A Customer Privacy Statement from Hometown Bank
At Hometown Bank, protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information is important to us. We value your business and the trust you put in Hometown Bank when you supply us with non-public personal information. We want you to understand how we protect the confidentiality of that information, as well as how and why we use and disclose it. This statement explains our practices and policies for protecting the security of your customer information, both while you are an active customer and thereafter.
Information we collect
As a trusted financial institution, we collect, retain, and use non-public personal information about individual customers to provide products and services to you. We may collect non-public personal information about you from such sources as:
•Applications or other forms;
•Information about your transaction with us, our affiliates, or others; and,
•Information we receive from a consumer-reporting agency.
Who receives information and why
Unlike other financial institutions, Hometown Bank does not disclose any non-public personal information about our customers, or former customers, to anyone, except as permitted by law. We may exchange such information with our affiliated and certain non-affiliated third parties - under very limited circumstances - to properly service your account, offer valuable products or services, report to credit bureaus, manage risk, and perform other financial services. Non-public information does not include information that is available from public sources, such as government records or telephone directories.
How we protect your information
We understand that the protection of your non-public personal information is of the utmost importance. Hometown Bank maintains strict physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. In fact, we restrict employee access to customer information to only those who have a business reason to know such information, and we educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy.
Banking is an activity that relies upon trust, and Hometown Bank and its employees closely guard and greatly appreciate the trust you have placed in us. Thank you.
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