Facts

WHAT DOES THE BENNINGTON 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. This information can include:

  • Social Security number and income
  • Account balances and payment history
  • Credit history and credit scores

When you are no longer a customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
How? All financial companies need to share thier customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can hare their customers’ personal information: the reasons The Bennington State Bank chooses to share: and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons we can share your personal information

Does Bennington State Bank share?

Can you limit this sharing?
For our everyday 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. *SMS/text message data is excluded and will not be used for marketing. 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 affiliates to market to you No We don’t share
For our nonaffiliates to market to you No We don’t share
Questions? Call 888-827-1887 or go to www.bsbks.com

Who we are
Who is providing this notice? The Bennington State Bank

What we do
How does The Bennington 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 restrict access to your nonpublic information to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you.
How does The Bennington State Bank collect my personal information? We collect your personal information, for example, when you

  • Open any type of account or apply for a loan
  • Deposit money or use your debit card
  • show your government issued I.D.

We also collect your personal information from others such as credit bureaus, affiliates or other companies.
Why can’t I limit all 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 nonaffiliates 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 nonfinancial companies.

  • The Bennington State Bank does not share with our affiliates.
Nonaffiliates Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

  • The Bennington State Bank does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.
Joint marketing A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

  • The Bennington State Bank doesn’t joint market.