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 Our Webmaster. Please provide the webmaster with information about the specific Stewart Sites that you are inquiring about.