CHESAPEAKE TITLE GROUP

A Division of Thompson & Richard, LLP

PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE

This Privacy Policy Notice is provided on behalf of Chesapeake Title Group, a Division of Thompson & Richard, LLP

Congress passed the Gramm-Leach Bliley (GBL) Act, which deals in part with how the financial services industry handles nonpublic personal financial information. Chesapeake Title Group, a Division of Thompson & Richard, LLP (hereinafter “Chesapeake”), recognizes that the foundation of our business is maintaining your trust and confidence.  In order to provide you with the most effective and beneficial service, we must maintain information about you.  Keeping that information secure and private is important to us.  This notice is provided to you so that you may know how we collect information about you, the type of information we collect, what we may disclose to our affiliates and non-affiliated third parties, and the steps we take to protect personal information about you.

WHAT WE COLLECT:

As part of our servicing of your closing, we may obtain certain nonpublic information about you so that we may provide customer service, procure mortgage payoffs and fulfill legal and regulatory requirements associated with a real estate settlement.  This information includes: facts and data that we receive from you, real estate agents, lenders, government agencies, and/or other authorized persons in varying manners, including but not limited to title orders, sales contracts, applications, company required forms, telephone calls, correspondence, loan payoffs and other processing forms; facts and data about your transactions with us, our affiliates or others; and facts and data we receive from consumer reporting agencies.

The information we collect, or that has been provided to us in processing your transaction, may include but is not limited to:

• Your name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, social security number, age, gender, marital status, assets, bank account number(s), and financial statistics;

• Your employment history, such as your occupation(s), your income and your employer(s) and years of service with employer(s);

• Your creditworthiness and credit history.

WHAT WE SHARE:

Chesapeake is committed to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information we collect.  We welcome this opportunity to clarify our privacy policy for you.

With respect to the information we collect about you:

• We collect and use the information to the extent needed to conduct our business and to meet our high quality service standards;

• We restrict access to the information to authorized individuals who need to know this information to provide services and products to you;

• We maintain appropriate safeguards to protect information about you;

• We will verify that any persons requesting information about you or your relationship with us is entitled to such information prior to providing it;

• We share nonpublic personal information about you outside our company only to service your request, or as authorized by you, or as required or permitted by applicable law;

• We require any organization that provides assistance in providing services on our behalf to you to maintain the confidentiality of nonpublic personal information about you and not use such information for any other purpose; and

• Our Privacy Policy does not allow non-affiliates to offer their products and services to you.

We may disclose any of the above information that we collect about our customers or former customers to our affiliates or to non-affiliated third parties as permitted by law.

WE DO NOT DISCLOSE ANY NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU WITH ANYONE FOR ANY PURPOSE THAT IS NOT SPECIFICALLY PERMITTED BY LAW, OR STATED HEREIN, OR AUTHORIZED BY YOU.

If we change our privacy practices, we will provide you notice of all material changes.  This privacy notice supersedes all previous notices with respect to matters described herein.

It is our goal to ensure that all information we collect is accurate and complete.  Please notify us if you believe  information is inaccurate.

NO ACTION IS REQUIRED BY YOU

You do not need to do anything as a result of this notice.  It is meant to inform you of how we safeguard nonpublic personal information about you.  You may wish to file this notice with your insurance papers.

We strive to maintain your confidence and trust.