First Command Bank
Online Privacy Policy


This policy is effective as of May 12, 2008.


In the information age, First Command Bank's commitment to protect your information and your privacy extends to your online banking. While our privacy policies are the same whether you are online or not, we have extra measures in place to protect your privacy when you bank online with First Command Bank.


1. Are you a visitor?


First Command Bank provides various demos of its financial planning tools designed to help you make financial decisions and choose the products and services that are right for you. For example, our Retirement Calculator or Mortgage Calculator allows you to create various “what if” scenarios to determine your financial needs.


If you do not bank online with First Command Bank, we do not collect, capture, or retain personally identifiable information when you are just browsing and testing these scenarios. By offering you this level of privacy during our demos, we believe you will be more likely to try the “what if” scenarios. This means you may be more likely to find the products and services that fulfill your financial needs and goals.


2. Are you a registered user?


When you initiate an online application for one of our products or services, or register for an online service, our website will request information, such as your email address or your account number. This information allows you to perform certain tasks (for example, correspond with us or review your accounts) and it allows us to provide the information you requested. In these cases, we collect only the information necessary to interact with you. We also gather data to track website usage, such as number of hits, pages visited, and the length of user sessions in order to evaluate the usefulness of our sites.


3. About cookies.


Cookies are pieces of data assigned by a web server to the browser on your PC. Cookies help websites to keep track of your preferences and to recognize return visitors. So, when you return to a website you've visited before, your browser gives this data back to the server. Contrary to reports about cookies, cookies do not contain viruses. We do not embed your Social Security number, account number(s) or password in our cookies. They simply allow the server, in this case First Command Bank, to recognize you and provide you with the preferences you have registered with us on previous visits.


First Command Bank uses cookies to make your online experience with First Command Bank and certain linked Web sites richer and more personalized based on the products and services you have with us. Also, without revealing your identity, cookies help us confirm your identity and help us keep your transactions with us secure when you do your banking online.


We also use cookies for various purposes such as maintaining continuity during an online session, gathering data about the use of our site or monitoring our online promotions; this information helps us inform you about additional products, services or promotions that may be of interest to you. These promotions may be offered to you via online ads, email, U.S. mail or telephone, subject to the privacy preferences you have on file with First Command Bank.


We recommend that you complete your online transactions and sign off before surfing to other sites or turning off your PC. We also suggest that you do not surf to other sites during your online banking session.


You cannot bank online at any bank without cookies


You can set your browser to reject cookies. However, if you choose to reject cookies, you cannot bank online with First Command Bank. If your browser rejects cookies, you may not be able to sign on to your favorite sites or use the features you like most within those sites.


The latest versions of Microsoft and Netscape's browsers allow you to reject cookies automatically. With this feature it may not be necessary for you to set your browser to reject cookies.


Earlier versions of Microsoft or Netscape's browsers may require you to set your browser to reject cookies when you are just browsing and accept cookies when you want to conduct online transactions.


We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the websites you visit before you accept cookies from them.


4. About online marketing.


When browsing the internet, you may see a banner ad for a First Command Bank product or service such as an auto loan or a credit card. These ads may appear on Yahoo, America Online, or other non-First Command Bank websites. We use third party ad serving companies to serve our ad banners to sites on which we've paid to advertise. If you click on one of our ads, you go to the First Command Bank site offering that particular product or service.


Sometimes, these ads may contain small graphics with “tags” in them. These tags tell us how many people respond to our ads. They do not identify you personally. Instead, these tags are used only to measure the effectiveness of our ads placed on non-First Command Bank sites. The companies that distribute our ads are prohibited by contract from using information other than for the agreed upon purpose — to help us market our products and services and to measure response rates.


First Command Bank does use read-receipt notifications in our email communications. This means we receive notification you have received an email we sent to you.


First Command Bank is a member of the First Command family of companies. When you become a First Command customer you are provided with our privacy policies and the way to let us know of your desires in this regard. You may direct us not to share your name and details with our family companies. We do not share customers' information with companies outside of the First Command Family. Please contact First Command Legal & Compliance Department, 1 FirstComm Plaza, Fort Worth, TX 76109-4449; or call 1-800-433-2104 to advise us of your wishes.


5. We work to ensure privacy and security during your online sessions.


The information you provide to us online is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. SSL is the leading security protocol for data transfer on the internet. This technology scrambles your account information as it moves between your PC's browser and First Command Bank's computer systems.


When information is scrambled, or encrypted in this way, it becomes nearly impossible for anyone other than First Command Bank to read it. This secure session helps protect the safety and confidentiality of your information when you bank with us online. We have a third party monitor by account to ensure no one abuses your account.


6. Protecting children's privacy online


From our websites, we do not knowingly collect or use personal information from children under 13 without obtaining verifiable consent from their parents. We are not responsible for the data collection and use practices of nonaffiliated third parties to which our websites may link.


For more information about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), visit the FTC website: www.ftc.gov


7. Links to non-First Command Bank sites


We are not responsible for the information collection practices of the non-First Command Bank links you click to from our web pages. We cannot guarantee how these third parties use cookies or whether they place on your computer cookies that may identify you personally. We urge you to review the privacy policies of each of the linked websites you visit — before you provide them with any personally identifiable information.


8. Policy changes


If it is necessary to make changes to our online privacy policies, we will update the First Command Bank Online Privacy Policy with the changes and new effective date.