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As our client, you provide us with important information about yourself. You are asked to provide us with certain personal information that helps us give you better service and complete your transactions effectively. We work diligently to safeguard the information you give to us. In fact, we have developed the following privacy policy to ensure you the confidentiality you deserve. This policy details the strict guidelines we have in place. It is our pledge to you.

 
     
   
 

"We", "our", and "us", when used in this notice, mean CommerceWest Bank, N.A. This is our Privacy Notice for our clients. When we use the words, "you" and "your" we mean the following types of clients:

Our consumer clients who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding financial products or services such as a(n):
* Deposit Account, Loan Account, Debit Card, Safe Deposit Box, Internet Banking, Individual Retirement Account.

We will tell you the sources of the information we collect about you. We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information. We first define some terms:
* Non-public personal information means information about you that we collect in connection with providing a financial product or service to you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information that is available from public sources, such as telephone directories or government records. Hereafter, we will use the term "information" to mean nonpublic personal information as defined in this section.
* An affiliate is a company we own or control, a company that owns or controls us, or a company that is owned or controlled by the same company that owns or controls us. Ownership does not mean complete ownership, but means owning enough to have control.
* A non-affiliated third party is a person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate or ours. This is also known as nonaffiliated third party, or "other party."

  
     
   
  We collect information about you from the following sources:
* Information you give us on applications or other forms
* Information about your transactions with us or others
* Information we receive from a consumer-reporting agency
  
     
   
  We do NOT disclose any information about you to anyone, except as permitted by law. For example, we are permitted to share nonpublic information about you with non-affiliates in order to service your accounts or loans or respond to le¬gal requirements. We also share nonpublic information with other third parties such as credit bureaus, as well as companies who perform business operations for us to provide services to you, such as check printer, data pro¬cessing or companies that provide services in connection with electronic banking.  
     
   
  We restrict access to information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect this information.  
     
   
 

We do NOT disclose information about former clients, except as permitted or required by law.

  
     
   
 

Please notify us if we report any inaccurate information about your account(s) to a consumer-reporting agency. Your written notice describing the specific inaccuracy(ies) should be sent to us at the following address:

CommerceWest Bank, N.A.
2111 Business Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92612

  
     
   
  We reserve the right to change our Privacy Disclosure. If we make a change, we will revise our Privacy Policy to reflect such changes and review the policy's effective date. Checking the effective date allows you to determine whether there have been any changes since the last time you reviewed the policy.

Effective July 10, 2010