You provide important information about yourself to a variety of businesses and organizations. The same is true when you do business with our financial institution. You’re asked to provide us with certain personal information that helps us give you better service and complete your transactions more effectively.

We work diligently to safeguard the information you give us. In fact, we developed the following policies to ensure you confidentiality and maintain your confidence in our institution. These policies detail the strict standards we have in place. For this reason we ask that you read the following information carefully.

We, our, and us, when used in this notice mean CommerceWest Bank.

This is our privacy notice for our clients. When we use the words “you” and “your” we mean the following type 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
* Credit card account
* Safe deposit box
* Retail installment contract we hold and service
* Self-directed Individual Retirement Account

We will tell you the sources of information we collect about you. We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information. We first define some terms.

Nonpublic 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 controls us. Ownership does not mean complete ownership, but means owning enough to have control.

A nonaffiliated third party is a person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as nonaffiliated third party, or simply, an “other party.”

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