Privacy Policy

FACTS: What does St. Simons Bank & Trust do with your personal information?

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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
  • Payment history
  • Credit history
  • Account transactions
  • Checking account information

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 St. Simons Bank & Trust chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons we can share your personal information

Does St. Simons Bank & Trust 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

No We don’t share

For nonaffiliates to market to you

No We don’t share

Questions? Call (912) 638-1190


Who We Are

Who is providing this notice? St. Simons Bank & Trust means St. Simons Bank & Trust.

What We Do

How does St. Simons Bank & Trust 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 also 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 St. Simons Bank & Trust collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

  • Open an account
  • Give us your contact information
  • Apply for a loan
  • Provide your mortgage information
  • Provide account information

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus 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.
See below for more on your rights under state law.


Definitions

Affiliates – Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

  • St. Simons Bank & Trust has no affiliates.

Nonaffiliates – Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.

  • St. Simons Bank & Trust 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.

  • St. Simons Bank & Trust doesn't jointly market.

Other Important Information

For Alaska, Illinois, Maryland and North Dakota Customers. We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing - without your authorization.

For California Customers. We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing - without your authorization. We will also limit our sharing of personal information about you with our affiliates to comply with all California privacy laws that apply to us.

For Massachusetts, Mississippi and New Jersey Customers. We will not share personal information from deposit or share relationships with nonaffiliates either for them to market to you or for joint marketing - without your authorization.

For Vermont Customers. We will not share personal information with nonaffiliates for them to market to you without your authorization and we will not share personal information with affiliates or for joint marketing about your creditworthiness without your authorization.


Please contact us if you have any changes to the information you have supplied St. Simons Bank & Trust or if you would like to be removed from our database.

This Privacy Policy may be updated or modified at any time without notice, so you are urged to revisit this policy periodically.