Privacy Policy

Protecting your Private and Financial Information      

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We are aware of your need for personal and  financial privacy. We are  determined to safeguard the information you make available to us through this  website, as well as through other contacts. FirstBank will not sell  any personal or financial information about you. We only  share information about you with participating lenders, real estate  professionals or others upon your consent.

Privacy Policy Disclosure – (Protection of the Privacy of Personal Non-Public Information)

Respecting and protecting customer privacy is vital to our business. By explaining our Privacy Policy to you,we trust that you will better understand how we keep our customer information private and secure while using it to serve you better. Keeping customer information secure is a top priority, and we are disclosing our policies to help you understand how we handle the personal information about you that we collect and disclose. This notice explains how you can limit our disclosing of personal information about you. The provisions of this notice will apply to former customers as well as current customers unless we state
otherwise.

The Privacy Policy explains the Following:

  • Protecting the confidentiality of our customer informationŸ
  • Who is covered by the Privacy Policy.
  • How we gather information.
  • The types of information we share, why, and with whom.
  • Opting Out – how to instruct us not to share certain information about you or not to contact yo

Protecting the Confidentiality of Customer Information:

We take our responsibility to protect the privacy and confidentiality of customer information very seriously. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to store and secure information about you from unauthorized access, alteration, and destruction. Our control policies, for example, authorize access to customer information only by individuals who need access to do their work.

From time to time, we enter into agreements with other companies to provide services to us or make products and services available to you. Under these agreements, the companies may receive information about you but they must safeguard this information, and they may not use it for any other purposes.

Who is Covered by the Privacy Policy:
We provide our Privacy Policy to customers when they conduct business with our company. If we change our privacy policies to permit us to share additional information we have about you, as described below, or to permit disclosures to additional types of parties, you will be notified in advance. This Privacy Policy applies to consumers who are current customers or former customers.

How We Gather Information:
As part of providing you with financial products or services, we may obtain information about you
from the following sources:Ÿ

  • Applications, forms, and other information that you provide to us, whether in writing, in person,
    by telephone, electronically, or by any other means. This information may include your name,
    address, employment information, income, and credit references;
  • Your transaction with us, our affiliates, or others. This information may include your account
    balances, payment history, and account usage;
  • Consumer reporting agencies. This information may include account information and
    information about your credit worthiness;
  • Public sources. This information may include real estate records, employment records, telephone
    numbers, etc.

Information We Share:

We may disclose information we have about you as permitted by law. We are required to or we may provide information about you to third-parties without your consent, as permitted by law, such as:

  • To regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials.
  • To protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims, or other
    liability.
  • To report account activity to credit bureaus.
  • To consumer reporting agencies,
  • To respond to a subpoena or court order, judicial process or regulatory authorities.
  • In connection with a proposed or actual sale, merger, or transfer of all or a portion of a business or
    an operating unit, etc.

In addition, we may provide information about you to our service providers to help us proves your applications or service your accounts. Our service providers may include billing service providers, mail and telephone service companies, lenders, investors, title and escrow companies, appraisal companies, etc.

We may also provide information about you to our service providers to help us perform marketing services. This information provided to these service providers may include the categories of information described above under “How We Gather Information” limited to only that which we deem appropriate for these service providers to carry out their functions.

We do not provide non-public information about you to any company whose products and services are being marketed unless you authorize us to do so. These companies are not allowed to use this information for purposes beyond your specific authorization.

Google

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users.

We use Google AdWords tracking on our website.

We have implemented the following:

  • Demographics and Interests Reporting
  • Remarketing

We along with third-party vendors, such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions, and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Opting out:
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Opting Out
We also may share information about you within our corporate family of office(s). We may share all of the categories of information we gather about you, including identification information (such as your name and address), credit reports (such as your credit history), application information (such as your income or credit references), your account transactions and experiences with us (such as your payment history), and information from other third parties (such as your employment history).

By sharing this information we can better understand your financial needs. We can then send you notification of new products and special promotional offers that you may not otherwise know about. For example, if you originally obtained a mortgage loan with us, we would know that you are a homeowner and may be interested in hearing how a home equity loan may be a better option than an auto loan to finance the purchase of a new car.

You may prohibit the sharing of application and third-party credit-related information within our company or any third-party company at any time. If you would like to limit disclosures of personal information about you as described in this notice, please contact us in writing to advise us of your wishes. 3500 Blue Lake Drive, Suite 325, Birmingham, AL 35243

Note for Joint Accounts: Your Opt Out choices will also apply to other individuals who are joint account holders. If these individuals have separate accounts, your Opt Out will not apply to those separate accounts.

State Notices

For Nevada residents only. We are providing you this notice pursuant to state law. You may be placed on our internal Do Not Call List by contacting us at FirstBank, 3500 Blue Lake Drive, Suite 325, Birmingham, AL 35243 or calling at 205-271-1210. Nevada law requires that we also provide you with the following contact information: Bureau of Consumer Protection, Office of the Nevada Attorney General, 555 E. Washington St., Suite 3900, Las Vegas, NV 89101; Phone number- 702.486.3132; email: BCPINFO@ag.state.nv.us. 

Vermont: In accordance with Vermont law, we will not share information we collect about Vermont residents with companies outside of our corporate family, except as permitted by law, such as with your consent, to service your accounts or to other financial institutions with which we have joint marketing agreements. We will not share information about your creditworthiness within our corporate family except with your authorization or consent, but we may share information about our transactions or experiences with you within our corporate family without your consent.

California: In accordance with California law, we will not share information we collect about you with companies outside of FirstBank, unless the law allows. For example, we may share information with your consent, to service your accounts, or to provide rewards or benefits you are entitled to. We will limit sharing among our companies to the extent required by California law.