Privacy and Security

FACTS

WHAT DOES BANK NORTHWEST 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

·         Account balances

·         Transaction history

·         Credit History

·         Account Transactions

·         Wire Transfer Instructions

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 Bank Northwest chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing

Reasons we can share your personal information

Does Bank Northwest share?

Can you limit this sharing?

For our everyday 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 affiliates’ everyday business purposes—
information about your transactions and experiences

No

We Don’t Share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes—
information about your creditworthiness

No

We Don’t Share

For non–affiliates to market to you

No

We Don’t Share

Questions?

·         Call 816-583-2154 or go to www.banknw.com

Who we are

Who is providing this notice?

Bank Northwest

What we do

How does Bank Northwest 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.

We also maintain other physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect this information and we limit access to information to those employees for whom access is appropriate.

How does Bank Northwest collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

• Open an account
• Apply for a loan
• Use your credit or debit card
• Make deposits or withdraws from your account

·         Show your drivers license

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 for non-affiliates to market to you

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

See below for more on your rights under state law.

Definitions

Affiliates

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

·         Bank Northwest has no affiliates

Nonaffiliates

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

·         Bank Northwest does not share with non-affiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing

A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

·         Bank Northwest doesn’t jointly market

Other Important Information

For Alaska, Maryland and North Dakota Customers.  We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing-without your authorization.

For California Customers.  We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing- without your authorization. We will also limit our sharing of personal information about you with our affiliates to comply with all California privacy laws that apply to us.

For Massachusetts, Mississippi and New Jersey Customers.  We not share personal information from deposit or share relationships with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing- without your authorization.

For Vermont Members/ Customers.

·         We will not disclose information about your creditworthiness to our affiliates and will not disclose your personal information, financial information, credit report, or health information to nonaffiliated third parties to market to you, other than as permitted by Vermont Law, unless you authorize us to make those disclosures.

·         Additional information concerning our privacy policies can be found at www.banknw.com or call 816-583-2154.