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PLUMAS BANK BANKING PRIVACY POLICY & ONLINE
DISCLOSURES
At Plumas
Bank, customer privacy is a priority. We respect the trust you
place in us and in return, are committed to protecting your
personal information at all times. The following information
outlines our privacy statement and applies only to individual
customers who obtain financial products or services primarily
for personal, family or household purposes.
Information We Share
Plumas Bank
collects, retains and uses individual customer information ONLY
when we reasonably believe it would be useful, and allowed by
law. We disclose the nonpublic personal information we collect
about our customers, as described below, to nonaffiliated third
parties only as permitted by law.
We may
disclose all of the information we collect, as described below,
to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to
other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing
agreements.
Further, we
may also disclose all of the information we collect if we have a
good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply
with the law or with legal processes served on us; (2) protect
and defend our rights or property; or (3) act in an emergency to
protect someone’s safety.
As we develop
our business, we may also buy and sell assets, and, depending on
the transactions, your personally identifiable information may
be one of the transferred assets. In the event that we are
acquired by another company, your personal information may be
part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party.
Information We Collect
We collect non-public personal
information about you from a number of sources, such as the
following:
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Information you provide to us on applications or other forms;
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Information about your transactions with us or others; and
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Information we
receive from a consumer-reporting agency.
Protection of
Information
To guard your non-public personal
information from unauthorized access, we maintain rigorous
physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with
federal standards. Furthermore, when customer information is
provided to a third party, we insist that the third party adhere
to similar privacy principles for keeping such information
confidential.
Should you
decide to close your Plumas Bank account(s) or become an
inactive customer, we will adhere to the privacy policies and
practices as described in this notice.
Limiting Employee Access to
Information
We limit our employees’ access to
nonpublic personal information about you except in those
instances when there is a valid business reason for knowing such
information. We educate our employees so they understand the
importance of customer privacy and confidentiality, and also
take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce employee
privacy responsibilities when necessary.
Maintaining and Using
Personally identifiable Information in Electronic Banking and
Communications
How we handle information about
you when you visit our website will depend on what you do when
visiting the site. If you visit our website to read information
and do not use any of our online services, then we collect and
store only the name of the domain from which you access the
Internet, the date and time you access our website and the
Internet address of the website from which you linked directly
to our website. We may record the “IP address” assigned to you
by your internet service provider as part of this process. We
use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors
to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our
website more useful to visitors.
When you visit our website, or
use our electronic banking services, there may also be times
when you are asked to provide information about you that is
personally identifiable. This may include any of the
following: your first and last name, your home or other
physical address (including street name and name of a city or
town), your e-mail address, a telephone number or social
security number, or any other identifier that permits physical
or online contact with you. Personally identifiable information
might be needed or requested from you for you to register for
banking or other services, or to fill out our forms or
applications for services (such as credit cards), for special
promotions or contests, or to accomplish transactions you
request (such as bill payment or other banking services.This
may result in sharing of personally identifiable nformation with
third parties (such as data processors o
There is a technology called
“cookies” that allow for a more tailored web-site experience. A
cookie is a data element that is sent to your browser and may be
stored at your computer. We may use cookies in this manner. If
you wish, you may modify your browser to disable cookies,
including session cookies.
You may also decide to send us
information that personally identifies you, for example, in an
electronic mail (e-mail) message. We will use that information
to respond to the inquiry and provide accurate information of
any questions. We will not use such information beyond the basis
for the inquiry. We will not obtain personal information about
you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such
information to us.
If you visit our website or
engage in any online services that we offer, then we may collect
and store these categories of personally identifiable
information.
We will not share the personally
identifiable
The
personally identifiable information we obtain from you is stored
with us if it is to be used on an on-going basis. You may
access and correct your personally identifiable information by
contacting your local branch
information you provide us at our website or by e-mail, except
obtain from you is
tored with us if i
Changes
to Our Online Privacy Notice
We may make
changes to our online privacy notice at any time and from time
to time. When we do so, we will promptly post the revised
online privacy notice on our website with a link at the bottom
of our home page, there is also a link under "About Us" located
in the left menu bar of our home page. Our home page will
also have a statement notifying readers that our online privacy
notice has changed and the effective date of that change.
Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act
Our website is not directed to
children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly solicit data
from persons under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly market
to persons under the age of 13.
Revision Date 7/20/2004
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