Privacy Policy
Last updated on May 21, 2020
Consumer privacy is of paramount concern here at usafunding.us (“usafunding.us” or “We” or “Our”). The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is intended to describe the way usafunding.com utilizes and protects the information we collect from our users. Any references to a “website” or “site” within and throughout this Privacy Policy will apply to the website usafunding.com.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT
usafunding.us is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18 or those who are not legal residents of the United States. Please take a moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using the usafunding.us website and participating in any of the services offered on usafunding.us, you agree to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES
usafunding.us may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes to our information practices, we will revise this Policy. You are advised to read and review this Policy each and every time you access our website and/or use any Service on usafunding.com.
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
We collect and combine personally identifiable information (“PII”) and non-personally identifiable information (“Non-PII”) through various sources, including those discussed below. For your reference, PII is data collected with an intention to specifically identify, contact or locate a person, including but not limited to first name, last name, address, zip code, city, state, length of stay at address, whether you rent or own, your e-mail address, telephone number, work telephone number, time at which you may be contacted, job title, business income, and loan amount desired. Conversely, Non-PII is data that is not used to specifically identify, contact or locate an individual, including but not limited to zip code, gender, age, or IP address.
ABOUT US
On this Site, we operate a prospective customer database (the “Service”), which collects contact information to businesses and networks on behalf of individual consumers and/or businesses that have shown an interest in applying for a business’ products or services. We utilize third party vendors, third party affiliates, and a variety of media advertisements to promote our Site to consumers interested in completing an online request form at our Site and requested receipt of information about product or service offerings similar to those offered on our Site. By using the usafunding.us website, you agree to our use of your PII and Non-PII for these purposes.
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. The examples in this Privacy Policy are illustrative only and are not intended to be exclusive.
OPT-OUT / OPT-IN
We, our affiliate(s) and/or third parties may also promote product and service offerings via e-mail or telephone (including by USA Funding and automatic dialers) to consumers who requested to be contacted either through our Site’s online application Opt-in process or through an Opt-In process on our third-party vendor or affiliate sites (“List Members”). List Members will receive emails or telephone contacts (including by SMS and automatic dialer) until they opt-out of receiving such contacts.
List Members can be removed from our contact lists at any time with no questions asked. To remove your information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service, you may: 1) send e-mail to support@usafunding.us;
Please note that participation in certain activities on our 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) days following receipt.
Unless we hear from you, we will assume you consent to receive communications from us and our third-party vendors and affiliates.
If a List Member chooses to be removed from our contact list, if applicable, we will also forward this request to the specific third-party vendor or affiliate who provided List Member’s informational request to us so that the List Member may be included on the third-party’s Do-Not-Contact registry as well.
MINORS
usafunding.us does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18. No information is knowingly collected from children or used for any purpose whatsoever, including marketing and promotional purposes. If a parent or guardian is made aware that a child under the age of 18 has provided us with personally-identifying information through any point of contact, please contact us at support@usafunding.us and we will delete the information about the child referenced from our files.
GENERAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
usafunding.com collects information through the Site from our prospective and existing customers at several different points on our Site. 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 Opt-Out/Opt-In section of this Privacy Policy. Contact and financial information that is collected is used for verifying your name, address and other information. Not all information asked for on our site is required when you fill out our forms. However the following data may be required to use our Site: first name, last name, address, zip code, city, state, Loan Amount Requested, Loan Purpose, Business Ownership, Type Of Business, Annual Sales, Number Of Employees, Business Duration, Credit Rating.
Information is automatically collected by usafunding.us and may be shared in aggregate with third parties whose services are used for traffic analysis purposes. This information includes: browser type, domain names, access times, and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by usafunding.us to maintain and improve the quality of the service and to generate statistics regarding use of the usafunding.us site. usafunding.com does not use third party databases to correct or update the information you submit to us for any reason.
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. 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
usafunding.us contains links to other sites belonging to third-parties. Please be aware that usafunding.us 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 usafunding.us even in cases where we may frame another site with our own. From time to time we may co-brand certain services with third-party vendors and affiliates. 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 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, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.
In addition, as noted above, if you opt-out of future contact from usafunding.us 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 usafunding.com, 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 usafunding.us 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 usafunding.us 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 the “Notification of Changes” section of this Privacy Policy.
Finally, usafunding.us 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) usafunding.us’s rights or property, other visitors, members, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. usafunding.com also reserves the right to disclose visitor or member information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Site.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or as you provide for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information or as you otherwise consent to.
SHARING INFORMATION WITH AFFILIATES
When you submit your request for information or quote, you are granting permission to be contacted by usafunding.us or affiliated third parties. We share the contact and loan request data you submit on the quote request form and usafunding.us 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 usafunding.com to fulfill services or is a company owned in whole or in part by usafunding.com.
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 usafunding.com. 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 usafunding.com.
We may use personal information to provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display customized content and advertising. In addition to any fee of which you are notified, your provider’s standard messaging rates apply to our confirmation and all subsequent SMS correspondence. You may opt-out and remove your SMS information by sending “STOP”, “END”, “QUIT” to the SMS text message you have received. If you remove your SMS information from our database it will no longer be used by us for secondary purposes, disclosed to third parties, or used by us or third parties to send promotional correspondence to you.
DO NOT CONTACT REGISTRY COMPLIANCE
By submitting personal contact and/or financial information, the user hereby grants written permission to usafunding.com, its affiliated sites, and its business partners for contact via telephone, mail, and/or e-mail. Further, by registering at usafunding.com you are consenting to receive phone calls from usafunding.com, its affiliated sites, and its business partners for contact via telephone, including but not limited to lenders that may contact you regarding a loan.
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 unsubscribe 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.
CORRECT / UPDATE INFORMATION
If you would like to verify any data that we have received from you, make any corrections or disable the use of your personal information, please contact us at support@usafunding.us.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact: support@usafunding.us
See also: the physical address listed on the footer of this website.