Privacy Statement

Privacy Notice

Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal information such as your name, Social Security number, credit card number or other identifying information, without your permission to commit fraud or other crimes. Identity theft is a serious crime. People whose identities have been stolen can spend months or years – and their hard-earned money – cleaning up the mess thieves have made of their good name and credit record. In the meantime, victim may lose job opportunities, be refused loans, education, housing or cars, or even get arrested for crimes they didn’t commit. The Federal Trade Commission has an excellent website explaining identity theft, tips on minimizing your risk, and actions to take if you become a victim of identity theft. We encourage you to visit the following Federal Trade Commission web sites to minimize your risk of this growing crime.

Notice of Your Financial Privacy Rights

We, our, and us mean First State Bank.

This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the words “you” and “your” we mean the following types of customers:

  • All of our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship with us such as:
  • Deposit account
  • Loan account
  • Safe deposit box
  • Self-directed Individual Retirement Account where we act as custodian or
  • All former customers

We will tell you the sources for nonpublic personal information we collect on our customers. 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.

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 company that is not an affiliate of ours.

The Information that We Collect

We collect non public personal information about you from the following sources:

  • Information we receive from you on applications or other forms.
  • Information about your transactions with us.
  • Information about your transactions with nonaffiliated third parties.
  • Information from a consumer reporting agency.

We do NOT disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to anyone, except as permitted by law.

The Confidentiality, Security, and Integrity of Your NonPublic Personal Information

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

NonPublic Personal Information and Former Customers

If you decide to close your account(s) or become an inactive customer, we will follow the privacy policies and practices as described in this notice.

Notice

The First State Bank is chartered under the laws of the State of Texas and by state law is subject to regulatory oversight by the Texas Department of Banking.  After first contacting First State Bank, if you still have an unresolved complaint regarding First State Bank, consumers may file complaints with the Texas Department of Banking by contacting the department through one of the means indicated below:

In person or U.S. Mail:

2601 N. Lamar Blvd., Suite 300, Austin, Tx.  78705-4294

Phone

877-276-5554

Fax

512-475-1313

Mail

Click here

Website

Texas Department of Banking