Joint Notice of Privacy Policy

of Westcor Land Title Insurance Company and Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County

 

Westcor Land Title Insurance Company (“WLTIC”) and Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County value their customers and are committed to protecting the privacy of personal information.  In keeping with that philosophy, we each have developed a Privacy Policy, set out below, that will endure the continued protection of your nonpublic personal information and inform you about the measures WLTIC and Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County take to safeguard that information. This notice is issued jointly as a means of paperwork reduction and is not intended to create a joint privacy policy. Each company’s privacy policy is separately instituted, executed, and maintained.

 

Who is Covered

 

We provide our Privacy Policy to each customer when they purchase a WLTIC title insurance policy.  Generally, this means that the Privacy Policy is provided to the customer at the closing of the real estate transaction.

 

Information Collected

 

In the normal course of business and to provide the necessary services to our customers, we may obtain nonpublic personal information directly from the customer, from customer-related transactions, or from third parties such as our title insurance agent, lenders, appraisers, surveyors and other similar entities.

 

Access to Information

 

Access to all nonpublic personal information is limited to those employees who have a need to know in order to perform their jobs.  These employees include, but are not limited to, those in departments such as closing, legal, underwriting, claims and administration and accounting.

 

Information Sharing

 

Generally, neither WLTIC nor Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County shares nonpublic personal information that it collects with anyone other than those individuals necessary needed to complete the real estate settlement services and issue its title insurance policy as requested by the consumer.  WLTIC or Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County may share nonpublic personal information as permitted by law with entities with whom WLTIC or Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County has a joint marketing agreement.  Entities with whom WLTIC or Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County have a joint marketing agreement have agreed to protect the privacy of our customer’s nonpublic personal information by utilizing similar precautions and security measures as WLTIC and Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County use to protect this information and to use the information for lawful purposes.  WLTIC or Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County, however, may share information as required by law in response to a subpoena, to a government regulatory agency or to prevent fraud.

 

Information Security

 

WLTIC and Abstract & Title Company of Mesa County, at all times, strive to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of the personal information in its possession and has instituted measures to guard against its unauthorized access.  We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in compliance with federal standards to protect that information.

 

The WLTIC Privacy Policy can be found on WLTIC’s website at www.wltic.com

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