Privacy Policy
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, together with our subsidiaries 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 that 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. REsource has also
adopted broader guidelines that govern our use of personal information
regardless of its source.
Types of Information
Depending upon 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;
- and Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency.
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 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.
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.
Information Obtained Through Our Web
Site
The REsource Corporation is sensitive to privacy issues on the
Internet. We believe it is important you know how we treat the
information about you we receive on the Internet.
In general, you can visit REsource or its affiliates Web sites on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our Web servers collect the domain names, not the e-mail addresses, of visitors. This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed and similar information. REsource uses this information to measure the use of our site and to develop ideas to improve the content of our site.
There are times, however, when we may need information from you, such as your name and email address. When information is needed, we will use our best efforts to let you know at the time of collection how we will use the personal information. Usually, the personal information we collect is used only by us to respond to your inquiry, process an order or allow you to access specific account/profile information. If you choose to share any personal information with us, we will only use it in accordance with the policies outlined above.
Business Relationships
The REsource Corporation's site and its affiliates' sites may
contain links to other Web sites. While we try to link only to sites
that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not
responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other
sites.
Cookies
Some of REsource's Web sites may make use of "cookie" technology
to measure site activity and to customize information to your personal
tastes. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your
browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive.
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Public Record
We believe that an open
public record creates significant value for society, enhances consumer
choice and creates consumer opportunity. We actively support an open
public record and emphasize its importance and contribution to our
economy.
Use
We believe we should behave
responsibly when we use information about a consumer in our business. We
will obey the laws governing the collection, use and dissemination of
data.
Accuracy
We will take reasonable steps to
help assure the accuracy of the data we collect, use and disseminate.
Where possible, we will take reasonable steps to correct inaccurate
information. When, as with the public record, we cannot correct
inaccurate information, we will take all reasonable steps to assist
consumers in identifying the source of the erroneous data so that the
consumer can secure the required corrections.
Education
We endeavor to educate the
users of our products and services, our employees and others in our
industry about the importance of consumer privacy. We will instruct our
employees on our fair information values and on the responsible
collection and use of data. We will encourage others in our industry to
collect and use information in a responsible manner.
Security
We will maintain appropriate
facilities and systems to protect against unauthorized access to and
corruption of the data we maintain.
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