Privacy & Security - YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS TO US

Internet Security Policy

Welcome to Franklin Mortgage Company’s web site. This section explains our policy regarding any personal information you might supply to us when you visit this site. Our goal is to protect your information on the Internet in the same way that we protect it in all the other ways we interact with you: in our office and on the phone.

You can visit this site and find out about our products and services, read about our company and other value-added services without giving us any information about yourself.

If you do provide personal information, such as address, e-mail, telephone and fax numbers, as well as demographic and customer identification, it will be sent to us over a secure connection.

We will maintain this information, as well as your business activities and transactions, according to our usual strict security and confidentiality standards.

Privacy Policy
We recognize the importance to you of keeping your information secure and confidential. We will not sell or share nonpublic personal information about you with third parties either outside or within our corporate family except as explained in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy covers personally identifiable information about both current and former customers who obtain financial products or services from us primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, and is provided as required by the Federal Financial Privacy Law.

Notice of Your Financial Privacy Rights
We, our and us, when used in this notice, mean Franklin Mortgage Company.Information, when used in this notice, means nonpublic personal information as defined in ‘Nonpublic Personal Information’ section.This is our privacy notice for our customers:
· Our consumer customers who have a continuing relationship by purchasing or holding financial products or services such as loan accounts.

Nonpublic personal information
Information about you that we collect in connection with providing a financial product or service to you. Nonpublic personal information does not include information that is available from public sources, such as telephone directories or government records.

Affiliate
A company we own or control, a company that owns or controls us, or a company that is owned or controlled by the same company that owns or controls us. Ownership does not mean complete ownership, but means owning enough to have control.

Nonaffiliated Third Party
A person we do not employ or a company that is not an affiliate of ours. This is also known as “other party.”

Collecting Information
When you seek to obtain financial products and services from us, we may collect nonpublic personal information about you form the following sources:

• Applications and other forms, or through other communication including information provided by mail, telephone, in person or electronically. Such information may include your name, address, employment, income and other identifying information.
• Your past transactions with us.
• Consumer reporting agencies or other companies, which may include, for example, information regarding your creditworthiness or credit history.
• Other sources which may include, for example, verification of your employment history, credit balances, property insurance coverage or other representations made by you.

The Confidentiality, Security, and Integrity of Your Information
We restrict access to information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable federal standard to protect your nonpublic personal information.