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WelcomeWelcome LoginGerman American Bank has created this Internet Privacy Disclosure in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website, https://germanamerican.com (the “Site”). For our policy on data collected through your use of our services, including in-person banking and using our online business services, please see our Privacy Policy.
Please review this Internet Privacy Disclosure carefully. By using this Site, you accept the terms of this Internet Privacy Disclosure. Additionally, by using this Site you consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Internet Privacy Disclosure.
The Effective Date of this Internet Privacy Disclosure is set forth at the bottom of this Internet Privacy Disclosure. Your continued use of the Site after the Effective Date constitutes your acceptance of the amended Internet Privacy Disclosure. Any amended Internet Privacy Disclosure will be published on this page and supersedes all previous versions. Please check back periodically, and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information.
When you access our Site, the following general technical information is automatically recorded: the type of web browser used, the operating system used, your IP address, the domain name of your internet service provider, your interactions with this Site and other similar information.
If you are requested to provide Personal Information to use our financial and banking services, that Personal Information will be maintained and disclosed in accordance with state and federal law, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Please see our [consumer data notification] for more information.
Any Personal Information collected about visitors through the Site is processed in the United States by us or by a party acting on our behalf. When you provide Personal Information to us through the Site, you consent to the processing of your data in the United States. The Site is hosted in the United States.
We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:
Please note that, in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the Site, information collected through the Site may be used in an aggregated or individualized manner.
We may share and disclose information as described at the time information is collected or as follows:
When you consent. We may share Personal Information with third parties if you have given us your consent to do so.
With third-party service providers performing services on our behalf. We share information, including Personal Information, with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them (such as hosting and data analyses). We may share information as needed to operate other related services. Please see Third Party Disclosures, below, for a list and description of these third-parties.
For legal purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users, as needed, to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose Personal Information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share Personal Information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
In aggregated form. We may share Personal Information about you in an aggregated form—that is, in a statistical or summary form that does not include any personal identifiers—with third parties in order to discover and reveal trends about how users like you interact with our services.
During corporate changes. We may transfer information, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, sale, acquisition or other change of ownership or control by or of us or any affiliated company (in each case whether in whole or in part). When one of these events occurs, we will use reasonable efforts to notify users before your information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Our Site uses the social share function (“plugins”) from the social network Facebook.com which is operated by Facebook Inc., Palo Alto, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identified by a Facebook logo.
For information about the scope and purpose of data collection, the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your rights and the settings that you can configure to protect your privacy, please refer to the Facebook Data Protection Notice [https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation].
Google Analytics
Our Site uses the Google Analytics platform, which is operated by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics enables the playback of audio and video files.
When you access our Site, Google Analytics collects and presents data to German American Bank for the purpose of site improvement.
For information about the scope and purpose of data collection, the further processing and use of the data by Google Analytics, as well as your rights and the settings that you can configure to protect your privacy, please refer to the Google Analytics Privacy Policy. [www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/]
DoubleClick.Net
We provide information to DoubleClick.Net in order to facilitate advertising services. To control what data DoubleClick.Net refers to its advertising partners please go to Google’s Ad Settings page [https://adssettings.google.com].
AppNexus
We provide information to AppNexus in order to facilitate advertising services. To control what data AppNexus refers to its advertising partners please go to AppNexus’ Ad Choices page [https://www.appnexus.com/platform-privacy-policy#choices]. You may also opt out of targeted ads from specific third-party vendors by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page at http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/
The Site is not intended for use by children. If you are under the age of majority in your place of residence, you may use the Site only with the consent of or under the supervision of your parent or legal guardian.
Consistent with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), if we learn that we have received any information directly from a child under age 13 without first receiving his or her parent's verified consent, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or his or her parent or legal guardian) to inform the child that he or she cannot use the Site and subsequently we will delete that information.
German American Bank takes appropriate steps to protect your information as you transmit your information from your computer to our site and to protect this information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These steps include the use of an industry-standard SHA-256 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate. You should remember that no Internet transmission is ever 100% secure or error-free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this site may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.
We, along with the service providers that help us provide the Site, use “cookies”, which are small computer files sent to or accessed from your web browser or your device that contain information about your computer, such as a user ID, user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Site. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier.
The Site may use data collection tools to collect information from the device used to access the Site, such as operating system type, browser type, domain and other system settings, as well as the operating system used and the country and time zone in which the computer or device is located.
Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
By using this Site you consent to have these Cookies installed on your device. Cookies may be cleared manually within your browser’s settings. To see your specific browser’s instructions on how to clear Cookies, please follow the appropriate link below:
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9098093
Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027947/windows-delete-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
Opera: https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/mac
Although users are not required to accept cookies, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Services. This site ignores “Do Not Track” browser settings.
It is important to us that you are able to access and review the Personal Information we have about you and make corrections to it or delete it, as necessary.
To the extent that German American Bank has information related to California consumers not regulated pursuant to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, California consumers have the right to request and receive (1) the categories of personal information German American Bank has collected about that consumer; (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information; (4) the categories of third parties with whom German American Bank shares personal information; and (5) the specific pieces of personal information German American Bank has collected about that consumer.
You likewise have the right to the correction or deletion of any of the personal data collected by us on you which might be incomplete, incorrect or outdated. We take care at all times to ensure that your data are only processed if your consent has been given as required. The deletion of your personal data takes place if you revoke your consent, if processing of the personal data is no longer necessary to fulfilling the purpose for which it was originally stored, or if the personal data is processed unlawfully.
German American Bank does not discriminate in any way against an individual exercising his or her rights under any relevant data privacy statute or regulation, including the California Consumer Privacy Act.
If you have any questions about your Personal Information, including making a request pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act, please contact us by phone at (800)482-1314 or by mail to German American Bank, Attention: Marketing Department.
Last Updated 7/20/20