Bank of Hazlehurst Privacy Policy

We care about your privacy.

Through our everyday operations, the Bank of Hazlehurst (the Bank) compiles and maintains confidential information on our customers. It is the policy of the Bank to protect the privacy of this information, especially in light of the increasing attempts from outside sources to obtain this information without the consent of the customer. The Bank will implement strong internal controls, ongoing training, and a strict adherence standard to ensure customer privacy.

Our most important asset is our customers' trust. Keeping information about you secure and using it only as you would want us to, is a top priority for us.

Here is a brief summary of our privacy policy (you can view the full policy below):

1) We have never sold and will never sell information about you to anyone for their independent use.

2) We will safeguard any information you provide to us, keeping it secure and confidential.

3) We will limit the collection and use of information about you to the minimum we believe is required to deliver superior service. This includes the chance for us to design and offer you specific products, services and other opportunities that might benefit you: i.e. save you time and money, result in increased convenience, help you manage your finances or improve personalized service.

4) We will permit only authorized team members who are trained in the proper handling of customer information to have access to information about you. This means only team members whom we determine need to know information to provide products and services to you will be allowed access.

5) In addition to restricting access to information about you, we also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable legal and regulatory standards to keep this information private and secure.

6) Whenever we hire other organizations to provide support services that will have access to customer information, we will require them to conform to our privacy requirements and to allow us to audit them for compliance.

7) For purposes of credit reporting, verification and risk management, we will exchange information about you with reputable reference sources and clearing house services.

8) We will tell you in plain language, initially and at least once every year while you are a customer, what information we collect from you, where we obtain that information and how we plan to use it.

Protecting your privacy…our privacy policy.

It is important to us that you understand what information we collect about you and how it is used. We want you to know that we limit the collection and disclosure of information only to that which we believe is necessary to serve you and administer our business.

Collecting Information
In the process of serving you, we obtain certain "non-public personal information" --- information about you that is not available publicly. This information comes to us from a variety of sources, including:

Information you provide directly to us (or is provided to us on your behalf) on applications, other forms or otherwise (such as Social Security Number, assets and income).
Information related to your transactions with us (such as account balance and payment history).
Information we receive from third parties (such as consumer reporting agencies or credit or employment references).

Using that Information
We may disclose all the information that we collect as follows:

As permitted or required by law, for example: to process your accounts, prepare your account statements or to respond to subpoenas or similar legal requests as well as requests from law enforcement agencies or state and federal banking regulators.
For identification purposes to protect your accounts and guard against unauthorized access.
Only in accordance with the principles stated in this policy.

We will not, however, sell or provide information about you to telemarketing companies. We will also not use or disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy policies or procedures, please contact the compliance officer of the Bank of Hazlehurst.


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