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Privacy Policy

What Does Bank of Cleveland 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 product or service you have with us. This information can include:
  • Social security number and credit history
  • Employment information and overdraft history
  • Wire transfer instructions and payment history
When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
How? All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information, the reasons Bank of Cleveland chooses to share, and whether you can limit this sharing.
Reasons We Can Share Your Personal Information Does Bank of Cleveland 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 No We don't share
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 our affiliates to market to you No We don't share
Questions:  Call (423) 478-5656 or go to bankofcleveland.com
What We Do
How does Bank of Cleveland protect my 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.

We also maintain other physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect this information and we limit access to information to those employees for whom access is appropriate.
How does Bank of Cleveland collect my information? We collect your personal information, for example, when you
  • Open an account
  • Apply for a loan
  • Give us your contact information
  • Make a wire transfer
  • Show your driver's license
We also collect your personal information from others such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.
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 non-affiliates 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 non-financial companies.
  • Bank of Cleveland has no affiliates.
Non‑Affiliates
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

  • Bank of Cleveland does not share with non-affiliates so they can market to you. 
Joint Marketing
A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

  • Bank of Cleveland doesn't jointly market.