Privacy Statement

At Security State Bank, we understand the importance of protecting consumer privacy in building and maintaining a long-term relationship with our customers. For this reason, we have created a set of privacy principles in order to assure that your privacy is maintained. We hope that the following statements will assist you in understanding the measures we take to protect your personal and financial information.

Use, Collection and Retention of Customer Information

We collect, retain and use information about our customers only to the extent we believe such information is necessary, useful and allowed by law, to enable us to conduct our business and to offer our customers a wide array of competitive products and services.

Maintenance of Account Information

In accordance with standard practices of our industry, we have implemented procedures to make sure that our customer information is accurate, current and complete. We welcome customer inquiries and promptly respond to requests to update or correct customer information. If you need to update or correct customer information, please contact Security State Bank, 501 Phelps Avenue, P.O. Box 470, Littlefield, Texas 79339 or call 806-385-5134.

When you visit our site we collect and store only the following information about you: (i) the name of the domain from which you access the Internet; (ii) the date and time you access our site; and (iii) the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site. We use this information to measure the number of visits to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more user friendly.

When contacting our site, we do not collect your e-mail address unless you send us an electronic mail message. We will use your e-mail address to respond to inquiries you may have. We will not forward your e-mail address to any third party unless required to do so by law.

Limiting Employee Access to Information

We limit access to personally identifiable customer information to our employees with a legitimate business reason for knowing such information. We train our employees to make sure that they understand the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy. We also enforce our employees’ compliance with these principles through appropriate disciplinary measures as provided for in our personnel manual.

Protection of Information via Established Security Procedures

We maintain security procedures to guard against unauthorized access to customer information.

Protecting Online Banking

We use current Internet technology to make online banking secure and to protect your personal information. For example, our server program provides advanced security technology. We also require an I.D. and password to access your accounts. If you do not provide this information, we cannot establish an online banking service for you.

You can also help maintain the security of your banking information by not sharing your I.D. or password with anyone, by changing your password regularly, and by remembering to sign off at the end of your session.

Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 5 and later saves user names and passwords. It automatically completes you login. This could allow others using your computer us use your login without knowing your password. To learn how to disable this feature refer to Help in Explorer.

In Conclusion

These privacy principles are applicable to individual customers of Security State Bank. We reserve the right to amend the principles at any time and from time-to-time at our discretion.

For more information regarding your privacy, please contact Security State Bank, 501 Phelps Avenue, P.O. Box 470, Littlefield, Texas 79339 or call 806-385-5134.

We at Security State Bank appreciate your business and will continue to protect the trust you have placed in us. Thank you for choosing Security State Bank as your financial institution.