Wieland Financial Services - Residential Financing Specialists
 

PRIVACY POLICY

We respect your privacy.

At Wieland Financial Services, Inc., we know how important personal privacy is to you. Because of our interest in protecting your privacy, we have adopted the following privacy principles, continuing our commitment to you, our valued customer.

  1. Recognition of Your Expectation of Privacy. We recognize that you expect privacy and security for your personal and financial affairs. We understand the need to safeguard sensitive information about you that you have or will entrust to us. We maintain standards and procedures to prevent misuse of this information.

  2. Our Collection, Retention, and Use of Information about You. We collect, retain, and use information about you only where we reasonably believe that it will help administer our business or provide products, services, and other opportunities to you. We collect and retain information about you only for specific business purposes - and we will tell you why we are collecting and retaining it upon your request.

  3. Our Maintenance of Accurate Information. We have procedures to help assure that your financial information is accurate, current, and complete in accordance with commercial standards. We also have procedures to respond to your requests to correct inaccurate information in a timely manner.

  4. Limiting Access to Information. We have procedures that limit employee access to personally identifiable information to those employees with a business reason to know such information about you. We educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy through standard operating procedures, special training programs and our policies on ethics. We take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce employee privacy responsibilities.

  5. Security Procedures to Protect Information. We maintain security standards and procedures to help prevent unauthorized access to confidential information about you. We update and test our technology to improve protection of our information about you and to assure the integrity of our information.

  6. Restrictions on Disclosing Information to Parties Outside Our Affiliated Companies. We do not reveal specific information about your account(s) or other personally identifiable data to parties outside our affiliated companies for their independent use unless: (1) you request or authorize it; (2) the information is provided to help complete a transaction initiated by you; (3) the information is provided to a reputable credit bureau or similar information reporting agency; or (4) the disclosure otherwise is lawfully permitted or required.

  7. Maintaining Your Privacy in Business Relationships with Parties Outside Our Affiliated Companies. Sometimes it is necessary to provide personally identifiable information about you to a party outside our affiliated companies, such as to a vendor or service company that we hire to prepare your account statements or to provide support or services for one or more of our products. These vendors and service companies agree to safeguard our confidential information about you and your products and services with us and must abide by applicable law.

  8. About "Cookies." To provide better service and a more effective Web site, we use "cookies" as part of our interaction with your browser. A cookie is a small text file placed on your hard drive by our Web Page server. Cookies are commonly used on Web sites and do not harm your system. By configuring your preferences or options in your browser, you determine if and how a cookie will be accepted. We use cookies to determine if you have previously visited our Web site, to improve the content of our Web site for your future visits, and to customize the content and/or layout of our pages for each individual consumer. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable or other personal information to determine who you are or your e-mail address.

  9. Disclosing Our Privacy Commitment to You. We want you to understand our commitment to personal privacy and our use of information. For this reason, we have prepared these Privacy Principles. These materials will answer most of the important questions that you may have about how we gather, protect, and use information. These Privacy Principles apply to individuals and we reserve the right to change them, along with related provisions, at any time.