Your privacy is one of your most important assets. At Southern Community Bank, we understand your need for continued privacy. This is why we strive to improve our processes to safeguard this valuable asset. The information that you provide to us is kept in the strictest confidence. We have no intentions of selling your personal information to third party businesses. We are proud to make this commitment to you because your trust is the foundation of our business. The following is our Privacy Policy and it explains how we use and protect information about our customers. We ask that you read it carefully.

We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

• Information we receive from you on applications or other forms
• Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others, and
• Information we receive from a consumer credit reporting agency

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law.

We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.