Revision April 2012

WHAT DOES PACIFIC MERCANTILE BANK DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

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.

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 Payment History

• Income and Credit History

• Account Balances and Transaction History

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

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 Pacific Mercantile Bank chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons we can share your personal information	Does Pacific Mercantile Bank share?	Can you limit this sharing?
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	YES	NO
For our marketing purposes – to offer our products and services to you	YES	NO
For joint marketing with other financial companies	NO	WE DON’T SHARE
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your transactions and experiences	YES	NO
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your credit worthiness	NO	WE DON’T SHARE
For nonaffiliates to market you	NO	WE DON’T SHARE

Questions?

Call: 1.877.450.BANK (2265)

What we do

How does Pacific Mercantile Bank protect my personal information?
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. We restrict access to your personal and account information to those employees who need to know that information to provide products and services to you.

How does Pacific Mercantile Bank collect my personal information?
We collect your personal information, for example, when you

• Open an account or Pay your bills

• Apply for a loan or Use your credit or debit card

• Make deposits or withdrawals from your account

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?
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.

Definitions

Affiliates
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

• Pacific Mercantile Bank does not share with our affiliates

Nonaffiliates
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

• Pacific Mercantile Bank does not share with nonaffiliates
  so they can market to you

Joint marketing
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

• Pacific Mercantile Bank does not jointly market