|
ONLINE |
WHAT DOES NORTHRIM BANK
DO WITH INFORMATION COLLECTED ONLINE? |
|
|
|
Northrim Bank values your
privacy. Our goal
is to maintain your trust
and confidence when handling personal and financial
information about you. |
|
|
What does
this cover? |
This
Online Privacy Policy describes how we collect information when you visit or
use Northrim Bank's websites, mobile applications and other online
services. It also
describes how we use and share that information and explains your privacy choices. Our online services are intended for
a U.S. audience. |
|
|
What about
my financial information? |
Our Bank
Privacy Policy applies to information we collect about
individuals who seek,
apply for or obtain our financial products and services. To review
our Bank Privacy
Policy, visit |
|
|
HOW DOES
NORTHRIM BANK COLLECT INFORMATION ONLINE? |
|
|
Directly from
you |
Such as when you
apply or register for our products and services, use our online
banking services or mobile
apps, communicate with
us, respond to surveys or provide feedback. |
|
Automatically |
We and others on our behalf
may collect Device
Data, Online/Mobile Activity Data and other
information automatically when you interact with us online. |
|
WHAT INFORMATION DOES NORTHRIM BANK COLLECT? |
|
|
Depending on how you interact online
with us, we may collect
various types of information. For example, when you sign up
for or use a financial product or service online, we may collect: |
|
|
Contact or identity data |
Your
name, mailing address, email address, phone number, date of birth,
government-issued identifier (e.g., Social Security number, tax ID number,
driver's license number or other identifier), citizenship, username and password and other information that directly identifies you. |
|
Account-related data |
Account
number, credit/debit card number, account history, account balances, loan
details, vehicle or property information, information about beneficiaries and joint account holders, business-related
information and other information related to your Northrim Bank accounts,
applications or inquiries. |
|
Transaction data |
Credit/debit card
purchases, payment or transaction history, transaction details when
you transfer money to or from your Northrim Bank accounts and
third-party billing information or statements. |
|
Credit report
information |
Your credit
score, credit history and other information that we receive from credit
reporting agencies. |
|
Demographic data |
Gender, marital
status, age, household size/composition, education level,
income, occupation and employment status. |
|
When you
browse our website or use our
mobile apps, we may also
collect or request access to: |
|
|
Device data |
Your
device type, web browser type and version, operating system type and version,
display/screen settings, language preferences, device contacts (e.g., to
facilitate Zelle® payments), your device's camera (e.g., to deposit checks),
internet protocol address, mobile network information, general location (e.g.,
city, state, or country), precise
location (e.g., to find a nearby Northrim Bank branch or ATM), cookie
IDs, device IDs, mobile advertising IDs and likely connections among
different browsers and devices
that you use ("Device Data"). |
|
Online/mobile activity data |
Login
data, search history, information about how you use and interact with our
online services (including content viewed, links clicked, and features used),
when and how often
you use our online services, the webpage from which you clicked a link to
come to our online services and crash reports ("Online/Mobile Activity
Data"). |
|
Marketing data |
Your marketing preferences, information about
products or services we think you might
like and inferences based on your interactions with us. |
|
Communications data |
Your communication preferences and details
or the content of your communications with us (e.g., chat messages). |
|
Survey and research data |
Your responses to questionnaires, surveys, requests for feedback and research activities. |
|
If you disclose information relating to other
people to us or to our service
providers, you represent that you have
the authority to do so and to permit us to use it in accordance with
this Online Privacy Policy. We may combine information collected online with
information from other
contexts, such as phone calls
and emails with
you, third-party data sources used for fraud prevention, identity
verification, or marketing purposes and publicly available data sources.
Combined information is treated in accordance with this Online Privacy
Policy. |
|
|
HOW DOES NORTHRIM BANK
USE THIS INFORMATION? |
|
|
Providing, maintaining and servicing your accounts |
Enabling you to apply
for and obtain
Northrim Bank products or services, evaluating your application or eligibility, providing customer service,
communicating with you and providing online tools and features. |
|
Processing transactions and payments |
Transferring funds
between accounts, fulfilling orders and conducting settlement, billing,
processing, clearing or reconciliation activities. |
|
Verifying your identity |
Authenticating
your login credentials, verifying your location to allow access to your
accounts and storing security questions for subsequent verification online or over the
phone. |
|
Detecting and
preventing fraud |
Determining fraud risk and identifying fraudulent transactions. |
|
Protecting against security risks |
Monitoring
network activity logs, detecting security incidents, conducting data security
investigations and otherwise protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal
activity. |
|
Advertising and
marketing |
Sending you offers
for special products and services via mail, email
or text message, displaying online
advertising, targeting our offers or promotions, conducting market research and evaluating or improving the effectiveness
of our marketing efforts. |
|
Conducting analytics and research |
Examining
which parts of our website you visit or which aspects of our mobile apps you find most useful, evaluating user interface and experience, testing
features or functionality, performing debugging and
error repair and analyzing the use of our online services. |
|
Improving our
products and services |
Personalizing and optimizing your
website and mobile
experiences, recognizing you across
different browsers and devices, improving existing products and services and
developing new products and services. |
|
Carrying out
legal and business purposes |
Complying
with applicable laws, responding to civil, criminal or regulatory lawsuits,
subpoenas or investigations, exercising or defending legal claims, resolving complaints and
disputes, performing compliance activities, analyzing credit risk, conducting
credit reporting activities, regulatory reporting and otherwise operating and
managing our business. |
|
Using aggregated and de-identified
information |
Using or modifying information in a manner
that does not
allow us to reasonably identify you, such as compiling
aggregated statistics to understand trends. Aggregated and de-identified
information is no longer subject to this Online Privacy Policy. |
|
HOW DOES NORTHRIM BANK
SHARE THIS INFORMATION? |
|
|
Affiliates |
We may share your
information with companies affiliated with Northrim Bank. |
|
Business partners |
We may
share your information with companies that
we have partnered with. |
|
Service providers |
We use other companies to provide services on our behalf, such as hosting our information
systems, servicing customer accounts, detecting and preventing fraud,
communicating with our
customers, analyzing and improving our online services and targeting our
advertising. |
|
Third parties you authorize |
We
share information with your consent or at your direction, such as when you
use an account aggregation tool,
send money to friends and
family via Zelle®
or transfer funds
to another bank. |
|
Credit bureaus |
We share
information with credit
reporting agencies, such as Experian, |
|
Government entities and others |
For legal
or necessary purposes, such as: ·
To respond to requests from
our regulators or to a warrant, subpoena, governmental audit or investigation, law enforcement request,
legal order or other legal process. ·
To facilitate a merger, acquisition, sale, bankruptcy or other disposition of some or all of our assets. ·
For other
legal purposes, such
as to enforce our terms and conditions, exercise or defend legal claims or protect the life, safety or property
of our customers, ourselves or others. |
|
Recipients of aggregated data |
We may share aggregated and de-identified information with third parties
for any purpose. |
|
WHAT ONLINE
TRACKING TECHNOLOGY DOES
NORTHRIM BANK USE? |
|
|
We
and third-party providers acting on our behalf use a variety of online tools
and technologies to collect Device Data and Online/Mobile Activity Data, including for
debugging, fraud prevention, session management, personalization, analytics and
targeted advertising. We may associate this tracking data with your Northrim
Bank account. |
|
|
Server logs |
Automatically record
information and details
about your online
interactions with us, such
as your visit to our website on a particular time and day. |
|
Cookies |
Small text files that a website's server stores in your web browser to recognize your
device and store information about your account
and preferences, such as pages
visited, language
preferences and your relationship with us. You may be able to manage cookies
on your device. |
|
Pixel tags |
An image
or small string
of code (also
known as a web beacon,
clear GIF, pixel
or tag) placed in a website,
advertisement or email, used to determine whether you have interacted with a
specific part of our website, viewed a particular advertisement or opened a
specific email. |
|
SDKs and
mobile advertising IDs |
Our mobile
applications may include third-party software development kits ("SDKs") that
allow us and our service providers to collect information about your mobile
app activity. Some mobile devices come with a resettable advertising ID that allows
us and our service
providers to identify your mobile device over time for advertising purposes. |
|
Third-party plugins |
Our
online services may include plugins from other companies, including social
media companies, which may collect information about the pages you visit and
share it with the company that created the plugin. These
plugins are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that created them. |
|
PERSONALIZATION, ANALYTICS AND TARGETED ADVERTISING |
|
|
Personalization |
We may customize content and advertisements for
our products and
services on our websites and mobile apps, using
information we collect about you online, alone or combined with information
about your relationship with us. |
|
Analytics |
We
and our third-party providers use online tracking technologies to engage in
data analytics, auditing, measurement, research, reporting and debugging, and to measure
the effectiveness of our advertising. |
|
Targeted advertising |
We
and our third-party providers may collect information about your activities
on our online services and across different websites, mobile apps and devices
over time for targeted advertising purposes, and may show
you ads based
on that information, including across the internet and on other devices. |
|
You may
opt out of certain
targeted advertising. Please
note that you may
still receive general advertising |
|
|
YOUR PRIVACY
RIGHTS AND CHOICES |
|
|
Review or update your account information |
You may
review or update
certain account information by logging into
your account online. If you cannot change the
incorrect information online, please contact our Call Center, or call or
write to us using the contact information listed on your account statements
or records. |
|
Opting out of marketing e-mail |
Our marketing emails contain instructions on how to opt out.
You may receive subsequent marketing emails until we can act on your request.
If you opt out, we may still send you emails about your account or for other
non-marketing purposes. |
|
Opting
out of targeted advertising in mobile
apps |
You can adjust the privacy settings available on your
mobile device (e.g.,
"Limit Ad
Tracking" on iOS or "Opt out of Ads
Personalization" on Android). |
|
Managing marketing cookies |
You
may configure your web browser to inform you when cookies are set, delete
your cookies or block
cookies altogether. Your decision not
to accept cookies could limit access to some of our online services
and features. |
|
Do Not
Track and Global Privacy Control |
Certain
web browsers can transmit "Do Not Track" signals, but there is no
universally accepted standard for how to interpret them, and our online
services do not function differently in response. Some browsers and browser
extensions also support Global Privacy Control (GPC),
an automated signal
indicating a preference to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. You
may |
|
MANAGE HOW
NORTHRIM BANK SHARES
YOUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION |
|
Our Bank
Privacy Policy governs how we share
certain information with our affiliates and third parties, including for direct marketing purposes, and will
enable you to opt out of certain types of sharing. |
|
DATA RETENTION |
|
We retain
the information described in this Online
Privacy Policy for as long
as necessary to provide our online services to you, to comply with our legal, regulatory and recordkeeping
obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements and for other legitimate business purposes. Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected. |
|
KEEPING INFORMATION SECURE |
|
At
Northrim Bank, we care about your safety and security. We have an information
security program that includes administrative, technical and physical
measures to protect information within our company. While If you suspect a website or mobile app is pretending to be from
Northrim Bank ("spoofing"),
do not enter personal information. Instead, contact us in a branch
or through a phone number
you know is associated with
your account. If you receive a communication that
claims to be from us, but you are unsure
of its origin,
do not click
any links or share
personal or financial information. Instead, contact our Call Center so we can
help you determine if we initiated the communication. If you have reason
to believe your
interaction with us is no longer secure,
please immediately call
us. Visit our Security and Privacy page at northrim.com/home/utility/security-and-privacy for more information. |
|
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES |
|
Our
online services may contain links to websites and services operated by third
parties, provided for your convenience. We do not control, and are not
responsible for, the privacy or security practices or the content of any
third-party website or service and linking to it does not mean
we endorse it. We encourage you to review
the privacy policy
and terms of use of any
third-party website or service before providing your information. |
|
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY |
|
Our
online services are not directed at children under 13. We also do not
knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through our online services. We kindly request that children do not provide
information to us through our online services. |
|
SOCIAL MEDIA |
|
Northrim Bank
has official pages
on social media
services such as Facebook and LinkedIn. When
you interact with us on these
pages or elsewhere on social media, we may collect information such as your
likes, interests, feedback and preferences. We may collect additional
information from social media companies if you choose to share with them and
they, in turn, share such information with us. Any posts
you make on our official social media pages,
including posts that
contain pictures, comments, suggestions, opinions,
complaints or personal information, are available to others who use those
pages. Never include sensitive personal, financial or other confidential
information, such as your Social Security number, account number, phone
number, mailing address or email address, when posting or commenting
online. Please refer to the
privacy policies of our social media partners when you interact with them online. |
|
UPDATES TO THIS ONLINE
PRIVACY POLICY |
|
We
may change this Online Privacy Policy in the future. When we do, we will post
the revised Online Privacy Policy on our website. This Online Privacy Policy was last
updated and became
effective on the "REV" date
shown at the
bottom of each page. |
|
CONTACT US |
|
If you have questions about this Online
Privacy Policy or our privacy
practices, please contact our Call Center at (907)
562-0062 or (800)478-2265. |