Privacy Policy

First Financial Bank in Winnebago is committed to protecting your trust in this institution.  Protecting your privacy, along with your financial assets, is at the core of our business.  Because we respect your expectations to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your information, we want you to understand why we collect the information we do and how we use it.  We also recognize our obligation to limit access to the information you provide to us.

We pledge to you, our customer, to protect sensitive information, to disclose our practices, and to honor customer privacy.

Permissible Reasons to Collect and Maintain Information About Our Customers

We will collect, retain, and use information about our customers only where we believe it will help administer our business or provide products or services to them.

We must also collect certain information in order to comply with certain laws and regulations.  We may use the information to create new products or improve existing products, services and delivery systems.

 Categories of Information We Collect

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; and

§         Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.

Categories of Information We Disclose and Parties to Whom We Disclose

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law.

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".  Our employees are educated about the importance of maintaining confidentiality and customer privacy. 

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.