Privacy Policies

The Peoples Bank
Privacy Policy

At The Peoples Bank, our mission is to meet the needs and desires of our customers. As financial service professionals entrusted with sensitive financial information, we are committed to the privacy of your customer information. We will treat customer information responsibly and use strict security standards to safeguard it. Our Privacy Policy serves as a standard for all of our employees for the collection, use, retention, and security of individual customer information.

Categories of Information We Collect

The Peoples Bank collects only information that is needed to serve you and administer our business. We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:
• Information that we receive directly from you on applications or other forms, such as your
   name, address and social security number.
• Information about your transactions with our affiliates, others, or us such as your account balance or    
   payment history.
• Information that we receive from consumer reporting agencies, such as your credit worthiness.

Categories of Information We Disclose

In order to protect our customer’s privacy, we carefully control the way in which any information about customers is shared. We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law. For example, we may disclose nonpublic personal information that you provide us, such as your name and address, to our affiliates.

It is our policy not to reveal specific information about customer accounts or other personally identifiable data to unaffiliated third parties for their independent use, except for the exchange of information with reputable credit reporting agencies.

Confidentiality and Security

The Peoples Bank is committed to the security of our customer’s financial and personal information. All of our operational and data processing systems are in a secure environment that protects account information from being accessed by third parties. We maintain and grant access to customer information only in accordance with our internal security standards.

The Peoples Bank employees are given access to personally identifiable information only when they have a business reason to know that information. Employees are educated on the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of customer information and on these privacy principles. Because of the importance of these issues, our employees are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of customer information and employees who violate these privacy policies will be subject to disciplinary action.