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Our Pledge
Peoples Bank believes in protecting the privacy and
confidentiality of your personal information. We value your business and the
trust you place in us. To offer you the financial products and services you
seek, we collect, maintain, and use information about you on a routine
basis. To help you better understand how your personal information is
protected, we are providing you with the following statement describing our
practices and policies with respect to the privacy of customer information.
Information We Collect
As a trusted financial institution, we collect, retain, and use nonpublic
personal information about individual customers, allowed by law, to provide
products and services to our customers. We may collect nonpublic personal
information from such sources as: Information you provide to us on
applications or other forms; Information about your transactions with us,
our affiliates, or others; and Information we receive from a consumer
reporting agency.
Information We Share
We may disclose nonpublic personal information about you with our corporate
affiliates and other nonaffiliated third parties under certain circumstances
to provide account services. Any nonpublic personal information shared is
conducted in strict adherence to applicable law. We do not disclose any
nonpublic personal information about you to anyone, except as permitted
under law. We do not share with our affiliates the information we obtain
from your application (other than identification and contact information),
the information we obtain from Credit Bureaus, nor transaction or experience
information.
Who Receives Information and Why
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about consumers, our
customers, or former customers, to anyone, except as permitted by law. We
may exchange such information with our affiliates and certain nonaffiliated
third parties (under limited circumstances) to the extent permissible under
law to service your account, offer you products or services we believe you
may find valuable, report to Credit Bureaus, manage risk, and other
financial services related activities.
Service Providers/Joint Marketing Partners
To provide our customers with products or services that we believe may meet
your financial needs, we may exchange limited nonpublic personal information
about you to nonaffiliated firms that conduct marketing services on our
behalf, or with other financial institutions in order to offer financial
products or services pursuant to a joint agreement. Such information
exchanged includes: Information we receive from you on applications or other
forms, such as your name, address, social security number, assets, and
income; Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or
others, such as your account balance, payment history, parties to
transactions, and credit card usage; and Information we receive from a
consumer reporting agency, such as information relating to your
creditworthiness and credit history. We require these parties to maintain
similar standards of conduct regarding the privacy of your personal
information.
How We Protect Your Information
We understand that the protection of your nonpublic personal information is
of the utmost importance. Guarding your privacy is our obligation. Peoples
Bank maintains strict procedures and policies to safeguard your privacy. We
restrict employee access to customer information only to those who have a
business reason to know such information, and we educate our employees about
the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy.
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