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SYNCHRONY BANK PRIVACY POLICY
FOR HSN Card CREDIT CARD(S)
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Rev. 8/19
FACTS
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WHAT DOES SYNCHRONY BANK
DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
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Why?
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Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
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What?
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The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:
- Social Security number and income
- Account balances and payment history
- Credit history and credit scores
When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
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How?
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All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons Synchrony Bank chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
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Reasons we can share your personal information
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Does Synchrony Bank share?
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Can you limit this sharing?
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For our everyday business purposes —
such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus
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Yes
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No
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For our marketing purposes —
to offer our products and services to you
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Yes
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No
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For joint marketing with other financial companies
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Yes
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No
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For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes —
information about your transactions and experiences
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Yes
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No
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For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes —
information about your creditworthiness
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No
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We don't share
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For our affiliates to market to you
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No
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We don't share
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For nonaffiliates to market to you
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No*
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We don't share
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Questions?
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Call 1-844-889-9676
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What we do
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How does Synchrony Bank protect my
personal information?
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To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.
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How does Synchrony Bank collect my personal information?
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We collect your personal information, for example, when you
- open an account or give us your contact information
- provide account information or pay your bills
We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.
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Why can’t I limit
all sharing?
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Federal law gives you the right to limit only
- sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness
- affiliates from using your information to market to you
- sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
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Definitions
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Affiliates
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Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
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Our affiliates include financial companies, such as Synchrony Financial and its subsidiaries, including Retail Finance Credit Services, LLC and CareCredit LLC.
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Nonaffiliates
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Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
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Nonaffiliates may include direct marketing companies.
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Joint marketing
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A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
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Our joint marketing partners include insurance companies.
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*Please keep in mind that, as permitted by federal law, we share information about you with HSN (and its affiliates) in connection with maintaining and servicing the HSN Card program, including for HSN (and its affiliates) to market to you.
The above notice applies only to consumer HSN Card Accounts with Synchrony Bank and does not apply to any other accounts you have with us. It replaces our previous privacy notice disclosures to you. We can change our privacy policy at any time and will let you know if we do if/as required by applicable law.
For helpful information about identity theft, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) consumer website at https://www.identitytheft.gov/ .
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Privacy 10
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