WHAT DOES FIRST BANK OF THE PALM BEACHES DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Why?
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
What?
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:
Social Security number
Account balances
Transaction history
Credit history
Checking account information
Wire transfer instructions
When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
How?
All financial companies need to share customers' personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers' personal information; the reasons First Bank of the Palm Beaches chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
Reasons we can share your personal information
Does First Bank of the Palm Beaches share?
Can you limit this sharing?
For our everyday business purposes—
such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus
Yes
No
For our marketing purposes—
to offer our products and services to you
No
We Don't Share
For joint marketing with other financial companies
No
We don't share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes— information about your transactions and experiences
No
We don't share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes— information about your creditworthiness
How does First Bank of the Palm Beaches protect my personal information?
To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.
We maintain other physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect this information and we limit access to information to those employees for whom access is appropriate.
How does First Bank of the Palm Beaches collect my personal information?
We collect your personal information, for example, when you
Open an account
Apply for a loan
Give us your contact information
Provide your mortgage information
Make a wire transfer
We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.
Why can’t I limit all sharing?
Federal law gives you the right to limit only
sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness
affiliates from using your information to market to you
sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
Definitions
Affiliates
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
First Bank of the Palm Beaches does not share with our affiliates.
Nonaffiliates
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
First Bank of the Palm Beaches does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.
Joint Marketing
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
First Bank of the Palm Beaches doesn't jointly market.
About Children's Online Privacy
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was passed to give parents increased control over what information is collected from their children online and how such information is used. The law applies to websites and services directed to, and which knowingly collect information from, children under the age of 13. First Bank of the Palm Beaches' websites and online services are not directed to children under the age of 13, nor is information knowingly collected from them. For additional information on COPPA protections, link to the Federal Trade Commission's website at www.ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/childrens. For further information, the Federal Government has created a Web site, Kidz Privacy, aimed at educating both parents and children about the dangers of the Internet and how to browse safely.
FIRST BANK OF THE PALM BEACHES
415 5TH STREET
WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33401
TELEPHONE: (561) 847-2700
FAX: (561) 847-2722 www.firstbankpb.com
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