| Loan Leaders of America, Inc. is a licensee of
the TRUSTe Privacy Program. This privacy statement discloses the
privacy practices for Loan Leaders of America, Inc. ("Loan Leaders of America"). Because
Loan Leaders of America wants to demonstrate its firm commitment to your privacy,
Loan Leaders of America has agreed
to disclose its information gathering and dissemination practices.
Loan Leaders of America will notify you of:
* What information is collected from you through the web site
* The organization collecting the information
* How the information is used
* With whom the information may be shared
* What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution
of the information
* The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse
or alteration of information under Loan Leaders of America control
* How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
If you feel that Loan Leaders of America is not abiding by its
posted privacy policy, you wish to modify information previously
given, or have
any questions regarding the privacy policy, please contact
us via e-mail at info@loanleaders.com.
If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or it is
not satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe through
the TRUSTe Watchdog Dispute Resolution Process http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php.
TRUSTe will serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve users
concerns.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
Loan Leaders of America, Inc. ("Company " or "we" or "our"),
owns and operates the website located at www.loanleaders.com,
(the "Site").
Through the Site, Company operates a prospective customer
data base (the "Service") , by which it compiles, sorts
and sells contact information to businesses on behalf of
individual consumers who have shown an interest in applying
for a business'
products or services and has affirmatively asked to be contacted
by a representative of a product or service business. Company
utilizes
third party vendors, third party affiliates, and a variety
of media advertisements to promote the Site to consumers
interested in completing
an online application at our Site or to supplement our database
by purchasing their database of consumers who have completed
applications on websites other than Company's and have affirmatively
requested
receipt of information about product or service offerings
similar to those offered on Company's Site.
Company also promotes its product and service offerings via e-mail
or telephone to consumers who requested that they be contacted
either through our online application opt-in process via our Site
or through an Opt-In process on one of our many vendor or affiliate
sites (List Members). List Members will then receive email or telephone
contacts only for so long as they wish to continue to receive such
contacts.
If you choose to remove yourself from our contact list, if applicable,
we will also forward your name and contact information to the specific
vendor or affiliate marketer who provided your informational request
to us so that they can include your name on their do-not-contact
list too. Please bear in mind that if your information was purchased
commercially from a third party vendor, Company may not be the
only data company your contact information was sold to. Additionally,
our third party vendor or affiliate may have purchased your contact
information from someone else and thus you may continue to receive
contacts from those companies as well. Company is not responsible
for stopping all unwanted contacts from sources beyond our immediate
control.
YOUR PRIVACY IS OUR CONCERN
We recognize the importance of protecting your personal information.
We collect and retain information about you to communicate with
you, to process your requests for products and services, and to
inform you about other financial services that may be of interest
to you through our news letter. Except as explained here in our
Privacy Policy, we do not sell nonpublic personal information about
current or former customers, nor do we share this type of information
with anyone other than our affiliates. The examples in this Privacy
Policy are illustrative only and are not intended to be exclusive.
We want consumers to feel comfortable using the Site and participating
in the Service, so we have created this Privacy Policy to let you
know what information we may collect from you on the Site and through
the Service and how we may use that information. Please take a
moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using the
Site and participating in the Service, you agree to accept the
terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of
this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site or participate
in the Service.
MINORS
Loan Leaders of America does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information
from children under 13 years of age.
GENERAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
Loan Leaders of America collects information through the Site
from our prospective and existing customers at several different
points on our web sites.
We use contact information to send information about our
company and to service existing accounts. Users may opt-out
of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section
below. Contact
and Financial information that is collected is used for verifying
your name, address and other information. Information about
your computer hardware and software is automatically collected
by Loan Leaders of America and may be shared in aggregate
with third parties whose services
are used for traffic analysis purposes. This information
includes: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access
times and referring
Web site addresses. This information is used by Loan Leaders
of America to maintain and improve the quality of the service
and to generate statistics
regarding use of the Loan Leaders of America site. Loan Leaders
of America does not use third party databases to correct
or update the information you submit
to us for any reason.
CHOICE/OPT-OUT
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out
of receiving communications from us and our artners as
previously described
above.
This site gives users the following options for removing their
information from our database to not receive future communications
or to no longer receive our service.
* You can send e-mail to info@loanleaders.com
Please note that participation in certain activities on our web
site may be limited if personally identifiable information is not
submitted for the user. E-mail addresses and phone numbers received
in an opt-out request will be added to our internal Do-Not-Contact
registry within ten (10) Business days following receipt.
COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing
information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked
to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If
a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site however
without cookies the user may not have access to certain features
on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the
interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. To
do this we use a tracking utility service offered by Web Trends,
Inc. All cookies served on the domain, both session and persistent
are tied to the Personally Identifiable Information you provide.
Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example,
advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these
cookies once set on our site.
LINKS
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that
Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site
and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that
collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by Company even in cases
where we may frame another site with our own. From time to time
we may co-brand certain services with third parties. It will be
clear at the point of collection who is collecting such information
and whose privacy statement governs. For example, without limiting
the foregoing, we co-brand with insurance brokers, credit reporting
agencies and, automotive companies.
SECURITY
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help
protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use,
or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you
provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located
in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential
information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we
protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) protocol.
DISCLOSURE
We cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other
personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in
ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Agreement. By way
of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to
disclose information to the government or third parties under certain
circumstances as required by law, third parties may unlawfully
intercept or access transmissions or private communications.
In addition, as noted above, if you opt-out of future contact
from Company by using the opt-out mechanism provided in each e-mail
we send to you on behalf of a third party service provider other
than Company, we will provide your email address to the third party
service provider so that the third party service provider can add
your name and contact information to its own do-not-contact list.
As Company develops, we may buy other businesses or their assets
or sell our business assets. Customer information is generally
one of the business assets involved in such transactions. Thus,
in the event that Company or all of its assets are acquired, customer
information, including any visitor information collected through
the Site, would be one of the transferred assets. For more information
see our “Notification of Changes” section below.
Finally, Company reserves the right to disclose member information
in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing
this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal
action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference
with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Company’s
rights or property, other visitors, members, or anyone else that
could be harmed by such activities. Company also reserves the right
to disclose visitor or member information when we believe in good
faith that the law requires it.
SHARING INFORMATION WITH AFFILIATES
When you submit your request for information or quote, you are
granting permission to be contacted by Loan Leaders of America Inc. or affiliated
third parties. We share the contact and loan request data you submit
on the Quote Request form and Loan Leaders of America account number information
with affiliated companies such as banks, commercial lenders and
licensed loan brokers to fulfill information requests we receive
from you, to provide you with superior service, inform you of product
and service opportunities that may be of interest to you, and for
other business purposes, we may disclose all of the information
we collect, as described above, to the following types of affiliated
companies: financial service providers, such as mortgage and life
insurance agencies, title service companies, debt & credit
services companies and auto finance companies. An “affiliate
company” is a company under legal contract with Loan Leaders of America
to fulfill services or is a company owned in whole ore in part
by Loan Leaders of America.
SHARING INFORMATION WITH CO-BRANDED PARTNERS
Some of the services offered on our website are co-branded with
contracted partners. Co-Branded offerings will be identified directly
on the Quote Request form for the product or service you choose
prior to you having to submit the Quote Request. Where a co-branded
product or service provider is identified your Personally Identifiable
information will be provided directly to that provider’s
website, not Loan Leaders of America. The Product or Service provider shall control
your data once submitted to them. For purposes of identification
and tracking, your contact information (name, Address, Phone, e-mail
address, etc.) is shared with Loan Leaders of America.
OUR FORMER CUSTOMERS
We treat information about our former customers in the same manner
as we treat information about our current customers.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We restrict access to nonpublic personal 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 federal standards to guard
your nonpublic personal information against unauthorized access
or use.
Maintaining the accuracy of your information is a shared
responsibility. We maintain the integrity of the information you
provide us and will update your records when you notify us of a
change. Please contact us at the address or phone number listed
below when information concerning you changes.
SITE AND SERVICE UPDATES
We will send the user site and service announcement updates. Members
are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which
contain important information about the service. We also communicate
with user to provide requested services and in regards to issues
relating to the account via e-mail or telephone when requested.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information
in a manner materially different from that stated at the time it
was collected, we will prominently post a notice on the website
for 30 days. We may also make a reasonable effort to notify users
by way of an e-mail. Users have a choice as to whether or not we
use their information in this materially different manner.
FOR VERMONT RESIDENTS
The information-sharing practices described above are in accordance
with federal law. Vermont law places additional restrictions on
sharing information about Vermont residents, so long as they remain
Vermont residents. In accordance with Vermont law:
* We will not share consumer credit reports with our affiliates
without your consent, and
* We will only disclose your name, contact information and our own transaction
and experience information to other financial institutions with which we have
joint-marketing arrangements.
Otherwise, we will share information in accordance with all of
the practices described.
QUESTIONS
Any questions that you may have regarding this Privacy Policy
should be directed to info@loanleaders.com.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on Nov 15th, 2005
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