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Effective Date: February 28, 2008
Digital Privacy Practices
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (“Seattle Bank”) is committed to safeguarding information about customers and visitors to our Web site. As technology evolves, so will the Seattle Bank’s ability to provide you with better online products and services. As such, these Digital Privacy Practices are for general guidance and are subject to change. The Seattle Bank may, at any time and without prior notice, revise these Digital Privacy Practices by updating this posting. You should, therefore, periodically visit this page to review the then current Digital Privacy Practices.
Collection of Information
The Seattle Bank’s Digital Privacy Practices explain our privacy practices regarding the information we collect about you when you visit or transact business on our Web site. They do not constitute a contract or create legal rights or modify or amend any agreements that the Seattle Bank has with members or customers.
Technology Used in the Online Collection of Information/Cookies
We may collect and store information about your visit to our Web site. To collect this information, our Web server may write a "cookie," which is a small file, to your hard drive. We may use cookies to enhance your online experience, to facilitate your use of our Web site, and to collect anonymous, aggregated site-visitation statistics that we can use to measure the effectiveness of, and to improve, not only our Web site but also our products and services. If you register for the Affordable Housing Program, the Home$tart Program, or certain other products or services, information may be stored in a cookie. This allows us to greet you by name the next time you visit our Web site. This also makes your repeated online interactions with us easier by allowing you to avoid re-entering your user information or other information each time you visit our Web site. The cookies also allow the Seattle Bank to monitor, on an anonymous, collective basis, information such as: the Internet service providers that our customers and visitors use, the type of browsers, such as Microsoft Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, that our customers and visitors use, the Internet addresses of our customers and visitors, the traffic on our Web pages, the average time spent on each page, and the number of first-time visitors and return visitors to our Web site. This information helps us monitor our Web site and ensures that it is accessible to customers and visitors. This information also helps us develop content and services that offer the best value and most benefits to our customers and visitors. If you are uncomfortable with our use of cookie technology, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when and by whom cookies are being written to your hard drive. Certain services are dependent on cookies, however, and you may disable those applications by refusing cookies.
Information Storage
If you submit an application or form to us online, or request an online transaction, the Seattle Bank may store the information you send in an electronic database or submit the information to a trusted third-party service provider for storage. The Seattle Bank uses security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of data stored in our systems. This information will not be shared outside the Seattle Bank other than with regulators or certain companies that assist the Seattle Bank in conducting its business or business transactions. The information will be used for official use only.
Third-Party Web Sites
Our Web site contains links to third-party sites that you may find useful. These sites may have their own privacy policies. You should review the privacy policy of any Web site before you provide personal or confidential information.
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