Online Privacy Policy
Last Modified: 07.11.2024
Sunflower Bank, N.A. and FirstSun Capital Bancorp, our financial holding company, (collectively “Company” or “We”), respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this online privacy policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the websites www.sunflowerbank.com, www.firstnational1870.com, www.guardianmortgageonline.com(Opens in a new window) or ir.firstsuncb.com (our “Website”) and other electronic sites including social media (including but not limited to: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) (collectively “Systems”) our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website and Systems.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
- Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Any offline or other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party.
- Any third party including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or Systems. By accessing or using this Website and Systems, you agree to this online privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Online Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be an acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Privacy Practices With Respect To Our Account Holders
If you have an account with Sunflower Bank, N.A., how we collect, use, share, and protect your account information is governed by the Privacy Statement. To the extent that there is a discrepancy between this Online Privacy Policy and the Privacy Statement, the Privacy Statement controls.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, social security number or account number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”).
- That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as IP address.
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website or online banking, subscribing to our service, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
- Your search queries on the Website.
- Enrolling into your online account access.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, content interaction, search queries, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer (or other device type) and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not/may include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize your IP address when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use locally stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
- Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications on the Website are served by third-parties, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about a third party application or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
How We May Use Your Information
We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
- To research what content is being viewed the most and other analytics.
- Fraud monitoring.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this online privacy policy or in our standard privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Sunflower Bank N.A.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Sunflower Bank N.A. about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sunflower Bank N.A., our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Behavioral Tracking - 3rd Party Opt Out
Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to collect data about traffic to our Website and Systems to deliver advertisements for our products when you visit other websites, and to share data about traffic to our Systems. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available here(Opens in a new window).
Cookies, Behavioral & Targeted Advertising. We participate in behavioral based advertising through service providers. This means that we or a third party may place a cookie on your browser, to collect information about your use of our Website so that we or they can provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interests. That advertising may appear either on our Website, or on other websites. If you would like to opt out from having the behavioral-based advertising companies with whom we have a relationship use your information for advertising purposes, you can do so by registering your opt-out options for Google Ads here. Other networks to opt out of are Digital Advertising Alliance(Opens in a new window) and the Network Advertising Initiative(Opens in a new window).
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website(Opens in a new window). If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Other Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by setting your browser set to not accept browser cookies.
Please note that some internet browsers allow you to change cookies settings or block the use of cookies altogether. If you do not wish to accept cookies in connection with your use of our website, mobile application, or anywhere we have an online presence, you have the option to stop using our site or services. Additionally, you acknowledge if you are using a public or shared computer (e.g. a public computer at the library), cookies may still be attached from the previous sessions, and that this constitutes your notice that that our Systems may be using cookies. You also acknowledge that depending on the public or shared computer settings, you may not be able to delete cookies data from the browser.
This Online Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Systems link. The inclusion of a link on the Systems does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.
In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organizations, any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the apps or our social media pages.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at 1.888.827.5564 or [email protected]