Important Notice Concerning Customer Privacy
DST Corporation and its affiliated companies are proud to provide quality services and products. We value the trust that our customers have placed in us. We will protect that trust by respecting the privacy of all of our customers, especially as it relates to maintaining the confidentiality of any customer information that we obtain. We have prepared this notice to explain what types of customer information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may share it. It applies to our customers and former customers. This notice applies only to the customer information that you provide to us or we obtain about you in connection with financial products and services provided primarily for personal, family or household purposes that is not publicly available (”information”). This notice takes precedence over any previous privacy notices that we have issued.
Our policies and practices to protect your information
In the course of our normal service and business operations or when we think it may benefit you, we may use your information responsibly to:
- Provide you with the products or services you have requested.
- Offer you other products and services.
- Inform you of products and services made available from our carefully selected marketing partners.
We restrict access to your information to our employees, agents or other similar persons who need to know that information to provide products and services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your information.
Collecting information
In order to provide you with the services and products that you want from us, and to ensure that you receive the very best services and the highest quality products from our carefully selected marketing partners, we collect the following information about you:
- Information we receive from our customers on applications and other forms.
- Information about our customers’ transactions with us, members of our corporate family and related companies (”affiliates”), or other organizations that are not members of our corporate family (”non-affiliates”)
- Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency (e.g., credit bureaus and others)
- Information we obtain about customers or individuals using our website or information we receive from customers or individuals communicating by e-mail with us.
Information we disclose
Most of the information we collect is used to help deliver the services that our customers request, easily and efficiently. It also may permit us to design and offer specific products and services that will be useful to our customers. We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to our affiliates and non-affiliates, as described below.
Categories of affiliates with which we may share information
The DST Corporation affiliates with which we may share the information we collect, as described above, are in several different business areas, In addition, we may share information with our affiliates if we are required or otherwise permitted to do so by law.
Categories of non-affiliates to which we may disclose information
From time to time, we may allow non-affiliates to extend offers of products and services for our customers when we feel that such products and services may be of special value or of particular interest to you.
We may disclose the information we collect about you to non-affiliates as permitted or required by law. We also may disclose the information described in the section above called “Collecting Information” to non-affiliated financial institutions with which we have a joint marketing arrangement or to other non-affiliated companies/outside service providers with which we contract in order for our own services to function properly or to complete transactions, such as the processing of credit card transactions. These joint marketing and outside service providers are required by us to enter into agreements with us to safeguard the confidentiality of our customers’ information and use it only for authorized purposes.
Privacy Choice
If you limit disclosures of information as described in this notice, you may not receive notice of future DST Corporation special value-added offers of products, services and special savings opportunities from us or our joint marketing partners.
If you want to limit disclosures of information as described in this notice, you can write to us at the following address:
Privacy Administrator
DST Corporation
36 Main Street
Plymouth, MA, 02360
At that time, you will need to tell us your name, address, phone number in order for us to timely process your request. Please also tell us whether you are limiting disclosures on your behalf only or also on behalf of others with whom you have a joint customer relationship.
We respect your privacy
Your trust is important to us. We are committed to protecting your privacy, whether you do business with us in person, online, by telephone or mail. Our aim is to continue to provide our customers with services, programs and products with the highest standards of quality and maximum member benefits. We look forward to serving you.
POLICY REVISIONS
We may elect to modify this privacy policy periodically at our sole discretion. These updates will appear on our primary website, www.dstgrp.com