Privacy Policy
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY VISITING AND USING THIS WEB
SITE AND ANY WEB SITES, WEB PAGES AND SERVICES OPERATED BY STEWART INFORMATION
SERVICES CORPORATION OR ITS AFFILIATES ("STEWART") THAT ARE LINKED ("STEWART
SITES"), YOU ARE AGREEING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
Your use and access of the Stewart Sites is expressly conditioned on your
acceptance of the following terms and conditions. If you do not or can not agree
with any part of the following terms and conditions, you may not use or access
the Stewart Sites. Please note that this privacy policy only applies to the
information that we collect via the Stewart Sites.
Company Policy
The privacy of your nonpublic personal information
is important to us. We use safeguards to protect your privacy and
confidentiality. This policy discusses information we collect and the manner in
which it is used. We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update
or modify our privacy policy simply by posting such change, update or
modification on the Stewart Sites. Any such change, update or modification will
be effective immediately upon posting on the Stewart Sites.
Security
We use good faith efforts to maintain physical,
electronic and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal
information. However, while we strive to protect your personal information, we
do not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and
you do so at your own risk.
Information Collection
If you do nothing during your visit but
browse through the web site and read the information contained on the web pages,
we may gather certain information about your visit automatically. This
information does not identify you personally. We may automatically gather the
Internet domain (for example, "companyx.com" if you use a private Internet
access account, or "myschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain), IP
address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access Stewart Sites,
and the date and time you access Stewart Sites and the pages you visit.
We may collect nonpublic personal information from you when you voluntarily
provide personally identifiable information to us though Stewart Sites, such as
when ordering services/products and accessing account specific or other profile
information. We may collect information about your transactions that we secure
from our files and from our affiliates. We may collect information that we
receive from consumer reporting agencies. We may collect information that we
receive from others involved in your transactions, such as real estate agents or
lenders. We limit use of such information to the purposes for which the
information was provided. However, we reserve the right to use such information
for marketing/product development research and other similar purposes and/or to
contact you regarding additional services or products that you may find useful.
We may also release your information to our advisors and the appropriate
authorities when Company believes, in good faith, that such release is
reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of
any of our user agreements, or (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of
Stewart, Stewart's users, or others. We may also sell, transfer and disclose
your information part of a business divestiture, sale, merger, or acquisition of
all or a part of Company's business.
If you send an electronic mail (e-mail) message that includes personally
identifiable information, for example, in an e-mail message containing an
inquiry, we will use that information to respond to your inquiry. Remember that
e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. If your communication is
very sensitive, or includes information such as your bank account, charge card,
or social security number, you should not send it in an e-mail.
We may use "cookies" to improve our service to you. Cookies may help us
recall a previous visit. The cookies we use do not collect personally
identifiable information, and we do not use them to determine your identity. If
you are not comfortable with this use, you may configure your browser to be
notified when cookies are to be received and to provide you with the option of
refusing cookies. However, refusing cookies may limit your ability to use
Stewart Sites in their entirety.
Employees
Our employees and agents may view information that you
provide us in order to perform their jobs and service you. We restrict access to
nonpublic personal information about you to those individuals who need to know
that information in order to provide products or services to you, or as other
wise provided herein.
Sharing
We do not share nonpublic personal information to third
parties who are not affiliated with us, unless the law allows us to do so. WE DO
NOT DISCLOSE ANY NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU WITH ANYONE FOR ANY
PURPOSE THAT IS NOT SPECIFICALLY PERMITTED BY LAW.
Marketing
We may disclose any information that we collect about
you to our affiliates or nonaffiliated third parties as permitted by law. We
also may disclose information about our customers or former customers and others
to the following types of nonaffiliated companies that perform marketing
services on our behalf or with whom we have joint marketing agreements:
- Financial service providers such as companies engaged in banking, consumer
finance, securities and insurance.
- Non-financial companies such as envelope stuffers and other fulfillment
service providers.
Links To Other Websites
Stewart Sites may contain links to web
sites that are provided and maintained exclusively by third parties web sites
provided and maintained by third parties are not subject to this privacy policy.
Please review the privacy policies on those web sites to understand their
personal information handling practices. We make no representations concerning
the privacy policies of these third party web sites.
Questions
If you have questions about our privacy policy, you may
contact our webmaster at webmaster@stewart.com. Please provide
the webmaster with information about the specific Stewart Sites that you are
inquiring about.
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