Privacy Policy
Collection of Personal Information
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information, but federal law gives consumers the right to limit some, 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.
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the products or service you have with us. This information can include:
- Social Security number
- Account balances
- Payment history
- Transaction history
- Credit history
- Checking account information
Even when you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
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 Gateway Bank chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
| Reason we can share your personal information | Does Gateway Commercial Bank 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 |
| What we do | |
|---|---|
How does Gateway Commercial Bank 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. |
How does Gateway Commercial Bank collect my personal information? | We collect your personal information, for example, when you: |
How can I limit sharing of my personal information? | Federal law gives you the right to limit: |
| Definitions | |
|---|---|
Affiliates | Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies |
Non-affiliates | Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. |
Joint marketing | A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you. |
COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) | Gateway Bank does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information (PII) from children under the age of 13 or target children for collecting information through the Bank website. |
Log files and web statistics
Like most websites, we collect and use the data contained in server log files, which may include information about your IP address, Internet service provider, web browser, and browsing history.
We may also use third-party services (such as Google Analytics) to track additional aggregate information that may give us insights into how people are using our site to improve it in the future.
Web forms
For your convenience, this site includes forms that can be used to contact us directly, register for email lists, etc. These forms only gather the information you voluntarily provide. We then may use this information to contact you about matters related to our business, such as special offers, newsletters, etc.
Cookies
We may use cookies to temporarily store certain information about your interactions with the site to allow other pages to use that information. This may include site preferences, login information, etc. Certain third-party utilities (such as Google Analytics) may also use cookies as part of their normal functionality.
Google DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (“interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history. DART uses “non personally identifiable information.” It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, or credit card numbers. You can opt out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting //www.google.com/doubleclick/.
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site, as well as other websites. This could include the inability to log in to services or programs.