| 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.
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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 |