Privacy Statement
Your Privacy is important to us. Be assured that Escrow Partners does not distribute your personal information to anyone not involved in your real estate transaction and even then, only to those who have a verifiable and proven need for the data. We believe that it is our job, as the "honest broker" in the transaction to insure that everyone's privacy is carefully protected. Information provided to you and to others about your transaction through this site is carefully monitored and provided strictly as a means of improving the escrow process and making your closing as painless as possible.

1. EscrowPartners.com and Your Privacy: EscrowPartners.com is designed to give you as much control as possible over your privacy with regard to your personal information. In general, you can visit our site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. The exception to this is when you are an authorized customer and wish to enter the information part of the site. This information is generated from our database and contains personal information. Therefore, we require users to log on to the system to verify their identity and to allow private communications between the customer and Escrow Partners. To help clarify our position on privacy better, please read the following definitions.

A. ESCROWPARTNERS.COM does not collect personally identifiable information about individuals except when such individuals specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis. For example, such personally identifiable information may be gathered from the registration process for subscription to an information service or in connection with content submissions, community postings, suggestions, voting/polling activities and other transactional areas. At no time will personally identifiable information on individual users be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection. If, at any time, such information is to be collected, prior to entering the point of collection, the user will have the opportunity to indicate whether he or she would like to "opt out" of receiving promotional and/or marketing information about other products, services and offerings from ESCROWPARTNERS.COM and/or any third parties. Further, notwithstanding any opt out of promotional information by the user, ESCROWPARTNERS.COM reserves the right to contact a subscriber regarding account status, changes to the subscriber agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected.

B. ESCROWPARTNERS.COM reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners. ESCROWPARTNERS.COM will provide only aggregated data from these analyses to third parties. Also, users should be aware that ESCROWPARTNERS.COM might sometimes permit third parties to offer subscription and/or registration-based services through the ESCROWPARTNERS.COM site. ESCROWPARTNERS.COM is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and users should check the applicable privacy policy of such party when providing personally identifiable information.

C. Users also should be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected through the standard operation of ESCROWPARTNERS.COM's Internet servers or through the use of "cookies." "Cookies" are small text files a web site can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a user's system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. Users should be aware that ESCROWPARTNERS.COM cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for ESCROWPARTNERS.COM. If a user does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, users should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on the ESCROWPARTNERS.COM Site.

D. Upon request, ESCROWPARTNERS.COM will allow any user to "opt out" of further promotional contacts at any time. Additionally upon request, ESCROWPARTNERS.COM will use reasonable efforts to allow users to update/correct personal information previously submitted which the user states is erroneous to the extent such activities will not compromise privacy or security interests. Also, upon a user's request, ESCROWPARTNERS.COM will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally delete the user and his or her personal information from its on-line database; however, it may be impossible to delete a user's entry without some residual information because of backups and records of deletions.

E. The foregoing policies are effective as of December 1, 1999. ESCROWPARTNERS.COM reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

2. What Information We Gather and Track: There are times when we may need information from you. This generally involves filling out forms so you can update information, download a product or order an EscrowPartners.com service. When you download products or services, we require you to fill out a form with your name and email address. During this process, you are given the opportunity to decline further notification of important news and events. EscrowPartners.com does not collect your personal credit history information for its own use. Any updates or modifications made to the histroy provided to the lender is strictly used to update the transaction information about your closing and is in no way made use of by us for other purposes. EscrowPartners.com does not share credit or credit card information with other companies or third parties, unless required in the completion of your real estate transaction nor when compelled by law or court order to do so.

3. What We Do With the Information We Gather and Track: The information gathered from the forms you fill out is used in one of three ways:

A. To provide you with information about products, services, news and events;

B. To allow you to purchase and download products; and

C. To gather broad demographic information about user trends.

4. How We Gather and Track Information: EscrowPartners.com uses various methods to collect certain other kinds of information including "cookies"; "referrer", IP addresses, and environmentals. Here is how we use those methods.

A. A "cookie" is an element of data that a Web site like EscrowPartners.com can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. It can be used to provide you with tailored information from the Web site you have visited. Some EscrowPartners.com pages use cookies, so that we can better serve you when you visit our site by providing you with information tailored to your interests. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. EscrowPartners.com does not require that you accept cookies.

B. A "Referrer" is the information passed along by a web browser that references the Web URL you linked from, and our Web server automatically gathers it. This information is used by EscrowPartners.com in identifying broad demographic trends and may be used to provide information tailored to your interests.

C. Our Web server automatically gathers IP addresses. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer so that data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you. You will not be personally identified from this information.

D. Environment variables we gather include time, type of Web browser being used, the operating system/platform, and CPU speed. This information is used only for broad demographic information. This information is used by EscrowPartners.com in identifying broad Demographic trends and may be used to provide information tailored to your interests.

E. Additionally, the EscrowPartners.com site contains links to other Web sites, however, EscrowPartners.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

5. What We Do with Information Gathered: EscrowPartners.com will never share personal information gathered on a Escrow Partners Web site with third parties, except if the product or service in question is developed or owned by an Escrow Partners, Inc. sub-contractor or licensed by Escrow Partners, Inc. from a third-party for use on the EscrowPartners.com web site and the use of this information is necessary for the maintenance, repair or troubleshooting of the specified product or service.

6. Contacting Us about Privacy: If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you may contact:

Michael Stevens
EscrowPartners.com
11400 SE 8th St
Suite 250
Bellevue, Washington 98004
United States of America
info@escrowpartners.com
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