2005 Privacy Policy for
Customers
How we use and protect customer information2005 Privacy Policy How We Use and
Protect Customer Information
WE DO NOT SHARE INFORMATION WITH OUTSIDE COMPANIES.
WE DO NOT SHARE NON-EXPERIENCE INFORMATION WITHIN THE PLAINSCAPITAL FAMILY.
NO ACTION IS REQUIRED ON YOUR PART TO GET THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF PRIVACY
PROTECTION THAT WE CAN OFFER.
At PlainsCapital Bank, we have made the decision not to share customer
information about our customers outside of our corporate family, unless it is
permitted (or required) by applicable laws and regulations. You do not need to
take any further action.
PlainsCapital Bank recognizes and respects your personal privacy rights. We
realize that you entrust us with personal information, and we take this trust
very seriously. It is our policy to maintain your information in a confidential
manner and we are committed to providing our customers with the highest level of
security and privacy regarding the collection and use of personal information.
Although we are bankers, we are also consumers, and we strive to treat our
customers in the same way that we want to be treated.
We want you to understand what information we collect, how we use it, and what
we do to keep it secure.
Information We Collect
We collect publicly available information and nonpublic personal information
about you from the following sources:
Information we receive from you on applications or other forms;
Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others;
Information we receive from others, such as credit bureaus, appraisers, or
employers; and,
Information about other credit relationships when we verify personal
information you have provided us.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to service your account and administer your
customer relationship. Information may be shared or used within our family of
companies for a number of authorized purposes, such as:
To protect your accounts from unauthorized use or identify theft;
To process transactions that you have requested;
To service your account; and
To offer our own products and services when we feel that you would benefit
from knowing about such products and services.
Sharing With Nonaffiliated Companies
From time to time, we will share customer information with those companies,
which are not affiliated with our corporation, in order to provide the products
and services that you have requested or already have with us. These companies
may include (but are not limited to) financial service providers such as
insurance companies, payment or data processing companies, check printing
companies, retailers, non-profit organizations, etc. These companies assist us
in fulfilling and maintaining your service requests, processing your
transactions, or mailing account statements. We make sure that each company is
contractually obligated to keep our customers' information confidential, and use
of the information is strictly limited to providing the services we have asked
them to perform for you and us.
Sharing With Affiliated Companies
Under certain circumstances, customer information is shared with other groups
within PlainsCapital Corporation, (holding company for PlainsCapital Bank and
its subsidiaries), to market additional products and to ensure we are
considering your entire relationship with us when making decisions about your
products. We might also share information with these companies in order to
provide services necessary to maintain your accounts. Through the normal course
of business and better serving your financial needs, PlainsCapital Bank will
continue to share transaction and account experience information, as well as
other general information among our family of companies as permitted or required
by law. The Fair Credit Reporting Act restricts us from sharing
non-transactional information within our family of companies, unless we give you
the option of telling us not to. We have already made that choice for you, as it
is our policy to only share information related solely to transactions or other
experience directly with us.
How We Protect Your Information
We limit access to customer information to only those employees who need the
information to perform their specific responsibilities. Access is permitted on a
"need to know" basis. We have and use internal policies and electronic
safeguards that prevent the sharing of information that is not required by an
employee to complete their job functions. We train our employees on how to
safeguard customer information and also incorporate internal policies that cover
the unauthorized disclosure or use of that information. We require companies
that we do business with to also adhere to these standards.
Disclosures Permitted by Law
We do not disclose any customer information to affiliated or nonaffiliated third
parties except as permitted by law. The primary laws that govern this issue on
the federal level are the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999; Regulation P, "Privacy
of Consumer Financial Information"; and The Fair Credit Reporting Act. We will
be happy to provide further information about these laws if you desire.
Website Privacy Policy
Visitors to the PlainsCapital website remain anonymous. We do not collect
identifying information about visitors to our site. We may use standard software
to collect non-identifying information about our visitors, such as:
Date and time our site was accessed
IP address
Web browser used
City, state, and country
We use this information to create summary statistics and to determine the level
of interest in information available on our site. Visitors may elect to provide
us with personal information via E-mail, online registration forms, or our guest
book. This information is used internally, as appropriate, to handle the
sender's request. It is not disseminated or sold to other organizations. Some
areas of our website may use a "cookie" temporarily stored in the visitor's
computer memory (RAM) to allow the web server to log the pages the visitor uses
within the site and to know if the site has been visited previously.
Important Information
PlainsCapital Bank is chartered under the laws of the State of Texas; and by
state law is subject to regulatory oversight by the Texas Department of Banking.
Any consumer wishing to file a complaint against PlainsCapital Bank should
contact the Texas Department of Banking through one of the means indicated
below.
In person or by U.S. Mail: Telephone No.: 877-276-5554
E-mail: consumer.complaints@banking.state.tx.us
2601 North Lamar Blvd., Suite 300, Austin, Texas 78705-4294
Fax No.: 512-475-1313 Website: www.banking.state.tx.us
Family of Companies
The following is a list of affiliated companies of PlainsCapital Corporation and
PlainsCapital Bank, as of May 2004, to which this privacy policy applies:
PlainsCapital Equity Partners PlainsCapital Leasing
PlainsCapital Wealth Management PNB Acro Services
PlainsCapital Securities PCC Statutory Trust I
PlainsCapital Insurance PCC Statutory Trust II
PlainsCapital McAfee Mortgage PCC Statutory Trust III
PlainsCapital Mortgage One Plains Financial Corp.
Hester Capital Management PrimeLending, A PlainsCapital Company
Capital Title of Texas Momentum Funding
Assurance 1031 Exchange
Member FDIC