Best Employees Federal Credit Union is owned by its members and is run by a Board of Directors that members elect. You can be confident that your financial privacy is a top priority of this Credit Union. We are required by law to give you this privacy notice to explain how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal financial information.

Information We Collect

We collect nonpublic personal information about you from some or all of the following sources:

• Information we receive from you on applications or other forms, such as your name, address, social security number, assets, and income.
• Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others, such as your account balance, payment history, parties to transactions, and credit card usage; and
• Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency, such as your credit history.

Information We Disclose

We may disclose all of the information we collect about our members or former members as described above to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements. We share this information to provide you with high-quality products and services. Each of these companies has been approved by the Credit Union’s Board of Directors. We may also disclose information about you under other circumstances as required or permitted by law. These disclosures typically include information to process transactions on your behalf, conduct the operations of our Credit Union, follow your instructions, or protect the security of our financial records.

How We Protect Your Information

We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who have a specific business purpose for using it. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations and leading industry practices to safeguard your nonpublic personal information. If you ever have questions or concerns about the integrity of your account information, please contact us:

Best Employees Federal Credit Union
Website Internet Privacy Policy and Security Statements

Best Employees Federal Credit Union is committed to protecting the privacy of our members. In general, you can visit us on the World Wide Web without disclosing to us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. There are several areas, however, that will collect certain information about you and we want you to know how that information is handled.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes. Computer software programs are used to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. No personal information, such as your name or address, is collected or used for this analysis. We collect no information which would identify you personally.

We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site.
• The date and time you access our site.
• The pages you visit and the result of the request, such as an image or query.
• Other status codes and values resulting from the Web server responding to the request received: HTTP status code, Windows NT code, number of bytes sent, number of bytes received, duration (in seconds) to fulfill the request, server port number addressed, and protocol version.

Information Collected from E-mails and Web Forms

When you send us personally identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment or by filling out a form that E-mails us this information, we use this information to fulfill or respond to your requests. We may store these requests to provide us with information for future improvements to our website. We may forward your E-mail to employees of Best Employees Federal Credit Union who are better able to respond to your request. We do not create individual profiles with the information you provide. Best does not give, sell, or transfer personal information to third parties, unless required by law.

Links to other web sites found here are provided to assist in locating information. The mere fact that there is a link between this web site and another does not constitute a product or program endorsement by Best Employees Federal Credit Union or any of its employees. Best Employees Federal Credit Union has no responsibility for content of the websites found at these links, or beyond, and does not attest to the accuracy or propriety of any information located there.