Privacy of Consumer Financial Information

Policy & Program

I. Purpose

The purpose of this policy is ensuring compliance with Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) information-sharing practices set forth by 12 CFR Part 1016 – Privacy of Consumer Financial Information within LOOP. This part applies only to nonpublic personal information about individuals who obtain financial products or services primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and is applicable to LOOP as a financial institutions for which the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) has rulemaking authority pursuant to section 504(a)(1)(A) of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act). This part requires financial institutions to provide each consumer with a written privacy policy notice at the time the consumer relationship is established and annually thereafter. The privacy notice must explain the information-sharing practices. The notice must also identify the consumer’s right to opt out of the information being shared with unaffiliated parties pursuant to the provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The unaffiliated parties receiving the Non-Public Personal Identifiable Information (NPPII) are held to the acceptance terms of the consumer under the original relationship agreement. Also, this act requires financial institutions to develop a written information security plan describing its processes and procedures for protecting clients’ Non-Public PII. GLBA Non-Public PII guidelines applies to any non-public information, which is defined as information a customer may provide to facilitate a transaction or which is otherwise obtained by the institution. As a covered entity, LOOP must ensure compliance with this Policy & Program in order to construct a thorough understanding of each department handling the nonpublic information, as well as develop and monitor the program to secure the information. If there are changes in how information is collected, stored, and used, the safeguards must be updated as well. The Federal government provides a set of standards for safeguarding customer information. Complying with this Part ensures the effective management of change while reducing risk. Changes include, but are not limited to: improvements, updates, and maintenances, among others. All changes must be evaluated, planned and monitored in order to minimize any adverse impact to LOOP’ operations.

II. Scope

The objective of this policy is to establish the general guidelines to ensure that LOOP and their affiliates safeguard the confidentiality of personal identifiable information (PII) gathered from customer records in paper, electronic or other forms, in order to protect customers’ privacy and securely protect their sensitive personal information against unauthorized access. This policy applies to all LOOP personnel that collect, access, maintain, distribute, process, protect, store, use, transmit, dispose of, or otherwise handle NPPII. This policy establishes the general guidelines for handling NPPII, in order to prevent and limit noncompliance with GLBA on LOOP daily operations. Non-Public PII include, but is not limited to, any information an individual gives you to get a financial product or service (for example, name, address, income, Social Security number, Passport/VISA/Government identification number or other information on an application), any information you get about an individual from a transaction involving your financial product(s) or service(s) (for example, the fact that an individual is your consumer or customer, account numbers, payment history, loan or deposit balances, and credit or debit card purchases), or any information you get about an individual in connection with providing a financial product or service (for example, information from court records or from a consumer report). PII does not include information that you have a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made "publicly available." In other words, information is not NPPII when you have taken steps to determine that the information is generally made lawfully available to the public, and that the individual can direct that it not be made public and has not done so. Publicly Available information include, but not limited to, federal, state, or local government records made available to the public, such as information that is in widely distributed through media like telephone books, newspapers, and websites that are available to the general public on an unrestricted basis, even if the site requires a password or fee for access.

III. Definitions

o Affiliate: In any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with LOOP.

o Consumer: Is an individual or that individual’s legal representative, who obtains or has obtained a financial product or service from LOOP that is to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.

o Customer: Is a consumer who has a continuing relationship between a consumer and LOOP under which LOOP provides one or more financial products or services to the consumer that are to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.

o Financial service: Includes, among other things, LOOP’s evaluation, assistance or brokerage of information that is collated in connection with a request or an application from a consumer for a financial product or service.

o Nonaffiliated third party: Is any person except LOOP’s affiliate or a person employed jointly byLOOP and a company that is not the bank’s affiliate.

o Non-Public Personal Identification Information (NPPII): Is any information that is not publicly available and that a consumer provided to LOOP to obtain a financial product or service from the institution and/or results from a transaction between the consumer and LOOP that involves a financial product or service obtained otherwise about a consumer in connection with providing a financial product or service.

o Opt Out: The right provided to customers and/or consumers to discontinue the sharing of his/her NPPII with a nonaffiliated third party.

IV. Policy

Safeguards Over Information

- LOOP protects customer information to achieve confidentiality, integrity and availability. Confidentiality means that NPPII is not available or disclosed to unauthorized persons. Integrity means that NPPII is not altered / destroyed in an unauthorized manner. Availability means that NPPII is accessible and usable on demand by an authorized person.

- LOOP attains administrative safeguards by implementing security measures that reduce risks/vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level.

- LOOP achieves physical safeguards by limiting physical access to its facilities while ensuring that authorized access is allowed and follows the appropriate procedures established.

- LOOP achieves technical safeguards by implementing technical policies and procedures that allow only authorized users to access electronic NPPII. Electronic measures must be put in place to confirm that NPPII has not been improperly altered or destroyed.

- LOOP will achieve organizational safeguards by taking reasonable steps to cure any activity or practice that constitutes a material breach or violation. Violations include the failure to implement safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect NPPII.

- LOOP will adopt reasonable and appropriate procedures to comply with this Policy. LOOP must maintain written security procedures and written records of required actions, activities or assessments.

- LOOP must perform a risk assessment if a breach occurs to evaluate probability of that the protected information has been compromised.

Requirements for Notices

Privacy notices must be clear and conspicuous and must accurately reflect the institution privacy practices.

- The privacy notice will be provided so that each recipient can reasonably be expected to receive actual notice in writing or electronically.

- Privacy notices will be available in LOOP’ website.

- The privacy notice includes the following information:

• Categories of information collected,
• Categories of information disclosed,
• Categories of affiliates and nonaffiliated third parties to whom LOOP may disclose information,
• Policies and practices with respect to the treatment of former customers’ information,
• Categories of information disclosed to nonaffiliated third parties that perform services for LOOP or functions on LOOP’s behalf and categories of third parties with whom LOOP has contracted,
• An explanation of the opt out right and methods for opting out,
• Policies and practices for protecting the security and confidentiality of information, and
• A statement that LOOP makes disclosures to other nonaffiliated third parties for everyday business purposes or as permitted by the law.

Notice Duties to Customers

- LOOP will provide an initial notice of its privacy policies and practices to each customer, no later than the time a customer relationship is established.

- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) gives rule making authority to the CFPB and modifies Regulation P on the requirements of Annual Notice indicating that “the institutions are not required to deliver an annual privacy notice if: (i) Provide nonpublic personal information to nonaffiliated third parties only in accordance with the provisions of § 1016.13, § 1016.14, or § 1016.15; and (ii) Have not changed their policies and practices with regard to disclosing nonpublic personal information from the policies and practices that were disclosed to the customer under § 1016.6(a)(2) through (5) and (9) in the most recent privacy notice provided pursuant to this part.” Therefore, it is the policy of LOOP to provide the ongoing annual Privacy Notice to existing customers only if at any giving point in time a change in policies and/or practices occurs in regards to disclosing nonpublic personal information from the policies and practices that were disclosed to the customer under § 1016.6(a)(2) through (5) and (9) in the most recent privacy notice provided pursuant to this part.

- A new notice will be provided to an existing customer when the customer obtains a new financial product or services, only if the initial or annual notice most recently provided to the customer was not accurate with respect to the financial product or service.Information to be collected from Customers when Opening a New Account

- LOOP will notify the customers of new account the requirement of the following information: his/her name, address, date of birth, profession, origin of income, and any other information that will allow the identification of the customer. This applies to both, deposits and credit accounts, and any other type of account offered by LOOP.

- LOOP might also request the license ID, Passport or any other identification documents to the customer or representative, if applicable.

- LOOP will notify that they will reserve the right of requesting additional documents to the accounts primary signature, authorized signatures, and/or origin of funds reflected on the account, and/or customers’ income.

- LOOP will notify that the client is not required to accept the disclaimers when opening a new account. If clients are not in agreement with the disclaimers, LOOP will close the new account and return the available funds by Check or via wire transfer without any cost to the client.

Opt Out Duties toConsumers

- LOOP will send an initial notice of its privacy policies and practices via email, providing this is the official method of communication, as all customers must agree.

- The information sent to the consumer will include an opt out notice.

- The opt out notice will allow a period of no less than 30 days for the consumer to opt out.

- LOOP will notify its new clients that their account or transaction information could be disclosed in the following scenarios:

• Verification of existence and condition of clients account to third party (e.g. credit bureau, merchants)
• Complying with warrants made from courts or governmental agencies,
• When required in order to process or complete a transaction,
• When the customer authorizes in writing, and
• When required or permitted by legislation and applicable laws.

- LOOP will not disclose any nonpublic personal information to nonaffiliated third parties except under the enumerated exceptions.

- LOOP will provide a revised notice before it begins to share a new category of nonpublic personal information or shares information with a new category of nonaffiliated third party in a manner that was not described in the previous notice.

Monitoring of Compliance

- LOOP has designated an officer that is not involved in the proper execution of this policy, the task of monitoring the proper compliance of this policy and/or pertinent procedure.

- All recommendations identified as a result of the monitoring process will be discussed with upper management in the Regulatory Compliance Committee.

- Action plans and/or corrective measures will be documented, approved and distributed within the affected area and management.

- The areas to be evaluated are:

• Initial privacy notice
• Annual privacy notice (if considered applicable),
• Content privacy notice,
• No Opt-out notice,
• Revised notice,
• Delivery methods,
• Limits on disclosure to nonaffiliated third parties,
• Limits on disclosure and reuse of information,
• Exceptions to notice and opt out requirements for processing servicing transaction, and
• Other exceptions to notice and opt out requirements.

Response Program for Unauthorized Access to Customer

- LOOP has in place a risk-based response, including customer notification procedures, to address unauthorized access to or use of customer information maintained by a LOOP or its service provider that could Information and Customer Notice result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer, and require disclosure of a data security breach if the covered entity concludes that misuse of its information about a customer has occurred or is reasonably possible, pursuant to the guidance, substantial harm or inconvenience is most likely to result from improper access to “sensitive customer information”.

- LOOP’s response program general procedures are:

• Assessing through an investigation the nature and scope of an incident and identifying what customer information systems and types of customer information have been accessed or misused; assessing the situation could include the support of a third party, as considered necessary.
• Notifying its primary regulators once LOOP becomes aware of an incident involving unauthorized access to or use of sensitive customer information; consistent with the Agency’s Suspicious Activity Report (“SAR”) regulations,
• Notifying appropriate law enforcement authorities;
• Taking appropriate steps to contain and control the incident to prevent further unauthorized access to or use of customer information (e.g., by monitoring, freezing, or closing affected accounts and preserving records and other evidence); and
• Notifying the affected customers when warranted. Customer notice may only be delayed if an appropriate law enforcement agency determines that notification will interfere with a criminal investigation and provides the institution with a written request for the delay.

- LOOP has an affirmative duty to protect their customers’ information against unauthorized access or use, and that customer notification of a security breach involving the customers’ information is a key part of that duty.

Breach Notification Contents

- The contents of a breach notification should contain the following elements:

• A general description of the incident
• Type of information subject to unauthorized access,
• A telephone number customers can call for further information and assistance,
• A reminder "to remain vigilant" over the next 12 to 24 months,
• A recommendation that incidents of suspected identity theft be reported promptly, and
• A general description of the steps taken by the financial institution to protect the information from further unauthorized access or use.
• Depending on the situation, LOOP may choose to contact all customers affected by telephone or by electronic mail.

Suspicious Activity Report (“SAR”)

- LOOP is required to file a suspicious activity report no later than 30 calendar days after the date of initial detection of unusual facts that may constitute a basis for filing a suspicious activity report.

- If no suspect was identified on the date of detection of the incident requiring the filing, LOOP may delay filing a suspicious activity report for an additional 30 calendar days to identify a suspect.

- In no case shall reporting be delayed more than 60 calendar days after the date of initial detection of a reportable transaction.

- LOOP must use the regular channels in order to submit Suspicious Activity Reports.