Our Privacy Commitment to You

First Independent Bank of Nevada wants you to understand and have confidence in our commitment to personal privacy and our use of information. For this reason, we have prepared this disclosure that will hopefully answer most of the important questions you may have. If you have any questions, or would like more information, please contact us during business hours at 775-828-2000 or e-mail us at info@fromwoetowhoa.com.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

General Information

At First Independent Bank of Nevada, we realize how important it is to protect the confidentiality of the information web site visitors provide us. We have described below our policies to protect your privacy. You can count on responsible treatment of any personal information you share with us. If you have any questions or concerns after reading the information below, please contact us at 775-828-2000 or e-mail us at HYPERLINK "mailto:info@fromwoetowhoa.com" info@fromwoetowhoa.com and we will be happy to explain further.

Use, Collection, and Retention of Information

We collect, retain, and use individual visitor information only when we reasonably believe it would be useful, and allowable by law, to administer our business needs. We collect and retain information about you for specific business purposes - and we will tell you why we are collecting and retaining information (see below). If you have questions or concerns please contact us at 775-828-2000 or e-mail us at info@fromwoetowhoa.com, and we will be happy to explain further.

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you respond to a survey or fill out a form. Information collected can include your name, e-mail address, and address and phone number information if requested and provided.

When registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To process comment submissions;
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature; and
To send periodic e-mail communications

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent.

YOUR POSTING OF INFORMATION TO OUR WEBSITE ACTS AS YOUR EXPRESS AUTHORIZATION FOR FIRST INDEPENDENT BANK OF NEVADA TO CONTACT YOU AT THE E-MAIL ADDRESS PROVIDED TO DISCUSS YOUR SUBMISSION. FIRST INDEPENDENT BANK OF NEVADA DOES NOT CURRENTLY SOLICIT ITS PRODUCTS OR SERVICES BY E-MAIL.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers’ systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

We use cookies to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include links to third party web sites on our website. These third party sites have their own privacy policies, separate and independent of the Woe to Whoa / First Independent Bank privacy policy. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act); we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website is directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

Internet Information

With the surge in Internet use, it has become even more crucial that we take steps necessary to assure that your private information remains private. First Independent Bank of Nevada’s privacy policies include:

Web Site Security
Web Site Privacy

Web Site Security

First Independent Bank of Nevada has implemented technology to help assure that any sensitive personal information you provide us or any account information you receive online is done in a safe and secure manner. Special secure-connection hardware and software (commonly called “firewalls”) are in place to help assure the security of online communication of your information.

Additionally, we have implemented procedures to help assure only authorized First Independent Bank employees and contracting agency may view the information you share with us. This is accomplished by limiting access to that information (via access capability and password control) to only those employees who have a legitimate business purpose for viewing or responding to your posts or inquiries. We educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and privacy. We will also take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce employee privacy responsibilities.

Web Site Privacy

Included in the Woe to Whoa web site is the capability for you to correspond with us. This correspondence, via e-mail, may be for the purpose of asking general questions or sharing ideas. These activities may include sharing some personal information about you to First Independent Bank of Nevada. We collect the e-mail addresses of those who correspond with us via e-mail and any information provided when registering to use this site or for subsequent submissions in response to surveys, contests, for other such features that may be available for those choosing to participate.

WE WILL COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM YOU IF, AND ONLY IF, YOU VOLUNTARILY PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO US. IT IS OUR POLICY THAT WE WILL NOT SELL OR RENT CUSTOMER INFORMATION TO ANY UNAFFILIATED THIRD PARTY FOR MARKETING PURPOSES.

Information Sharing With Affiliates

First Independent Bank of Nevada does not share information obtained through the use of this website with its affiliates, except as permitted or required by law. Examples of this might include affiliate technical resources to prevent site abuse or misuse.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change or modify this disclosure at any time. In the event we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This policy was last modified on April 9, 2009