The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (“Bank”) is committed to safeguarding information about customers and visitors to our Web site. These Digital Privacy Practices are for general guidance, and are subject to change. Please review periodically. As technology evolves, so will the Bank’s ability to provide you with better online products and services.
The 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 the Bank has with members or customers.
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 our products and services. If you register for the AHP, HSP, MPP 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 info or other information each time you visit our Web site. The cookies also allow the 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 Netscape, that our customers and visitors use, the Internet addresses of our customers and visitors, the traffic on our Web pages, and the average time spent on each page, the number of first-time visitors and return customers 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, and you may disable those applications by refusing cookies.
If you submit an application or form to us online, or request an online transaction, the Bank may store the information you send in an electronic database. The 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 Bank other than with regulators or certain companies that assist the Bank in conducting its business transactions. The information will be used for official use only.
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.