Bank of New England - Privacy Notice

Protecting your privacy is important to Bank of New England and our employees. We want you to understand how we gather, use and safeguard information about you to provide you with our products and services. This notice explains our practices for the gathering, sharing and security of information relating to our current and former customers.

Rev. 1/2011

FACTS:	What does Bank of New England 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 and transaction or loss history account balances and payment history credit history and credit scores 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 of New England chooses to share, and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons we can share your personal information	Does Bank of New England share this information?	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	Yes	No
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 nonaffiliates to market to you	No	We don't share

Questions?

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What we do
How does Bank of New England 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 Bank of New England collect my personal information?	We collect your personal information, for example, when you open an account or apply for a loan use your debit card or show your driver’s license make deposits or withdrawals from your account We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus 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 nonaffiliates to market to you State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
Definitions
Affiliates	Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. Bank of New England has no affiliates
Nonaffiliates	Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. Nonaffiliates we share with can include check printers, data processing companies, secondary market mortgage entities, and item processing companies.
Joint marketing	A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you. Our joint marketing partners include companies that offer mutual funds, securities and insurance products, and certificates of deposit.