Privacy Policy

Last Update: 12/30/2008

Notice of Your Financial Privacy Rights

We, our, and us, when used in this notice, mean South County Bank, Inland Valley Bank, a division of South County Bank, and Surf City Bank, also a division of South County Bank.

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

Our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding financial products or services, such as a:
Deposit account
Loan account
Credit card account
Retail installment contract we hold and service

We will tell you the sources of the information we collect about you. We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information. We must 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. Hereafter, we will use the term "information" to mean nonpublic personal information as defined in this section.

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 person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as nonaffiliated third party, or simply, an "other party."

The Information We Collect

We collect information about you from the following sources:

Information you give us on applications or other forms
Information about your transactions with us
Information about your transactions with other parties
Information from a consumer reporting agency
Information we receive as a result of verifying customer information

The Confidentiality, Security, and Integrity of Your Information

We restrict access to 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 to protect this information.

We will not disclose information about you to anyone except as disclosed in this policy or as permitted by law. Examples of this might include disclosures necessary to service your account or prevent unauthorized transactions.

Information About Former Customers

We do not disclose information about former customers, except as permitted by law.

Your Information and Outside Marketing Services - Future Changes

In the future, we may disclose information about you to outside marketing services, even though we are not doing so now. Here are the kinds of information we may disclose to these services:

Information you give us on applications or other forms, such as:
Name
Address

You may not opt out of the disclosure of this information.

Types of Outside Marketers

We may disclose information about you in the future to the following types of outside marketers:

Service providers that perform marketing services for us, such as:
Direct mail companies