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Your Privacy is important to us!
NOTICE OF YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVACY RIGHTS
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We, our, and us mean Appalachian Community Bank, Gilmer County Bank (a division of Appalachian Community Bank), and Appalachian Community Bank, FSB.
This is our privacy notice for our customers.
When we use the words “you” and “your” we mean the following types of customers:
All of our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship with us, such as:
Deposit account
Loan account
Credit card
Safe deposit box
Retail installment contract we hold and service
Financial, investment, or economic advisory services (for a fee)
We will tell you the sources for nonpublic personal information we collect on our customers. We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information.
We first define some terms.
Nonpublic personal information means information about you that we collect in connection with providing a financial product or service to you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information that is available from public sources, such as telephone directories or government records. An affiliate is a company we own or control, a company that owns or controls us, or a company that is owned or controlled by the same company that owns or controls us. Appalachian Community Bank and Appalachian Community Bank, FSB are affiliates of each other and of the company that owns them both, Appalachian Bancshares, Inc. For the purposes of the law, ownership does not always have to mean complete ownership; it can mean owning enough to have control
An affiliate is a company we own or control, a company that owns or controls us, or a company that is owned or controlled by the same company that owns or controls us. Ownership does not mean complete ownership, but means owning enough to have control.
A nonaffiliated third party is a company that is not an affiliate or ours.
THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:
Information we receive from you on applications or other forms
Information about your transactions with us
Information about your transactions with our affiliates
Information about your transactions with nonaffiliated third parties
Information from a consumer reporting agency
INFORMATION WE DISCLOSE ABOUT YOU
We do NOT disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to anyone, except as permitted by law.
THE CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY AND INTEGRITY OF YOUR NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.
NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION AND FORMER CUSTOMERS
We do not disclose nonpublic personal information about former customers, except as permitted by law.
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