Information Security at Our Site
The Bank of Tampa is committed to providing a secure Internet environment. Keeping your financial and personal information secure and confidential is one of our most important responsibilities. The following measures are used to protect our systems and your information:

  • Our web site offers up to 128-bit encryption, which protects information sent across the Internet. We strongly advise using a browser that supports this level of security. Our web site may be viewed with virtually any browser; however, a browser with 128-bit encryption is required to use Personal or Commercial Online Banking.

  • Personal and Commercial Online Banking uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, a protocol for managing online message transmission. SSL protects the information sent between Personal or Commercial Online Banking and your computer.

  • Please be aware that Internet e-mail is generally not secure. Because a reply e-mail to clients is not secure, confidential information will never be included in our response to you. E-mail sent to us via our public domain is not encrypted and may not be secure. Confidential information should not be included in e-mails sent to us.

  • We use firewalls, intrusion detection and virus protection systems to protect our systems from unauthorized access by individuals or networks.

    Browsing Our Site
    Visitors to our website who are not logged on to Personal or Commercial Online remain anonymous. Clients using Personal and Commercial Online must enter their access ID and password in order to access their account information with The Bank of Tampa. A “session cookie” is required to maintain a secure Internet connection and is automatically deleted once you sign out or reach the “no activity” threshold. We do not collect any information from the session cookie. The Bank of Tampa also does not use cookies to track Internet use after a visitor or client leaves our site, including Personal and Commercial Online.

    Links to Other Sites
    We may provide links to non-Bank of Tampa companies such as Clarke American, our preferred check printing company. If you choose to link to a site not controlled by The Bank of Tampa, we are not responsible for the privacy or security of these sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of such sites.

    Aggregation Sites
    Aggregation sites are Internet sites that permit you to consolidate account information from various sources for viewing on one site. In most cases, the aggregation provider usually requests access to your personal information. You should ensure that the aggregator has the appropriate policies in place to protect the privacy and security of any information you provide or to which they are gaining access.

    If you provide information about your accounts with The Bank of Tampa to an aggregator company, all transactions initiated by the aggregation site via the access information given will be considered authorized, whether or not you were aware of a specific transaction. If you decide to revoke the authority you have given an aggregator company, we recommend that you change your Bank of Tampa password to ensure that the aggregator company cannot continue to access your account.

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