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Initial and Annual Privacy Notice
Government Employees Credit Center, Inc. ("GECC") PRIVACY POLICY. This notice
is provided to you on behalf of the Government
Employees Credit Center, Inc. family of companies (hereinafter referred to as
“GECC” or “GECC companies.”)
Your privacy is important to us. Please read this policy carefully. It provides
important information about the
way we collect, share, and protect your information. This privacy policy
applies to anyone who applies for or
uses our products or services, including current and former customers. This
privacy policy is effective as
of June 1, 2010 and replaces any privacy policies you may have received or
viewed in the past.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect non-public personal information about you from the following
sources:
• information we receive from you on applications or other forms (including
on-line applications and forms and surveys),
such as your name, address, drivers’ license number or other government issued
ID, social security number,
employment information, email addresses and assets and income information;
• non-personally identifiable information such as, web page http headers (home
server domain names, IP addresses,
type of client computer and type of web browser);
• information, user specific or aggregate, on what pages our visitors access;
• the email addresses of visitors that communicate with us via emails and
phone numbers when calling our customer service phone number; ;
• information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others, such
as your account history, your account
balance, payment history, and your reasons for doing business with us;
• information we receive from third parties, such as consumer reporting
agencies and other lenders regarding
your credit worthiness, credit history, and to verify your identity;
• information we obtain to verify representations made by you, such as your
employment history or income; and
• information obtained from specialized marketing information firms, such as
household demographics.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may use all the information that we collect, as described above, for the
following purposes:
• To provide you with the products and services you requested.
• To offer you additional products and services, from Affiliated Companies and
Non-Affiliated Third Parties,
that may be of interest to you.
• To comply with reporting and other legal requirements.
• To otherwise conduct the business of consumer lending including the
collection of amounts owed to us.
• To analyze the information in order to better service you by enhancing our
underwriting.
PARTIES TO WHOM WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We may share information about you with companies within our corporate family
(“Affiliated Companies”) and
with other companies with whom we do business (“Non-Affiliated Third Parties”)
as required or permitted by
law and described in this Privacy Policy. These Affiliated Companies and
Non-Affiliated Third Parties may be
financial service providers, such as mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers,
consumer lenders, small lenders,
installment lenders, loan brokers, deferred deposit providers, check cashers,
supervised lenders, delayed deposit
providers, deferred presentment providers, collection agencies, consumer
reporting agencies, banks, credit card
providers, debit card providers, tax preparers, payroll service providers,
insurance agencies, bill payment
agencies, ATM providers, lead generators, pawn and title pawn service
providers, automobile dealers,
automobile financing providers, automobile leasing companies, title lending
companies, money transfer and
remittance companies, bill payment providers, financial service provider
holding companies and businesses
engaging in the brokering, provisioning, marketing or sale of: money orders,
warranty services, insurance
services, and debt consolidation and assistance. Except as otherwise provided
herein, we may disclose all of the
information that we collect, as described above, with Affiliated Companies and
Non-Affiliated Third Parties, to
the full extent permitted by law. These companies may use the information that
we share for any legal purpose,
including but not limited to, developing and promoting new or joint products,
improving existing products and
services, contacting you to offer products and services that may be of interest
to you, and disclosing your
information to other companies that may sell products or services that may be
of interest to you.
If you become an inactive customer, we will continue to adhere to the privacy
policies and practices described in this notice.
GECC may also disclose information to Affiliated Companies and Non-Affiliated
Third Parties that
provide services to us (“Service Providers”). We contract with service
providers to perform certain functions
on our behalf. Examples include database providers who assist in identity
verification, credit scoring companies,
and direct marketers. Their access is limited only to the personal data needed
to perform their functions, and only
for the purpose of performing those functions, and they are prohibited from
using or disclosing information for other
purposes.
We also may release information if it becomes necessary for compliance with the
law or to protect the rights,
property, or safety of our websites, our users, or third parties. We reserve
the right to release such personal
data to law enforcement or other governmental officials as we, in our sole and
absolute discretion, deem necessary
to comply with the law. In addition, we reserve the right to use and disclose
Your Information that is not in
individually identifiable form as we deem appropriate in our sole discretion.
OUR SECURITY PROCEDURES
We also take steps to safeguard customer information. We restrict access to
nonpublic personal information about you
to those of our and our servicer’s employees who need to know that information
to provide short-term loans to you.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with
federal standards to guard your nonpublic
personal information.
INFORMATION COLLECTION PROCESSES
We may employ "cookies" to help customize your access to the Website. A cookie
is a piece of data stored on your hard
drive containing information about you. Cookies have many benefits to enhance
your experience at our Website.
For instance, by setting a cookie on our Website, a user would not have to log
in a password more than once, thereby
saving time while on our Website. Even in the case where a user rejects a
cookie, they may still use our Website.
We occasionally use cookies to anonymously track and target the interests of
our users to further enhance
the experience on our Website or for advertising tracking purposes.
In addition to cookies, our Website pages and/or e-mails may contain electronic
images know as "pixel tags"
(also known as clear gifs) to track the pages that visitors and/or users visit
at the Website for purposes of formatting
future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting
statistics. Our Website may also contain pixel tags
placed there by third parties to help determine the effectiveness of a joint
promotional or advertising campaign.
EXPLANATION OF OPT OUT RIGHTS
If you desire to opt-out of disclosures to affiliates and non-affiliated third
parties at any time after application, please
email notice of your opt-out election to customerservice@cashdirectexpress.com
After our receipt of your opt-out election we will remove your name from any
future marketing lists. By electing to opt-out
of information sharing you will not receive updates on new products, services,
or other special offers. We may still send
you periodic emails or SMS text messages informing you of technical service
issues related to a service you requested.
CHILDREN AND THE INTERNET
We respect the privacy of your children and comply with the Children’s Online
Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”)
We do not knowingly collect or retain personally identifiable information from
consumers under the age of thirteen (13).
You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to obtain services from us.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Because circumstances and technologies change, we reserve the right to change
this Privacy Policy at any time.
We will notify you of material changes to this policy by notifying you of the
existence and location of the new
or revised privacy policy.
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