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Title Companies and Settlement Services providers are now required by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to inform you of their policies regarding privacy of information we have collected to facilitate your transaction. Lakeshore Land and Title understands your concerns for privacy and the need to ensure the privacy of all your information. Your privacy is important to us and maintaining your trust and confidence is a high priority. We have been and continue to be bound by professional standards of confidentiality that are even more stringent than those required by such Act. Therefore, we have always protected your right to privacy. The purpose of this notice is to explain our Privacy Policy with regard to personal information about you that we obtain and how we keep that information secure.
NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Depending on which of our services you are utilizing, the types of nonpublic personal information that we may collect 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. We receive this information from your lender, attorney, real estate broker, etc; and
Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.
We collect nonpublic personal information about you that is provided to us by you or obtained by us with your authorization or
consent.
We do not disclose any personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law.
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about current or former customers, except as expressly or impliedly authorized by those customers to enable us to facilitate the requested transaction or as required or permitted by law.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We retain records relating to your transaction and professional services that we provide so that we are better able to assist you and to comply with professional guidelines or requirements of law.
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide the products or services requested by you or your lender.
In order to guard your nonpublic personal information, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with appropriate federal and state regulations as well as our professional standards.
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