What does Lead Bank 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 transactions
• Checking account information and credit history
• Payment history and account balances

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 Lead Bank chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

Several U.S. states, including California, have enacted or will soon enact consumer privacy laws that grant their residents certain rights and require additional disclosures (collectively, “State Privacy Laws”). If you are a resident of one of these states, this section applies to you and supplements the information contained in Lead Bank’s Privacy Policy.  

As explained in our Privacy Policy, both federal and state laws require us to tell you how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information. As a result, our data collection practices are generally governed by federal law, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). However, certain information collected may be out of scope of federal laws and instead covered by State Privacy Laws. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) of 2020 and other California laws (collectively, the “CCPA”), this may also include information about employees and employee applicants as well as enterprise data (such as business-to-business). 

This notice is intended to provide information required under State Privacy Laws, including the CCPA. This notice applies to the data collection and processing practices of Lead Bank (collectively, “Lead Bank” or “we”).

We do not and will not sell consumer personal information in the traditional and colloquial sense of the word sale. We do not use advertising technology on our website, which under some State Privacy Laws may be considered a “sale” or “share” of your information.  In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not “sold” or “shared” consumers’ personal information, as defined under State Privacy Laws. We do not engage in targeted advertising.

We also do not offer financial incentives, preferential service agreements, or any other differences in our prices or services in exchange for your data. 

Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Under the State Privacy Laws, you may have the following rights, including the right to (1) request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, and disclose and access your personal information, including receive the information in a portable format, (2) request deletion of your personal information, (3) request correction of inaccurate personal information, (4) request to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information, and (5) not be discriminated against for exercising these rights (“Data Subject Requests”).

This section describes consumers’ rights under the State Privacy Laws and explains how you can exercise those rights with Lead Bank.

Right to Delete

Under certain State Privacy Laws, you have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and verify your Data Subject Requests, we will delete your personal information from our records (and direct our service providers to delete your personal information from their records), unless an exception applies.

Certain personal information that we collect and use to provide you with financial services, and which Lead Bank is obligated by federal law and/or regulations to retain, cannot be deleted upon request. 

We also may deny your Data Subject Requests to delete if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

• Detect security incidents;
• Protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity;
• Assist law enforcement in prosecuting those responsible for such activities; or
• Comply with a legal obligation.

Right to Correction

Under certain State Privacy Laws, you have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies about your personal information. If we provide you with financial services, you can do so through our application.

Right to Know/Right to Access and Data Portability Rights

Under certain State Privacy Laws, you have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we confirm your Data Subject Request, we will disclose to you, upon specific request:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, disclosing, or sharing that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we disclose that personal information.
• The categories of personal information we disclosed or sold to each category of third party.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

You have the right to request that we limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information to the services we provide to you. Lead Bank’s current practice is to use the sensitive personal information it collects only for the purpose of providing you with the financial services we offer.

Exercising Your Privacy Choices and Rights

If you are a resident of a state that provides the above rights under State Privacy Laws, you may exercise the rights above by:

• By email: clientsupport@lead.bank
• By phone: (800) 209-7459

Each Data Subject Request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative. We will make every effort to verify your identity using your email address, but we may request additional information. If an authorized representative is making the request on your behalf, we require documentation showing that the representative has such authority.
• Describe your Data Subject Request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly evaluate and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your Data Subject Request or provide you with personal information if we are unable to verify your identity, or unable to verify the authority for the person making the request as your agent. We will use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer Data Subject Request to verify your identity or authority to make the Data Subject Request, and not for any other purpose.

You may only make a verifiable Data Subject Request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.

Response Timing and Format

We will acknowledge your Data Subject Request within 10 days. We attempt to respond to every Data Subject Request within 45 days. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and how much additional time we require (up to 90 days in total). Any disclosures we provide may only cover the 12-month period preceding the Data Subject Request’s receipt. If we are unable to satisfy your Data Subject Request, or a part of your Data Subject Request, we will explain why.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to Data Subject Requests.

Authorized Agent

Only you, or a person you have designated in writing as your authorized agent, or who is registered with the applicable Secretary of State to act on your behalf, or to whom you have provided power of attorney pursuant to applicable laws, (“Authorized Agent”), may make a verifiable consumer request to access, port, correct, or delete your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

If you wish to have an Authorized Agent make a request on your behalf, they will need to provide us with sufficient written proof that you have designated them as your Authorized Agent, and we will still require you to provide sufficient information to allow us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights. Unless permitted by the State Privacy Laws, we will not:

• Deny you services.
• Charge you different prices for our services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of service.

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California Specific Notices

If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request a list of all third parties to which we, during the immediately preceding calendar year, have disclosed certain personally identifiable information for direct marketing purposes. In the preceding calendar year, we have not disclosed personally identifiable information for direct marketing purposes.

We are only required to respond to a customer request for this list once during any calendar year. To make such a request, please see above under the section “Exercising Your Privacy Choices and Rights.” Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the California privacy rights requirements and only information sharing that is covered will be included in our response.

During the last twelve (12) months, we have collected personal information in the following categories from consumers and disclosed personal information with the following categories of recipients. Although the list contains examples of information collected, we do not collect every specific piece of personal information for every consumer:

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We collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes and uses described in the Privacy Policy section titled “What does Lead Bank do with your personal information?”

In addition to the sources described above, we collect personal information from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from our clients or their agents,
• Indirectly from our clients or their agents, in the course of the services that we provide,
• Directly and indirectly from activity on our website, and
• Other third-party sources, including government sources.
• From third parties that interact with us in connection with the services we perform.

The retention periods for data elements within each category listed above vary depending on the nature of the data element and the purposes for which it is collected and used. Our retention period for the data elements within each category is set based on the following criteria: (1) the length of time that the data is needed for the purposes for which it was created or collected, (2) the length of time the data is needed for other operational or record retention purposes, (3) the length of time the data is needed in connection with our legal, compliance and regulatory requirements, for legal defense purposes and to comply with legal holds, (4) how the data is stored, (5) whether the data is needed for security purposes and fraud prevention, and (6) whether the data is needed to ensure the continuity of our products and services.

Changes to Our U.S. State Mandated Privacy Notice at Collection

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make material changes to this privacy notice, we will notify you by email, by notice on this site, or by other acceptable means.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, our Privacy Statement, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under State Privacy Laws, please do not hesitate to contact us.

By email: clientsupport@lead.bank

By phone: 866-845-9545