Your Privacy and Security
Revision Date: April 1, 2012
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 notice to explain how we collect, use and safeguard your personal financial information.
WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY DISCLOSURE
Our Online Privacy Practices
Keeping financial and personal information secure is one of our most important responsibilities. MECU is committed to protecting the information of members and visitors who use our website. We value your trust and handle all personal information with care.
As with information we collect through other means, we use the information you provide online to respond to your needs, service your accounts, and provide you information about other services.
Secure Transmissions
To ensure information remains confidential, MECU uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect information you enter and submit from our website.
Email Security
Email is not a secure method of contact. You should never provide information that is sensitive or confidential, such as your social security number, account number, or PIN, through unsecured email. A secured e-mail channel is available inside of Online Banking.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information that a website stores directly on the computer you are using. Cookies can contain a variety of information, from a simple count of how often you visit a website to information which allows customization of a website for your use. MECU uses cookies to gather data about the usage of our website and to ensure that you have access to your account information. Anytime a cookie is used, personal information is encrypted for our use only and is protected from third party access (a cookie cannot be read by a website other than the one that sets the cookie).
Third Party Links
MECU provides links to business partner websites and to other resource websites as a courtesy. 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.
