Updated 10/31/2022

What data do we collect?

We collect information from you or your organization from public data sites when a client of ours provides us permission to reach out to you related to a real estate closing or mortgage financing you may be part of.

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, and insurance information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously to review our services, news and publicly shared anonymized data.

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Use of information?

Information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

In a risk review for a client, to complete verification, vetting, review and monitoring services we provide together with risk reporting to regulated and unregulated financial service providers.

To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)

To process transactions based on client instruction and send periodic emails

To confirm accuracy of representations of service providers and vendors within the real estate and mortgage ecosystem including payment details used for settlement.

To personalize your or your firm’s user experience and to define rules in the workflows according to your regulatory requirements or needs.

To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested to banks, mortgage lenders, credit unions and other financial service providers, and also insurers who may have an interest in offering you products to meet regulatory and client risk requirements.

Email addresses you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

Note: If at any time, you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, please reply to the email with the word “Unsubscribe” in the subject heading.

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Protecting your information:

We maintain and deploy various security controls, practices and measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We limit the number of our employees with access to your information to those who need it to do their jobs and these employees are required to strictly maintain your confidentiality. All of our employees are subject to background checks and ongoing monitoring and are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. In addition, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with security standards and frameworks. We routinely test our systems and website to ensure that unauthorized access does not occur.

We offer the use of a highly secure server. All supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our company database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. We do not store any credit card information, but we do securely store other sensitive information such as certain redacted bank information in secure databases. Our policy is to encrypt sensitive information as we collect it.

We maintain cyber liability insurance coverage, crimes coverage and liability coverage in the event an unintended and unexpected breach of data occurs.

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Do we use cookies?

Yes (cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information

We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers do not have access to privacy data and are not permitted to use any information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

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Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your non-public personal information (NPPI) without notice to you and an opportunity to opt out. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or other’s rights, property, or safety.

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Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

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California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at any time by submitting an email to – info@fundingshield.com

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Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We comply with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

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Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

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Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at – www.fundingshield.com

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Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

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Changes to our Privacy Policy

If you maintain an account with us, we will provide our Privacy Policy to you annually in writing. To comply with laws or to conform to current business practices, we may change it from time to time without prior notice. Changes will be posted on our website, so please check this page for updates. You can obtain a copy of our current Privacy Policy by using the contact information below.

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Tell us what you think

Questions or comments on how we protect your privacy? Contact our security office at CSO@fundingshield.com

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Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information info@fundingshield.com