Heritage Bank WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
Personal Banking Commercial Banking Corporate News Locations Careers Calculators
Personal Login
Commericial Login
MessageCenter
-Heritage Bank welcomes you to our website and online banking connection. Please take a tour of our online banking demonstration or to see a quick view of our bank, simply click on the tabs on the toolbar.
-We’ve got great rates on Home Equity Lines of Credit. You can save money and your interest may even be tax deductible. After you learn about our Home Equity Lines of Credit or our Home Equity Loans, be sure to talk with your tax advisor about how the tax deductibility benefit works for you.
Deposit Services
Loan Products
Manage Your Credit Card Account
Contact Us
Notices and Disclaimers
Privacy Policy
Security
  Home > Security
Online Banking Security

Your transactions are absolutely safe. Heritage Bank works with cutting edge technology partners to ensure that the most secure environment is made possible for our valued customers. We offer you worry free Internet banking. You can be completely confident of the following security measures:

Secure Communications
Our system ensures that data exchanged between your PC and our computers is encrypted with 128-bit encryption-the strongest encryption available. Encryption is accomplished through Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) which utilize mathematical formulas to "encrypt" or hide information from prying eyes on the Internet. Additionally, if SSL detects that data was added or deleted after you sent it to the bank, the connection will be severed in order to guard against any tampering. The most popular browsers have the SSL security feature built in. How can you tell if your browser is secure?

Secure Environment
Our computer system does not connect directly to the Internet. It is isolated from the network via a "firewall." A firewall is a combination of software and hardware products that designate parameters. control and limit the access that outside computers have to the banks internal network and databases. You can feel secure knowing that our firewall protects your personal information from unauthorized access.

Secure Login
User ID's and passwords are isolated from the Internet by being stored on Heritage Bank’s computer. This way the passwords and ID's can never be accessed or downloaded by anyone on the Internet. Additionally, user passwords can vary from six to twelve characters, which means the chance of randomly guessing a password is less than one in 1 billion! The system also checks for invalid logins and automatically disallows a user after three invalid attempts. This prohibits the "hacker" from gaining access to our system thus protecting your accounts.

Your Password
You will be responsible for maintaining one of the most important security measures, your password. When you receive your Online@Heritage password, be sure to keep it a secret. Memorize it, or write it down and keep it in a safe place. It is not recommended you carry your password in your purse or wallet. Make sure no one watches you enter your password and always close your browser when leaving the computer. Make sure you regularly scan your computer for viruses that could be used to capture password keystrokes. You ultimately hold the key to your password security. Not even a bank employee knows your password.