Privacy Policy

Revised February 2023

What Does Bank of Washington 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
  • Account balances
  • Payment history
  • Checking account information
  • Overdraft history
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 Washington chooses to share, and whether you can limit this sharing.
Reasons We Can Share Your Personal Information Does Bank of Washington 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 Do Not Share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –
information about your transactions and experiences		 No We Do Not Share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –
information about your creditworthiness		 No We Do Not Share
For our affiliates to market to you No We Do Not Share
What We Do
How does Bank of Washington protect my 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. We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products and services to you.
How does Bank of Washington collect my information? We collect your personal information, for example, when you
  • Open an account or deposit or withdraw from your account
  • Apply for a loan or provide account information
  • Give us your income information
We also collect your personal information from others such as credit bureaus, affiliates, 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 non-affiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
(See below for more on your rights under state law.)
Definitions
Affiliates Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. Bank of Washington does not share with affiliates.
Non‑Affiliates Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. Bank of Washington does not share with non-affiliates.
Joint Marketing A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you. Bank of Washington does not jointly market.
Other Important Information
In accordance with California law, Bank of Washington will not share information we collect about California residents with companies outside of Bank of Washington, except as permitted by law, such as legal processes or as required to service your account. We will limit sharing within our company to the extent required by applicable California law.