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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," "WE" OR "US") THAT
ARE LINKED ("STEWART SITES"), YOU ARE AGREEING TO THIS
PRIVACY POLICY.
Your use of and access to the Stewart Sites is expressly
conditioned on your acceptance of the following terms and
conditions. If you do not or cannot 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 non-public 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 non-public 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
Stewart Sites 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), 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 non-public personal information from you when
you voluntarily provide personally identifiable information
to us through 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, except as described below. 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 others when we
believe, 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 our 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 or other
disclosure. 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 do not authorize access to non-public personal
information about you to those individuals who do not need
to know that information in order to provide products or
services to you, or as otherwise provided herein.
SHARING
We may disclose any information that we collect about you to
our affiliates or non-affiliated third parties as permitted
by law. We also may disclose information about our customers
or former customers and others to the following types of
non-affiliated 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 WEB SITES
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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