Privacy Policy:


The First State Bank knows how important personal privacy is to you, our valued customer. We have adopted the following privacy principles, setting forth in writing the standard of policy that we have followed in the past, continuing our commitment to serve you.

We recognize that you expect privacy and security for your personal and financial affairs. We understand the need to safeguard our sensitive information about you that you have entrusted to us. We maintain standards and procedures designed to prevent misuse of this information.

We collect, retain, and use nonpublic personal information about you only where we reasonably believe that it will help administer our service to you. We use this information to protect and administer your records and accounts; to comply with certain laws and regulations; to help us design or improve our products and service your financial needs.

We educate our employees so that they will understand the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy.

We have appropriate security standards and procedures regarding unauthorized access to your information. We will take disciplinary measures to enforce employee privacy responsibilities.

We will not reveal to third parties specific information about you (even when you no longer have a relationship with us), except where you request or authorize such information be released; the information is to help complete a transaction initiated by you; when the information is provided to a reputable credit bureau or similar information reporting agency; or when the disclosure is required by banking regulations, or State or Federal law.

We reserve the right to change our privacy policy from time to time in order to serve your needs under changed conditions.



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