Trust is the foundation of our relationship with you. If you select us for your mortgage needs we believe it will be because you trust us to act with integrity and preserve the confidentiality of your financial affairs. We want to assure you that: We do not sell our customer mailing lists or other customer information to outside marketing firms. We will continue to protect your privacy rights even after your mortgage business with Mortgage Partners is complete. About this statement: This statement summarizes our consumer privacy policies and practices and the certain rights you have under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. Our consumer privacy policy and practices protect the confidentiality of information about individuals who obtain financial products or services from us primarily for personal, family or household purposes. They apply with equal force to both current and former customers. When we use the term "information" in this notice, we mean information about you that is not publicly available. The policies and practices described in this notice do not apply to or protect information about you that is publicly available. We have included examples in this notice of information we collect, how we use it, with which we share it and what we do to protect it. The examples we use are for the purpose of illustration only - you should not consider them to be a comprehensive description of our privacy practices. We Collect and Use Information Responsibly We collect and use information about you to administer our business and provide you with high quality financial products and services. We collect information about you from a variety of sources, including: * Information you provide us on applications, personal financial statements or in other oral, written or electronic communications. For example, this information may include your name, address, Social Security number, employer, assets, and income. The only information we collect about you through our websites is information you voluntarily provide and it is placed on a secure server. * Information we receive from consumer reporting agencies (credit bureaus). For example, this information may include your credit history, credit score and other information about your creditworthiness. We Protect Information Internally The only people authorized to access customer information are those who have a legitimate business reason to do so in connection with their job responsibilities. We emphasize this confidentiality obligation in our training and procedures and maintain appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees' privacy responsibilities. In addition, we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to prevent unauthorized access to information about you. Information you provide us through our website is similarly protected. Information Sharing The only companies we share information with are those lenders who we are submitting your application to on your behalf. These companies will have full access to your original application, credit file, employment and income information, assets and other information provided to us by you.