Privacy

What Does Farmers & Merchants Bank Do With Your Personal Information?

Why?	Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
What?	The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include: Social security number Account balances Payment history Checking account information Overdraft history When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
How?	All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information, the reasons Farmers & Merchants Bank chooses to share, and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons We Can Share Your Personal Information	Does Farmers & Merchants Bank Share?	Can You Limit This Sharing?
For our everyday business purposes – such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus	Yes	No
For our marketing purposes – to offer our products and services to you	Yes	No
For joint marketing with other financial companies	No	We Do Not Share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your transactions and experiences	No	We Do Not Share
For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness	No	We Do Not Share
For our affiliates to market to you	No	We Do Not Share

Questions?		Call (260) 637-5546 or (260) 357-0494

What We Do
How does Farmers & Merchants Bank protect my information?	To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings. 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.
How does Farmers & Merchants Bank collect my information?	We collect your personal information, for example, when you Open an account or deposit or withdraw from your account Apply for a loan or provide account information Give us your income information We also collect your personal information from others such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.
Why can’t I limit all sharing?	Federal law gives you the right to limit only Sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes –information about your creditworthiness Affiliates from using your information to market to you Sharing for non-affiliates to market to you State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing. (See below for more on your rights under state law.)

Definitions
Affiliates	Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. Farmers & Merchants Bank does not share with affiliates.
Non‑Affiliates	Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies. Farmers & Merchants Bank does not share with non-affiliates.
Joint Marketing	A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you. Farmers & Merchants Bank does not jointly market.

Other Important Information
In accordance with Indiana law, Farmers & Merchants Bank will not share information we collect about Indiana residents with companies outside of Farmers & Merchants Bank, except as permitted by law, such as legal processes or as required to service your account. We will limit sharing within our company to the extent required by applicable Indiana law.

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