OUR PRIVACY PLEDGE TO YOU

As our customer you provide us with important information about yourself. We believe it is our responsibility to safeguard your personal and financial information. While some financial institutions share account owner information with other businesses, we are committed to keeping it confidential.

We have developed the following privacy policy to ensure you the confidentiality you deserve. You have our promise that we will adhere to these guidelines. It is our pledge to you.

NOTICE OF YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVACY RIGHTS

We, our, and us, when used in this notice, mean Meta Financial Group and the following family of companies: MetaBank, MetaBank West Central, and Meta Trust Company.

This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the words "you" and "your" we mean the following types of customers:

Our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding financial products or services such as a(n):

• Deposit account
• Loan account
• Safe deposit box
• Self-directed Individual Retirement Account
• Financial, investment, or economic advisory services
• Brokerage account

We will tell you the sources of the information we collect about you. We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information.

We first define some terms.

Nonpublic personal information means information about you that we collect in connection with providing a financial product or service to you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information that is available from public sources, such as telephone directories or government records. Hereafter, we will use the term "information" to mean nonpublic personal information as defined in this section.
An affiliate is a company we own or control, a company that owns or controls us, or a company that is owned or controlled by the same company that owns or controls us. Ownership does not mean complete ownership, but means owning enough to have control.
A nonaffiliated third party is a person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as nonaffiliated third party, or simply, an "other party."

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect information about you from the following sources:

• Information you give us on applications or other forms
• Information about your transactions with us
• Information about your transactions with our affiliates
• Information about your transactions with other parties
• Information from a consumer reporting agency
• Information we receive as a result of verifying customer information

THE CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY, AND INTEGRITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We restrict access to information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect this information.

YOUR INFORMATION AND OUR AFFILIATES

We may disclose information about you to our affiliates. Here are the kinds of information and the source of that information:

Transaction and experience information from our account records:

• Information about your transactions and experience with us, such as:
• Name
• Address
• Account balances
• Account activity
• Types of accounts

Federal law allows us to disclose the information listed above with our affiliates. You do not have a right to opt out of the disclosure of this information.

Types Of Affiliates

We may disclose information about you to the following types of affiliates:

• Financial service providers, such as:
• Banks

Reasons For Disclosure
We may disclose information about you to our affiliates:

• to provide you with information about additional products and services.
• to evaluate our total relationship with you and our family of companies and give you the best price that relationship deserves.

YOUR INFORMATION AND OTHER PARTIES
We will not disclose information about you to anyone except as disclosed in this policy or as permitted by law. Examples of this might include disclosures necessary to service your account or prevent unauthorized transactions.

INFORMATION ABOUT FORMER CUSTOMERS
We do not disclose information about former customers, except as permitted by law.

AUTHORIZED SHARING - OUTSIDE MARKETING SERVICES
We may disclose the following information to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf:

• Information you give us on an application or other forms, such as:

• Name
• Address

We disclose the information listed above with companies that perform marketing services on our behalf. You do not have a right to opt out of the disclosure of this information. We may also disclose information about you to other outside marketing services as permitted by law.

Types of Businesses
Here are the types of businesses with whom we may disclose information for outside marketing purposes:

• Service providers that perform marketing services for us, such as:
• Direct sales companies

Reasons For Disclosing
We may disclose information about you to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf to provide you with information about additional products and services.