Cookies and Related Technologies
We use cookies and other data collection technologies to:
- Personalize and provide a more responsive experience to you.
- Provide services like SAFE Online Banking and Live Chat.
- Determine which pages you visit.
- Measure advertising and promotional effectiveness.
- Assess which areas of our website you visit to:
- Remarket to you after you visit our website, and
- Provide ads relevant to your interest on third party sites.
What are cookies and related technologies? Like most websites, we use technologies that are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our websites, services, applications, messaging, and tools. These technologies also include pixel tags which are small graphic images that typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.
We use browser session and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that are erased from your device’s memory when you close your Internet browser or turn your computer off. Persistent cookies are stored on your device until they expire unless you delete them before that time. We group browser cookies on our website into three categories, which you can manage through our "Cookie Consent Manager." You can return to it at any time to change your preferences. These three categories are:
- Required cookies: These cookies are necessary to enable core website functionality, such as secure log-in for SAFE Online Banking and allowing you to select your cookie preferences.
- Functional cookies: These cookies are necessary to provide a full visitor experience, such as when using our Live Chat service.
- Marketing cookies: These cookies allow us to analyze website usage to improve performance and use first-party or third-party cookies and pixel tags to deliver ads relevant to your interests on third party sites. This includes using technologies to understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements and content that have been delivered to you, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement.
We use cookies to maintain your SAFE Online Banking session and to store your computer's configuration data. This cookie data is used to enable our service. If you disable cookies on the device you are using, you will not be able to use SAFE Online Banking service. We do not encode your personally identifiable information in our cookies.
Once you set your preferences for cookies, that preference is retained for one year on your device. After that time, you will be prompted again to select your preferences. If you clear cookies from your browser or you utilize browser settings that refuse all non-essential cookies, you will be prompted again to select your preferences.
In addition, there are browser settings you can set in your Internet browser, such as Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, or Mozilla Firefox, that can also address cookies and trackers. Sometimes these settings contradict what you may choose on our website. For example, if you set your browser settings to refuse all non-essential cookies, and then later visit our page and make a cookie selection, that preference is stored as a cookie and, per your browser settings, may override your selection. This means the website will not remember your selection on your next visit and you may have to make a selection during every visit.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our website. For information on how Google uses the data it collects and how to control the information sent to Google, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Web Browser Do Not Track Signals
“Do Not Track” (“DNT”) refers to an HTTP header used by internet web browsers to request a web application disable its tracking or cross-site user tracking. When DNT is enabled, a user’s web browser adds a header to content requests indicating that the user does not want to be tracked. California law requires us to disclose how we respond to web browser DNT signals. We do not respond to or take any action with respect to a DNT configuration set in your internet browser, and therefore, we do not disable tracking.
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