Privacy Code

BMO Privacy Code

Our commitment to you

We value the opportunity to assist you in achieving your financial goals. Since the founding of Bank of Montreal in 1817, earning and maintaining your trust has been at the heart of our business. We are dedicated to respecting and protecting the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information you’ve entrusted to us.

Our Global Privacy Principles

These principles guide all our interactions with you:

Accountability: We have policies and procedures in place to manage personal information, and a Chief Privacy Officer ensures privacy governance.

Identifying purposes: We inform you about the reasons we collect, use, and disclose personal information.

Consent: We obtain your consent to collect, use, or disclose personal information, unless otherwise authorized or required by law.

Limiting collection: We only collect the personal information necessary for the identified purposes.

Limiting use, disclosure, and retention: We limit the use and disclosure of personal information, retaining it only for the purpose it was collected, unless you consent to other uses.

Accuracy: We ensure your personal information is accurate, complete, and up to date as necessary for its intended use.

Safeguards: We implement appropriate safeguards to protect personal information from loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Openness: We are transparent about how we manage your personal information, and we make our privacy notices and codes available.

Individual access: You have the right to request access to your personal information, and we will respond in accordance with applicable law.

Challenging compliance: You may challenge our compliance with these principles.”

Privacy Codes for Our Locations

"For more detailed information, please refer to the Privacy Code for our locations:

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We are proud members of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC).”