Protecting your privacy and maintaining your trust has always been important to the First National Bank of Steeleville.  We hope this notice will help you understand what customer information we collect and how we use and protect it.  In order to provide our customers with a broad range of financial products and services as effectively and conveniently as possible, we use technology to maintain and manage customer information.  The following policy serves as the standard for all First National Bank of Steeleville employees in the collection, use, retention, and security of nonpublic personal information. 

First National Bank of Steeleville collects nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

“Nonpublic personal information” means any personally identifiable financial information about you that is not publicly available that we obtain in connection with providing a financial product or service to you.  (For example, it may include information such as your social security number, account balance, payment history or assets.)  We are permitted under law to disclose nonpublic personal information about you to third parties in certain circumstances.  For example, we may disclose nonpublic personal information about you to third parties to assist us in servicing your loans or deposit accounts, to government entities in response to subpoenas, and to credit bureaus.  We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to anyone, except as permitted by law.

We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements.

Should you close your account(s) or become an inactive customer, we will continue the confidentiality of your nonpublic information according to the privacy policies and practices as described in this notice. 

First National Bank of Steeleville also takes steps to safeguard customer information.  We restrict access to your personal and account information to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you.  First National Bank of Steeleville maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.

Phishing Brochure

The Federal Bank Regulatory Agencies have made a brochure available warning of Internet Pirates that are trying to steal your personal financial information and what you can do to stop them.  The brochure is available as an Adobe document by following this link:

 Phishing Brochure

Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

The Federal Trade Commission has made a brochure available that gives information on how to deter, detect, defend and avoid identity theft. The brochure is available as an Adobe document by following this link:

 Take Charge: Fighting Back Against Identity Theft