Privacy Policy

We, our, and us, when used in this notice, mean First Hope Bank.

This is our privacy notice for our customers. When we use the words "you" and "your" we mean the following types of customers:

Our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding financial products or services such as a(n):

Deposit account

Loan account

Safe deposit box

Self-directed Individual Retirement Account

Former customers

We will tell you the sources of the information we collect about you. We will tell you what measures we take to secure that information.

We first will define some terms.

Nonpublic personal information means information about you that we collect in connection with providing a financial product or service to you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information that is available from public sources, such as telephone directories or government records. Hereafter, we will use the term "information" to mean nonpublic personal information as defined in this section.

An affiliate is a company we own or control, a company that owns or controls us, or a company that is owned or controlled by the same company that owns or controls us. Ownership does not mean complete ownership, but means owning enough to have control.

A nonaffiliated third party is a person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as nonaffiliated third part, or simply, an "other party".

Information We Collect

We collect information about you from the following sources:

• Information you give us on applications or other forms
• Information about your transactions with us
• Information about your transactions with other parties
• Information from a consumer reporting agency
• Information we receive through our Customer Identification Program

Information We Disclose about You

We do NOT disclose any information about you to anyone, except as permitted by law. Examples of this might include disclosures necessary to service your account or prevent unauthorized transactions.

The Confidentiality, Security, and Integrity of Your Information

We restrict access to information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect this information.

Information About Children

Under the provisions of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), First Hope Bank’s policy (or a link to our policy) regarding the collection and maintenance of information regarding children must be placed in a clear and prominent location on any area of our web site geared toward children or pertaining to children’s accounts.  

First Hope Bank does not collect information of any sort from children who visit our web site.  Should you have any questions about our COPPA policy or any aspect of our Privacy Policy in general, please contact Cara Quick, Vice President for Compliance, at 908.459.4121, ext. 4100.

We have the same policy about disclosing information about former customers as we do about current customers.

As part of our privacy policy, we believe we should inform you about means to protect your critical personal information. We have also created a page to help you if you feel your identity has been stolen.

If you have any questions about this policy, please visit our Privacy FAQ Page, which may be able to help you. If that page does not help you, questions or comments about this policy should be directed to: