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PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to Capital Title
CAPITAL TITLE OF TEXAS FAMILY OF COMPANIES
PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE
(As of October 31, 2003)We at the CAPITAL TITLE OF TEXAS Family of Companies take your privacy very seriously. We do not share your private information with anyone except as necessary to complete your real property, title insurance and escrow transaction.
OUR PRIVACY POLICIES AND PRACTICES
1. Information we collect and sources from which we collect it: We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:Information we receive from you on applications or other forms.
Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or others.
Information from non-affiliated third parties relating to your transaction."Nonpublic personal information" is nonpublic information about you that we obtain in connection with providing a product or service to you.
2. What information we disclose and to whom we disclose it: We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to either our affiliates or non-affiliates without your express consent, except as permitted or required by law. We may disclose the nonpublic personal information we collect, as described above to persons or companies that perform services on our behalf regarding your transactions. "Our affiliates" are companies with which we share common ownership and which offer real property, title insurance, or escrow services.
3. Our security procedures: We restrict access to your nonpublic personal information and only allow disclosures to persons and companies as permitted by law to assist in providing products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your nonpublic personal information.4. The CAPITAL TITLE OF TEXAS Website will obtain personally identifiable information (name, e-mail address, or other unique identifier) only if specifically and knowingly provided by you (sending us email or filling out web forms). In some cases, the personally identifiable information you provide will be used to merely respond to your electronic inquiry and will not be maintained. In other cases, the personal information is necessary in order to provide you with the CAPITAL TITLE OF TEXAS service.
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Website and read the information contained on the Web pages, we will gather certain information about your visit automatically via "cookies." This information does not identify you personally. We 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) and 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 our Website, the date and time you access our site and the pages you visit. This information is used solely for measurement of the usefulness of our website and determination of areas of improvement in which to better serve our customers.
CAPITAL TITLE OF TEXAS utilizes cookies solely for web traffic analysis purposes between CAPITAL TITLE OF TEXAS and site visitors. The transmission of this cookie is made from CAPITAL TITLE OF TEXAS to you in an encrypted manner. CAPITAL TITLE OF TEXAS does not utilize cookies in any way to collect or gather any information pertaining to your Internet use, trends, tendencies, habits, or sites visited, outside of our websites.
6. Customer acknowledgment: Your website visit, receipt of a copy of the preliminary report, commitment, your policy of insurance, or escrow documents accompanied by this Notice will constitute your acknowledgment of receipt of this Privacy Policy Notice. f