or controlled by the same company that owns or controls us. Ownership does not mean complete ownership, but means owning enough to have control
  • .
  • A nonaffiliated third party is a person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as nonaffiliated third party, or simply, an "other party."

  • Opt out means a choice you can make to prevent certain sharing of information. We will explain how you can exercise this choice.


  • THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

    We collect information about you from the following sources:
  • Information you give us on applications or other forms
  • Information about your transactions with us
  • Information about your transactions with our affiliates
  • Information about your transactions with other parties
  • Information from a consumer reporting agency
  • Information we receive as a result of verifying customer information

  • THE CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY AND INTEGRITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

    We restrict access to information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect this information.

    YOUR INFORMATION AND OUR AFFILIATES

    We may disclose information about you to our affiliates. Here are the kinds of information and the source of that information:
    Transaction and experience information from our account records:
  • Information about your transactions and experience with us, such as:
    o Name
    o Address
    o Types of accounts
    o Payment history

    Federal law allows us to disclose the information listed above with our affiliates. However, we will allow you to opt out of the disclosure of this information to our affiliates. Types of Affiliates We may disclose information about you to the following types of affiliates: Financial service providers, such as mortgage bankers.

    Reasons for Disclosure
    We may disclose information about you to our affiliates:

  • To provide you with information about additional products and services;
  • To evaluate our total relationship with you and our family of companies and give you the best price that relationship deserves; and/or
  • To allow you to share with us the individual pieces of your overall financial plan.
  • Future Affiliate Disclosure
    We also reserve the right to disclose the following additional information about you to our affiliates in the future: Transaction and experience information from our account records: Information about your transactions with us, such as:

  • Account balances
  • Account activity
  • Parties to the transaction
  • Deposit history

  • Federal law allows us to disclose the information listed above with our affiliates. However, we will allow you to opt out of the disclosure of this information to our affiliates. We may disclose this information with the affiliates listed under the heading Types of Affiliates.

    YOUR INFORMATION AND OTHER PARTIES

    We will not disclose information about you to anyone except as disclosed in this policy or as permitted by law. Examples of this might include disclosures necessary to service your account or prevent unauthorized transactions.

    INFORMATION ABOUT FORMER CUSTOMERS

    We do not disclose information about former customers, except as permitted by law.

    YOUR INFORMATION AND JOINT MARKETERS ­ FUTURE CHANGES

    In the future, we may disclose information about you to joint marketers, even though we are not doing so now. Here are the kinds of information we may disclose to these marketers:
  • Information about your transactions with us, such as:
  • Name
  • Address
  • Types of accounts
  • Payment history


  • You may not opt out of the disclosure of the information listed above.

    Types of Joint Marketers

    We may disclose information about you in the future to the following types of joint marketers:
  • Financial service providers, such as:
  • Mortgage bankers
  • Securities broker-dealers
  • Insurance agents
  • Private label credit card issuers
  • Reasons for Disclosing

    In the future, we may disclose information about you to joint marketers to provide you with information about additional products and services.

    YOUR RIGHT TO BLOCK THE DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

    Affiliates.

    We may disclose your information with our affiliates. If you do not want us to disclose your information with our affiliates, you can block the disclosure of this information. This is known as your right to "opt out." Your decision to block the disclosure of your information will apply to information collected from all products and services you receive from us. If you have obtained one or more products or services jointly, each owner or purchaser has a separate right to opt out. If one of you chooses to opt out of the disclosure of your information and any other does not, only information regarding the other parties who do not opt out will be disclosed. However, each joint owner or purchaser may opt out of the sharing of information collected in conjunction with the product or service on behalf of all other joint parties. If you wish to opt out of the disclosure of your information, you may do so by using any of the following methods:

    _ Check the appropriate box(es) on the Opt Out Notice that you received with this notice and return to us at this address:

    AztecAmerica Bancorp
    P.O. Box 310
    Berwyn, Illinois 60402

    _ Or, call this number: 888-700-5171

    YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE

    In this notice, we have explained our policy about the disclosure of certain information.

    Affiliates

    We have explained the kinds of information we may disclose to our affiliates. We have also explained the kinds of affiliates with whom we may disclose the information. If you prefer that we do not disclose information to our affiliates you may opt out of those disclosures, that is, you may direct us not to make those disclosures (other than the disclosures permitted by law). Your decision to block the disclosure of your information will apply to information collected from all products and services you receive from us. If you have obtained one or more products or services jointly, each owner or purchaser has a separate right to opt out. If one of you chooses to opt out of the disclosure of your information and any other does not, only information regarding the other parties who do not opt out will be disclosed. However, each joint owner or purchaser may opt out of the sharing of information collected in conjunction with the product or service on behalf of all other joint parties. If you wish to opt out of the disclosure of your information, you may do so by using any of the following methods:

    _ Check the appropriate box(es) below and return this form to us at this address:

    AztecAmerica Bancorp
    P.O. Box 310
    Berwyn, Illinois 60402

    Do not share my information with your affiliates.

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    DATE: 
    NAME:
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    SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER:   
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    _ Or, call this number: 888-700-5171

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