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Privacy Notice
OUR PRIVACY PLEDGE TO YOU
As a customer of The Farmers Bank, you provide us with important information about yourself and your finances, and we believe it is our responsibility to protect your information. As such, we have developed the following privacy policy to ensure you of this confidentiality. 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 The Farmers Bank. 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:
- Deposit account
- Loan account
- Safe deposit box
- Retail installment contract we hold and service
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 other parties
- Information from a consumer reporting agency
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 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 - SERVICE PROVIDERS AND JOINT MARKETING
We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements. You do not have a right to opt out of the disclosure of this information.
Types of Businesses
We may disclose information pursuant to joint marketing agreements to the following types of businesses:
Financial service providers, such as:
- Private label credit card issuers
- Broker relationships
Reasons for Disclosing
We may disclose information about you to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements to provide you with information about additional products and services.