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          YOUR PRIVACY IS OUR CONCERNWe recognise the importance of protecting your personal information. 
          We only collect and retain information about you to enable us to communicate with you, 
          to process your requests for products and services, and to inform you 
          about other financial services that may be of interest to you. Except 
          as explained here in our Privacy Policy, we do not sell any personal 
          information about current or former customers, nor do we share this 
          type of information with anyone other than our affiliates. (The 
          examples in this Privacy Policy are illustrative only and are not 
          intended to be exclusive. )
 
          INFORMATION WE COLLECT We collect the following types of public and nonpublic personal 
          information about you:
 
            
            Information obtained from you on applications and other forms, and 
            from other sources used to process your request for one or more of 
            our products or services (e.g., your name, address, employment 
            history, income, credit balances, property insurance coverage and 
            other representations made by you). 
            Information arising from your transactions with us, our affiliates 
            or others (e.g., your payment history, account balance and other 
            transactional information). 
            Information obtained from consumer credit-reporting agencies (e.g., 
            your credit history and creditworthiness) 
          WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH AND WHYExcept as discussed herein, we will only share nonpublic personal 
          information about you with your consent. We may disclose the 
          information we collect, as described above, to  financial 
          institutions with whom we have working arrangements.
 
          SHARING INFORMATION WITH AFFILIATESTo provide you with superior service, inform you of product and 
          service opportunities that may be of interest to you, and for other 
          business purposes, we may disclose all of the information we collect, 
          as described above, to the following types of affiliated companies: 
          financial service providers, such as mortgage and life insurance 
          agencies, title service companies and auto finance companies. An 
          "affiliated company" or "affiliate" is a company that we own or 
          control, or that is commonly owned or controlled by our parent holding 
          company.
 
          OUR FORMER CUSTOMERSWe treat information about our former customers in the same manner as 
          we treat information about our current customers.
 
          CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITYWe restrict access to nonpublic personal 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 that comply with federal and regulatory standards to safeguard your nonpublic 
          personal information against unauthorized access or use.
 
          Maintaining the accuracy of your information is a shared 
          responsibility. We maintain the integrity of the information you 
          provide us and will update your records when you notify us of a 
          change. Please contact us when information concerning you changes. 
          UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICYWe will provide notice of any revised policy to current customers and 
          those consumers whose nonpublic personal information we share as 
          described above. We reserve the right to change this policy at any 
          time.
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