Privacy Notice – California Residents
This Privacy Notice for California residents supplements, and is to be read in conjunction with, the information contained in the Privacy Notice(s) of First Federal Bank (“FFB”, “we”, “us”, “our”) and applies solely to individuals who interact or have a relationship with First Federal Bank and who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We have adopted this Notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) effective January 1, 2020 and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) which amended the CCPA on January 1, 2023.
What is Personal Information?
Under the CPRA, “Personal Information” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (CCPA §1798.140(O)(1)). Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, the following: (a) identifiers, (b) select information in consumer records, (c) legally protected characteristics, (d) commercial purchasing information, (e) biometric information, (f) internet or network activity, (g) geolocation, (h) information typically detected by the senses, (i) employment information, ( j) education information, or (k) inferences from the above categories used to profile.
Personal Information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
- Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
- Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
- Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
Information First Federal Bank collects about you
In order to deliver products and services to our customers as effectively and conveniently as possible and to better understand the financial needs of our customers, FFB collects, retains, and uses various types of information about our customers. This includes information such as name, address, phone, or social security number, and credit information related to accounts with us or others. This information is obtained when providing products and services to customers. It may also come from outside sources, such as credit reporting agencies and public records. If the customer should visit our Internet website, we do not collect identifying information, but we may use standard software (called “cookies”) to collect non-identifying information about the Internet usage, such as the date and time our site was accessed and the web browser that was used by the customer.
The information we collect, use, store, and transfer is grouped together as follows:
Table 1: Types of personal information as defined in CCPA § 1798.140(O)(A-K)
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Category |
Examples |
Purpose |
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Identifiers |
First name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, date of birth, and gender. |
Create, maintain, customize, and secure your account(s); |
|
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or Federal Law |
Age (40 years or older), ,race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status. |
Create, maintain, customize, and secure your account(s); |
|
Commercial Information |
Records of products or services purchased, or considered, other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
Create, maintain, customize, and secure your account(s); |
|
Biometric Information |
Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics. |
N/A |
|
Internet or Electronic Data |
Information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement. |
Risk and security control and monitoring; |
|
Geolocation Data |
Physical location. |
Risk and security control and monitoring; |
|
Sensory Data |
Audio, electronic, and visual information. |
Record phone lines for regulatory requirements and to monitor customer service quality; |
|
Professional Related Data |
Work history, prior employer. |
Create, maintain, and customize your account(s); |
|
Education-related Data |
School or Schools, and date of graduation. |
Create, maintain, and customize your account(s); |
|
Inferences |
Drawn from any of the information identified in this table to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences. |
Create, maintain, and customize your account(s); |
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from our clients or their agents. For example, from documents that our clients provide to us related to the services for which they engage us.
- Indirectly from our clients or their agents. For example, through information we collect from our clients in the course of providing services and marketing to them.
- From third parties that interact with us in connection with the services we perform or products we provide. For example, from outside companies we may use to assist us in providing you with our services or products.
- Directly and indirectly from activity on our website or third party websites through which we advertise. For example, from submissions through our website portal or website usage details collected automatically.
Sharing of Personal Information
FFB employs outside marketing companies on a contract basis to assist us in marketing our products and services to our customers. Information that we may share with our marketing partners may include name, address, telephone number, email, and a general description of the type of relationship maintained with us. For example, we may indicate that a customer has a deposit account or a mortgage with us. We do not disclose account numbers, social security number, or any credit or transaction information to our marketing partners.
We will maintain written contracts with all of our partners that prohibit their using the consumer personal information that we provide them for any purpose other than to jointly market our products to our customers, and which requires them to treat such information in a confidential manner to comply with all state and federal regulations.
First Federal Bank itself will not share information about our customers with other companies except in order to conduct our business, comply with applicable law, protect against fraud, or as authorized by our customers. Vendors or service companies that we retain to process information about our customers are required to conform to our privacy standards. We do not sell or exchange customer information. We may also provide information to regulatory authorities, consumer reporting agencies and law enforcement agencies in accordance with applicable law.
QRL Financial Services, a division of FFB, may disclose information about its customers with mortgage origination clients (nonaffiliated financial companies) for the purpose of marketing financial products such as mortgage refinances.
CBC Mortgage at First Federal Bank may disclose information about its customers with mortgage origination clients (nonaffiliated financial companies) for the purpose of marketing financial products such as mortgage refinances.
SBA Works, a division of FFB, will not share information about its customers with other companies except in order to conduct business, comply with applicable law, protect against fraud, or as authorized by our customers.
FFB recognizes and respects the privacy expectation of its customers and considers the safekeeping of customer information a fundamental responsibility of the Bank.
Your Rights
Under the CPRA, you have specific rights regarding your Personal Information held by private companies. The below section describes your rights and how to exercise them.
You have the right to ask us to disclose to you any Personal Information we have collected about you in the last 12 months (CCPA 1788.100). In order to exercise this right, First Federal Bank must first verify your identity to ensure it is a legitimate request, and then disclose to you:
- The categories of Personal Information we have collected about you.
- The types of sources used to collect Personal Information about you.
- The types of third parties with which we have shared any of your Personal Information (if applicable).
- The business or commercial purpose(s) for collecting your Personal Information.
- The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
- The categories of Personal Information that have been disclosed for a business purpose that each category of recipient obtained.
- The right to correct inaccurate personal information that we have about you.
- The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about you.
Deletion
You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Information we have collected from and about you. In order to exercise this right, FFB must first verify your identity to ensure it is a legitimate request, we will then delete the relevant information unless an exemption applies (CCPA 1798.105). We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code 1546 seq.).
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
To exercise the access, data portability, or deletion rights described above please submit a verifiable consumer request via the phone number or email address below in the “Contact Information” section of this notice. Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. If an authorized agent submits a request on your behalf, you may be asked to verify your identity directly with FFB. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12 month period. The verifiable consumer 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; and
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response using the contact information we have on file for that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Non-Discrimination
You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under the CPRA (CCPA §1798.125).
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
FFB reserves the right to update or change the information contained in this privacy notice at any time. In the event of a substantive change to our policies, we will notify you and may request your explicit consent as necessary. We suggest you visit our website (www.ffbf.com ) periodically to learn of any changes to our Notice.
Contact Information
If you have any questions pertaining to this notice or if you wish to exercise your rights under California law, you can contact us at:
Phone: 1.877.499.0572
Website: www.ffbf.com
Email: privacy@ffbf.com
