The board of directors and management of Great Eastern Bank of Florida understand
how important personal privacy is to our customers. In the interest of protecting
the privacy of our customers the board is adopting the following Privacy Policy.
We, our, and us mean Great Eastern
Bank of Florida.
This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the words
"you" and "your" we mean the following types of customers:
- Our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding
financial products or services such as a(n):
- Deposit Account
- Loan Account
- Safe Deposit Box
- Self-Directed Individual Retirement Account
- Former customers
- All business accounts
We will tell you the sources of the information we collect about you. 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. Hereafter, we will
use the term information to mean nonpublic personal information as defined in this
section.
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 person we do no not employ or
a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as nonaffiliated
third party, or simply, an "other party."
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
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, our affiliates or others
- Information we receive from a consumer-reporting agency
- Information we receive as a result of verifying customer information
NO DISCLOSURES OUTSIDE OF EXCEPTIONS
We do NOT disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or
former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law. Examples of
this might include disclosures necessary to service your account or prevent unauthorized
transactions.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
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.