First United Bank
Privacy Policy

First United Bank believes in protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information.  We know that trust is the cornerstone of any banking relationship.  We value your business and the trust you place in us.  That is why as part of our standard business practices, we maintain procedures designed to protect confidential information about you.  We provide you our privacy policy to help you better understand how your personal information is protected.

Information We Collect

As your trusted financial institution, we collect, retain, and use nonpublic personal information about individual customers, as permitted by law, to provide products and services to our customers.  We may collect nonpublic personal information from such sources as:

1. Information you provide  to us on applications or other forms;
2. Information about your transactions with us or others; and
3. Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.

Information We Share

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

We may disclose nonpublic personal information about you with other nonaffiliated third parties under certain circumstances. Any nonpublic personal information shared is conducted in strict adherence to applicable law. Information may be shared under limited circumstances for such purposes as:

1. to service your loan or account;
2. to government entities in response to subpoenas;
3. to report to credit bureaus; or
4. to manage risk.

Service Providers/Joint Marketing Partners

To provide our customers with products or services that we believe may meet your financial needs, we may exchange limited nonpublic personal information about you to nonaffiliated third parties that conduct marketing services on our behalf, or with other financial institutions in order to offer financial products or services pursuant to a joint marketing agreement. We require these parties to maintain the same high degree of standards of conduct regarding the privacy of your personal information as we have.

How We Protect Your Information

We also take steps to safeguard your information.  We restrict access of 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 regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.