Privacy Policies

Byline Bank Website Privacy Policy

This Website Privacy Policy describes how Byline Bank (“we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you visit our website www.bylinebank.com or use any of the services offered through our website, mobile apps, or other websites where this Website Privacy Policy is posted (collectively, “Website”). Unless specifically stated otherwise, this Website Privacy Policy applies only to information collected on the Website and through use of any of the Website services and does not apply to information collected offline. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information by us in accordance with this Website Privacy Policy.

We also handle and use personal information collected from consumers, whether via the Website or other means, in accordance with our Privacy Notice. If you are a California resident, please see Appendix A: Privacy Information for California Residents for supplemental California-specific privacy information.

While this Website Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information collected from the Website, please be aware that additional terms and conditions may apply for certain parts of our Website.

We may revise this Website Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Website Privacy Policy here and by changing the “Effective Date” at the end of the Website Privacy Policy.

What information is collected on the Website?

Information you provide to us. We may collect personal information about you when you provide it to us while using or interacting with the Website such as your name, Social Security number, email address, telephone number, mailing address, business name, login information, location, financial information, account information, messages you submit via the Website’s form, and other information that may personally identify you.

Information we collect automatically. As you use our Website, we may use technologies that collect certain information about you automatically. We may collect, among other things, your IP address, location, device type, date and time of visit, operating system, browser type and version, your activities on the Website, and information about how you use the Website. If you are visiting the Website via a mobile device, we may also collect your mobile device’s unique device ID and information about how you use the Website.

Information we receive from third parties. From time to time, we receive information about individuals from our third-party service providers, affiliates, and partners. For example, we receive information on our email campaigns from our third-party service providers, including whether you have read an email sent by us or on our behalf, forwarded an email, and when and how many times you have opened an email. We may also receive information from third party analytics on the Website that allow us to improve our Website and services.

What do we do with information collected on the Websites?

We use this information to administer the Website, assess our advertising programs, improve our Website and marketing efforts, and as generally permitted under applicable law. We also use information we gather to track activity within our Websites and to gather demographic information. We sometimes use the information that we collect to improve the design and content of our Websites and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information to analyze how our Website is used, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services that may be of particular interest to you. We may also use information we collect automatically that is otherwise de-identified, aggregated, or anonymous for any purpose.

What advertising features are in use on the Website?

Byline Bank advertises online and offline. To understand how our online advertising performs, we (or our service providers) may collect certain information regarding your usage of the Website, using cookies, IP addresses, and other technologies such as anonymous identifiers.

“Cookies” are pieces of information generated by web servers and stored in your computer for future access. For example, our Website includes Cookies used by the Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting cookie, which facilitate our use of Google Analytics Advertising Features, described below. You may disable the use of cookies by our Website, but this will limit the functionality available to you on future visits. For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please see http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/ads/.

Our Website has implemented the following Google Analytics for Display Advertisers Feature: Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. This feature is used to help us understand how our advertising performs and to improve our marketing efforts and the Website. Our Website may use Google Remarketing with Google Analytics. We use Google Remarketing or similar tools to advertise to you online.  As our third-party vendor, Google may show you ads on sites across the Internet using cookies and/or device identifiers to serve ads based on your past visits to our website. We reserve the right to test, turn-on, or turn-off any of the Google Advertising features from time to time without explicating announcement or disclosure.

You can Opt Out of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers Features by:

• Changing your settings at Google’s Ad Settings at: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
• Installing an Opt-Out browser add-on available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
• Adjusting the settings on your web browser: See http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/managing

The Website does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

Do we share information we collect with third parties?

We may share your information with third parties that assist us in providing our services, for advertising and marketing purposes, and potentially other reasons. In addition, we may transfer any information in our databases to a third party as part of a transfer of business assets, or release information to comply with requests from law enforcement and government agencies, to enforce the terms of our services, and to protect our customers and others. We may also share your information with third parties if we believe disclosure is necessary to enforce or protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or third parties. We may share aggregate, de-identified information with others, including affiliated companies and non-affiliated companies for any legal purpose.

Your choices

Cookies. If you do not wish us to place cookies, you may set your browser to refuse some cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, please note that some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or may not function properly. Information on deleting or controlling cookies can be found at www.aboutcookies.org.

Opt-Out. You may opt out of receiving future marketing communications from us any time we request your personal information. You can opt out by using the unsubscribe process listed below. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to process such request in a timely manner.

Children’s privacy

Protecting the privacy of our children is essential to Byline Bank. Our Website is not designed to market to children under the age of thirteen (13) or obtain information or data from them.

Security

Byline protects your information, including Social Security number.  Our policies and procedures protect the confidentiality of your information, prohibit the unlawful disclosure of your information, and limit access to your information to employees and others with legitimate business purposes.  These protections apply to all personal information, including Social Security numbers, collected or retained in any way by Byline in connection with customers and their accounts, employees or any other relationships.  Individuals applying for or obtaining a product or service from us to be used primarily for personal, family or household purposes may obtain more information about our security measures by reviewing our Privacy Notice.

Although we have implemented generally accepted industry standards to protect your information, no online transmission of data or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.  While we strive to secure your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to other websites

The Website may provide links to other websites. When you choose to use a link to visit another website, you are then subject to the security and privacy policy of that website. Byline Bank is not responsible for the privacy, security, accuracy, or reliability of the information on third party websites. You access such links at your own risk. We recommend you read the privacy policy of a website before disclosing any of your information. Links to third party websites do not imply an affiliation between us and the website owner, or any endorsement, approval, or verification of any content contained on those websites.

Contact us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Website Privacy Policy, please speak with your local branch representative, or call us at (773) 244-7000.

Unsubscribe Process

You may Opt-Out of receiving future marketing communications from us by contacting us.

Appendix A – Privacy Information for California Residents

Applicability

This Privacy Information for California Residents (Appendix) supplements Byline Bank’s Website Privacy Policy. This Appendix applies only to individual visitors, users, applicants, and customers of Byline Bank (the “Bank” or “we”) or our website who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).

Byline job applicants and employees, please see section, “Byline Bank Job Applicants, Employees, and Others” below and the “Careers” section of the Byline Bank website.

This Appendix is provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) (and collectively, “CCPA/CPRA”). The CPRA is an expansion of the CCPA. Any terms used but not defined in this Appendix have the meaning given in the CCPA/CPRA.

This Appendix does not apply to Personal Information excluded from the scope of the CCPA/CPRA, such as:

• Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
• Personal information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and its implementing regulations, or the California Financial Information Privacy Act.
• Personal information bearing on an individual’s credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living as set forth in the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“Personal Information”). Under the CPRA, Personal Information includes a sub-category of information requiring enhanced online protection, referred to as “Sensitive Personal Information.” Sensitive Personal Information includes, for example, your social security number, or financial account number and password. We may use or disclose your Sensitive Personal Information for the purposes permitted in the CPRA.

Note, Personal Information does not include:

• Publicly available information that is lawfully made available from government records, or that you have otherwise made available to the public.
• De-identified or aggregated consumer information.

Below are the categories of Personal Information that we may have collected or shared for a business purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months, as permitted by law and depending on the product or service you receive:

We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you. When you inquire about our products or services via our website or by telephone, or the forms you complete on our website.
• Indirectly from you. From your device, when you access our website, mobile application, and other online services.
• From third parties. That assist us in providing you with relevant products or services.

We may combine Personal Information that you provide us through our website with other information we have received from you, whether online or offline, or from other sources, such as, from our service providers. For more information, please see the “What information is collected on the Website?” section of our Byline Bank Website Privacy Policy. Our website uses “cookies” to improve functionality and performance. Please see the “Your choices” section of the Byline Bank Website Privacy Policy for more information.

Retention

We retain Personal Information about you no longer than necessary to fulfill the purpose for which that information was collected. Our record retention policy requires us to retain information and records, including Personal Information, for certain retention periods in accordance with applicable law and for as long as we need it for business purposes. At times, we may retain Personal Information beyond the applicable retention period, if for example, we are required by court order or other legal process to do so, or to help enforce or defend legal rights, or in response to a regulatory examination or audit. Generally, these requirements also apply to our service providers and contractors. When we destroy your Personal Information, we do so in a way that prevents that information from being restored or reconstructed.

Uses of Personal Information We Collect

We may use or disclose your Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• Delivering relevant products and services to you, or to another person when you are acting on their behalf, including:
  • Verifying your identity in connection with an application, use or inquiry regarding a product or service;
  • Evaluating your application for a product or service
  • Responding to your inquiries;
  • Helping to protect you and the Bank from fraud or financial loss;
  • Linking accounts you designate to facilitate the movement of funds;
  • Preparing account statements;
  • Preparing annual tax reporting information, if applicable;
  • Delivering customized content and analytics on our websites or app.
• Operating our website;
• Engaging third party service providers and contractors, via written agreement, to assist us in offering and providing products and services;
• Performing analytics and improving our products and services and websites;
• Conducting internal research to develop and validate technology;
• Marketing our products and services, as permitted by law;
• Keeping a record of our transactions and communications;
• Conducting audits and reporting related to particular transactions and interactions you may have with us or others on our behalf;
• Detecting, analyzing, and preventing security incidents, and other suspected fraudulent or illegal activity;
• Identifying, debugging, and repairing errors in our systems, websites, or mobile application that impair existing functionality;
• Protecting our rights, and the rights of affiliates and related third parties, or taking appropriate legal action;
• Complying with applicable laws, regulations, administrative or legal requests, subpoenas, or otherwise as required by law;
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, or other sale or transfer of all or part of our assets or business;
• In accordance with your consent;
• Short-term, temporary use of Personal Information that is not disclosed to a third party and is not used by us beyond the current interaction, including, but not limited to, the customizing of ads shown to you as part of the same interaction; and
• As otherwise necessary or useful for us to lawfully conduct our business or provide products and services.

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.

Disclosing Personal Information

We have listed in the table above the categories of Personal Information we have disclosed for a business purpose. We disclose your Personal Information to third parties that assist us in providing our products and services, for advertising and marketing purposes and for potentially other reasons. When we disclose Personal Information to third parties for a business purpose, we enter into a written agreement with the receiving third party that describes the purpose and requires the third party to both keep the Personal Information confidential and not use it for any purpose beyond the terms of the agreement.

We may also disclose your Personal Information when permitted by the CCPA/CPRA. For example, we will disclose Personal Information when required by law, regulation, court order, or subpoena or other legal process; to cooperate with law enforcement regarding or to help protect you or us from suspected fraudulent or illegal activity, or to exercise or defend against legal claims.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA and CPRA provide consumers who are California residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your CCPA and CRPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights.

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you.
• Whether your information is sold or shared.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, and/or sharing that Personal Information.
• The categories of contractors, service providers, and other third parties with whom we share, “sell,” or disclose that Personal Information.
• The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you.
• If we disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, a list of those disclosures, identifying the Personal Information categories that were sold, shared, or disclosed, and each category of recipient that received such Personal Information.
• The retention period or criteria used for retention.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will delete (and direct our service providers, contractors and third parties to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.

Exceptions

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a product 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.
• Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes.
• 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.
• For solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation.

Correction Request Rights

You may access your account through online banking and the mobile application and update certain Personal Information. For Personal Information that cannot be changed through your online account access, you have the right to request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information, taking into account the nature of the Personal Information and the purposes for processing the Personal Information. You may contact us to request the correction(s) (see section “Exercising Correction Rights” below). Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information, as directed by you, pursuant to the CPRA.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, Correction and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, correction and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Calling us at 866-957-7700, selecting option “0” or
• Visiting: bylinebank.com/contact-us

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable request related to your Personal Information. You may also make a verifiable request on behalf of your minor child. We may accept a signed verifiable request from your attorney-in fact, a court-appointed guardian or conservator, or from a custodial parent on behalf of a minor child, upon receipt of documentation acceptable to us. You may only make a verifiable request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.

The verifiable request must:

• Provide enough information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative, or another authorized person as described above.
• 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. We will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable request to confirm 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.

In response to a request to know, we shall provide your Personal Information from the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request. You can request that we provide Personal Information that we collected beyond the 12-month period as long as it was collected on or after January 1, 2022, and we are required to provide that information unless doing so proves impossible or would involve disproportionate effort. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with your 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.

We may decline all or part of your request if it relates to data that is subject to certain federal privacy or other laws, like those described in the “Applicability” section above, that we collected prior to January 1, 2022, or that is subject to another exemption under the CCPA/CPRA. For example, information subject to certain federal laws, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or the Fair Credit Reporting Act, are exempt from CCPA/CPRA requests. We also may not delete or correct certain Personal Information, if, for example, we have determined it is correct or we are required by state or federal law to maintain it.

Sale of Personal Information

The CCPA/CPRA defines a “sale” as the disclosure of Personal Information, to a business or third party, for monetary or other valuable consideration. The Bank does not sell and has not sold your Personal Information to a business or third party.

Sharing of Personal Information

The CCPA/CPRA defines “sharing” as the disclosure of Personal Information to a third party for “cross-context behavior advertising.” The Bank does not “share” and has not shared your Personal Information with a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising.

The Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights. Unless legally permitted, we will not, on the basis of your exercising any CCPA/CPRA right:

• Deny you products or services;
• Charge you different prices or rates for products or services, including through withholding discounts or other benefits, or charging penalties;
• Provide you a different level or quality of products or services; or
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for products or services or a different level or quality of products or services.

However, we may offer you financial incentives for sharing your Personal Information, as permitted by the CCPA/CPRA. Any financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your Personal Information’s value. If we offer you such financial incentives, we will provide you with the terms that describe the material aspects of the program in writing. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

Byline Bank Job Applicants, Employees, and Others.

This Appendix does not apply to information collected from Byline Bank job applicants, employees, independent contractors, directors, and officers. We provide a separate notice prior to collecting information from such individuals who are California consumers.

Changes To Policy

Byline Bank may make changes to this Policy. Notification of changes will be posted on this web page. You should review the Byline Bank Website Privacy Policy periodically to keep up to date on our most current privacy policies.

Date Of Last Update: April 12, 2024.