Your privacy is important to us! In the course of our business relationship with you, we collect information about you that is necessary to provide you with our services. We do not sell, rent or exchange, or otherwise disclose your information to anyone outside the scope of obtaining a mortgage loan. We keep the information strictly confidential. We do not track who visits our Web site, we only measure the number of visitors to our site. Information we collect We collect and maintain information about you to provide you with the financial services you request. We collect certain “nonpublic personal information” about you from the following sources: 1. Information from your loan application and other forms, such as Social Security number, assets, income, and property information; and 2. Information we receive from consumer reporting agencies such as credit report information; We restrict access to personal information about you to those individuals, such as our employees, agents, and investors, who provide you with our services. We require those individuals to whom we permit access to your information to protect it and keep it confidential. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable regulatory standards to guard your nonpublic personal information. We are required by law to maintain these records for a period of time, after which they are destroyed in a proper manner. We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you except as described in this notice. Security Information submitted to us via the Internet is encryted as part of the secure socket layer (SSL) protocol. We use the highest level of security during the application process. To verify that your information is secure, look at the lower corner of your browser window during the application process. There should be an icon of a lock, a key, or something similar, and a statement letting you know that the connection is secure. We use cookies only during the loan application process for purposes of verifying identity and to keep certain information active during the loan process. Therefore you will need to have cookies enabled in your browser. A cookie is a small data file that is located on your hard drive and only Online Mortgage Corporation or its processing agents have access to that file, but only when you visit our site. Cookies help streamline the application process so we don't have to ask you for the same information each time you return. They have no programming function and can cause no harm to your computer. If you have any questions regarding this and our other policies, please feel free to contact us.