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PRIVACY
POLICY NOTICE
3/2008
For
over a century, we have forged customer relationships built on strength,
stability, integrity, and service. Hancock Holding Company is made up
of a number of affiliated companies including Hancock Bank, Hancock Bank
of Louisiana, Hancock Bank of Florida, Hancock Bank of Alabama, Hancock
Investment Services, Inc., Hancock Insurance Agency (including, Ross-King-Walker
and J.Everett Eaves, Inc.), Harrison Finance Company, and Magna Insurance
Company (an "Affiliate" or the "Affiliates" or "we",
"our" and "us", which will refer to all Affiliates
or to a particular Affiliate as is appropriate in the context), that work
together in bringing you products and services to meet your financial
needs. In choosing our financial products and services, you entrust us
with financial information that is personally identifiable to you and
not otherwise publicly available ("Confidential Information").
We honor your trust by protecting the privacy and security of Confidential
Information that you and others share with us. We believe you should know
how we collect, use and safeguard such personal information and what your
options are as a valued customer of one of America's strongest, safest
full-service financial institutions. This Privacy Policy shall replace
and supersede any of our previous privacy notices or policies or other
provisions relating to privacy matters.
Collecting
And Using Confidential Information To Serve Your Needs
We
gather Confidential Information from a variety of sources and use such
information in order to: (i) administer our relationships with you; (ii)
provide you with efficient customer service; and (iii) help us identify
and determine your eligibility for other financial products and services
that may be of value to you. We may collect the following Confidential
Information about you from the following sources:
- Information
we receive from you on applications or other forms, such as your name,
address, social security number, assets and income;
- Information
about your transactions with us, our Affiliates, or others, such as
your account balance and payment history; and
- Information
we receive from a consumer reporting agency, such as your creditworthiness
and credit history.
Safeguarding
Your Confidential Information
We use established
security standards and procedures to help protect Confidential Information
from unauthorized access and improper use or disclosure. We maintain Confidential
Information in secure environments using physical, electronic and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal standards to protect against unauthorized
access. We restrict access to Confidential Information to those employees
who need to know such information to administer your accounts and to provide
products and services to meet your needs. We regularly train our employees
on privacy and information security and on their obligations to protect
Confidential Information. Furthermore, we hold our employees accountable
so that they adhere to such policies and procedures in order to protect
against the improper use or disclosure of Confidential Information.
Maintaining
Accurate Information
We
continually strive to maintain complete and accurate information on you
and your accounts. If you ever determine that your account information
is incomplete, inaccurate or not current, please call or write to us at
the telephone number or address listed on your account statement. We will
correct any inaccuracies as quickly as possible.
Limiting
And Controlling The Sharing Of Confidential Information
We
primarily share Confidential Information about you so that we may provide
you with the financial products and services that you want and expect.
In order to protect your privacy, we carefully control our sharing of
any such information. We will not disclose any Confidential Information
to anyone, except as outlined below or as permitted or required by law.
Furthermore, when serving you in a fiduciary capacity, such as a trustee,
we often observe limitations on sharing Confidential Information that
are stricter than those set forth below.
Sharing
Information Within Hancock
In
order to provide you with greater access to financial products and services,
we share Confidential Information between the Affiliates within our corporate
family, which includes financial service providers such as Hancock Bank,
Hancock Bank of Louisiana, Hancock Bank of Florida, Hancock Bank of Alabama,
Hancock Investment Services, Inc., Hancock Insurance Agency (including,
Ross-King-Walker and J. Everett Eaves, Inc.), Harrison Finance Company,
and Magna Insurance Company. To this end, we may share amongst these Affiliates
all the Confidential Information that we collect as more fully explained
in that section titled "Collecting and Using Confidential Information
To Service Your Needs." However, you can opt-out of our sharing Confidential
Information with our Affiliates as discussed in greater detail later in
this notice.
Sharing
Information Outside Hancock
We
do not sell Confidential Information about you to nonaffiliated third
parties.
However, as do many other financial institutions, we select service companies
to perform support services for us - such as marketing assistance, or
work on our behalf to provide services to you - such as printing your
checks. We also may enter into joint marketing agreements with other financial
institutions to make available to you a greater range of financial products
and services than we alone can offer. We disclose to such service providers
and joint marketers Confidential Information they need in order to render
such support services or to jointly market financial services. However,
to this end, we may disclose any or all of the information that we collect
as described in that section titled "Collecting and Using Confidential
Information To Service Your Needs." We carefully choose such service
providers and joint marketers and require them to comply with standards
of security and confidentiality equal to those set forth in this policy
and prohibit them from disclosing or using any Confidential Information
solely for their own purposes.
We
may also disclose Confidential Information about you to nonaffiliated
third parties when permitted or required by law. We will adhere to the
privacy policies and practices described in this notice even in the event
that our customer relationship with you is discontinued.
Your
Opportunity To Opt-Out Of Our Sharing Certain
Information With Our Affiliates And Related Marketing
Programs Under The Fair Credit Reporting Act
Information We Can Share With Our Affiliates And Which Our Affiliates
May Use For Marketing To You (Unless You Tell Us Not To)
Unless
you tell us not to, we may share with our other Affiliates in our corporate
family certain information about you including:
- Information
we obtain from an application for credit, such as your income and marital
status;
- Information
we obtain from a consumer report, such as your credit score or credit
history;
- Information
we obtain to verify representations made by you, such as your open lines
of credit;
- Information
we obtain from a person regarding employment, credit or other relationship
with you, such as your employment history; and
- Information
related to your transactions or other experiences with us.
And, unless
you tell us not to, our Affiliates may use this information in marketing
their financial products and services to you.
Shared
With Whom
Affiliates
within our corporate family that may receive this information and may
use it in marketing financial products and services to you include financial
service providers such as banks, securities broker-dealers and insurance
companies.
How
To Tell Us Not To Share This Information With Our Affiliates Or Tell Our
Affiliates Not To Use It In Marketing
If
you prefer that we do not either share this information with our Affiliates
or that our Affiliates not use such information to market their financial
products and services to you, you may opt-out of this sharing and marketing,
that is, you may direct us not to share this information or use this information
in marketing, by calling us toll free at 1-888-416-4502. Also, you may
write us at Hancock Bank, Attn: Privacy Officer, Post Office Box 4019,
Gulfport, MS 39502 and provide us with your name, address and social security
number.
Impact
Of An Opt-Out On Direct Marketing
Your decision to opt-out of either the sharing of such information or
our Affiliates marketing to you using such information will be treated
as your request not to receive future marketing offers from us or our
Affiliates by direct mail, telephone, and/or e-mail. Even if you opt-out,
you will continue to be contacted as necessary to service your account,
be contacted by your account representative, and receive marketing information
included with your regular account mailings and statements. Furthermore,
this opt-out does not apply to sharing of such information or marketing
contacts by our Affiliates that you specifically authorize or request.
We will honor your opt-out request within a reasonable time and thereafter
will not share this information with our Affiliates. However, when we
receive your opt-out request a marketing program may already be underway
and you may receive a marketing offer from an Affiliate resulting from
information shared prior to Hancock receiving your opt-out request. Note:
Your direction to opt-out only covers certain information about you that
we might otherwise share with our Affiliates. Even if you opt-out, we
may share other information about you with our Affiliates to the extent
permitted by law.
Joint
Customers
If two or more customers jointly obtain a financial product or service
from us (joint customers), we treat an opt-out instruction by one joint
customer as applying to that joint customer only. Each joint customer
may make a separate choice but any customer can opt-out on behalf of the
other joint customers. A customer's opt-out (including an opt-out made
on customer's behalf by a joint customer) will apply to all accounts that
he or she maintains with any Affiliate.
Please note
that third parties may obtain information about you from sources other
than and independent of us, such as from credit reporting agencies or
public documents or records. Mailings and other solicitations based on
such information are outside of our control.
How
To Reduce Direct Marketing From Other Companies
If
you want to remove your name from many national direct mail lists, send
your name and address to:
DMA Mail
Preference Service
P.O. Box 643
Carmel, NY 10512
If you want
to reduce the number of telephone solicitations from many national marketers,
send your name, address, and telephone number to:
DMA Telephone
Preference Service
P.O. Box 1559
Carmel, NY 10512
This Privacy
Policy applies to all affiliated companies within the Hancock Holding
Company, Inc. family unless we provide notice that a separate privacy
policy applies to that company. However, should you receive a notice of
privacy policy from an Affiliate that differs from this Privacy Policy,
the terms of this Privacy Policy will govern over conflicting terms, if
any, contained in such other privacy policy.
Hancock
Holding Company Family
Hancock
Bank
Hancock Bank of Louisiana
Hancock Bank of Florida
Hancock Bank of Alabama
Hancock Investment Services, Inc.
Hancock Insurance Agency (Including, Ross-King-Walker and J. Everett Eaves,
Inc.)
Harrison Finance Company
Magna Insurance Company
3/2006
WEB
SITE PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE
At Hancock
Bank, we take the issue of privacy very seriously. We want to assure visitors
to our Web site the security, privacy and confidentiality that they expect
from a premier financial services institution. You can be sure that our
commitment to protect your financial information will continue under the
principles and online guidelines described below.
Information
Collected General
Hancock Bank does not collect any personal information from anyone who
is merely visiting or browsing its Web site. Personal information may
be requested if the visitor chooses to respond to online surveys, send
Hancock Bank an e-mail message, apply for products and services online,
or use Hancock Bank's on-line banking product.
E-mail
and Product Inquiry
Through use of a "Contact Us" feedback form, Hancock Bank invites visitors
on its Web sites to send e-mail messages to Hancock Bank so that Hancock
Bank may respond to inquiries regarding Hancock Bank or its products or
services. Hancock Bank retains copies of these e-mail messages. The information
provided by a visitor will only be used to respond to the visitor's inquiry
and to provide better customer service. If Hancock Bank thinks that a
particular Hancock Bank account or service might apply to you or serve
your needs, then Hancock Bank may occasionally contact you at your e-mail
address to inform you of the potential benefits and availability of such
accounts or services. Unless otherwise stated, all e-mail inquiries initiated
from Hancock Bank’s web site by the user are assumed to be non-secured
and therefore may be transmitted in the "open" over the Internet.
Applications
for Products and Services
Through its Web site, Hancock Bank offers opportunities to apply for various
products and services online, such as PC banking and brokerage services.
Visitors who choose to apply for such products and services provide personal
information Hancock Bank needs to process the application. To protect
the confidentiality of the information submitted, Hancock Bank uses secure
socket layer (SSL) technology. SSL technology establishes a "secure"
Internet session and encodes the data submitted to the Hancock Bank Web
site, ensuring that the information is accessible only to an authorized
Hancock Bank representative and the customer. To support SSL, customers
must have an Internet browser that supports state-of-the-art 128-bit "strong"
encryption, such as Netscape 6.1 and higher, Microsoft's Internet Explorer
6.0 and higher, and AOL 3.0 (Windows). A customer can tell whether a document
comes from a secure server by looking at the location (URL) field. If
the URL begins with https:// (instead of http://), the document comes
from a secure server. After you have submitted an application online,
Hancock Bank recommends that you end your browser session before leaving
your computer.
Protecting
Your Bank Online
When you bank online with Hancock Bank, we, along with our
third-party service providers who bring these services to you, have access
to your information. Information is retained on our system or the system
of the appropriate third-party service provider, depending upon what is
required to serve your needs. We use state-of-the-art Internet technology,
supported by the third-party service providers that we work with, to make
online banking secure and to protect your personal information. We also
require an I.D. and password to access your accounts. If you do not provide
this information, we cannot establish an online banking service for you.
You can also help maintain the security of your banking information by
not sharing your ID or password with anyone, by changing your password
regularly, and by remembering to sign off.
Planning
Tools and Personal Data
There are many planning tools and educational topics throughout
this Site to help you make the financial decisions that are right for
you in the privacy of your home. We encourage you to try all of our "what-if"
scenarios as often as you like. When you use various planning tools on
our Site, the calculations run on your computer or our server. The information
you enter is retained to assist you on return visits to our site as it
relates to the use of the tools and topics. The information is also used
to present specific product/service information related to those tools
or topics when visiting our web-site. You will not be solicited by telephone
or e-mail unless you specifically request to have a representative contact
you.
Applications
for Employment
Hancock Bank offers visitors to its Web site the opportunity to inquire
about employment opportunities posted on the Web site. When enabled, applicants
may also submit online resumes on the Web site. The information submitted
is used solely to evaluate prospective candidates and to communicate regarding
an open position.
Transactional
Services
Within its web-site, Hancock Bank collects personal information necessary
to complete transactions or provide data requested by the visitor (for
example, account balances and check clearance dates). To protect the confidentiality
of the information submitted, Hancock Bank requires that visitors have
a browser that supports 128-bit "strong" encryption, i.e., Netscape
6.1 and higher, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher and AOL 3.0
(Windows).
Use
of Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information about an Internet session that
may be created when a visitor accesses a Web site. Presently, Hancock
Bank's Web site uses cookies to facilitate easier navigation within the
site and provide a higher level of convenience for the visitor. The cookies
used by Hancock Bank...
- Are not
written to the visitor's hard drive*
- Exist
only until the browser is shut down*
- Do not
contain any personal information regarding the visitor
- Do not
retrieve any information from the visitor's personal computer.
* Except
for Online Banking-HandyNet. Please refer to Online
Banking FAQ for more information regarding the use of Cookies with
Online Banking.
Use
of Information Collected
Hancock Bank uses the information collected from visitors to its Web sites
to address the specific needs of those visitors and to provide better
customer service, including the provision of the latest information regarding
Hancock Bank products. The information collected also is used to provide
a record of communications between Hancock Bank and its Web site visitors
and to comply with any applicable legal and/or regulatory requirements.
Access
to Information Collected By Hancock Bank Employees
Certain Hancock Bank employees will be provided with a visitor's information
in order to respond to that visitor's needs and provide the visitor with
information regarding specific products in which the visitor may have
an interest. Hancock Bank employees are instructed to use strict standards
of care in handling the personal, confidential information of Hancock
Bank customers, and the handling of such information is dealt with in
Hancock Bank's Code of Conduct. Hancock Bank employees who do not conform
to Hancock Bank's confidentiality rules are subject to disciplinary sanctions
that include dismissal.
Keeping
Information Accurate
Keeping your account information accurate and up-to-date is very important.
If you ever find that our records are incomplete, inaccurate or not current,
please call the telephone number on your account statement or email customer
service. We will correct the information as quickly as possible.
Visitors
Visitors having specific questions regarding any information may e-mail
Hancock Bank at service@hancockbank.com.
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clicking on the "I AGREE" button, you acknowledge that you have
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Information
subject to change without notice. Normal credit qualifications apply.
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