1ST ABSTRACT AGENCY PRIVACY POLICY

We will be asking you to provide certain information which may cause you to have concerns about what we will do with this information - particularly personal or financial data. Therefore we have adopted this Privacy Policy to govern the use and handling of all your personal information.

This Privacy Policy governs the use of the information that you provide to us. It does not govern the manner in which we use information gathered from other sources, such as public records or from another person or entity.

The type of information we collect from you may depend upon which of our services you are utilizing. They may include:

Information we receive from you on 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; and Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.

USE OF INFORMATION:

We request information from you only for our own legitimate business purposes. Therefore, we will not release your information to any other parties except as necessary for us to provide the product or service you have requested or as permitted or required by law or regulation. We may store such information indefinitely, including the period after which any customer relationship has ceased. Even if you are no longer our customer, our Privacy Policy will continue to apply to you.

In the course of doing business with you we may provide, on a need to know basis, any or all of the types of nonpublic personal information listed above to:

Banks and Financial Service Providers
Real Estate Agencies and Realtors
Title Insurance Underwriters
Appraisal Companies
Escrow Companies
Home Warranty Companies
Government Agencies that we are required by law to notify
Or any other entity needed to provide your services

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 the products or services that you have requested. We will use our best efforts to enforce that our employees and agents handle all of your information responsibly and in accordance with our Privacy Policy.