Privacy Policy

How We Protect Your Information

We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, or procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information. 

What Does Sun Federal 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 account balances
• Checking account information and credit history
• Payment history and transaction or loss history

When you are no longer our member, we’ll continue to share your information as described in this notice.

How?

All financial companies need to share members’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their members’ personal information, the reasons Sun Federal Credit Union chooses to share, and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons we can share your personal information

Questions? | Call 800-786-0945 or contact us.

What we do

How does Sun Federal 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 Sun Federal Credit Union collect my personal information? | We collect your personal information, for example, when you

• Open an account or apply for a loan
• Show your government-issued ID or provide account information
• Make deposits or withdrawals from your account 

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 nonaffiliates to market to you 

State law and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

Definitions

SMS Terms and Conditions

Sun Federal Credit Union is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This SMS terms and conditions outlines how we collect and use your personal data when you opt-in to receive SMS communications from us.

1. Information We Collect
   When you opt-in to our SMS program, we may collect the following information:
   • Phone number
   • Name
   • Message content
   • Any other information you provide to us through SMS
2. How We Use Your Information
   We use the information collected to:
   • Provide member support
3. Third-Party Sharing
   • We will not share your personal data with any third parties. Also, we will not share your personal data with any third parties. Mobile opt in, SMS consent, or numbers for the purpose of SMS are not shared with any third parties or affiliates.
4. User Rights
   You have the right to:
   • Opt-out of receiving SMS messages at any time by replying “STOP” to any message
5. Consent
   • By opting into SMS from a web form or other medium, you are agreeing to receive SMS messages from Sun Federal Credit Union. This includes SMS messages for balance updates, one-time passcodes, Fraud alerts, and or other items related to your account. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. See privacy policy at https://www.sunfederalcu.org/disclosures/privacy-policy. Message HELP for help. Reply STOP to any message to opt out.
6. Contact Us
   • If you have any questions, contact us at 800.786.0945, SunSupport@sunfcu.org, or for assistance, reply HELP.

Children’s Online Privacy Policy

The privacy of our young members and other young visitors to our Sun Federal Credit Union (“SFCU”) website is of great importance to us. Because we respect your privacy, SFCU has adopted the following privacy policy, which conforms to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998:

• SFCU may collect information on domain names, dates, and times of visits to SFCU’s website. The information collected will not include any personal identifiers. If the information is collected, it will only be used to record website visits to help assess the overall value of the website.
• With the exception of the usage described above, visitor information is NEVER sold, given, or disclosed to third parties.
• No cookies are required.
• SFCU may use feedback information received by e-mail from visitors to respond to raffle entries, inquiries, comments, or suggestions.
• E-mail information is never sold, given, or disclosed to third parties.

Should a child who we know to be under the age of 13 send personal information to SFCU, we will only use that information to respond directly to that child, seek parental consent or provide parental notice.

Mobile & Sun Card$afe Application Service

1. Introduction. This Privacy Policy describes the types of “Personal Information” (information that is identifiable to a particular person) that is collected (directly or through service providers) in connection with the Sun Federal Mobile & Sun Card$afe downloadable application (“App”) and related services (collectively, the “Service”) offered by your financial institution (“we” or “us”). This Privacy Policy is intended to supplement the disclosures in any Privacy Policy that you may have already been presented by us in connection with online banking or other services.
2. Eligibility. The Service is offered only to individual residents of the United States, excluding its territories, who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, the Service is not offered to minors. Other restrictions and eligibility requirements for the Service apply as described in the Sun Federal Mobile & Sun Card$afe Terms of Use. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from or about individuals under 18 years of age. Please do not submit such information to us, and as a parent or legal guardian, please do not allow your children to submit Personal Information without your permission. By using the App or the Service, you represent that you meet these requirements and that you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
3. What Types of Personal Information We May Collect. We may collect Personal Information about you, which may include: name, postal address, zip code, e-mail address, telephone number, account numbers, payment card expiration date, payment card identification or verification numbers, social security number, mobile device location, and other information that we can use to contact you, verify your identity, provide the functionality available through use of the App and the Service, and manage risks, such as information maintained about you by identity verification services and consumer reporting agencies, including credit bureaus, and payment and other transaction information, and history for payments and other transactions in which you participate through the Service, and any Personal Information that you may enter into information blocks present in the App interface or made available through the Service.  We may collect information regarding your mobile device such as device settings, unique device identifiers, information about your location, and analytical information that may assist with diagnostics and performance. For your convenience, you may be asked to grant permission for access to your mobile device’s geolocation data. This information may be collected when you use certain services that are dependent on your mobile device’s location (such as the location of an ATM or in store transactions).
   1. Location Information. If you have enabled location services on your phone and agree to the collection of your location when prompted by the Services, we will collect location data when you use the Services even when the app is closed or not in use; for example, to provide our fraud detection services. If you do not want us to collect this information, you may decline the collection of your location when prompted or adjust the location services settings on your device.
4. How We May Collect Personal Information About You. We may collect Personal Information about you from the following sources:
   1. Information that you input to the App or that the App collects automatically;
   2. Your use of the App and the Service, and your interactions with customer care, including information you enter or speak, and information transmitted by your computer or mobile device or other devices you use as part of your receipt of the Service; and
   3. We may also collect Personal Information about you from others, such as Affiliates, or other companies (such as for fraud detection).
5. How We May Share Personal Information About You. We share Personal Information about you only as permitted by law. For Personal Information that is nonpublic and that we collect in connection with a financial service, U. S. federal law permits us to share such information only for the purposes shown in the following table:

6. How We May Use Personal Information About You. We use Personal Information about you only as permitted by law, including but not limited to the following purposes:
   1. To complete transactions and render services authorized by you;
   2. Other everyday business purposes, such as to maintain your ability to access the Service, to send you information about the Service, to effect, administer and enforce transactions, to perform fraud screening, to prevent actual or potential fraud and unauthorized transactions, to verify your identity, to determine your credit history, to verify the information you provide to the Service, to perform collections, to report to credit bureaus (including furnishing delinquent account information), to comply with laws, regulations, court orders and lawful instructions from government agencies, to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, to prevent and defend claims, to resolve disputes, to troubleshoot problems, to enforce our Terms of Use, to protect our rights and property, and to customize, measure, and improve the Service and the App, including pattern recognition, modeling, enhancement and improvement, system analysis, and Service performance analysis;
   3. For marketing purposes – to offer products and services to you, although you may opt-out of receiving commercial email marketing messages from us by following the opt-out processes described in those messages; and
   4. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets that results in a change of the majority ownership of the App or the Service or the entity that owns them, you will be notified of this via email and/or a prominent notice on the App, as well as any material change in uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding Personal Information about you.

7. Other Important Information
   • Vermont: Under Vermont law, we will not share information we collect about Vermont residents with companies outside of our Affiliates, unless the law allows. We will not share information about your credit worthiness with our Affiliates except with your consent, but we may share information about our transactions or experiences with you with our Affiliates without your consent.
   • California: Under California law, we will not share information we collect about you with Nonaffiliates, unless the law allows. For example, we may share information with your consent, to service your accounts, or to provide rewards or benefits you are entitled to. We will limit sharing among our Affiliates to the extent required by California law.

8. Definitions.
   1. “Affiliates” means companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial or nonfinancial companies.
   2. “Nonaffiliates” means companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial or nonfinancial companies.
   3. “Joint Marketing” means a formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

9. How We Protect Personal Information About You. To protect Personal Information about you from unauthorized access and use, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards, including but not limited to security measures that comply with applicable federal and state laws. We also require our service providers and business partners to whom we disclose the information to do the same. When you enter sensitive information (such as a debit or credit card number) into the App, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We may retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

10. Data Retention. We will retain, protect, use and share Personal Information about you as long as it is reasonably required for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, and as required by law, including but not limited to for risk management, regulatory compliance, and audit purposes.

11. Amendments. We may amend this policy at any time by posting a revised version in the App. The revised version will be effective immediately at the time it is posted unless a delayed effective date is expressly stated therein. You may (in our discretion) also be provided with an email notification of such amendments. If we make any change in how we use your Personal Information, we will notify you by email or by means of a notice in the App prior to the change becoming effective. You may (in our discretion) be required to affirmatively acknowledge or accept the revised Privacy Policy in order to continue using the App and the Service. Any use of the App or the Service after a notice of change will constitute your express agreement to such changes.