Privacy

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Here's how we handle your personal information

The best relationships are built on trust and transparency. We take our role seriously when it comes to respecting your privacy and how your personal information is used when you share it with us.

Privacy Policy Disclosure

Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore, Inc. (MECU) respects the privacy of its members. Protecting the privacy of your personal information, along with your financial assets, is at the core of our business. It is our goal to protect your information in every way in which we interact with you, whether it be in a branch, over the telephone, by mail, or online through the Internet.

We exercise great care in safeguarding your information in our business dealings with non-affiliated companies with whom we do business. In addition, both state and federal law impose on us an affirmative and continuing obligation to protect the security and confidentiality of your information. You can be confident that your financial privacy is one of MECU's top priorities. We are required by the GrammLeach-Bliley Act of 1999 to provide this privacy policy to explain how we collect, use and safeguard your personal financial information.

Online Privacy Notice

The U.S. Online Privacy Notice applies to MECU’s online interface (website, online account opening, MECU Mobile, and Online Banking). This Online Privacy Notice describes how MECU collects, uses, shares and protects information from or about you through these environments.

During online account opening and banking sessions, we collect personal information that you provide to us, such as your e-mail address, mailing address and telephone number. Like all other information you provide to the credit union, our policy on sharing this information with third parties applies to online transactions.

We use this information to:

  • Respond to inquiries
  • Provide account alerts
  • Provide information to you about our products and services
  • Provide information regarding the website, upcoming changes, etc.
  • Personalize your experience on the website by tailoring products and offers to you
  • Send you surveys, sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions

When transacting through Online Banking, we protect your personal information through encryption. Encryption turns all Internet communications between you and the credit union into a string of unrecognizable numbers that are completely useless in the highly unlikely event of a breach. This information is only decoded for the purpose of completing the transaction or servicing your account. This process safeguards your session from intruders.

If you are browsing a MECU website, our web server collects other information using common industry methods, which includes:

  • Cookies – We may assign “cookies” to your Internet browser. A “cookie” is stored on your local hard drive through the browser and contains a unique sequence of text for identification purposes.
  • Browser information – We collect certain information from browsers, such as, your device type, operating system version, and Internet browser type and version.
  • JavaScript tags, pixel tags, web beacons or other technologies - We use these technologies to collect high-level, anonymous, aggregate data.

Data Usage

Some features included in digital banking may request access to data located on the device used to access digital banking.  This may include biometric, camera, contacts, and location data. Users will be prompted to allow access to this data, and if access is not allowed, the feature requiring that data will not be fully functional.

MECU advertises on our website, as well as, on other websites not affiliated with MECU. If you access MECU’s website from a third party website, we will track the referring website for internal purposes and to measure the success of our marketing efforts. Information collected by our advertising service providers through cookies and other technologies includes: search engine referrals, browsing patterns and responses to advertisements and promotions.

Hyperlinks

Certain hyperlinks on our website direct you to third party or business partners’ websites. These websites are not subject to this Online Privacy Notice. A business partner website will be identified with our logo; resource websites will not have our logo, and are not endorsed by MECU. Please remember that when you leave our site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Once you visit another website, your web privacy and security is defined by that website's own policies. When accessing any third party content within, or through, the MECU of Baltimore Inc. website, we encourage you to review the privacy policy and security offered on that site before providing any personal information. MECU of Baltimore Inc. does not guarantee or assume liability for any third party product or service obtained through our website. MECU of Baltimore Inc. does not represent either the third party or the member if the two enter into a transaction.

Social Media Sites

MECU maintains an active presence on social media platforms, such as, Facebook®, Twitter® and LinkedIn® that enable online sharing and collaboration. Any content you post, such as pictures, information, opinions or any other personal information that you provide to others on these sites is subject to the Terms and Privacy Policies of those sites.

MECU websites are not directly designed to attract children under 13 years old and we do not knowingly collect information or maintain information about children under 13 years old. Visit the Federal Trade Commission website for more information about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

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