Privacy & Security / How Mint Keeps You Safe
Aaron Patzer, founder and CEO of Mint.com, talks about Mint's security
You register anonymously.
We do not need any personally identifiable information from you to set up your account. We only ask for a valid email address, password and zip code.
We ask for your online banking user name and passwords, but we do not see or store that information.
That means no one at Mint, and no potential hackers of Mint.com, can access your banking credentials.
We connect securely to your financial institutions using one or more online financial service providers.
Your online banking credentials are stored only with these institutions enabling Mint to automatically and securely update your transactions and saving you from updating, syncing or uploading financial information manually.
All communication between Mint and its online financial service providers is encrypted using 128–bit SSL encryption, the financial industry standard for data protection.
Mint provides bank-level data security for the transaction information we store.
- Mint uses 128-bit SSL encryption to ensure that all communications between your browser and our Web site are secure.
- We store transaction information in a secure facility, on our own servers, protected by 24/7 security guards and biometric scanners.
- All Mint employees pass financial and criminal background checks as a condition of employment.
- Mint.com has received the VeriSign security seal and is tested daily by Hackersafe.
- Mint’s privacy protection standards are certified by TRUSTe.
- Mint’s anti-phishing protection is provided by RSA Security, Inc.
Mint does not know your bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
Mint uses only your account login credentials for access to your account information and Mint does not store these credentials.
You cannot move money with Mint.
Mint offers valuable insights and analytic tools to help you better understand your money…but Mint is a "read only" service. Meaning: you can view and organize your money with Mint, but you cannot move money between—or out of—your bank, credit union or credit card accounts.
Mint alerts can increase your financial security.
Once you’ve set up Mint’s text message or email alerts, you’ll be automatically notified whenever what you define as unusual spending occurs in any of the bank and credit card accounts that you’ve added to Mint. That means you’ll know about suspicious transactions and can act quickly to protect your identity, money and privacy.
And a quick response is critical to limiting your potential harm from identity theft. Given that most of us have multiple accounts at multiple financial institutions, it’s perhaps unrealistic to expect that you will log on and check transactions in every account, every day to protect yourself against identity theft. Mint can do this for you, and only Mint offers this proactive, alerts service across the 5,000 US banks, credit unions, credit card and investment companies that we support.
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