NetSpend Online Privacy Policy

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U.S.

Online Privacy Notice


Effective Date: January 31, 2021

When visiting or using our websites, communicating with us electronically, interacting


with us on social media or through ad content, or using a mobile application of
Netspend Corporation (each a “Site”), this U.S. Online Privacy Notice (“Online Privacy
Notice”) applies to you and governs our collection, storage, sharing, and use of your
information.

Please note, if you apply for or use a product or service (“Financial Product”) of
Netspend or its issuing banks (each a “Bank”), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and similar
state financial privacy laws govern your financial privacy rights. Therefore, if you are a
customer or consumer of one of our Financial Products, you should consult the Privacy
Notice associated with that Financial Product for information on collection, storage,
sharing, and use of your information. A copy of each Bank’s Privacy Notice may be
found here. These are distributed annually to each customer, as required by applicable
law, and available online as well.

Please note, if you are a California resident, you may have additional privacy rights in
addition to the generally applicable privacy rights described in this privacy policy. Please
scroll to the bottom of the page or click here for more information on your California-
specific rights.

Information We Collect
When you visit a Site, we may collect both personally identifiable information and
anonymous information. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”)
means information (such as name, demographic, or contact information that identifies
you personally). Anonymous information includes information that does not identify you
personally or contain personal identifiers (“Anonymous Information”), including internet
or other electronic network activity information such as browsing history, cookies, and
interactions with our Sites.

Information collected in connection with your application or use of a Financial Product is


described in the applicable Privacy Notice, available here.

How We Collect Information


We may collect Personal Information from you directly:

• in connection with a potential application for a Financial Product submitted


through a Site.
• when you complete and submit online forms or fields available at a Site.
We may append and enrich the information we have about you with information
purchased from third party data suppliers.

We may collect Anonymous Information such as connection, activity, and usage data,
when visitors and users navigate to and around the Sites:

• Through your browser when you visit the Site, which includes information
such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, browser type, device type,
and operating system.
• From your IP address, which is automatically logged in our server when you
visit a Site.
• Using cookies or other digital tracking tools such as web beacons (also known
as pixel tags or clear GIFs). See the Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
section below for more information.
• From feedback that does not personally identify you voluntarily provided to us
on a Site.
• Using a website recording service, which may record mouse clicks, mouse
movements or page scrolling but does not record any Personal Information.
• From de-identified or aggregated Personal Information, including payment
data associated with a Financial Product.

How We Use Your Information


As noted above, Personal Information provided through an application for or use of or
interaction with a Financial Product is used solely to establish your customer
relationship and is subject to the Privacy Notice governing the Financial Product you
selected.

Personal Information provided or collected through other venues on the Site may be
used in the following ways:

• To respond to your inquiries or requests; and


• To send you Netspend marketing communications that we believe may
interest you.

We may use Anonymous Information in the following ways:

• To evaluate the Site’s effectiveness and usability


• To improve our products or services
• To ensure the Site displays properly and diagnose problems
• To measure the number of visitors to the Site
• For other activities to the extent permitted by law.

We may aggregate or de-identify your Personal Information for these same purposes.

Security
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the
Personal Information you provide against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized
destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. SSL encryption also is used on
our Site when you are asked to enter confidential information as part of your
application. You can tell you have entered an encrypted session in several ways.
Whenever you see an unbroken key, a locked padlock, or similar icon on your browser
screen, you have entered an encrypted session. In addition, when your session changes
from “http” to “https,” you are in an encrypted session.

Children
We do not knowingly collect or use Personal Information from children under 13 years
of age without obtaining verifiable consent from their parents. We are not responsible
for the data collection and use practices of non-affiliated third parties to which our Site
may link.

Links to Other Websites


We are not responsible for the information collection practices of third-party links you
click to from our Site. We cannot guarantee how these third parties use cookies or
whether they place cookies on your computer that may identify you personally. We
urge you to review the privacy policies of each of the linked websites you visit before
you provide them with any personal information.

Use of Cookies, Web Beacons, and Tracking Technologies


Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information, which your computer or
mobile device downloads when you visit a Site. When you return to Sites – or visit
websites that use the same cookies – they recognize these cookies and therefore your
browsing device.

We use cookies to do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages
efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving your browsing
experience. They can also help ensure that ads you see online are more relevant to you
and your interests. We also use similar technologies such as pixel tags and JavaScript to
undertake these tasks.

We use cookies to:

• Ensure your security and privacy when in our secure Sites


• Store login details for our secure sites
• Temporarily store input information in our calculators, tools, illustrations and
demonstrations
• Provide you with ads that are more relevant to you and your interests, and
improve our targeting and enhance your journey through our sites and partner
sites
• Improve our understanding of how you navigate through our sites so we can
identify improvements
• Evaluate our sites' advertising and promotional effectiveness; and
• We use both our own (first-party) and partner companies' (third-party) cookies
to support these activities

We may also allow our business partners to place web beacons on our site or to place
cookies on your device for advertising or other purposes.

Third parties that use cookies and other tracking technologies to deliver targeted
advertisements on our platform or third-party sites may offer you a way to prevent such
targeted advertisements by opting-out at the websites of industry groups such as
the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance.

Disabling Cookies and Do-Not-Track


While you may disable the usage of cookies through your browser settings, we do not
change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from
your browser or mobile application. We track your activities if you click on
advertisements for Netspend services on third-party platforms such as search engines
and social networks and may use analytics to track what you do in response to those
advertisements. We may also use web beacons and tracking URLs in our messages to
you to determine whether you have opened a certain message or accessed a certain
link.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) gives California residents rights to
receive certain disclosures regarding the collection, use, and sharing of Personal
Information, as well as rights to control this information.

It is important to note that the CCPA excludes Personal Information already covered by
financial services privacy laws such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California
Financial Information Privacy Act (CFIPA). As a result, the disclosures and rights
granted by the CCPA do not apply to Personal Information related to a financial
account. If you are a customer or consumer of our Financial Products, please consult
the Privacy Notice associated with those product(s), available here, to learn about our
information practices and your privacy rights.

In this section, the capitalized words have the meaning as stated in the CCPA (and any
final regulations, when available).

Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information


In the past 12 months, Netspend has collected Identifiers from or about California
residents for direct marketing purposes (i.e., in order to promote our Financial
Products).

Netspend obtained this information from our lead generation partners. In order for
Netspend to receive your information from one of our partners, you must have opted-in
to the partner sharing your information for direct marketing purposes or the partner
may have collected your information from publicly available sources. Netspend keeps a
record of your opt-in to ensure that we are not marketing to prospects without consent.

If you have received direct marketing from Netspend, there are cases where Netspend
is not able to determine a prospect’s current contact information with the information
provided by our lead generation partners. In those cases, Netspend uses third-party
identity resolution service providers in order to verify the address and aid us in
determining whether to use the lead. In the past 12 months, Netspend has shared
contact information with these third-party service providers. Our identity resolution
service providers are contractually not permitted to use your information for any other
purpose.

Netspend does not Sell Personal Information as that term is defined in the CCPA.

Use of Personal Information

Netspend uses this Personal Information:

• to market Financial Products


• to measure ad impressions to unique visitors, verify positioning and quality of ad
impressions
• to audit compliance with web standards
• to improve our products and services
• for debugging, user enhancement, and other analytical purposes.

Right of Access and Deletion under CCPA

California residents have the right to request a copy of (i) the Categories of Personal
Information that about you, (ii) the Specific Pieces of Personal Information we’ve
collected about you, (iii) the Categories of Sources from which we collect your Personal
Information, (iv) the purpose for collecting your Personal Information, and (v) the
Categories of Third Parties to whom we Disclosed your Personal Information.

You also have the right to request deletion of Personal Information, subject to
exceptions stated in the CCPA.

Making an Access or Deletion Request


California residents may make an access or deletion request, you can call 1-866-387-
7363, write Netspend Corporation, Customer Service, P.O. Box 2136, Austin, TX
78768-2136, or email [email protected]. If you are not a resident of
California, you may submit a request and we will process it even though the CCPA does
not require us to do so. We reserve the right to change or stop the practice of
accepting requests from individuals who are not California residents at any time and
without prior notice.

For security purposes, the CCPA requires us to verify your identity before we are able to
process an access or deletion request. As such, we may ask you to provide additional
such as your first and last name, address, telephone number, email address, or other
personal identifiers. This information will only be used for verification purposes.

Once we have verified your identity we will respond to your request as appropriate. For
access requests, the requested information will be sent to you. For deletion requests,
we may seek to confirm whether your request is for us to delete your Personal
Information or opt you out of receiving marketing. Opting you out of receiving
marketing allows us to maintain your Personal Information but flag it so that you do not
receive further offers from Netspend. If we do not maintain this flag we will no longer
have any record of you after fulfilling your deletion request, and it is possible that we
again receive your information from one of our lead generation partners, in which case
you may receive marketing from us again. We explain this in order to ensure we are
meeting consumers’ preferences. If we are unable to confirm your request, we will
default to deleting your Personal Information.

Please allow up to 45 days for a response to access and deletion requests.

Note to customers and consumers of Banks or Netspend:

You have secure direct online access to your own Personal Information, including profile
and commercial or transactional history, via account tools and settings associated with
your account. For more information on your privacy rights related to your account
information, please login into your online account center to see the privacy policy
governing your account (or click here). To determine which Bank is associated with
your account, please see the back of your card.

Non-discrimination

We do not provide a different level or quality of experience, or deny goods or services


to you when you exercise your rights under the CCPA.

Changes to this Notice


Netspend may change the Online Privacy Notice at any time by posting an updated
version to this page and changing the “Effective Date” at the top of this notice. Any
changes become effective when posted on the Site. You will be bound by changes if
you use the Site after those changes have been posted.

Questions?
If you have questions about this U.S. Online Privacy Notice, please contact us at:

Netspend Corporation
Customer Service
P.O. Box 2136
Austin, TX 78768-2136
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 1-86-NETSPEND (1-866-387-7363)

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