Privacy Policy

Peach State Bank & Trust is committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information. You provide us with private personal information when you open an account or apply for a loan. The safeguarding of this information is of paramount importance to us.  Peach State Bank & Trust will strictly adhere to all federal and state laws governing the care of your private information.


Our Privacy Policy:

 Rev. FEB 2024

FACTS

WHAT DOES PEACH STATE BANK & TRUST

DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?



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 and income
  • credit history and credit scores
  • account transactions and checking account information

 


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 Peach State Bank & Trust chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.



Reasons we can share your personal information

Does Peach State 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

Yes

No

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 our affiliates to market to you

No

We don't share

For nonaffiliates to market to you

No

We don't share

 


Questions?

Call 770-536-1100 or go to www.peachstate.bank


Who we are

Who is providing this notice?

Peach State Bank & Trust



What we do

How does Peach State 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.


How does Peach State Bank & Trust collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

  • open an account or apply for a loan
  • pay your bills or show your driver’s license
  • make deposits or withdrawals from your account

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, 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 you 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.

What happens when I limit sharing for an account I hold jointly with someone else?

Your choices will apply to everyone on your account.



Definitions

Affiliates

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

  • Peach State Bank & Trust does not share with our affiliates.

Nonaffiliates

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

  • Peach State 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.

  • Peach State Bank & Trust does not jointly market.


Peach State Bank & Trust reserves the right to change this notice at any time by publishing a new privacy notice.

You should carefully review the notice and all of your rights as they are outlined in the policy.

 

 

Mobile Apps Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 26, 2024

The Mobile Apps Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to your use of the websites and mobile device applications (collectively, “Apps”) of Peach State Bank & Trust (the “Bank”) to access the services of the Bank (“Services”).  The Policy describes how information is collected by and through websites, mobile applications, and online interfaces that are owned, operated, or controlled by the Bank, including this website, and how that information may be used and shared. The Policy applies regardless of whether you are using a desktop computer, laptop, smart phone, electronic tablet, or other electronic device. For purposes of this Policy, the terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Bank. The terms “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to any natural person who accesses or uses an App for personal, family, household or business purposes.  By using or accessing any App, you confirm your agreement to the terms of this Policy.  


THE TYPES OF INFORMATION THE BANK COLLECTS IN ITS APPS

We may access personal information while you use the Service such as your phone number, home address or email address. We will use this contact information to alert you about Service-related events or actions that require your attention. If you grant permission to use phone information, we will use the phone number to pre-populate forms that expect a personal phone number for contacting you. If you grant permission to use your device’s location, we will use the data when checking for nearby branch and ATM locations. If you grant permission to access photos, media or other files stored on your device, the service will use that information to add an image to a transaction, to attach a document to a conversation, and add a photo to your profile. If you grant permission to use a camera, the service will use it when taking a picture to add an image to a transaction or to capture images of a check that is being deposited or to add a photo to your profile.

Our privacy practices regarding your personal information can be found in our privacy policy located above. If you are a subscriber of Business Online Banking services, business-to-business exceptions in certain privacy laws may apply to your information.  Our online banking service provider serves as a processor who acts as controllers of your personal information and are primarily responsible for handling such requests. They will cooperate with any privacy rights requests received from us. If you use the Service to make bill payments or engage in transactions with other companies, those companies should also have a privacy policy that addresses the use of your personal information and your privacy rights.

 

MOBILE DEVICES

To use the mobile app provided with the Service (the "App"), you must have a mobile device that is compatible with the App. We do not warrant that the App will be compatible with your mobile device. You are responsible for any message and data rates from your mobile service provider when you use the App. You must comply with all rules and regulations of your mobile service provider and the mobile app store from which you download the App. If you download the Mobile App from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge and agree that this Agreement is solely between you and our service provider, not Apple, Inc. ("Apple") and that Apple has no responsibility for the App or content thereof. Your use of the App must comply with the Apple Store Terms of Service. You acknowledge that Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the App. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be solely governed by this Agreement and any law applicable to us as provider of the App. You acknowledge that Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims of you or any third party relating to the App or your possession and/or use of the App, including, but not limited to: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation; and all such claims are governed solely by this Agreement and any law applicable to us as provider of the Service. You acknowledge that, in the event of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of that App infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, our service provider, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim to the extent required by this Agreement. You and we acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement as relates to your license of the App and compliance with the terms and rules of the Apple App Store, and that, upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce this Agreement as relates to your license of the App against you as a third-party beneficiary. If you download the App from the Google Play Store: (i) you acknowledge that the Agreement is between you and our service provider only, and not with Google, Inc. ("Google"); (ii) your use of App must comply with Google’s then-current Google Play Store Terms of Service; (iii) Google is only a provider of the Google Play Store where you obtained the App; (iv) our service provider, and not Google, is solely responsible for the App; (v) Google has no obligation or liability to you with respect to the App or this Agreement; and (vi) you acknowledge and agree that Google is a third-party beneficiary to the Agreement as it relates to the App.

 

CONSENT TO USE OF DATA

You agree that we may collect and use data and information about you, your device, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered through your use of the Service to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support, product enhancements and other services (if any) related to the Service. Our service provider may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve its products or provide services or technologies.


HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION COLLECTED IN THE APPS

To assist our service provider in maintaining and improving this application, we use multiple analytics and logging platforms to gather information about usage of the Service. For example, it tracks how many visitors the Service has, which screens they spend time on, what kinds of operating systems and devices they use, and how they found the Service. Analytics platforms generally do not track, collect or upload any data that personally identifies an individual (such as a name, email address, account number or billing information), or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information, although they may use anonymized identifiers. The information helps improve the performance of this Service for you.

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 We disclose your personal information collected through your use of the Services as described below.

  1. In Accordance with Our Other Privacy Notices. Other than as described in this Mobile Apps Privacy Policy in connection with the Apps, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the processing of your information by us or third parties with whom we share information.
  2. Third Party Service Providers. We may share your personal information with third party or affiliated service providers that perform services for or on behalf of us in providing the Apps, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including: to provide you with the Services; to conduct quality assurance testing; to facilitate the creation of accounts; to optimize the performance of the Services; to provide technical support; and/or to provide other services to the Apps.
  3. Authorities and Others. Regardless of any choices you make regarding your personal information, The Apps may disclose your personal information to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, for the compliance and protection services described above.


LINKS TO OTHER SITES

 The Apps may contain links to third party websites. When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave the Apps and go to another site and another entity may collect personal and/or anonymous information from you. The Apps’ provision of a link to any other website or location is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other website or location or its contents. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

 

SAFEGUARDS AND RETENTION

 We implement reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures in an effort to safeguard the information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

 

A NOTE REGARDING CHILDREN’S ACCESS

 Our Apps are not targeted to individuals under the age of 13, and we do not, through the Apps, intentionally gather personal information about visitors who are under the age of 13. If a child under 13 submits personal information to us through the Apps and we learn that the personal information is the information of a child under 13, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible.


MOBILE APPS PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

This Policy is subject to occasional revision. Changes to this Policy will be posted on our website. These changes will be effective immediately for users of the Services. If you object to any such changes, you must notify us that you wish to deactivate your account. Continued use of the Services following changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes.

 

CONTACT US

 If you have any questions or complaints about this Mobile Apps Privacy Policy or The Apps’ data collection or processing practices, or if you want to report any security violations to any of the Apps, please contact us by email at support@peachstatebank.com  or by mail at: PO Box 290, Gainesville, GA 30503.