Privacy

What Does Farmers State Bank 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. The information can include:

  • Social Security Number and Account Balances
  • Payment History and Credit Scores
  • Income and Credit History

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

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 Farmers State Bank chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons We Can Share Your Personal Information

Does Farmers State Bank 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 nonaffiliates to market to you No We don’t share

Questions? Call (608) 489-2621 or go to 726 Water Avenue, Hillsboro, WI 54634

Who is providing this notice?

Farmers State Bank – Hillsboro, Union Center, La Farge, Readstown, & Wonewoc.

What we do How does Farmers State Bank 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.

We maintain other physical, electronic and employee procedural safeguards to protect this information and limit access.

How does Farmers State Bank collect my personal information?

We collect your personal information, for example, when you:

  • Open an account or Apply for a loan
  • Deposit money or Use your credit or debit card
  • Pay your bills

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all the sharing?

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

  • sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness
  • affiliates from using your information to market to you
  • sharing for non-affiliates to market to you

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

Definitions

Affiliates: Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. Farmers State Bank does not share with our affiliates.

Non-affiliates: Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. Farmers State Bank does not share with non-affiliates so they can market to you.

Joint Marketing: A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you. Farmers State Bank doesn’t jointly market.

Download a copy of our privacy statement here. (PDF)