Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us, and maintaining your trust and confidence is a high priority. The purpose of this notice is to explain our Privacy Policy with regard to nonpublic personal information.

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, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to govern the use and handling of your personal information.

Lawyers have been and continue to be bound by professional standards of confidentiality that are even more stringent than those required by statute. Therefore, we have always protected your right to privacy.

This Privacy Policy governs our use of the information which 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.

In the course of our business, we may collect personal information about you from the following sources:

• Information that we receive from you, including information on applications or other forms, such as your name, address, social security number, tax identification number, asset information, and income information;
• Information that we secure from our files;
• Information that we receive from others including lenders and others; and
• Information we receive from consumer or other reporting agencies and publicly recorded documents.

We request information from you for our own legitimate business purposes and not for the benefit of any other party. Therefore, we will not release your information except: (1) as necessary for us to provide the 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 client relationship has ceased. Such information may be used for any internal purpose, such as quality control efforts or customer analysis. Furthermore, we may also provide all the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf.

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 to ensure that your information will be handled responsibly and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We currently maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.

We are 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. Our web servers may collect the domain names, not the e-mail addresses, of visitors. This information is sometimes aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed and similar information. We use this information to measure the use of our site and to develop ideas to improve the content of our site.

Our website may contain links to other websites. 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.

Our website 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 website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. The goal of this technology is to better serve you when visiting our site, save you time when you are here and to provide you with a more meaningful and productive website experience.

We will maintain appropriate facilities and systems to protect against unauthorized access to and corruption of the data we maintain.