This Policy explains what American Mortgage Capital does to keep information
about you private and secure. We want you to know how we manage that
information to serve you and that you have choices about how it is shared.
This Policy covers our family of companies, a partial list of which is
contained at the end of this Policy. Please read this Policy carefully.
Q. What information do you have about me?
A. To provide services and to help meet your needs, we collect
information about you from various sources.
- We get information from your requests for our products or services.
One example is income on loan applications.
- We get information about your transactions with us and with others.
For example, we have your account balance information.
- We get information, such as your credit history, from credit bureaus.
Q. How do you safeguard information about me?
A. We take a number of steps to protect the privacy of information about
you. Here are some examples:
- We keep information under physical, electronic or procedural controls
that comply with or exceed governmental standards.
- We authorize our employees, agents and contractors to get information
about you only when they need it to do their work for us.
- We require companies working for us to protect information. They
agree to use it only to provide the services we ask them to perform
for us.
Q. Is information about me shared within your family of companies?
A. Yes. We may share information about you within our family as required
or permitted by law. This helps us to offer you financial products and
services, such as loans, deposits, investments, credit cards and insurance.
Q. Is information about me shared with service providers and financial
companies outside your family of companies?
A. Yes, as permitted by law. We may share information about you with outside
companies that work for us. These may include firms that assist in marketing
our products. We may also share information about you with outside financial
companies that have joint marketing agreements with us. These arrangements
give you the opportunity to receive additional products or services.
Q. Is information about me shared with non-financial companies
outside your family of companies?
A. Yes. We may share information about you with companies outside of our
family as permitted by law, including retailers, auto dealers, auto makers,
direct marketers, membership clubs and publishers.
Q. Is information about me shared in any other ways?
A. Yes. We may also share information about you in other ways, as required
or permitted by law. Here are some examples of ways that we share information.
- To protect against fraud.
- To respond to a subpoena.
- To service your account.
- To report to a credit bureau.
- With your consent.
Q. What choices do I have about information sharing?
A. We offer you the following two choices about sharing information that
identifies you:
Choice #1. You may tell us not to share information about
you with non-financial companies outside of our family of companies. Even
if you do tell us not to share, we may do so as required or permitted by
law. Also if you have authorized us to share information in connection
with a particular product or service, we will continue to share information
about you in connection with that product or service. For example, you
might have a credit card with one of our airline, retail or university
partners that offers rewards programs.
and
Choice #2. You may tell us not to share the following
information about you within our family of companies:
- Information from your applications to be used to determine your eligibility,
such as your income.
- Information from credit reports, such as your credit history.
- Information from sources used to verify information you provide us,
such as outstanding loans or employment history.
Even if you do tell us not to share, we may share other types of information
within our family. For example, we may share name and address, information
about transactions or balances with us, as well as survey results.
Q. How do I tell you about my privacy choices?
A. You may contact us by:
- calling us toll-free at 1-866-853-0580, or
- submitting them online