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YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US
You provide important information about yourself to a variety of businesses and organizations. The same is true when you do business with our financial institution. You’re asked to provide us with certain personal information that helps us give you better service and complete your transactions more effectively. We work diligently to safeguard the information you give to us. In fact, we developed the following policies to ensure you confidentiality and maintain your confidence in our institution. These policies detail the strict standards we have in place. For this reason we ask that you please read the following information carefully.
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NOTICE OF YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVACY RIGHTS
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We, our, and us, when used in this notice, mean Peoples State Bank & Trust.
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
- Mortgage brokerage services
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.”
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THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
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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
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THE CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY, AND INTEGRITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
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| 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
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| 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
- Transaction history
- Payment history
- Parties to the transaction
- Deposit history
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:
- Bankers
Reasons For Disclosure
We believe that sharing of information with affiliated companies improves customer service by allowing us to provide the best possible products and services at reasonable prices. |
YOUR INFORMATION AND OTHER PARTIES
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We will not disclose information about you to anyone except as disclosed in this policy or as permitted by law. This might include disclosures necessary to service your account, perform joint marketing or prevent unauthorized transactions. |
INFORMATION ABOUT FORMER CUSTOMERS
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We do not disclose information about former customers, except as permitted by law.
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