Introduction: We respect your
financial privacy and comply with laws and regulations designed to secure that
privacy. Your relationship with us is important, and we want you to understand
our policies and practices about handling your nonpublic personal financial
information. In this disclosure, we refer to your nonpublic personal financial
information as simply information.
Information About You: We may
routinely collect information from the following sources:
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Information we receive from you on applications and other
forms, such as your marital status or your income;
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Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or
others;
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Information we receive from a consumer credit report, such as
your credit score or your credit history;
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Information we obtain to verify representations made by you,
such as your open lines of credit; and
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Information we obtain from a person regarding its employment,
credit, or other relationship with you, such as your employment history.
We may share this information with others
to the extent permitted by law and in accordance with our information sharing
practices listed below.
Safeguarding Information About You:
Information that we have about you is available to our employees on a need to
know basis so they can do their jobs. We do not provide information about you
to anyone without first verifying who they are and whether they may have legal
access to the information. We train our employees to protect information we have
about you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that
comply with federal standards to guard your information.
Information Sharing Practices: We may
disclose all of the information that we collect, as described above, to the
following types of third parties:
We reserve the right to disclose information
in the future to:
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Non-financial companies, such as retailers, direct marketers,
airlines and publishers, and
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Others, such as non-profit organizations.
We may also disclose all of the information
we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on
our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing
agreements.
Former Customers: We will treat the
information we have about former customers as if they were still our customers,
as described above.
Your Opt Out Rights: If you prefer that we not disclose information
about you to nonaffiliated third parties, you may opt out of those
disclosures, that is, you may direct us not to make those disclosures (other
than disclosures permitted by law). To opt out, complete the blanks below and
return to Atlantic Coast Bank, P. O. Box 1256, Waycross, GA 31502.
Once your signed statement is received, we have a reasonable amount of time to
stop the information sharing. To revoke your opt out, send your signed
statement saying you will permit us to share the information indicated.
I have received and read the above notice
entitled Atlantic Coast Bank Privacy Policy Disclosure. I am instructing
Atlantic Coast Bank not to make the disclosures to third parties that notice
describes. My decision to opt out of these disclosures is for all accounts
listed below. I acknowledge that Atlantic Coast Bank has a reasonable amount
of time to implement this request, and, not withstanding this instruction, may
still make other disclosures as required or otherwise allowed by law.