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Protecting your privacies of the utmost importance
to Get Checking Northwest. Our Privacy Policy describes how Get
Checking Northwest (GCNW) handles information that we learn about
people who contact us by phone, mail or e-mail, utilize our website,
attend one of our classes or presentations, or visit one of our
offices or the offices or classrooms of GCNW Partners.
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information
to third parties without a signed release from our client authorizing
GCNW to share or to exchange information. Participants in the GCNW
program authorize GCNW, by their participation, to share data with
the national Get Checking Program, ChexSystems and their parent
corporation, eFunds, and participating Financial Institutions and
Education Partners within the parameters and guidelines of the Get
Checking National Program. Nonpublic personal information includes
any personally identifiable financial or demographic information
that is not publicly available.
GCNW will release nonpublic personal information
if legally ordered to do so by local, state or federal courts having
jurisdiction over GCNW. GCNW collects nonpublic personal information
from information obtained from our Financial Institution and Education
Partners within the scope of the Get Checking Education Program;
from our client applications; from nonaffiliated third parties concerning
the clients' transactions with them; from financial institutions
and credit granting institutions reporting on the clients' transactions
with them; from collection and recovery groups; and from credit
reporting agencies.
GCNW may use aggregated information for the purpose
of evaluating our services, gathering general demographic characteristics,
and creating future community services that improve both the Get
Checking National Program and the regional Get Checking Northwest
Educational Program. No nonpublic personal information that could
identify any individual is ever published or available to any non-affiliated
third parties through research studies.
If you visit the GCNW website to browse, read, order
items, register for Get Checking classes, or download information:
- GCNW automatically collects and stores the name
of the domain and host from which you access the internet; the
internet protocol address of the computer you are using; the browser
software you use and your operating system; the date and time
you access our sites; and the Internet address of the site from
which you linked directly to our sites. GCNW only uses this information
as anonymous aggregate research data to determine the number of
visitors to different sections of our sites and to help us make
our sites more useful. GCNW does not track or record information
about individuals. This information is deleted from our system
on a regular basis.
- GCNW does not use cookies or tracking mechanisms
to collect personal identifying information from our sites.
If you choose to identify yourself when you call,
visit one of our offices, attend one of our classes or seminars, send
e-mail, write, or use secure online forms at GCNW:
- GCNW collects personally identifying information,
such as your name, physical address, e-mail address, phone number,
or other information you provide. None of this personally identifying
information is shared with third-parties outside of the Get Checking
National Education Program or the Get Checking Northwest Education
Program including Financial Institution and Education Partners,
unless GCNW receives written permission from the client that would
allow specific information exchanges.
GCNW strives to maintain the security of the information
you provide:
- GCNW uses secure socket layer (SSL) encryption
to protect the transmission of the information you submit to us
when you use secure online forms. This information is stored securely.
All employees of Consumer Counseling Northwest who are affiliated
with GCNW have signed confidentiality agreements that safeguard
your privacy and only specific employees are authorized to access
your nonpublic personal information while serving your interests
or performing quality control reviews. E-mail that you send to
GCNW is not necessarily secure against interception. If your e-mail
communication contains sensitive private information, such as
account numbers or your Social Security number, please communicate
that information to GCNW via secure online forms, written mail,
by landline, hard-wired telephone or in person.
- The GCNW website provides links to websites maintained
by other agencies and organizations. Once you access another group's
website, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.
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