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At Farm Credit of Southwest Florida, we recognize your expectation
of privacy and confidentiality of personal financial
information when seeking the assistance of outside
professionals to obtain credit. We have taken great care in
establishing and implementing policies and procedures and have
committed to an ongoing review of those policies and
procedures to protect your personal and financial information.
Your
privacy is a top priority in all aspects of our business. Our
employees are informed of their responsibility to protect your
confidential information and are governed by strict standards
of conduct, which prohibit unauthorized use of your
information. Security procedures and internal controls are
also in place to protect your privacy.
On
this site, we collect personally identifiable information
(such as name, address, SSN) only if specifically and
knowingly provided by you. We
do not give, sell or transfer any personal information to
third parties, unless required by law or under such other
permissible purposes as set forth by regulation.
Information Collected and Stored
Automatically
On
our website, we collect and store information about your visit
for security reasons, as well as for site research and
enhancement. We do not track or record information about
individuals and their visits. Through the use of Cookies (a
file placed on your hard drive by a Web site that allows it to
monitory your use of the site), we automatically collect and
store only the following information about your visit:
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Your
internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com") if
you use a private Internet access account and IP address
(an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned
to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from
which you access our site;
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The
type of browser and operating system used to access our
site;
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The
date and time you access our site;
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The
pages you visit; and
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If
you linked to our site from another Web site, the address
of that Web site.
Information Collected from Emails and Web
Forms
If
you complete one of our interactive forms or submit an email
through our website, your information will be used as
described at the point of collection. It may be seen and used
by Farm Credit employees, but will not be provided to a
non-affiliated third parties. If you are not comfortable
providing the requested information via email or web forms,
please contact us by calling 800-307-5677, or by writing to us
at 330 N. Brevard Avenue, Arcadia, Florida 34266.
We
will not obtain personally-identifying information about you
when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such
information to us. Farm
Credit limits the use and collection of all information to
that which is necessary to maintain and administer financial
services, provide excellent service, and offer new products
and services that may be of benefit to you. If, for any
reason, you would like to be removed from our distribution
list, please contact us at the number or address indicated
above, or by sending email to dbridges@farmcreditswfl.com.
We
may use third party suppliers and/or service providers to
facilitate our services. For example, we may outsource one or
more aspects of our site to a supplier or service provider who
performs services according to our requirements. In all cases
we restrict how these suppliers or service providers may
access, use or disclose your information. In general, we do
not permit these suppliers or service providers to retain,
disclose or sell your information to third parties.
Security, Intrusion, and Detection
Data
encryption – If you are using a security-enabled browser
(such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.1 or greater,
or Netscape Navigator version 2.0 or greater), the information
you provide us is encrypted, making it extremely difficult to
read, even if it is wrongly intercepted. Our website uses
industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to
allow for the encryption of potentially sensitive information
such as your name and address and critically sensitive
information such as your social security number or account
number.
For
Web site security purposes and to ensure that this site
remains available to all users, traffic on the site is
monitored to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or
change information, or cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to
upload or change information on to this website are strictly
prohibited, and may be punishable under the law.
Weblinking & Children’s Online
Privacy Protection
Our privacy policy only addresses our activities from our web site.
This
web site is not directed at children nor do we collect any
personally identifiable information from children. We may
provide links to independent Web sites maintained by various
federal agencies or other organizations, solely as a benefit
to our customers.
These other sites may
have their own policies, which we do not control, and thus are
not addressed by our policy. We do not endorse, approve or
guarantee information, products, services, or recommendations
provided at any of the sites to which we have provided links.
We are not responsible for the content or accuracy of any of these
links sites nor are we responsible for any loss or damage of
any sort resulting from the use of a link on any linked
websites. We are not liable for any failure of products or
services advertised or provided on these linked sites. We
offer these links on an "as is" basis.
When you visit a linked website by using the link on our site, you
will no longer be protected by our privacy policy or security
practices. You should always familiarize yourself with the
privacy policy and security practices of any website you
visit.
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