OUR ONLINE PRIVACY PRACTICES
Keeping financial and personal information secure is one of our most important responsibilities. Alabama Teachers Credit Union is committed to protecting the information of our members and other 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 with information about other services.
SECURE TRANSMISSIONS
To ensure information remains confidential, ATCU uses encryption technology such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to protect information you enter and submit from our website.
ONLINE TRANSACTIONS
When you apply online for accounts or services, or enroll in and use online banking, you are required to provide personal information that is necessary for us to process your application. To ensure that your application and/or transaction remains confidential, the information is sent to us in a “secure session.” You can also help maintain the security of your information by not sharing your I.D. or password with anyone, by changing your password regularly, and be remembering to sign off. We, along with the outside companies with which we work, if applicable, may keep the information you provide to us, along with information we collect from outside sources, so that we can offer you accounts and services related to your financial needs.
EMAIL SECURITY
We preserve the content of your email address and our response so that we can more efficiently handle any follow-up questions you may have. We also do this to meet legal and regulatory requirements. If we think that a particular account or service might apply to your situation, we may occasionally contact you at your email address to inform you of potential benefits and availability. Regular non-encrypted internet email is not secure. In the instances where we have provided our email addresses, they are provided for information inquiries of a non-confidential nature. You should not include personal or confidential information in any email transmission to us. We, in turn, will not include any confidential account information in any email response. You may alternatively contact us by telephone, U.S. Mail or by visiting our office.
ONLINE SURVEYS
The information you voluntarily provide on surveys and promotions on our web site will be used for internal marketing purposes, including developing web site information and services that you may find helpful. In addition, we may inform you of new accounts and services based on the information you provide to us.
COOKIES
Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the device you are using. Cookies we use do not contain or capture unencrypted Personal Information. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the site, pages visited, language preferences, and your relationship with us. We use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, to personalize/tailor your experience while engaging with us, and to recognize your device to allow your use of our online products and services. We collect statistical information about the usage of the site in order to continually improve the design and functionality, to monitor responses to our advertisements and content, to understand how account holders and visitors use the site and to assist us with resolving questions regarding the site. We also utilize cookies for advertising purposes. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, pixels, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Some areas of our web site require information, such as your email address or your account number, to enable you to perform certain tasks (for example, review your accounts or correspond with us). In these cases, we collect your information if necessary to interact with you. If you do not interact with us, you browse our web site anonymously, and personal information, such as your email address, is not collected. We gather and analyze data regarding usage of our web site, including domain name, number of hits, pages visited, length of user session, etc., to evaluate the usefulness of our sites.
LINKING TO OTHER SITES
To provide you with easy access to information, ATCU may provide links to other websites. These links are provided as a convenience to our members. We do not guarantee or endorse any of the content in these links, and ATCU does not represent either the third party or the member if the two enter into a transaction. The privacy and security policies on these linked websites may differ from those practiced by ATCU. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all websites you visit, especially before providing any personal non-public information.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Many websites and apps use Google services to improve their content. When they integrate Google services, these sites and apps share information with Google. We use Google Analytics to better understand how users are visiting and using our sites. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. Google Analytics collects the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. You may review further information about how Google Analytics collects and processes data and how to control the information sent to Google at “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” at google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
ATCU'S MOBILE APPS
ATCU’s Mobile Apps periodically collect, transmit, and use geolocation information for enabling features such as, but not limited to, card use and alerts to prevent fraudulent activates, but only if the end user expressly authorizes collection of such information. Geolocation information can be monitored on a continuous basis in the background only while the feature(s) are being used or not at all, depending on the end user’s selection. The end user can change his/her/their location permissions at any time in their device settings.
PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN
We recognize that protecting children’s identities and privacy online is important. We do not solicit or collect individually identifiable information on visits to the children’s page on our web site without parental consent and do not knowingly solicit or collect individually identifiable information from children on any other area of our site.
PRIVACY POLICY
To learn what ATCU does with your personal information please view our Privacy Notice or contact us by mail, phone, or email.