Rev. 12/2017
FACTS
WHAT DOES FORTRESS BANK
DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
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.
What?
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:
- Social Security number and income
- account balances and credit card or other debt
- credit scores and employment information
When you are
no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
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 Fortress Bank chooses to share; and whether you can limit sharing.
Reasons we can share your personal information
Does Fortress Bank Share?
Can you limit this sharing?
For our everday 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
For our marketing purposes –
to offer our products and services to you
Yes
No
For joint marketing with other financial companies
No
We don’t share
For our affilliates’ everyday business purposes –
information about your transactions and experiences
No
We don’t share
For our affilliates’ everyday business purposes –
information about your creditworthiness
No
We don’t share
For our affilliates to market to you
No
We don’t share
For nonaffilliates to market to you
No
We don’t share
Questions?
Who We Are
Who is providing this notice?
Fortress Bank
What we do
How does Fortress Bank
protect my personal information?
To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. There measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.
How does Fortress Bank
collect my personal information?
We collect your personal information, for example, when you
- open an account or deposit money
- pay your bills or apply for a loan
- use your credit or debit card
We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates or other companies.
Why can’t I limit all sharing?
Federal law gives you the right to limit only
- sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness
- affiliates from using your information to market to you
- sharing nonaffiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
Definitions
Affiliates
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
- Fortress Bank does not share with affiliates.
Nonaffiliates
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
- Fortress Bank does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market with you.
Joint marketing
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
- Fortress Bank does not jointly market.
Other important information