Privacy Policy

What Does Citizens Bank & Trust Company Do With Your Personal Information?

Rev 06-2024

Why?
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
What?
The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with
us. This information can include:
  • Social Security number and income
  • Account balances and payment history
  • Employment information and credit scores
How?
All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons Citizens Bank & Trust chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
Reasons we can share your personal information
Does Citizens Bank & Trust Company share?
Can you limit this sharing?
For our everyday business purposes—such as to process your
transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and
legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus
Yes No
For our marketing purposes-to offer our products and services to you Yes No
For joint marketing with other financial companies No We don't share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes-information about your
transactions and experiences
Yes Yes
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes-information about your
creditworthiness
Yes Yes
For our affiliates to market to you Yes Yes
For nonaffiliates to market to you No We don't share
To limit our sharing
  • Call 308-754-4426
  • Mail the form found here. Please note: If you are a new customer, we can begin sharing your information 30 days from the date we sent this notice. When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice. However, you can contact us at any time to limit our sharing.
 
Questions
Call 308-754-4426 or go to www.bankwithcitizens.com
What we do
How does Citizens Bank & Trust Company protect my personal information?
To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings.

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that protect your nonpublic personal information. 
How does Citizens Bank & Trust
Company collect my personal
information?
We collect your personal information, for example, when you
  • open an account or make deposits or withdrawals from your account
  • apply for a loan or show your driver’s license
  • give us your employment history
We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies. 
Why can't I limit all sharing?
Federal law gives you the right to limit only
  • sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness
  • affiliates from using your information to market to you
  • sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you
State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing. 
What happens when I limit sharing for an account I hold jointly with someone else?
Your choice will apply to everyone on your account.
Definitions
Affiliates
Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
  • CITIZENS BANK & TRUST CO.’s affiliates include U.S. Home Mortgage Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska
 
Nonaffiliates
Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.
  • CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you
 
Joint marketing
A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.
  • CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY doesn’t jointly market