Privacy Policy
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Bankers Title & Settlements, Inc. is Committed to Safeguarding Customer Information

In order to better serve the needs of our clients now and in the future, Bankers Title & Settlements, Inc. may ask you to provide us with certain information. You have a right to know how we will utilize the personal information you provide to us. As a result, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to govern the use and handling of personal information.

Applicability

This Privacy Policy governs our use of the information that you provide to us. It does not govern the manner in which we may use information we have obtained from any other source (i.e. information obtained from public records or from another person or entity).

Types of Information

Depending upon which of our services is being utilized, the types of nonpublic personal information that we may collect include in the following:

• Information we receive from you on title request forms, sales contracts, applications, forms and in other communications to us, whether in writing, in person, by telephone or any other means;
• Information about your transactions with us, our affiliated companies, or others;
• Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency; and
• Information we receive from Title Abstractors

Use of Information

We request information from you for our own legitimate business purposes and not for the benefit of any nonaffiliated party. Therefore, we will not release your information to nonaffiliated parties except: (1) as necessary for us to provide the service you have requested of us; or (2) as permitted by law. We may, however, store such information indefinitely, including the period after which any customer relationship has ended. This information may be used for any internal purpose, such as quality control efforts or customer analysis. We may also provide all of the types of nonpublic personal information listed above to any one or more companies that perform services on our behalf. Such companies include title abstract companies, title insurance underwriters, or companies involved in real estate services, such as homeowner's association companies, property management companies, surveyors and home warranty companies. We may also provide all the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or on behalf of our affiliated companies with whom we or our affiliated companies have joint marketing agreements.

Former Customers

Even if you are no longer our customer, our Privacy Policy will continue to apply to you.

Confidentiality and Security

We will use our best efforts to ensure that no unauthorized parties have access to any of your information. Access is restricted to nonpublic personal information about you to those individuals and entities who need to know that information in order to provide services to you. We will use our best efforts to train and oversee our employees and ensure that your information will be handled responsibly and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We currently maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.

Information Obtained Through Our Web Site

Bankers Title & Settlements, Inc. is sensitive to privacy issues on the Internet. We believe it is important you know how we treat the information about you we receive on the Internet.

In general, you can visit Bankers Title & Settlements, Inc. or an affiliate Web site on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our Web servers collect the ip addresses, not the e-mail addresses, of visitors for one or more of the following purposes: (1) measure the number of visits, (2) average time spent on the site, (3) pages viewed and similar information. Bankers Title & Settlements, Inc. uses this information to measure the use of our site and to develop ideas to improve the content of our site.

Depending of your type of request, there are times, however, when we may need information from you, such as your name and email address. Usually, the personal information we collect is used only by us to respond to your inquiry, process an order or allow you to access specific account/profile information. If you choose to share any personal information with us, we will only use it in accordance with the policies outlined above.

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