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Security - Integrity - Confidentiality

The following privacy principles were established to maintain the security, integrity and confidentiality of your personal financial information

The type of information we collect:

We routinely collect and retain the information we obtain from your account applications, transaction history (for deposits, loans, credit cards, etc.) and from consumer reports. This information helps us:

  • To establish and administer your accounts - Example: We ask for personally identifying information to protect your accounts from fraud.
  • To satisfy certain regulatory requirement - Example: When you open an account that pays interest, we are required by the Internal Revenue Service to obtain your social security number.
  • Better understand you so that we may provide you with additional or improved products or services - Example: We require information concerning your credit history and your assets to determine if you qualify for a loan approval.

    • We do not share the nonpublic personal information of our current or previous members and nonmember customers with affiliates or nonaffiliated third parties except as permitted or required by law.

How is that information protected?

Access to your personally identifiable financial information is limited to employees with a specific business reason for utilizing this data. Our employees are educated about the importance of maintaining confidentiality and member privacy. If necessary, we take appropriate disciplinary steps to enforce our employees' responsibility to protect your very personal information. In order to prevent unauthorized access to your information, we maintain security standards and procedures that conform with industry practices. These security standards and procedures are routinely tested to verify the integrity of our systems.


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Substitute Check Policy Disclosure

What is a Substitute Check?

To make check processing faster, federal law permits banks to replace original checks with "substitute checks". These checks are similar in size to original checks with a slightly reduced image of the front and back of the original check. The front of a substitute check states: "This is a legal copy of your check. You can use it the same way you would use the original check". You may use a substitute check as proof of payment just like the original check. Some or all of the checks that you receive back from us may be substitute checks. This notice describes rights you have when you receive substitute checks from us. The rights in this notice do not apply to original checks or to electronic debits to your account. However, you have rights under other law with respect to those transactions.

What Are My Rights Regarding Substitute Checks?

In certain cases, federal law provides a special procedure that allows you to request a refund for losses you suffer if a substitute check is posted to your account (for example, if you think that we withdrew the wrong amount from your account or that we withdrew money from your account more than once for the same check). The losses you may attempt to recover under this procedure may include the amount that was withdrawn from your account and fees that were charged as a result of the withdrawal (for example, bounced check fees). The amount of your refund under this procedure is limited to the amount of your loss or the amount of the substitute check, whichever is less. You also are entitled to interest on the amount of your refund if your account is an interest-bearing account. If your loss exceeds the amount of the substitute check, you may be able to recover additional amounts under other law. If you use this procedure, you may receive up to $2,500 of your refund (plus interest if your account earns interest) within 10 business days after we received your claim and the remainder of your refund (plus interest if your account earns interest) not later than 45 calendar days after we received your claim. We may reverse the refund (including any interest on the refund) if we later are able to demonstrate that the substitute check was correctly posted to your account.

How Do I Make a Claim For a Refund?

If you believe that you have suffered a loss relating to a substitute check that you received and that was posted to your account, please contact us by using the information provided below*. You must contact us within 40 calendar days of the date that we mailed (or otherwise delivered by a means to which you agreed) the substitute check in question or the account statement showing that the substitute check was posted to your account, whichever is later. We will extend this time period if you were not able to make a timely claim because of extraordinary circumstances.
Your claim must include-

  • A description of why you have suffered a loss (for example, you think the amount withdrawn was incorrect).
  • An estimate of the amount of your loss.
  • An explanation of why the substitute check you received is insufficient to confirm that you suffered a loss
  • A copy of the substitute check and the following information to help us identify the substitute check: (The check number, the name of the person to whom you wrote the check and the amount of the check).


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UCC Article 4A Disclosure

DISCLOSURES REGARDING ELECTRONIC "WHOLESALE CREDIT" TRANSACTIONS SUBJECT TO UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE ARTICLE 4A.

Provisional Payment

"Credit given by us to you with respect to an automated clearing house credit entry is provisional until we receive final settlement for such entry through a Federal Reserve Bank. If we do not receive such final settlement, you are hereby notified and agree that we are entitled to a refund of the amount credited to you in connection with such entry, and the party making payment to you via such entry (i.e., the originator of the entry) shall not be deemed to have paid you in the amount of such entry."

Notice of Receipt of Entry

"Under the operating rules of the National Automated Clearing House Association, which are applicable to ACH transactions involving your account, we are not required to give next day notice to you of receipt of an ACH item and we will not do so. However, we will continue to notify you of the receipt of payments in the periodic statements we provide to you."

Choice of Law

"We may accept on your behalf payments to your account which have been transmitted through one or more Automated Clearing Houses (ACH) and which are not subject to the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and your rights and obligations with respect to such payments shall be construed in accordance with the governed by laws of the state of Colorado."


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Account Disclosure

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