BECAUSE YOUR TRUST IS SO IMPORTANT
Your trust is the cornerstone of our relationship. That
is why we work so diligently to safeguard your
privacy. The information that you provide us is kept
in the strictest of confidence. We have no intentions
of selling personal information about our customers
to third-party businesses. We are proud to make that
commitment to you, because your trust is the
foundation of our business.
The following privacy policy explains how we use
and protect the information about our customers. We
ask that you read it carefully.
NOTICE OF YOUR FINANCIAL
PRIVACY RIGHTS
We, our, and us, when used in this notice, mean
The Watkins Savings 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(n):
- Deposit account
- Loan account
- Safe deposit box
- Insurance policies issued by or through us
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
- Information we receive as a result of verifying
customer information
INFORMATION WE DISCLOSE ABOUT YOU
We do NOT disclose any information about you
to anyone, except as permitted by law. Examples
of this might include disclosures necessary to
service your account or prevent unauthorized
transactions.
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.
INFORMATION ABOUT FORMER CUSTOMERS
We do not disclose information about former
customers, except as permitted by law.
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