PRIVACY POLICY
Pacific National Bank (“Pacific” or “Bank”) is
committed to provide its Consumer Customers privacy protection regarding their
nonpublic personal Information when they use products and services at
Pacific National Bank. Pacific National
Bank is also committed to keeping its Consumer Customer’s nonpublic personal Information
from unapproved disclosure.
Your 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.
Pacific National Bank notes to each of
its Consumer Customers that, when a Consumer Customer first establishes an
account, credit, investment or other relationship with Pacific National Bank,
the Consumer Customer provides Pacific National Bank with Information
which includes the Consumer Customer’s name, address, name of employer,
business address, telephone and fax and e-mail addresses and other Information.
During the course of the financial relationship with the Consumer Customer,
Pacific obtains other Information about the Consumer Customer, such as
credit payment performance, historic account movements, credit references and
the like. Pacific National Bank uses all of this Information quickly to
process all financial transactions, to set approval terms for any credits that
the Consumer Customer seeks, to suggest appropriate investments strategies and
generally to give its Consumer Customers high quality financial and investment
services.
It is Pacific National Bank’s policy to protect the
confidentiality of its Consumer Customer’s Information. Please review
this Privacy Policy for full details on how Pacific National Bank protects the
confidentiality and those circumstances when Pacific National Bank will reveal Information
about Pacific National Bank’s Consumer Customers.
Except in the case where a minor is named a beneficiary
of an account at the Bank or an account under the Florida Uniform Gift to
Minors Act, it is the Bank’s policy not to collect, whether directly or through
the Internet, any Information from any child including, but not limited
to, children of Pacific National Bank’s Consumer Customers.
Any Consumer Customer who has questions about his/her
privacy rights and the steps Pacific National Bank agrees to take to protect
those rights, should contact the Bank at:
Pacific National Bank
Telephone (305) 539-7500 – Fax (305) 539-7600
Call Center: 305-539-7574
1390 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida 33131
E-mail: pacific@pnb.com - Web
Address: www.pnb.com
and ask for PNB’s Banking Department or directly speak with a Customer Service
Officer.
Pacific National Bank respects its Consumer
Customer’s rights to privacy and follows standards to ensure that its Consumer
Customer’s non public personal Information is private. In addition to
the Bank’s internal policy to protect its Consumer Customer’s right that
his/her Information will be protected against unapproved disclosure,
Pacific National Bank complies with U.S. laws and regulations which restrict a
U.S. bank’s dissemination to third parties of certain types of consumer credit Information.
In the regular course of providing financial services
and products, Pacific National Bank obtains the following categories of (“Information”) from our Consumer
Customers:
Information that the Consumer Customer
provides to Pacific National Bank:
i) Social
Security Number, Passport Number, Driver License, or, ID numbers;
ii) Financial Statements including assets,
liabilities, net worth;
iii)
Banking references from other banks, that may be an
Affiliate of the Bank and that may reveal where the Consumer Customer maintains
bank balances in addition to Pacific National Bank;
iv)
Commercial references from third parties that may reveal
where the Consumer Customer maintains commercial relationships;
v)
Income Tax Returns filled by the Consumer Customer;
vi)
The names of businesses and ventures in which the Consumer
Customer has an interest;
vii) The name, address,
telephone, fax numbers and email address of the Consumer Customer’s employer
and what job the Consumer Customer performs there;
viii) The
address, telephone number, fax number, email address of the Consumer Customer’s
residence.
The Bank also obtains Information from
transactions between the Consumer Customer and Pacific National Bank. This type of Information includes:
Account balances; types of services or products used; account activity; payment
history; credit history; overdrafts history; and other matters.
Additionally, Pacific National Bank collects Information
about our Consumer Customers from the following sources:
a)
Information about the Consumer Customer’s
transactions with entities that are Affiliates of the Bank and also entities
that are a Non-Affiliated Company;
b) Information we receive from one or more consumer
reporting agencies.
Pacific National Bank uses and stores the Information
within the Bank to enable Bank personnel to design and improve the Financial
Products and Services that Pacific National Bank offers to its customers.
It is in the interest of both the Consumer Customer
and Pacific National Bank to maintain accurate records concerning the Consumer
Customer’s Information. For this
reason:
a. Pacific National Bank allows its Pacific Direct Web® Services
Customers to update their Information online, at anytime, through the
submission of encrypted e-mail requests that are sent to Pacific National
Bank’s secure Web site. Notifications are sent to the appropriate Bank
personnel, alerting them to the receipt of a Consumer Customer request for a
Pacific Direct Web® transaction. This enables Pacific National Bank to update a
Consumer Customer’s Information within a timely manner. The Consumer Customer should refer to
Pacific National Bank Agreement for Pacific Direct Web® Services for more Information.
b. Pacific National Bank allows its Pacific Direct Call® Services
Consumer Customers to update their Information through the Call Center
during business hours through the submission of a password call made to the
Call Center Agent. These telephone
calls may be recorded by the Bank to assure accuracy and for training purposes.
c. Pacific National Bank allows original letters or forms to be
sent to Pacific National Bank to update Information of Consumer Customers.
At Pacific National Bank we have procedures in place to ensure customer
account nonpublic information is complete, accurate, and processed in a timely
manner. However, should you ever believe, that our records contain inaccurate
or incomplete information about you, please notify us. We will investigate your
concerns and correct any inaccuracies.
Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, you have the
right to notify us if you believe we have reported inaccurate information about
your account to any Consumer Reporting Agency. Such notices should be sent in
writing and include your complete name, current address, social security
number, telephone number, account number, type of account, specific item of
dispute and the reason why you believe the information reported is in error.
Send your notice to: Pacific National Bank, Compliance Department, 1390
Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida 33131.
Internal Pacific National Bank
Protection of Information about Consumer Customers
The manner in which Pacific National Bank collects
its Consumer Customer’s Information protects against unintended third
party access to the Consumer Customer’s personal accounts and also assists the
Bank in providing products and services that its Consumer Customer may want or
need.
Information from a Consumer Customer enters
the Bank through different channels, each of which has security standards to
maintain the privacy of the Information provided by the Consumer
Customer. Once the Information is received at Pacific National Bank,
only a limited number of qualified Bank personnel have access to it. These Bank
personnel effect the banking transactions that the Consumer Customer has
directed. Pacific National Bank has established internal control and auditing
procedures that monitor Bank personnel’s performance of the Consumer Customer
transactions. These internal controls identify which Bank employees have
accessed a Consumer Customer’s Information and impose safeguards before Information
in a Consumer Customer’s file can be accessed, modified or updated.
Pacific National Bank limits employee access to its
Consumer Customer’s Information to only those Bank employees who have a
business reason to have the Information. Pacific National Bank also educates all employees about the
importance of confidentiality and Consumer Customer privacy. User names and
passwords are used by approved Bank personnel to access a Consumer Customer’s Information
online, providing audit trails that also protect the privacy of Services
Consumer Customer’s Information.
When Pacific National Bank
Discloses Consumer Customer Information to Third Parties
Pacific National Bank may disclose all of the Information
of its Consumer Customers that the Bank collects to the following types of
entities:
a. To
local, state and U.S. law enforcement agencies and courts, if Pacific National
Bank receives a court Order or legal subpoena.
b. To a regulatory agency of the U.S. or
State of Florida government, if Pacific National Bank is required to do so by
applicable law or regulations; and
c. To protect the Bank’s legal interests
in the case of actual or suspected illegal activity involving the Consumer
Customer or, his or her account at Pacific.
It is Pacific National Bank policy not to share
Consumer Customer Information from any existing or former Consumer
Customer, except when needed, as follows:
It is Pacific National Bank policy not to share
Consumer Customer Information from any existing or former Consumer
Customer, except when needed, as follows:
a) To
complete a transaction at your request, or to provide you a Financial Product
or Service with another financial service provider, for example:
·
If you direct us to make a fund transfer, we are required to
give the other financial institution or financial service provider certain Information
to complete the transaction; or
·
If you direct us to buy certain assets, like a security or
mutual fund, we are required to share certain Information with the other
financial institution or provider to complete the transaction;
·
We may contract with entities that are our Affiliates or are
a Non-Affiliated Company to perform services for us in order to provide to you
a financial Product or Service. When necessary, we will disclose to these third
parties only the Information that is necessary for such third party to
carry out its assigned responsibilities and only for that purpose.
b)
As part of the Bank’s sale of assets owned by the Bank, for
example:
·
Banks, from time to time, sell single loan assets or
portfolios of loans owned by them. Additionally banks, from time to time, sell
the rights to service the loans held in their portfolio. Single loans, loan portfolios and servicing
rights are transferred, in whole or in part, to third parties that frequently,
but not always, are other financial institutions. When assets like these are sold, Information related to
the underlying assets will be revealed to the entity that is making the
purchase.
Pacific National Bank requires third party entities
to treat your Information with the same degree of confidentiality that
we do.
Except in the case of U.S. law enforcement agencies,
courts, U.S. regulatory agencies and to protect PNB’s legal interests, Pacific
National Bank requires any Affiliate or any Non-Affiliated Company that has a
legitimate business need to access Pacific National Bank’s Consumer Customer Information
to adhere to similar and equally stringent privacy policies, which must be
written. We may also disclose Information
about Consumer Customers to a Non-Affiliated Company, as permitted by law.
It is the policy of Pacific National Bank that Information
of Consumer Customers who are no longer active Consumer Customers of Pacific
National Bank is treated in the same way that Pacific National Bank treats Information
of our active Consumer Customers. You can have confidence that, once you become
a Pacific National Bank Consumer Customer, the privacy of your Information
is protected by Pacific National Bank even after you may leave us.
It is the policy of Pacific National Bank to protect
its Consumer Customers and their Information that they have given to
Pacific National Bank against anticipated or unanticipated threats to the
security of the Consumer Customers’ records. Pacific National Bank protects its
Consumer Customers’ Information from unauthorized access or use that
could result in harm to Pacific National Bank Consumer Customer.
IF YOU PREFER THAT PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK NOT DISCLOSE
Information ABOUT YOU TO ANY AFFILIATE OR NON-AFFILIATED COMPANY, YOU
MAY OPT OUT OF THIS DISCLOSURE, THAT IS, YOU MAY DIRECT US NOT TO MAKE THOSE
DISCLOSURES (OTHER THAN DISCLOSURES PERMITTED BY LAW AND OTHER THAN FOR
TRANSACTIONS THAT YOU DIRECTED US TO MAKE, AND OTHER THAN ENTITIES THAT PROVIDE
SERVICES TO US SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE YOU A FINANCIAL PRODUCT OR SERVICE). IF YOU WISH TO OPT OUT OF DISCLOSURES TO ANY
AFFILIATED OR NON-AFFILIATED COMPANY, THEN YOU MUST COMPLETE THE OPT-OUT FORM
BELOW AND SEND THE COMPLETED FORM TO:
PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK, 1390 BRICKELL AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA 33131,
ATTN: CUSTOMER INFORMATION UNIT. OR ALTERNATIVELY YOU CAN OPT OUT THROUGH
PACIFIC DIRECT WEB AT www.pnb.com BY
COMPLETING THE SECTION TITLED “CUSTOMER NOTICE TO OPT OUT”. YOU CAN E-MAIL US AT pacific@pnb.com.
Pacific National Bank is committed to protecting the
privacy of its Consumer Customers’ Personal Information. For more information regarding Pacific
National Bank Privacy Policy, please contact the Bank at:
Pacific National Bank
Telephone (305) 539-7500 – Fax (305) 539-7600
1390 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida 33131
E-mail: pacific@pnb.com
and ask for PNB’s Banking Department or directly speak with a Consumer
Customer Service Officer.
“Affiliate” means, with regard to Pacific National Bank, any of the following entities that either own Pacific National Bank or that are owned by the owner of Pacific National Bank: Banco del Pacifico, S.A.; Banco del Pacifico (Panama), S.A.; Seguros Sucre, S.A.; Mastercard del Ecuador, S.A.; and Almacenera del Agro, S.A.
“Bank” means Pacific
National, a U.S. national bank;
“Consumer Customer” means any one or more persons who obtain Financial Products or Services that are used primarily for household, as opposed to business or commercial, purposes;
“Consumer Customer Information”
or “Information” or “Consumer Customer non public personal Information”
means any type of information about a Consumer Customer that is not publicly
known and that identifies the Consumer Customer. Examples of “Consumer Customer Information” include
address, name of employer, employment address, credit record, sources of income
and historic or recurring recipients of payments by the Consumer Customer;
“Financial Products or Services” means any type of banking product or banking product or service that a Consumer Customer may obtain from a bank such as Pacific National Bank and includes a checking account, a savings account, an automobile loan, a mortgage, a credit card, an investment account, funds management advice, a mutual fund or stock or debt investment sold via the financial institution;
“Non-Affiliated Company”
means a corporation or other entity with which Pacific National Bank does
business and also with which the Bank may share Consumer Customer Personal Information
about the Bank’s Consumer Customers. No
Affiliate of the Bank can also be a Non-Affiliated Company.
I hereby direct Pacific National Bank that, except only as required by
US law or for transactions that I direct be made, I do not authorize the Bank
to make disclosure of any “Information” (as such term is defined in the
Bank’s Privacy Policy) to:
¨
Any provider of Financial Products or Services;
¨
Any entity other than a provider of Financial Products or
Services;
¨
Other (please
specify)
Name of Customer:
______________________________________________
Type of Financial Product or Service obtained from the Bank: _______________________________________
Account Number:
____________________________
(If you have a joint account, only one co-owner of the account needs to
complete the opt-out form and sign it).
Date: ____________________ ___________________________________________
Signature
of Customer
The Customer Notice to Opt-Out should be sent to: Pacific National Bank, 1390 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida 33131, Attn.: Customer Information Unit.