This is important information about your privacy.
Mortgage Options of America, Inc. respects the confidentiality
of your nonpublic personal information. It is our
ongoing responsibility to ensure that it is protected.
You are encouraged to read this notice in its entirety.
At Mortgage Options of America, Inc. one of our
most important responsibilities to you, our customer,
is safekeeping the confidential information you
have entrusted to us and using this information
in a responsible and appropriate manner. This notice
will help you understand how Mortgage Options of
America, inc. responsibly uses and protects your
nonpublic personal information. For purposes of
this notice, nonpublic personal financial information
means customer information that you provide to
us or that is obtained by us in connection with
financial products and services provided primarily
for personal, family or household purposes that
is not publicly available. The following is our
continuing commitment to the responsible use and
protection of your confidential information:
The Nonpublic Personal Information
We Collect In connection with providing financial products
or services to you, we collect nonpublic personal
information about you from the following sources:
• Information we may receive from you on applications,
disclosures, forms or documents that you provide
to us - for example, your employer, your income,
your accounts and balances with other financial
institutions.
• Information concerning your transactions with
us.
• Information we receive from a consumer reporting
agency - such as your creditworthiness and payment
history.
The Personal Nonpublic Information
We Share, Why We Share and With Whom Mortgage Options of America,
Inc. limits the use and sharing of your confidential
information to what we believe is necessary to
provide you with the financial products or services
you have requested, to provide you with exceptional
customer service, to detect or prevent fraud, to
make available to you other financial products
or services that may be of interest to you, or
to share with nonaffiliated third parties as otherwise
required or permitted by law. Mortgage Options
of America, Inc. may be required to or may share
some or all of the information that we collect
about you, described above, to the following third
parties or for the following purposes:
• To investors and other financial institutions
to whom we may broker or sell our loans.
• To third parties in order to process, assist
or service a financial product or service for us
that you have requested or authorized - such as
appraisers, attorneys and mortgage insurance companies.
• To other financial institutions with whom we
have joint marketing agreements to enhance our
financial product or service offerings - such as
providing mortgage loan account information to
MF&T Insurance Agency, who offers Property & Casualty
Insurance to our customers on our behalf.
• To respond to a subpoena, court order or judicial
process.
• To our regulators and auditors.
• To pursue a proposed or actual sale, merger or
transfer of all or a portion of our business or
operating units.
Whenever other companies or third parties provide
marketing or support services on our behalf, we
require them to adhere to our confidentiality and
security procedures. All joint marketing and outside
service provider agreements contain a confidentiality
agreement that requires those third parties to
use the confidential information only to provide
a product or service on our behalf. Mortgage options
of America, Inc. limits the sharing of confidential
information to sharing arrangements that are exempt
from customer opt-out requirements. This means
the customer cannot opt-out of these sharing arrangements.
Security of Nonpublic Personal Information
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information
to our employees and subcontractors who need
this information to provide our products or services
to you. We maintain physical, electronic and
procedural safeguards that comply with applicable
federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal
information.
Nonpublic Personal Information of Former Customers
This notice applies to our former customers.
Changes to Privacy Notice and Practices
Mortgage Options of America, inc. may choose to
modify this notice at any time. We will notify
customers and/or consumers of any modifications
through the issuing of a new privacy notice,
if required by law. Mortgage Options of America,
Inc. privacy notice and practices
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