Facts
What does Area Educational Credit Union do with your personal information?
Why?
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
What?
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the accounts or services you have with us. This information can include:
- Social Security Number and income
- Account balances and transaction history
- Credit history
When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
How?
All companies need to share member’s personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their member’s personal information; the reasons Area Educational Credit Union chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
| Reasons we can share your personal information |
Does Area Educational Credit Union share? |
Can you limit this sharing? |
| For our everyday business purposes—such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus |
Yes |
No |
| For our marketing purposes - to offer our products and services to you |
Yes |
No |
| For joint marketing with other financial companies |
Yes |
No |
| For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes - information about your transactions and experiences |
No |
We don't share |
| For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes - information about your creditworthiness |
No |
We don't share |
| For nonaffiliates to market to youNo |
No |
We don't share |
Questions?
Call 217-234-7817
Who We Are
Who is Providing this Notice?
Area Educational Credit Union
What We Do
How does Area Educational Credit Union Protect My Personal Information?
To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.
How does Area Educational Credit Union collect my personal information?
We collect your personal information, for example, when you
- Open an account or apply for a loan
- Make deposits or withdrawals from your account
- Use your AECU credit card
Why can't I limit all sharing?
Federal law gives you the right to limit only:
- sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness
- affiliates from using your information to market to you
- sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
Definitions
Affiliates
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
Nonaffiliates
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
- AECU does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.
Joint Marketing
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
- Our joint marketing partners include financial service providers and insurance companies
Other Important Information
Area Educational Credit Union's joint marketing partners include credit union related insurance companies and credit union related financial service providers.