Privacy Policy

The following privacy principles were established to maintain the security, integrity and confidentiality of your personal financial information.

THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

• Information we receive from you on applications or other forms;
• Information about your transactions with us or others; and
• Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.

CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION WE DISCLOSE
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone except as permitted by law.

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products and services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.

We will follow federal law except in those cases when Illinois law takes precedence.

Guardian respects your privacy. Through our Web site, we strive to provide valuable information to you about how we may serve you, and whether you are a valued existing customer or someone shopping for new bank services, we hope our site answers your questions about our products and services, locations and hours.

Our website does not require you to disclose any personally identifying information. If, however, you choose to contact us via e-mail, please keep in mind that your e-mail address, and any other information your e-mail header shows about you, such as your name or organization, will be revealed to us in the e-mail. We pledge, however, that when you communicate with us via e-mail, we will use your e-mail information only for the specific purpose of responding to your comments or questions. Your e-mail address will no be sold nor will it be shared with others outside the bank unless we are compelled to do so by law.

When any person visits our Web site, we may collect certain basic information such as how many people visited our site and what pages were visited.

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy.