Effective as of September 2009
In addition to the protections we provide to information about you under The Savannah Bancorp Privacy Policy, we want you to understand how we handle and protect information we may collect from you when you visit The Savannah Bancorp or The Savannah Bancorp affiliate websites.
Visiting Our Website
This website is intended for U.S. residents only. You can visit our website, without providing your name, e-mail address or other information that personally identifies you. We will only obtain information that personally identifies you when you choose to provide it.
Cookies
How We Use Cookies: We may use website “cookies” to help you navigate our site more easily, as well as to help us improve our website and service to you. A “cookie” is a small data file that our website can send to your computer, which may then be stored on your hard drive to help our website “remember” information about your visit, for example, what pages you have accessed. We may collect information about the date and time you access our website, what pages you viewed and how long you spent on our site. A cookie cannot retrieve other data from your computer or pass on computer viruses. Cookies will identify your browser, but will not provide any personal information about you. Our policy is never to store any personal information in a cookie. We use two different types of cookies with our website:
“Non-Persistent” cookies track the way you click through our website on a single visit. These non-persistent cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
“Persistent” cookies enable us to remember you when you return to our website. Your web browser will send cookie information from your previous visits back to us when you reaccess our site. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser.
Disabling Cookies: You can set your computer to refuse to accept cookies. However, if you do so, you may not be able to obtain some services online, such as OnLine Access and credit card applications, and may find our site harder to navigate.
Online Communications with Us
OnLine Access: When you sign up for OnLine Access , the information you provide to us is handled by server software protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL). The information you enter is encrypted before it is sent and decoded when it reaches us.
Contacting us by Email: Please be aware that if you communicate with us by e-mail, send us your resume, contact Investor Relations or use our Contact Us page, you are not using a secure means of communication and should not send confidential information, such as Social Security or account numbers, through such unsecured channels. When you send us an e-mail, we may retain the content of the e-mail, your e-mail address and our reply in order to track how we have handled your request.
Online Tools
Our website provides you with tools that allow you to calculate a variety of financial needs, such as mortgage payments, loan payments and savings calculations. We do not retain information you enter after you leave The Savannah Bancorp website.
Children’s Online Privacy
This website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect information on this website from children under the age of 13.
Changes to The Savannah Bancorp Online Privacy Practices
If we make changes to our Online Privacy Practices, we will post the revised Online Privacy Practices on this website and change the “Effective” date at the top of the Online Privacy Practices. Checking the “Effective” date above will allow you to determine whether the Online Privacy Practices have been changed since your last visit to our website.
Questions Regarding The Savannah Bancorp Online Privacy Practices
If you have questions regarding The Savannah Bancorp Online Privacy Practices, you can contact us at P.O. Box 188, Savannah, GA 31402