We Are Committed to Safeguarding Customer Information
In
order to better serve your needs now and in the future, we may ask
you to provide us with certain information. We understand
that you may be concerned about what we will do with such information
- particularly any personal or financial information. We agree
that you have a right to know how we will utilize the personal
information you provide to us. Therefore, we have adopted this
Privacy Policy to govern the use and handling of your personal
information.
Applicability
This Privacy Policy governs our use of the information,
which you provide to us. It does not govern the manner in which
we may
use information we have obtained from any other source, such as
information obtained from a public record or from another person
or entity.
Types of Information
Depending upon which of our services you are
utilizing, the types of nonpublic personal information that we
may collect include:
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 product or 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 ceased. Such 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 one or more of our affiliated companies.
Such affiliated companies include financial service providers,
such as title insurers, property and casualty insurers, and trust
and investment advisory companies, or companies involved in real
estate services, such as appraisal companies, home warranty companies,
property surveyors, and escrow companies.
Furthermore, we may also
provide all the information we collect, as described above, to
companies that perform marketing services
on our behalf, on behalf of our affiliated companies, or to other
financial institutions 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.
We restrict access to nonpublic
personal information about you to those individuals and entities
who need to know that information to provide products or services
to you. We will use our best efforts to train and oversee our
employees and agents to 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.
The
above information is required to be given to you pursuant to the
Federal Financial Services Modernization Act.