Our Privacy Policy

The following privacy principles were established to maintain the security, integrity, and confidentiality of your personal financial information.

Information we collect:
We routinely collect and retain the information we obtain from your account applications, transaction history (for deposits, loans, credit cards, etc.), and from consumer reports. This information helps us:

	Establish and administer your accounts.
	(Example: We ask for personally identifying information to protect your accounts from fraud.)
	Satisfy certain regulatory requirements.
	(Example: When you open an account that pays interest, we are required by the Internal Revenue Service to obtain your Social Security Number.)
	Better understand you so that we may provide you with additional or improved products and services.
	(Example: We require information concerning your credit history and your assets to determine if you qualify for loan approval.)

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

How is your information protected?

Access to your personally identifiable financial information is limited to employees with a specific business reason for utilizing this data. Our employees are educated about the importance of maintaining confidentiality and customer privacy. If necessary, we take appropriate disciplinary steps to enforce our employees' responsibility to protect your very personal information.

In order to prevent unauthorized access to your information, we maintain security standards and procedures that conform with industry practices. These security standards and procedures are routinely tested to verify the integrity of our systems.

Email Fraud Awareness.

As your trusted financial partner, Grant County State Bank is committed to protecting the confidentiality of your personal information. We will NEVER request any sensitive information from you via email or require that you update your account details on a web page. Below are some ways to help insure that you do not fall victum to a fradulant Email.

Do not click on links in an unsolicited email claiming to be from a financial institution

Be suspicious of email headers including the email sender’s identity, which can be forged easily.

Do not fill out forms in an email because it can be difficult or impossible to tell where the information will actually be sent.

Additionally, we strongly encourage you to keep from sharing your personal identification number (PIN), password, and account number with anyone and NEVER give it out in response to an unsolicited email or phone call. We value the trust you place in us as your financial institution and will continue to take all necessary steps to protect your personal information.